We got it done. Not to perfection or even to my complete satisfaction. I guess you might say that goes with the territory when laying a Hash trail. Sometimes it gets a little Hare-y. Okay, I’ll stop.
It happens that things get lost between what you intend to do as a Hare and what actually happens. We scouted the front half of the trail last Wednesday and had a pretty good idea of where we were going to go. Our efforts on Friday to walk from the endpoint to a logical rendezvous with the front part of the trail were not as successful as we hoped. That meant we were winging it more than I like on Monday morning. We made a wrong turn once and had marked that trail with powder and paper before realizing our error. Did our best to erase the mistake, but I heard from a couple of Hashers they had followed the faux trail. I hate when that happens, but at least they were able to recover and retreat back to the true trail.
The descent we wound up doing was not at all to my liking. Very steep and very slick, and worse yet, it ended up in a creek bed. I hate walking through creek beds. Especially in rainy season. The rocks were covered in algae and slippery as hell. I told my fellow Hares I wasn’t happy with putting the Hashers through what we had done, but it was too late to do anything about it. I was expecting some negative feedback at the Hash circle but I was surprised again. The gung-ho die-hards like Guenter really liked the trail. Leech My Nuggets said he thought it was the best trail of the year. I told him I didn’t think so, how about that going down to the creekbed? He laughed and said, “I was surprised to find that on one of YOUR trails, but I rather it enjoyed it.” I confessed that I had been overruled by my fellow Hares about that route, so the praise belonged to them.
Anyway, all’s well that ends well. No one got hurt and no one was irrevocably lost. Those are my goals as a Hare and they were achieved. Here are some photos to enjoy:
Alright, those are the photos taken while we were laying trail. Here are a few taken by the Hashers later while hiking the trail:
And a few shots from our On-Home venue at Hunter’s Jo Inn in Calapadayan.
Hope you enjoyed the trail.
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With so many people praising the trail, there must have been a lot of butts on ice. Let no good deed (or word) go unpunished!
Dan, I’ve never heard of NAC, I’ll check it out. I don’t consider the FDA a legitimate authority on anything.
Kev, yeah we filled the ice but that happens most weeks. I was more surprised that the criticism I expected didn’t really happen.
There are some very cool trails that you are able to walk. Kudos to making one that seems to have checked all the boxes of your hash group – which I am sure is not an easy thing to do!! LOL
Thanks, Brian. Yeah, it seems I bitched about the trail more than any of the Hashers. Go figure.