HVH3 No. 115
"Spred^em's Virgin Lay"
Belchertown, Mass.
April 24th, 2005

The Hare: Spred^em

The Pack: Just Hossein ( "Just a Ho?"), Dewey Do Me!, Just Jen,Cainus Lickus,
Comes On Vacation,Yeasty Boy, Yeast Injector.

Visitors: Swallow My Tits, oops, I mean, Follow My Tits, Super Chicken - all of the Hartfarts.

Late Cummers, but who did do trail: Havelak, and Virgin Francis.

The pack assembled at the annointed hour at Villa Spred^em on Old Amherst Road in Belchertown. Some of us had stopped at the Spirit Haus to get some pre-lube beers which we did at Spred^em's along with some of Yeasty Boy's potions.

It had been pouring for the better part of a day or two but for Spred^em's virgin lay the clouds parted and the sun shone through. This was to be a Dead Hare trail and she assured us that the trail was still visible.

The Hare advised everyone to make sure their sneakers were tied tight because of sneaker sucking mud on trail. After explaining the trail marks and introducing a new hash mark, a circled "Bx" which meant, "Butt Crossing" the hare pointed the pack towards the end of the driveway and said, "Away with you wankers" or something like that.( This was at about 1430HRs ) A couple of people decided to do a walkers trail, but the rest of the pack went on down the assfault in search of hashmarks.

Trail proceeded down the street, and involved a couple of checks, but true trail soon went into some woods, under a powerline and then thru some shiggy to a road crossing near a stream. The pack was met at this point by the walkers and we all proceeded along the streambed, catching some good sneaker sucking, grey oozing mud. ( I sank in up to me knees at one point.)

Trail soon led to a dilapidated Mill Dam, where somebody discovered the hash hounds rolling around with the severed head of a young sheep. But there was also a "BH" sign which led to beercheck No.1 beside the waterfall created by the busted dam. Just Jen was missing in action, so the Hare went looking for her, but returned empty handed.

After the beercheck the pack followed the stream a short way to the Bx crossing which was a butt slide across some felled hemlock trees. While some people did that, myself, Superchicken and Just Hossein decided to splash them liberally. Yeasty Boy caught most of the airborne Tsunami. Trail then climbed a slippery, muddy slope up and out of the ravine by the stream. But the trail, as it would quite a few more times, crisscrossed the stream and the ravine.

At some point the trail ran alongside some rusty old barbed wire that was located at the rim of the ravine. I spotted COV at the top of a downward loop of fence, so I crawled under the wire to bypass the up and down trail around the wire. I made it thru the first set of wires okay, but got snagged on the second set. I was stuck good, until Dewey Do Me! pried the wire out of my back. It had ripped my shirt and my back. I ended up with a slice about 8" long across my back.(Blood on Trail) Some how the rest of the pack kept on going without marking trail and we at the back got separated from them.
Trail went down into the ravine again, but then we lost trail marks for about 1/2 an hour. We checked up, downstream, diagonally etc. Eventually we found trail marks again but checks weren't clearly marked nor were trail intersections. I did see one false marked. Not helping matters was a guy ridning up and down the trail on an ATV with a small pack of dogs. The ATV probably ground some chalk into the wet ground and obliberated some trail marks.

Eventually we picked up trail again and found the second beercheck. The BH was clearly marked, but we found NO BEER at the BC. We cursed the wabbit and then went up and down a sandy, buggy trail all the way back to the SP.

[ This is probably a good point to mention that nobody knew that Virgin Francis and Havelak had started trail at about 1500 Hrs. They hit both beer checks and found NO BEER ]

Back at the start, we circled up.

The On In was at The Hanger.

Next Hash will be hared by Yeast Injector. Date and Location TBA

Upcumming Events:

Albany NURD, May 14, 15

Buffett IV June 11, 12