| Run | Date | Hare(s) | Description | MapRef | 1:50000 | 1:25000 | 1:10000 | More |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1008 | 2023-05-07 11:00 | Turkey Tail and Kinky | Ambersham Common New Road | SU912194 | | | |
T’was an windless overcast 15°C but became sunny with patches of blue sky. The group of 22 of us together with Hazlemere H3 gathered in Ambersham Common carpark with 6 Hash hounds on the day after the coronation of King Charles III.
Old Faithful welcomed the group to run 1008 and offered apologies for Bambi, who was training for a proper run, and handed over to the hares. Popeye, was so relieved to find that he wasn’t last to the circle, as the hares Kinky and Turkey Tail arrived at the circle from a freshly laid route a couple of minutes late having taken 3 hours laying the trail. The hares explained the symbols for the benefit of the H3 attendees - different to other Hashes.
Ambersham Common is great for Hashing even in really wet weather, a wise choice, as it threw it down the day before. It has so much sand, lots of routes and little mud. The route was roughly square, if drawn by a wounded spider crawling through an ink puddle.
The group headed on out west to return and try again more correctly, over the road east and up the hill north west. A back check caught us all out again before heading north west, crossing the road again and west along the beautiful heath land down to Little London and Heyshott common parallel to the dismantled railway up on the embankment. Then over a wooden bridge and uphill, along the power lines to a regroup. The route then turned south south west, before heading down hill, losing a section of the group, crossing a stream via a stone bridge and joining part of the Serpent trail meandering its way towards the carpark and the chariots.
Party food and drink was very kindly laid on by Pru and Old Faithful as a Coronation celebration which was most welcome in the warming sunlight.
In the post run circle Old Faithful and kinky nominated a selection of refreshing “down downs” to:-
1. The Hares, by way of a, “thank you, for laying the trail”
2. The group of front runners who lost the trail 2/3rds around but carried on valiantly, and returned the way that they started, significantly after the rest of us.
3. Sausage lottery for burying her head in a gorse bush whilst slipping underfoot.
4. Spider man was awarded the Hash-it for sitting on a log exclaiming, “all the yellow shirts (CHI HHH) are at the back”.
The trail was 3.8 miles long completed in a moderate 75 minutes.
On-On,
Popeye
Spiderman's walkers' track ... AND ... photos by OF and SM
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