We pulled it off successfully. No one got irrevocably lost or injured and most folks seemed to enjoy the trail. The only complaints I heard were that it was “too easy” or “too short”. A couple of Hashers missed one of the early turns but they were able to reconnect with the true trail further on. I think the confusion for them wasn’t in a lack of trail markings but rather anticipating where the trail was going to go and being wrong. When we explained where they had messed up it was “but we’ve never been that way before!”. Precisely.
Anyway, we did our duty and I’ve got the photos to prove it:
I believe in a well-marked trail and my philosophy is better to have too many marks than not enough. We were somewhat limited in the amount of powder we could carry but made up for that with lots of chalk marks on trees and posts.
We started marking the trail at 10:00 and finished around 12:30. I had time go home, shower up, and get back to the On-Home at 2:00. I gave the Hashers their marching orders and sent them On-On at the appointed 2:30 start time. Went across the street to Sit-n-Bull for a light late lunch and a couple of beers. I saw the first of the runners, Leech My Nuggets, complete the trail in 50 minutes. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised. I think everyone was back no later than 4:00.
Once the beer ran out, I meandered up the street to the Palm Tree resort, sat on the upstairs deck, and enjoyed me a fine sunset. Nice way to end the day!
Shitty Trail (A Song For The Hares)
S-H-I-T-T-Y T-R-A-I-L
Shitty trail (It sucked)
Shitty trail (really fucked)
The Hares have laid another shitty trail
I would rather drink a beer than hash your shitty trail,
S-H-I-T-T-Y T-R-A-I-L
Drink it Down down, down down
down down Down down,
down down down down…
That’s all for now.
Short-but-sweet sounds pretty good to me, as trails go. Congrats to the newly de-virginated Hash virgins.
Seems like it went well. About how often do you lay the trail? Does it cycle through all the hashers or is it a voluntary thing?
It’s a voluntary thing. Most Hashers never Hare. Me, Scott, and Jim do so every 5 or 6 weeks, so that must be the number of people who Hare regularly.
I look at our “easy” trails as a counterbalance to the insanity of Hares like Guenter.
the pic of you photobombing the ladies made me laugh. one girl has a shirt that says, “year of the cock”. isn’t that pretty much every year for the gals in th PI? Peace Out!
Well, cockfighting is a really big deal here, so I guess the girls like it too. 🙂