Bring a small tube of sunscreen , you will be completely unprotected until about April and you will get burnt . You won ' t need bug protection stuff later on , but it will quickly be obvious when you do need it . You also don ' t need the AWOL guide if you ' ve got your phone and a battery pack , just download the pdf on your phone I had no problems with AWOL on an ipod , kept it in a ziplock if it was raining . I didn ' t notice any trekking poles on there . Do your knees a favour and take them . Even a cheap set from WalmartAmazon is better than nothing . <| sep |> Here ' s something that makes Sen . Roseller Lim even more of a hero On the eve of the election for Senate President , Marcos made a friendly visit to the Zamboangueo senator Sen . Lim . Marcos knew that the Government Service Insurance System was foreclosing the mortgage on Lim ' s house such were the senators of that time , they could not even afford to keep up with the amortization on their loans . In elegant statesman ' s language , Marcos offered to pay the loan and in equally elegant statesman ' s language , Lim refused . But after Marcos left , he let out a string of invectives in unelegant Spanish . I was a witness to that visit , Lim ' s daughter , Rosamy , told the Inquirer . Daddy was mad . I think it was at that moment that he decided to do what he had to do . Found this in this link 1 p . htm . Link is to the archived version in the wayback machine as the original site is no longer maintained .