The run started off with the entire pack moving in a south westerly direction, with the exception of Towed and Tadpole who left in a south easterly direction, not to be seen again on the run until just before the on-in. Walkers, led by the nimble Rani, left the main pack and diverted along the road into Pharping and then off on a track through the paddy fields. Then into a valley and across the stream on stepping stones, where Helen required assistance to cross and Head Chopper had the first hash crash but avoided getting wet. The walkers continued on paper (for the first time, I might add) up the other side of the valley! Obviously this was the returning route for the runners, who were, at this point some considerable distance away up the same valley. A short journey around the contours took the walkers to the holding check at the Pharping tank. However Rotter, who had last been seen departing with the runners, turned up at the tank just after the walkers arrived.

Meanwhile, the runners had looped around Pharping village into the paddy fields and the aforementioned valley. Somewhere thereafter, Hurry Krishna misread the double crosses and caused chaos. Hashers went hither and thither and generally dithered around until the hare, Keeled Over, sorted it out and led them down to the stream. Then up through the village and on to the top of the knoll, by which time "can't get enough" Grumblewald had run every falsie. From here the runners descended to the Pharping tank.

Little thought was given to the history of the place which, starting in 1911, provided electric light to the Rana palaces in the Valley. Little thought was also given to the people who had to carry the pipes from Bhimphedi (near Hetauda), to Chiso Paani Gadi, to Kulekhani and eventually to Pharping. However, much thought was given to whether we were going to go down the hill to the Bagmati river.

The trail for everyone went down the penstock from the tank, with the runners looping around to the left and the walkers contoured around the Bagmati valley to the right. This obviously was not the route that Rani was meant to lead the walkers, as she kept disappearing to reconnoitre the route ahead. Eventually the walkers climbed up over the terraces to the sounds of "On-on!" coming from higher up and met the runners on a track at the top of the hill.

Again more contour running and back to the paper that the walkers had followed on their initial short cut, down over the same stepping stones and across more paddy fields. Then it was along an old stone road, which Rotter thought was the original route from India into Kathmandu (has he really been here that long?), and onto the ON-IN

The GM then called social drinking but after about twenty minutes and great deliberation by the hash intelligentsia, called the circle back to order to christen Clare with a hash name - Glossy Finish