Upon getting directions for the ‘Tiger’s Mouth’ in Mae Jo – I wasnt sure what to expect from the pairing of Frozen Dick and HRA – the rule about not having a run more than 1 hour for the songtheow is indeed a good one and after driving nearly 40km from my house to the run – I’m looking forward to the CSH3 outstation ~15km from my house! Fortunately I found myself driving behind Skid Mark – as with out his familiarity with the location – and the hares economical use of signage – would have meant me getting very lost!
So with a pack of 8 (including hares) – we were given a hare brief about running on shredded paper (not powder) – we were told the run was ~6km and sent on our way – all six of us. I decided to try a bit of FRB with Suckit and Honey Monkey on my tail – but the first circle check led me to a double (powder and paper) bar – hummm – not such a good start. Suckit got lucky and I never saw him again, so Dead Virgin who had just got off the plane and I attempted to keep up with a very luminescent Skid Mark and Horny Monkey. Between Dead Virgin’s worshiping the natural flora and fuana – we lost sight of the FRB’s and somehow Kwazi too – who was trailing us, so we were left to enjoy what was in fact a remarkably good run – with nice trails and some enormous checks.
The scenary and trails were very good and its a pity its so far out of town as would be a good location for runs – even some evil looking hills which I did get a little excited about. One circle check near the end of the run in powder did fox Dead Virgin and Belly Dancer – obeying the instructions to ignore powder – and the FRB’s not kicking it out – did give Dead Virgin another chance to commune with nature – but was close enough to the laager to not fool us too long. The run turned out to be ~ 4.5km but enjoyable enough.
Being a modest pack – there was piles of beer – Tiger beer (Pamala) – no choice but at huge expense and efforts of the hares – the circle went on … and on … so much so that Kwazi gave an epic performance and hope to see more of this … the move from big bike to big truck has worked wonders! After 2 hours of beer consuption – we headed into town to hunt down Chuck Wao just returned from a spiritual trip to Pattaya. Needless to say Dead Virgin got into his religeous grove again and some point even Hole Plugger appeared!
Thanks hares – more of the same please – but hopefully not quite so close to Myanmar!!