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R*n 471 location

R*n 471 started from Botton Mill, near Lowgill and the On Inn was Black Bull, High Bentham.

Who ran 471? - data up to & including this r*n

Hash HandleHareHoundTotal
Cum Yak Yak - Hare6114120
No More Cum - Hare25162187
Shagadelic - Hare101
Antiseptic46230276
Atomic Caton114859
Bubbles55252307
Cyberseptic57216273
Feels on Wheels24126150
Forever Blowing44247291
Highway17185202
Lurch47242289
Major Twit21151172
Minor Twat19136155
Morticia45244289
Nicola (Visitor)011
Off His Trolley19171190
Simple (Visitor)01111
Sir Tom Tom25140165
Tidal Dave (Visitor)011
White Noise16155171

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Sunday 11th August 2013 at 11:00am

DaytimeR*n 471 »

Lowgill

Location location location!  Botton Mill was not as easy to find as the map implied (the map I set up on the website that is) and when we eventually found it there wasn’t enough space for all our vehicles in the gate approach kindly offered by the Botton Mill residents, so half of us parked up the road and crammed into two cars to park at the Mill.  More of this later.

A great turnout today, including visitors Shaggy (Mijas H3), Nicola (Guildford H3) and hash migrant Tidal Dave, who was hashing in the UK for the first time after returning from the French Riviera to Lancaster.

Beautiful location to start and, undaunted by the hares’ talk of 20 and 40 minute rambo splits, on on we went, led initially by No More Cum at the double in an attempt to avoid our getting mixed up with the in trail.  This is where the problems began.  The walkers I gather couldn’t keep up with the lead-out and on discovering the in-trail couldn’t be bothered to back-track so ended up following the trail in reverse (see separate reverse trail trash).

Anyway, we forward-trailers hashed down a lovely valley, then through wood and dale to a farm where we got directionally challenged.  Turns out there were two exits marked with flour from the farmyard and we chose the wrong one, then spent ten minutes not finding any further flour until Bubbles’ lateral thinking found trail again in the adjoining field (the one with the “little” bull as forewarned by the hare).  We all thought the knitting circle would have the same problem and we had no flour with us so Twit and Anti made a pathetic attempt at constructing an arrow with cow poo.  Of course, as we discovered later, this was pointless as the walkers were by then doing the reverse trail thing.  Anyway, several long woods and dales later with some trouble keeping on trail we arrived at the beer stop, passing the reverse walkers just setting off the way we had just come.  Confused yet?  Yes, so were we.  We also realised at that point that the reverse-trailers would surely get lost.

The lesser of the two rambo splits started from the beer stop and we rambos set off at a sprightly jaunt, unaware that Highway had taken the rambos option solo, several minutes behind.  Feels, Anti and I copped out of the second, longer rambos split, being already two hours into the trail and arrived at the on in in a timely fashion to join the forward-trail wimps and the hares.  No sign of the reverse-trail walkers or of Highway.  The other rambos arrived twenty minutes later and still no sign of the residue, so NMC went off in his car to look for them.

Now the issue of the remote-parking raised its head, as some car keys were still with the reverse-trailers and a few of us had deadlines to meet and it was getting late, so a complicated plot was devised to share lifts home without even waiting for the strays or the circle.  So for that reason I can’t comment on the eventual return of the losties, the difficulty of driving to the on inn with the road being closed or the eventual feeding of the few.

Despite the double-ended debacle, the horrendously long trail (8.5 miles rambos) the distributed finish and the very late lunch for the hangers-on, the hash was glorious and even the threat of rain didn’t materialise.  Thanks to No More Cum and his helpers for the hard trail marking and arrangements.

Cyberseptic

Write up by Cyberseptic

12th August 2013 at 12:32am


  1. Minor Twat
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    !esrever ni no yrrac ro liart eht dnif ot kcab kcehc - seciohc owt dah dna gnihtemos dessim dah ew desilaer eW .tilps obmar/spmiw TSAL eht ot daor eht pu su del hcihw teparap egdirb a no ruolf was ew litnu deunitnoc ylirrem dna etag a hguorht nrut tfel a dessim elcric gnittink eht ,trats eht retfa nooS
    13th August 2013 at 9:32am
  2. White Noise
    White Noise Report of the backward Hash!

    As the hare led off the main group to show them where to start a bit too fast for the knitting circle, we almost set off on the in-trail right at the start. Fortunately, he just spotted us and pointed us in the right direction. However, we were soon confused again – coming across two sets of markings within about 5 yards of each other and indicating two different directions. Thinking one set would lead us back to where we had just been told was on the in-trail, we took the other. Soon, after a rather arduous climb up a lane, we found a Wimp/Rambo split but the Wimp route was back down the hill! In this somewhat confused state we decided that we were not going to go back down the hill but instead we would do the route backwards. Hence this report........

    Our first test was how to interpret the markings, bearing in mind that we should be approaching them from the opposite direction. We soon realised that looking for marks would be easier if we walked backwards but this was too slow and difficult! Still with shouts of “no no” and “etag” we finally got to the beer stop! As it was, we were fortunate to be first there since No More Cum had forgotten to buy biscuits and there were only enough for us! They were a bit stale and soggy but after all our strenuous efforts we were hungry and thirsty!

    Leaving the beer stop, we confused the other harriers who were just arriving but pressed on, finally arriving at the blob of flour which we had missed at the start and which would have prevented all the confusion. By the time we got back to the start point most people had given up waiting for us, the circle had been abandoned and a search party had set off to find Highway. I am pleased to report that Highway was eventually found and returned and we all adjourned to the Black Bull for some well earned sustenance!
    15th August 2013 at 6:19am