RIH3 Red Dress Run

Run #920; December 1, 2003
Hare: Fuwangi Boner (Slinky, thin strap tight cocktail dress)

Cohare: Granola Balls (NH3) (Satiny Pleated dress, concealed by extensive outerwear)

Location: Cumberland Medical Center, Nate Whipple and Staples Rd, Cumberland.

Weather: Low 40's, windy and cold

Present: Dr WHO (Matronly full length with ornamental red buttons), Oozing SD (Red Plaid Kiltie), SESYB (Classic Red Dress), Basket Boom Boom (White Lab Coat, the wank!), WIPOS (Shortsleeve Red Kevlar), EB RIPTA (NH3) (Red Jacket, at least), Seamus and Alpine (NH3).

The Run:

First, a photo Op with the owner of the "Valley Breeze", local weekly, who was given inside info by his wife who works with WHO at MHRI, and who took both action photos and still life shots in the freezing wind. Then they were off NE on Staples road briefly, turning into the woods left at the power line substation. Trail followed the power line path along the shores of Sneech Pond; Basket and Oozing kept trying to go right uphill, SESYB and WHO followed true trail NW until the trail broke away from the power lines as they entered the pond (missed opportunity). Marks were noted to be microscopic; obviously conserving flour was a priority. Trail climbed NE up Copper Mine Hill and joined a pipeline access heading NW again. A few areas of pitiful shiggy flooding the path were easily avoided and a ridge was crested to the BC.

At the BC there was the usual posturing and posing by the hare and Basket, and it happened that Basket told the tale of his last trip through the orchard at the end of the pipeline access on a hash some years ago, where an enraged owner chased him and some others with a shotgun, making the hare comment uneasily that his trail led through some orchard, and he had in fact been briefly chased himself whilst setting trail earlier. The prospect of being chased at gunpoint through an orchard wearing red dresses was too much for most so the hare agreed to live hare a different way back. A brief foray east led to a blind trail and a fall down a cliff, so the hare returned before anyone had had a chance to leave, and reversed tracks down the pipeline access.

Finally leaving the beer check, the hashers all took turns hefting the half-full cooler of beer. Oozing and Basket tried to carry it together briefly, causing Oozing to get the only exposure to shiggy on the run as Basket forced him into the flooded part of the path. They came out at the large water tank, and finally realized that if they had a second beer check, the damned cooler wouldn't weigh so much. A second beer check was begun, finding two rusted bikes that Oozing and SESYB claimed, and ignoring the plaintive whistles of the hare from the bottom of the hill.

From BC #2, it was a short jog SE down the hill, made more interesting by the attempt of Oozing and SESYB to ride their new possessions. A right turn near the bottom of the hill back into the woods and they circled up.

Ratings: 6.9 for Red Dresses with Beer, Bimbos, and Bikes!

Hashit: Need you ask? Basket!

On On On: Tucks, with prolonged childishness and food missles, only Oozing trying to calm the crowd as he planned to start his run from Tuck's next week.

On On