Run	Date	Hare(s)	Description	MapRef	1:50000	1:25000	1:10000
Run 558	5 June 2005	The Ref	Iping Common	SU852220

The car park was well signposted and the pack gathered on time at Iping Common in time to hear the Ref giving dire warnings of Clay Pigeon shooters and adders. (Avoid both). Mr Bean was handing out pics of the last hash and so before he got the slides out the hares told us to cross the road and find that trail! Groucho had been awarded his new hashname but did not wear the items he won last time.

So the pack found the first two checks easily enough but then found a check which did not seem to go anywhere and had a backcheck that went two checks behind. Is that legal? We doubled back and then across the heather towards another check that led to a falsie. As we came back from the falsie the pack had gathered around The Ref who said his Achilles had gone. There was nothing for it but to be helped back to the chariots by The Panda and Resta the Rasta. Was this the girls taking the easy option or just being kind and considerate? As they are hashers we can forget kind and considerate. Was the Ref in need of two ladies to help him or was he genuinely in need of help? Again as he is a hasher let us think the worst and suggest that being escorted by two ladies is better than struggling around the rest of the course!!!

Well done Ref - a true hasher.

So Old Faithful led us around the shooters and we found a host of trails to choose from.
Again wily hares had led us around the houses (can you go around the houses in open countryside?) before coming back to the check we started from.
The Can Man felt sure that he had found the correct trail but it was a clever double bluff.
We began to head towards the chariots and it was not long before the words ON IN were heard being bellowed at the front of the pack.
The pack tumbled into the car park where Mr Bean voiced the nominations.
Heather was nominated for creeping off for a quick wee and being caught at it!
Claire for losing her footing and blemishing her new hash T shirt.
Hash Flash nearly got the hashit for a number of things, not least for following Claire up a falsie.
Whilst an old man’s fancy may include chasing young women up falsies, getting caught means you receive a nomination.
The Chamois nominated for red toenails... need I say more?
However the hashit went to Patch for being - Patch!
He was always at the front checking and sprinting and generally giving passers by the impression that they were observing runners and not hashers thereby bringing the pack into disrepute. was he guilty? - of course

Humble Scribe.