How many co-hares does Alice need? Sheep Shagger was the nominated co-hare / paper carrier, so I was curious what they would put together. I’ve heard rumours that other hashers also had inside information about the route – in case we couldn’t figure it out? Even when half of Piggy’s trail was pulled down we managed to piece it together, it’s part of the fun!
I was interested what Alice would put together – I know the area pretty well, and remembered conversations about a route through a quarry that he planned to use there, so I thought I might have a clue – of course I didn’t and the trail didn’t go near said quarry! We set off before my hash cash duties were finished, so the walkers were all over the trail while I was still putting the money away in the car. I got to the first check while Brownie was up the hill to the right where we could see something papery, but it wasn’t trail. Instead TMB found paper and soon after a false trail down to the left.
Back to the right, and after another check Brownie got the false trail and I led the way briefly into the trees. We were clearly heading towards the road, and it seemed most of the run would be the other side of the road. I stayed high to the right looping around just in case he planned to take us back off to the right, but it was soon clear where we were headed. Brownie was up front and he wasn’t getting anything wrong. TMB was behind him, curiously sometimes getting it randomly wrong checking where nobody would think of going?! I settled into a following pace, f**k me it was hot!
I was gasping for breath, and I’m sure the pollution combined with the heat isn’t good for me, but I pressed on, in the mix, never at the front, just in the pack. Brownie was doing most of the work, until finally he got one wrong and TMB called us off to the left. I pulled the paper down, but clearly wasn’t delivering the teutonic accuracy in my paper distribution, “TO YOUR LEFT BYTE!” huh? To my left there was a big hole, and I’m just heading towards the call. Everyone will figure it out!
Graven took over at the front for a bit, not for long. We were heading back towards the A, and it was hot. There was a circle, and I really didn’t want to go over the exposed hill, so I checked to the left, and ended up checking my way all the way around the hill, and was faced with the choice of rejoining trail to the right or to the left. Knowing what the hare had done I chose the path of least resistance and rejoined to the left, tucking in behind the running Brownie, 3.5, TMB and Graven. From here we were amongst the walkers, so I have no idea if there were any more checks… It was just a straight on jog home.