Himalayan Mixed Hash Run No. 1361 18 December 2004
Location Pyataar, north of Bauddha Hares Lao Lover and His Lover
Hashers 41 Hashit Tadpole
Trash Towed Trashflash Tadpole, Rotter
Remarkables virgins: Rabi Karmacharya, Melinda Pavek, Sachit Pradhan, Jenny Prokos, Mohit Rana, Nima Sherpa, Purnai Shrestha, Maria Strawb newcomers: Sani Karami returnees: Yogi Hare, Tadpole, Holly Holtzer, Giselle, Megabyte, Chris visitors: Leo Surla
The Pictures The Trash

Hares

Let's cut out the first bit of the Hash and move straight on to this

Virgins

Visitor and Newcomer

Returnees

Lost Old Farts

Entranced, the Young Fart looks through the bottom

And finally: The Hash Hot Babes

 

 After a fair interlude the hash returned to Pyataar this week and another Lao Lover run. So all the smart arses knew where it was going? Not so; having announced all sorts of complications, including seven checks, with 3 and 6 holding, the Hare pointed to first paper in completely the wrong direction. It appears that hash rules need some explanation to the Hares here. Pyataar runs always start with the first paper off to the north, down into the valley and a little bit west before heading across the stream and up the hill.

Check 1 wasn't too far away to the south, and then the trail headed much more sensibly back to the north, with a brief mingling with the walkers before encountering Check 2 beside the road. This was a short back-check and led into a long climb up through pleasant open country then into young forest and to Holding Check 3 in a wide open space on the road at Jagadol. All were soon there, with walkers catching up very quickly. From here it became clear, for all except Griot, that we were into a left hand loop and heading back into more familiar Lao Lover territory.

The trail headed north-west and to Check 4 and, with 5 options to choose from, the pack became a little scattered, especially me, who got so scattered it took about another hour to get from Check 4 to Check 7, missing 5 and 6 on the way. The usual trail from Check 4 seemed to be too obvious and heading too close to the On-In this early in the run so everyone went off checking the other 4 options, but of course the obvious way was where it went. Check 5 was somewhere in the forest, I'm reliably informed, and Holding Check 6 in the banjyang as usual.

Check 7 was at the Gomba near Dandagoan, although not quite in the usual place, and the route home from there eluded me as well. All the rest were back in around 75 minutes and clearly the walkers hadn't done enough as Grace and friends started to work out whilst the rest of us got on with some serious drinking. Finally the Master called the circle to order which was, of course, the cue for Towed Under to bring out the cake and delay things for a further 5 minutes.

The Hares were awarded a 9.9, despite there being no paper between Checks 4 and 7, the run being far too short, not being Lao Lover's usual route etc.

Amongst others, down-downs were awarded to:

• Griot for not wearing a hash tee shirt (but at least it had a hash word on it)
• Loadsa virgins in two batches
• Returnees Tadpole, Yogi Hare and Chris
• Lost old farts Griot and Towed
• Pauper George, who turned up to the hash with not even enough cash for softees
• Itchy Balls, for not having had a down-down
• Hashit to Tadpole for growing far too much in the past 3 months

As a finale, Meri-Kay was then grossly victimised by the GM for a number of offences (separately) including having muddy knees.

A final thanks is due to Kate for the overdose of mo-mos, Mrs. Rotter and Towed Under's skivvy for the other hash catering and to both Hares for a very nice run (and you can't get much more praise from Towed than that - except when he is describing his own run- GM).