Six checks were announced, with many river crossings. Questioned as to whether this was one river many times or many rivers once, the Hares remained ambiguous. The heinous crime of laying false trails from anywhere along the trail, rather than from checks only, was also confessed to. Grumble accused the Master of re-writing the rules by allowing this but, since there are no rules, and anyway the Master is illiterate, the question, unlike the Master, remains academic. (Towed there is absolutely no need for these ridiculous petty attacks on me. You're fired. Unless we can't find anybody else to write this rubbish. GM)

First paper was over in the general direction of he river and off we set, led by Keeled Over, Towed and Duckbill, along the rectangular pattern of gravel roads. The GM picked up the paper heading off through the fields when the FRBs managed to run off it and led the pack on to Check 1, which saw the pack scatter widely in search of paper. Yogi Hare and Rotter (illustration of 'elegant variation', a subset of the RAP mission report style. How else is he going to name me - GM, Master, Rotter) seemed to be the ones who found paper and by the time Check 2 was found down by the river, the pack seemed to have more or less regrouped. Grumblewald, who was to have one of his Bad Hare days, appeared from well to the south still searching for the paper from Check 1. Again, the Hares had selected a check location where there were many options available and as it was not yet clear which way the trail was heading the pack scattered once more.

Paper was eventually found across the river, leading up the bluff and apparently back into the housing. However, the trail came straight back down again and we were running along more trails through immaculate vegetable cultivation before continuing on a good running path through the wheat fields and to Holding Check 3. Rotter picked up the paper from here leading up a roughly paved trail and then, surprise, surprise, straight back down to the river. Griot and a couple of others had managed to bypass the up and down bit and sneak ahead. Night Owl was, as is his wont, drifting around silently in the general area. Check 4 was found by Griot soon after re-crossing the river onto the north bank after which, from my perspective, there was no more paper other than the tail end of a false trail that Rotter found. The real trail apparently looped round to the north where, presumably, Checks 5 and 6 were located (as I had indicated in a loud voice to the elegantly variegated Scribe who took no notice and continued down river - Rotter). Grumblewald can guarantee that it did not go beyond Thimi towards Bhaktapur. Anyway, Duckbill and I had a good run of an hour or so, getting back to the On-In just before the walkers, with the rest of the pack crawling in over the next 20 minutes or so.

After a prolonged period of social drinking and eating the Master finally got around to calling the circle to order and inviting the Hares to face the judgement of the pack. Before the discussion could truly get under way, returnee Eddie the Eagle was detected wanking and paid the price. Brief discussions led to a deserving 9.9 being awarded.

Virgins were next, as usual: Jagdish who lives in Kathmandu and had no excuse for not coming to the Hash before; Joga, also from Kathmandu, had seen the hash running 20 years ago and decided he would rush and join us. Sondeep's explanation of who he was and quite why he was there completely passed me by and Kate, another one not to rush into things, had heard about hashes in Nigeria when she was there in 1990 so took the first opportunity she saw of joining in. The GM managed to conduct this part of the circle with considerable aplomb, only falling into the hole in the ground in the middle of the circle once.

Karsten, Simon, Stephen the Eagle, Lord Nelson and two others were welcomed back whilst the Master valiantly grappled with the task of conducting the circle and functioning as hashflash at the same time. Offered a way out of this problem by Towed, who nominated Ever Ready (reported in the day's Himalayan Times as the holder of a PhD in photography) as hashflash the Master was truly appreciative and gave Towed a down-down for not bringing either of the regular hashflashes (of last resort, sadly - GM) - Towed Under and Tadpole - to the hash.

Other down-downs awarded were:

Viaggro's International Rotary charity walk was then advertised - not sure whether he got a down-down for advertising - before the session was concluded with the following quick down-downs:

And finally the Hashit nominees were:

And the winner was . . . . . . . . .

Thanks to the Hares for the run, to Mrs Rotter for the Hash catering and to the incredibly famous Ever Ready for bringing along the stuff from the Delhi deli.