Himalayan Mixed Hash Run No. 1285 26 July 2003
Location The Clark Ranch, Bhaisipatti Virgins Huge Number! - see below
Hares Connie and Don Clark Newcomers Peter Rietveld, Maria Kantilly, Sheila Lutjens
Hashers 47, of which 2 were on 4 legs and didn't pay Returnees Lao Lover and Lover, Richard Hearn, Sanjive Singh, Cathy Julian
Hashit Jono Leavers Coutching Potato and Calvin Joshi
Trash The Fox Trashflash Rotter and the Potato
The Pictures The Trash

Hare

Virgins 1

Virgins 2

Virgins 3

Virgins 4

Pleased to see that Calvin is not taking his down-down techniqe from mum.

 Don pulled a classic course from the file. We've seen it all before but the hash slow learners had no trouble falling for all the tricks. Paper headed south on pavement until back check 1 got the back runners out in front and heading for Thanagaon and then down to back check 2 before the Chobar bridge. With memories of recent two hour workouts in mind, the pack presumed the paper would head north on the Bagmati's right bank. No such luck. Our hare had to stand at the end of the 199.9 m backcheck and call the pack up the hill and onto paper heading south and down. We passed the walkers heading in the opposite direction -- more confusion. Another back check at a brick kiln again left the front runners wandering. Hurry Krishna was soon off and down on paper to a check in lower rice fields. Paper headed down to the river and then climbed to a pretty temple on a bluff -- a great place for a holding check. The last time Don set one there was in 1988, the morning of his departure from Nepal. That time paper crossed the river. This time we were luckier and headed east to the next check below Sano Kokana. Paper skirted the village and dropped down on the trail to Kokana and another back check. We wandered up towards the usual holding check on a bump, and then took paper up the valley along the usual irrigation ditch and the next check just below Towed Hall. Paper went down and then up to the housing area and a long gently sloping run home.

The Score somehow got back into positive territory with a 9.9

We were invaded by Virgins:
Jono Lineen
Beatrix Sandberger
Jaap Groenedyk
Mark Brandt
Isaac "
Leah "
 Joanne "
Greg Durveiller
Nataline "
Muriel Vandenberg
Utkristha Thapa
Mithilesh "
 Prachanda Malla
Britney Miles
Anne Anderson
Grant Bursek

We hope to see more of them all, and hope that the Doctors Without Borders can work their way through the labyrinth of Nepalese border bureaucracy

Newcomers:
Peter Rietveld Maria Kantilly Sheila Lutjens
Returnees:
Lao Lover and Lover Richard Hearn Sanjive Singh, Cathy Julian
Leavers:
Coutching Potato and Calvin Joshi -- off to Hong Kong -- for now!

Grant Bursek got the hash crash award and an extra drink for insisting in washing up.

Somehow Grumblewald did not get an award -- upstaged by all those virgins.!

Hashshit to Jono Lineen for being a slob -- a hard reward to get for there is lots of competition in this group.