Successfully completed yesterday’s Hash without injury. Except maybe to my pride. I’ve just got to face up to the fact that I’m one of slowest in the group. I can make excuses about my photo taking pauses, but the truth is on anything other than flat ground I struggle to keep up with the most of the kennel. Oddly enough it is the downhill portions that I’m particularly slow at. A little embarrassing yesterday to have everyone looking for an opportunity to get around the slow old guy. I just have a hard time keeping my balance (and my feet) on the steep declines. I always feel top heavy, squirrely, and almost out of control. Oh well. Let’s go to the pictures:
The “walkers” portion of the trail was around 7kms. Only one big uphill climb but the coming down was steep and slippery…
So we loaded up the truck and headed on down…
….the highway to the trail head (the runners ran this portion, around 3K)
And then we were “On-On”
And on up
Up on top
How now brown cow?
We meandered through the tall grasses…
And enjoyed views like this one before taking the steep way down…
You do need to keep your wits about you on trail. You can’t really see just how deep this trailside hole actually is, but one false step and you’d be seriously injured.
At the bottom the road was flat but flooded…
Pubic Head is one of the few Hashers as slow as I am. That’s good because it gave me someone to chat with as we marched along. He had a slip and fall on the way down the mountain. Of course, I reported it in the circle and he paid the price on ice. Them’s the rules…
The trail passed through my neighborhood. Actually it went right past my house…
On Home at Da’Kudo’s on Baloy Beach…
The ice is ready and waiting for the circle to commence. I avoided any time there this week…
The sun setting on another Hash…
Cheers to our newest named Hasher, Slot Licker (you get named upon completion of 5 Hashes). She’s a real cutie, but alas, has a boyfriend. Next to her is HIV, our Grand Master.
And finally, this week Wonder Woman got the Hashit. I’m still not entirely clear on the concept, but the song we sing starts “I got the Hashit, the Subic Hashit, for being stupid on the trail…” She’ll name her successor as Hashit next week…
And there you have it. Stay tuned for the next installment.
Looks to have been another beautiful day. Too bad you had to rat out Pubic Head, though.