Any campers, hikers, boy scouts, girl scouts, hunters, fishers, loggers, nature freaks, etc out there? For your edification, here are a few rules Murphy found about being in the great outdoors:
1. The sun sets 47% faster than normal when setting up camp. It sets another 28% faster if rain is eminent.
2. Of a 25% chance of rain, 100% will fall in your campsite.
3. When hiking, no matter what the terrain you take half as many downhill steps as uphill.
4. 95% of a backpack's contents could have been left at home.
5. The 5% left at home will be needed.
6. A backpack's weight is not affected by the amount of food eaten out of it.
7. Ropes holding bear bags stretch.
8. All food assumes a common taste and color when freeze-dried.
9. The one new tent on the trip that leaks will be yours.
10. Tent stakes come only in the quantity 'N-1' where N is the number of stakes necessary to stake down a tent.
11.Feet expand when removed from hiking boots. The same law applies to tents and tent bags, clothing and backpacks, and sleeping bags and stuff sacks.
12. Number of mosquitoes at any given location is inversely proportional to the volume of remaining repellent.
13. The probability of finding a latrine is one over the number of poison ivy plants per acre.