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On a camel trek in the middle east having eaten a bunch of local food the night before. I was fine in the morning and we traveled until it got warm around 11. I could feel it beginning to come on shortly before we stopped but being out in the open with no cover there was no decent place to go. When we stopped under a small tree to wait out the heat it was around 110 degrees (cool by most standards). There was a bush to the side of the tree and I figured I would need to use that as a screen. I wandered about 100 yards from the camp in the scorching sun, scraped a hole, and squatted. Having been in the middle east for several months I was accustomed to this technique by this time. Luckily I remembered TP in my pack.
There must have been something wrong with that food because it lead to me becoming pretty dehydrated and having some decent heat exhaustion. I'd had it a few years before so I knew how to treat it, and under normal circumstances I would have been able to cope with it all together, but the food pushed me over. But I didn't feel well for a few days obviously.
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