Madison Hash House Harriers

June 23, 2007

HASH HISTORY - HASH RUN #1557 - Second Annual LIKES IT @ The Farm - Reported by KA-KA

HALF CRACKED, EGG BEATER, ROAD BEATER, RD, Just Jim, X-PILES and your faithful reporter CAPTAIN KAKA. ZAMBONER was a near show, however as we later found out he forgot his map and returned to Madison beerless. The Hasher House Hairriers are said to be a drinking club with a running problem however this weekend turned out to be largely a drinking club with a biking problem. The day started clear and cool with the fast boys, Egg and Road biking the 77 odd miles to the Monkey Farm from Madison. The STIFFY and HALF CRACKED team drove the distance to the farm and biked a 34-mile loop to the south of the farm and around Redstone Lake. They reported a scenic ride and averaged 13.5 miles per hour in the hills. Just Jim, XP and I biked a loop from the farm starting on county I west to the Baraboobs valley and then north on the 400 bike trail (an old rail road bed) to Elroy, the beautiful home town and birth place of former Gov Tommy Thompson. After a short break at the remodeled historic train station at the Elroy/Sparta bike trail head, we headed east and back to the farm on town roads. This proved to be a mistake, at least for this writer. Town roads in this deeply dissected driftless area of Wisconsin are pretty much up and down, steep and run in circles. Just Jim, on a vintage road bike with two chain rings in the front and a corn cob in the back, but with a strong cross country skier background from Minnesota made short work of the hills. Soon XP and I lost sight of Just Jim, took a wrong turn and found ourselves lost. While XP and I wandered the town roads of southwestern Juneau County, the Hash started on time in the City of Mauston with only the hares, RD and Just Jim present. STIFFY and HALF CRACKED were still on their bike loop, while ROAD and EGG, having completed their ride from Madison, elected to sit in a Mauston bar and drink beer.

What the Hares Thought They Saw

The eeniest weeniest hash in history OR the jokes on you: LIKES IT and MONKEY set a BEAUTIFUL trail through the friendly town of Mauston. It ran hither and yon, over hills, oer dales, even through railroad trails. It was the loveliest trail, never to be discovered. In the meantime, the beater brothers, EGG and ROAD, biked 77 miles to the farm and collapsed. XPILES and KAKA came up for a bike ride and got lost so they missed the run. HALF CRACKED and STIFFY arrived late, went for a bike ride, and missed the run LIKES IT and MONKEY shuffled EGG, ROAD and RD (who turned up at the farm) into the back of their van, thinking they could force them to run their trail. They sat at the run start waiting for hashers to arrive. At 5:20, Just Jim from Minneapolis pulled into the lot. At 5:30, they gave up. ROAD and EGG, exhausted from their trip, took the van to the beer stop bar. LIKES IT, MONKEY, Just Jim and RD set off on the trail. Within 500 yards, RD's bladder sent him off shortcutting to the beer stop. That left the hares and the new boot on trail. Suffice it to say, they didn't do the trail either. They bolted straight to the bar where they found EGG, ROAD and RD flirting with the barmistress. P.S. We heard later in the week that ZAMBONER turned up at the run start shortly after 5:30 p.m. With the Monkey van at the beer stop with ROAD and EGG, and only Just Jim's non-hash-marked car in the parking lot, he figured the joke was on him and turned around and drove home. Boo Hoo.. ters.

Photos by Eggbeater