HVH3 #92 Hash Trash (The Hash Previously known as #84)
Amherst High School
Start: 18:45 Thursday, 3 June 04
Hare: Canis Lickus
Hounds: Comes on Vacation, Anti-Coch, Just Arne, and the kennel hounds
The 84th running of the Happy Valley Hash took place thursday night in the face of gathering clouds and the promise of heavy showers. The few, the valiant, the usuals, met at the Amherst HS parking lot at the prescribed hour of 1830.
The Pack:
Hare for the evenings jaunt thru the Amherst environs was the HVH3 GM Cainus Lickus. The pack included Comes On Vacation, Just Arne, and myself, your humble scribble. Also in attendance were the kennel hounds, Scruffy and Zuni. After a brief chalk talk, the hare asked for a generous ten minute cranium start.
Late Cummer:
Just Donna
Trail ran thru the HS parking lot on into the street by the Junior HS. Here a check separated the pack but Just Arne found true trail proceeding easterly towards a trail thru some woods. ( I don't know the names of some of the streets I'll be drescribing because we ended up going thru a part of town I had never seen before)
When trail emerged from the woods, we were on some asphalt for a couple of blocks in a residential neighborhood. Trail then ran ( I think ) northwesterly towards a check which caused us some searching for awhile. COV found trail running thru a cemetary. Just Arne and I were accosted by a civilian with an attitude, who told us not to go in there because it was private property. We humored him just long enough for him to watch our backsides disappear into the cemetary.
Trail had some checks in there, then ran off onto a trail network alongside some RR tracks ( the Amtrak line ). Trail snaked this way and that with many checks causing us some confusing consternation, but we eventually found trail true every time. Eventually trail ran out of the woods thru a meadow, and then eventually to a check near some housing complex. We had to search some long falses, but Just Arne found trail as it meandered thru some housing complex. I think it was also the UMass Career center. We also were joined by the hare, who came looking for us. ( We spent quite awhile checking some falses and at some checks ). We crossed over North Pleasant Street south of the N. Amherst fire station, and entered a trail network in what used to be the steeplechase area for the UMass riding club. We ran uphill towards where there is a housing area by windmills ( sort of west and north of there actually, by some radio tower antenna thingy) and found a cache of delicious brews.
As we stood at the beercheck we were serenaded by a peregrine falcon who was roosting on the tower thing. We were also treated to dive bombing mosquitoes and violated by ticks. Oh, and COV spooked a deer on trail; we also spotted a huge double rainbow, and after the beercheck, we saw a fox on the UMass campus. But anyway, we left the beer check and proceeded back to "A". In route, the skies opened up and we were treated to a refreshing drenching.
At the HS parking lot we held the circle. There were actually no accusations for anything on trail! We sang a couple of hash classics. Comments included: Not enough rain on trail, not enough ticks, wildlife, etc. We ended with Hash religion.
The On In was held at the Amherst Brewing Co. While there we were met by Just Donna.
We discussed Jimmy Buffett III business and our next hash. I'll be haring on Thursday night, June 17. Hash start will be at the intersection of Rte 63 and 47 on the Montague / Sunderland border. 1830HRS.
Also:
On Saturday, June 5th, COV, CL and myself ran the Boston 35th Anniversary hash in Millis. It was a well attended, and fun hash. Many thanks to Boston's "The Fat One" and his wife for hosting the event. There was plenty of black ooze shiggy on trail and my good sneakers are now my newest shiggy sneakers. At the end of the trail was a shower and a heated in ground pool. And...Beer!
At their circle, I shamelessy advertised Buffett III. I think we'll be drawing a healthy turnout.
Anti-Coch
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