Himalayan Mixed Hash Run No. 1324 17 April 2004
Location Sitapaila Broad Swards Hares Yogi Hare, Shiva
Hashers 49 Hashit Rotter
Trash Towed Trashflash Rotter, Towed Under
Remarkables returnees: Ruru Lulu, Hanoi Hannah, Thanh Mai, James, Fast Forward, Maria, Rani, Barry, Lettie, Rose, Grate Dane leavers: Fiona, Nick, Rebecca, Sarah, James, Carmie
The Pictures The Trash

Above: Hash Flesh at Holding Check 7

Yogi Hare concentrates his mind to empty his mug without bringing it to his lips

Kidds Leave

Keep yer 'air on

50 runs for Root Carnal

Why are they leaving the GM to get on with it?

GM readies for the Hashit. Itchy Balls can't bear to look

 Acknowledgments: the Scribe has to acknowledge the invaluable assistance provided by Keeled Over whose previous work was heavily plagiarised in the course of preparing this text.

This hastily arranged Yogi Hare special provided clear evidence that his memory served him well as it was virtually a repeat of Run 1276 with different On-In and Co-Hare.

Hash 1324 started from an excellent site, slightly closer to the ring road than 1276 and 1190. This one was a little less eventful than that notoriously mismanaged event (dare I say it probably due to the presence of the GM who was not laid up with a virus unlike last week). But all the same it provided 49 proud hashemites with the chance to hone their uphill running skills.

It started off with a steepish downhill run into the valley below the school, and Check 1 complete with a demon false trail that Fast Forward and Towed managed to call everyone back to, before running through a double cross and spending some considerable time chasing around on the completely wrong side of the valley whilst the rest of the pack found Check 2 and the steepish climb i.e. nearly vertical, up through a pine forest to Holding Check 3, halfway up, and on towards the hilltop gomba. The climb proved quite hazardous with the carpet of dry pine needles meaning that we had to take two steps up to make one step's progress. Check 4 at the top saw most participants realising that the route was beginning to resemble that from Run 1276 and heading off, correctly, to the right.

The run continued to follow the route of Hash 1276 (May 2003), as it skirted the foot of the gomba and then dove down towards the Juge Khola and Check 5. The paper now meandered around the khet for a while before it led into Check 6 just beyond Ichangu Narayan temple. No quiz this time and no holding check in the temple, which Grumblewald, Lost Ark, Keeled Over and Towed had incorrectly anticipated.

The hash then explored a number of steep hillsides but, for a pleasant change, with no long or exceedingly steep false trails. The final holding check was in a pretty mango orchard which Towed, having somewhat miraculously worked his way from the back of the pack to the front without actually having passed anyone on the trail, ran straight through. Ruru Lulu and Sanjeev had also managed to escape the clutches of Holding Check 7 and were leading the way on to Checks 8 and 9, which were on the road back, skirting the quarry this time via a maze of small paths before taking the back way in to the On-In.

The Hares were awarded a resounding 20 for the double X on the false trail that caused chaos from Check 1. Other down-downs were:

• Returnees by the score
• Rasmus, for not being sane and not being a Dane, named the Sane Dane
• Towed, for being out of touch with both paper and what was going on in the circle
• Keeled Over, for his new ailment (which he is trying to persuade us requires complete abstention from alcohol - this type of behaviour will bring us down even further in the eyes of Ruru, having already derided the OnInners for drinking nothing but orange juice. - GM)
• Griot for being verbally constipated (STILL no Trash 1323 received - GM)
• Towed, for mis-management of last week's circle (so nobody clapped your performance, eh? - GM)
• Lost Ark for bottle throwing (at Duckbill)
• The GM for attaching the wrong surname to Carmi(e - GM)
• Towed again, with Carmie, for allowing the GM to do this
• Hash Crasher Rotter, for falling flat on his back in the pine forest
• Hot Wanker Ruru Lulu
• Yogi Hare, for something about a non-retaliatory crash (and I get a down-down for mis-managing the circle?)
• Itchy Balls and Stig for hash attire
• Sona, named Root Carnal on his 50th attempt
• Leavers the Kidd family and Carmi(e - GM) (who the GM thought was a member of the Kidd family anyway) and James along with Ruru Lulu for sending him away
• Stayer, the Grate Dane
• Towed and Phil for traffic offences
• Late Leaver Carrot Brain
• Grumble, for running away with the cash from last week's hash
• Hashit to the GM for not turning up for run 1323 when he had stated in front of witlesses at Run 1322.5 that it should go to anyone who didn't make it
• Shiva for crawling to the GM (although what I understand he said was that this week's circle was not the same as last week's which does not necessarily imply that it was better)
• Jasper, to be named Rewind from his partnership with Fast Forward

And finally, for Hash Clap. Why the GM managed to inspire a round of applause and who got the down-down, if anyone, is not on record.

Thanks to the Hares for an excellent run and to Mrs Rotter, Towed Under and others for the special Hash catering.