Despite the vague instructions some 52 Hashers gathered on a fine sunny afternoon almost on time; amazing since it had been necessary to negotiate the Chabahil - Baudda section of road. Hares Lao Lover, Kate and Geoff were almost the last to arrive, by vehicle which was a little suspicious. Six checks were announced with 3 and 5 holding, a brief explanation of the rules to the virgins was provided and off we went.

Check 1 was a little way back up the road in from the Sundarijal end, up in the pine forest. After a little milling around the trail was called from somewhere far away and the pack set off down into the valley to the north. Check 2 was down in the bottom of the valley by the stream and from there The Fox soon found paper heading around to holding check 3. The trail from here caught a few out. The Fox thought it was a back check, Beaufort and Towed headed straight down through uncharted territory and onto a path to find paper and were soon calling the rest of the pack along the trail but in what transpired to be the wrong direction. At the same time as the paper ran out, they ran into Easy Reider and Viggo, late arrivals who were just catching up. Towed and Yogi Hare headed off on the only available alternative path and were not seen again until Holding Check 5. The rest of the pack presumably showed more sense and backtracked along the paper in the correct direction to find Check 4 up on a mound. The Fox, Grumblewald and Rotter led the way and soon found paper leading to Holding Check 5 where they were surprised to find Yogi Hare, Towed and Duckbill emerging from a side path as they arrived. These five had to wait a considerable time for the rest of the pack to straggle in and, eventually, a Hare or two. This was Classic Clendon Country and the knowledgeable few who had had time to discuss the direction of the next check had it down to a choice of two routes. Towed took the wrong one but was the only hasher to visit the standard Lao Lover last check at the wallow hole at the junction above Pyataar (and consequently miss all the even-numbered checks, hence the sketchy understanding of what had actually happened on the run). The rest of the pack took the easy way home and all arrived back at the On-In pretty much together.

Nice for a change to have a run of less than one and a half hours.

The circle was called to order and, once again, a very orderly circle it turned out to be. Down-downs were awarded as follows:

Somewhere in all of this, Keeled Over made a book award to the renowned banker, Run Crafty, on how to be corrupt without getting caught (edited by one S. Keeling) and to the GM on time management (not sure of the significance of this). (it's not edited by S. Keeling, therefore partly readable - GM)

There was some discussion on next week’s Paddy’s Day run. The instructions were not too clear but if everyone comes in their wellies, wearing a potato and carrying a bag of peat it should be OK. All down-downs to be on Guinness and the Hares will provide leprechauns for the leprechaun lobbing competition that is traditionally held on the 17th March in villages throughout the Emerald Isle.

Thanks to Mrs Rotter for the usual Hash catering, to Zep for the veggie willies and to the Hares for an excellent run.