Madison Hash House Harriers

June 6, 2009

HASH HISTORY - HASH RUN #1660

MAJOR TOOL started his run at the Bourbon Street Grille, located along the waterfront where the Yahara River runs between Lakes Monona and Waubesa. Just a small group of ten or so hashers showed up due to hashers attending other events like the Kettle 100. The hare announced that he used the standard marks on the trail so there wouldn't be anything tricky to deal with. As the pack took off, a few hashers realized that we forgot to assign an experienced hasher to help. The trail headed over the river and south through the neighborhood. The pack got quickly spread out, mainly due to the fact that the hare was sweeping the front of the pack rather than the back. Things got a little better once that got straightened out. The trail headed eastward to a long back check so everyone got back together. Again the FRBs took off but were soon wandering aimlessly around a barren parking lot yelling "Beer Check!" where there was clearly no place to hide beer. As the hare got near he scolded the FRBs because this was actually a BC that meant back check. It was then that the hare acknowledged that he looked up the hash marks on Wikipeadia, where apparently, a BC is not a beer check. It was around this time that HALF CRACKED pulled into the parking lot and joined the group after driving around looking for the start location. After recovering from the nonbeer check, the pack followed the trail north into the Edna Taylor reserve and eventually came out the other side onto streets. This led back to Monona Drive, to a real beer check at a pizza joint that served Bud Light. The hash solution to that was to drink twice as much. After a long stay at the beer check, the pack took off northeast behind a school building next to a steep hill. On the way down the hill, AH SHIT tripped and twisted his ankle. He went down like a sack of cabbage but got right back up and kept going through the neighborhood back to the start. Just about everyone lost the trail but found their way back to the cars. The On-On was at MT and Just CJ's back yard were the hares provided great food including grilled brats, burgers and pasta salad, and plenty of beer. MT's grandparents were visiting and seemed at least mildly amused at the hash shenanigans. Some friends also dropped by but tried to ignore us. Awards at ceremonies included the hare & CJ, and everyone else, some were even awarded twice. By the end of ceremonies Just Nick was named GOLDENROD and Just Ron got named MOPENISTRATION. Congratulations to MAJOR TOOL and Just CJ on their virgin hash!