Importance of Being Prepared

Yesterday I was in the Glasshouse Mountains region of SE Queensland.
Just before sunset, I drove up to Wild Horse Mountain, with the
intention of walking up to the lookout to take photos of the mountains
with the sun setting behind them. I pulled up in the carpark & grabbed
my camera, tripod & GPS (my new toy). Knowing I had a steep walk ahead
of me, rather than taking my whole camera bag (2 bodies, Video camera, 3
lenses, assorted filters), I just grabbed 1 body, 28-80 lens and my
polarizer. The wife asked me to take some photos with her digital camera
too (a little 5MP HP P&S), so it went into a pocket on my pants. Up I
started to climb, as I got near the lookout, I felt as if I was about to
have a heart attack, I was absolutely stuffed (new years resolution, get
fit again). Got to the top, checked the GPS - 100m higher than the car
in the carpark, and 600m away from it - no wonder I was stuffed.

Looked at the camera - up to shot 26 on a roll of Agfa 27 exposure, 400
speed colour negative film. No worries I thought, I'll just snap off
those 3 shots, then load some slide film for the serious shooting - I
figured I'd probably shoot a roll, maybe two as the sun set and it got
dark. Then it hit me - my film was all still in my camera bag, in the
car - 600m away, and 100m below me. My camera always gets 1 more shot
than the roll says, so I had 3 shots left (on a film that isn't really
ideal for this scenario), plus whatever I could coax out of the P&S'er.
I think I made the 3 frames count, although the light certainly got a
lot better after I'd shot the last frame. I'm keen to process them
tomorrow and see what happened.