Despite attempted last minute negotiations for a change of venue with next week's Hare, Hernia, the proposed location of Dapakhel was not to be and the Master returned to his trusty On-In site south-east of Lubhu.

Thirty six Hashers and 4 mutts had foregathered by ten minutes after the appointed time of 1400 when the Master, newly returned from his travels around the country, called the circle to order and proceeded to give a somewhat garbled run briefing (but which turned out later to be accurate since the run transpired to be garbled as well). Twelve checks were announced with numbers 5 and 7 holding, some false trails but no river crossings were mentioned. Walkers should go with Rotter and the runners could look after themselves (a somewhat forlorn hope). Shortly after this, the USAID triumvirate of Connie, Griot and Narayan plus mutt arrived.

Check 1 was at the temple some 50 metres away and the gullible pack, eying the usual Rotter Run from this site, headed off south. Five minutes later, "on-on" was called from the north side of the road and we were all off and running. Checks 2 and 3 kept the runners guessing, at least those who saw Checks 2 and 3, and one, who shall be nameless, found the paper from Check 5 to Check 6 when searching from Check 3. He did the decent thing and ran back through a false trail to Holding Check 5 where walkers and runners alike were gathered.

Chaos ensued from here as some headed off down the above-mentioned false trail to find the paper on the other side whilst Peter eventually found the correct trail and met this group running the trail from Check 6 back to Check 5. Meanwhile, a few seemed to have completely missed Check 5 and were off beyond Check 6. Eventually the rest of the pack found Check 6 and Towed was the first of this group to find paper from here. The trail dropped down into the valley where the advance party, Night Owl et al, were still scouring around for paper. Eventually the pack all straggled in to Holding Check 7, as did the walkers.

From here it was every hasher for himself - some found paper, some did not, and two found themselves quickly back at Check 4! Whatever, all eventually wandered back to the On-In and finally the walkers, ably conducted by the GM, came in from completely the wrong direction.

A veritable feast awaited with dips and honey roast ham provided by Ever Ready and enough momos for a pack of 100, provided through double ordering by Towed Under and the GM! Finally the pack was sated and the circle called to order. The Master called himself into the circle to accept the accolades from the pack. Complaints of paper laid backwards, in and out trails being too close and the trail being on the wrong side of the road were all registered. A stunning, but deserved score of 1.1 was eventually awarded.

Branded as the Unlucky for Some Run, the post-run proceedings proved to be unlucky for all as the GM then launched into a veritable tirade of down-downs. Virgins Mariken and Caroline, both from MSF Amsterdam, were welcomed and the well-travelled Master (well, Taplejung to Mahendranagar is quite a long way) displayed his vast knowledge of worldwide cultures by immediately recognising Mariken as a South American name. I'm sure the Dutch must have had some colonies in that vast continent but Mariken was a Cloggie, through and through. Sadly she couldn't manage her down-down but help was at hand from colleague Caroline who seemed more than happy to manage both. MSF driver Anand was also christened.

Other down downs were awarded (in no particular order) to:

Thanks to caterers Ever Ready, Towed Under and Rotter, again to Rotter for a truly garbled run and again to Rotter for retaining the devotion of the circle for what must have been close to a record number of 46 down-downs.