Outstation Run: # 3
 Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th June 2007
A joint run with Hua Hin & Cha-Am Hash

Hares:
Ballbanger, Flying Frog, Lone Wolf and Bottomless Pit

Just a short hop over the Bay from Pattaya by Boat. But the journey is too rough at this time of year, so the bus option was taken.

The Offer: Included

Who attended from PH3: (36)

FLYING FROG; NAUGHTY FROG; LONE WOLF; BOTTOMLESS PIT; SWEETIE; SIR FESTER; SPAGHETTI HEAD; MRS. HEAD; MISSING LINK; ARSE-A-HOLIC; BARBIE DOLL; ARE YOU SURE; KING YAO YAO; QUEEN STELLA; PISSED POLE DANCER; BURRITO; BALL SNIFFER; MR. STATLER; DAISY; G.I. JOE; LOST VIKING; FUCKING DOG; BOW WOW; SNOOPY; PUPPY; STINKY SLOPPY SECONDS; Ronnee Sampanya; BITCH DOG; PUPPY LOVE; Kjell Thomas; Koonkaeo Sihakhlang; SIR WANDA; ROSIE; Beth Lyons; SQUEEZE MY TUBE; BOG BRUSH;

What happened? A Run report by: SPAGHETTI HEAD

OUTSTATION RUN III – MILITARY PRECISION 

The bus leaves at 0400 AM, don’t be late! All “outstation hashers” were personally informed about the bus departure time! Unbelievable, not one hasher was late! The bus departed for Hua Hin and Outstation Run III exactly 5 minutes early. It’s amazing what active listening, proper preparation, and precise planning can accomplish!

Our “coach” was cool, clean, quiet, and professionally operated by the driver and his assistant. The short 5 hour and 15 minute trip was strategically stopped “only twice” so the “smokers and drinkers” could take care of their “nicotine cravings and overloaded bladders”!

Arrival and check-in, at the Peony Hotel & Golf, was quickly completed without delay! All rooms were ready and equipped with “hash haberdashery” as previously promised. T-shirts were not provided but, would be handed out at the circle, so they could be worn to the post run dinner, at the California Mining Cantina.

Most individuals threw their bags into their rooms and headed to the “California Mining Cantina” for breakfast and libations. Others jumped into the “sparkling clean pool”, to cool off, or into their “cribs” for a short nap, before the 1PM organizational meeting.

The meeting was held to keep everyone informed of the scheduled weekend events (bus, run, breakfast, dinner, reduced food and drink rates, and free time). Per normal, 1% never got the information (Sir Fester)! Prior to, and after the meeting, many hashers enjoyed the clean white beach, did a little shopping, or tipped a few cool ones.

A 6:15 PM bus trip was scheduled to go to the mountain top to view the famous Hua Hin scenery and sunset. Everything went as planned; except the setting sun forgot to show up! Most everyone enjoyed the walk to the viewing point before the evening dinner at the Chua Lay Seafood restaurant. The food was excellent but, the quantity was small (comments from Sir Wanda and Rosie as well as many others)!

After dinner, the “real hashers” toured the many local pubs, bars, and discos. Most party goers’ arrived back at the hotel in the very early hours of the morning! Some individual’s decided that a night swim was better than a shower (Lone Wolf)!

As the new day dawned, most hashers made it to the California Mining Cantina for the “strong coffee” and outstanding breakfast buffet. After numerous cups of coffee and trips to the buffet table everyone departed to the beach, shopping, swimming pool, or back to bed for a little more sleep.

Signup for the afternoon run commenced at 15:00 sharp! The bus departed as scheduled and arrived at the very scenic large lake A-site within 30 minutes of leaving the hotel. Most PH3 hashers began to hydrate and look at the mountain views while waiting for the Hua Hin and Cha-Am hashers to arrive.

Once everyone had arrived, the run was explained by Flying Frog, Lone Wolf, and Ball Banger. Paper is white, checks and FT’s are red; at the FT – go back to the check! Off the runner’s go: down a long smooth dirt road, up the nasty rocky incline and onto the first check! King Yao-Yao took the straight steep mountain trail to the FT. GI Joe, Bog Brush, led many runners to the left hand trail – which proved to be a long FT. Spag Head took the trail to the right, and after about 300 meters finally found paper which only lasted a short while until the next check. Yao-Yao and Spag took the double forked trail to two FT’s. Yao-Yao went back to the check but, Spag continued around three small lakes, one large mountain, and numerous cattle trails and caught up with the pack – dead last! So much for the shortcut!

There were numerous checks, FT’s, cattle trails, dirt roads, and water crossings which kept the pack together. The trails were well papered and marked! The cattle trail was well covered with “cow pies” and the water crossings slippery and wet! The FRB’s finished in about 1 hour but, the last of the runner’s finished in 1 hour 30 minutes. The weather was warm but, not really too hot.

A nice short social period ended with a call to “form a circle”. The three joint GM’s (Flying Frog, Slack Bladder – Hua Hin, and Hollow Legs – Cha-Am) hashes explained how the circle was going to run. Individual’s who had never experienced the “bite of the ice” were first in. The “hares” were next and enjoyed the unanimous “good run” verdict! New names were next with “Dairy Queen”, “Miserable Dave – You C—T”, and Naughty Frog were the selections.

Sir Wanda, Rosie, and Beth (Phuket) chilled their butts for a short spell. Ball Banger, Miserable Dave, Hollow Legs, and Mata Tit were iced for the hosting support provided to the PH3 hares on the earlier recon trips.

Outstation shirts were handed out, remaining down-downs drank, and the Hash Hymn conducted. A beer for the bus was available for the trip back to the California Mining Cantina where the Mexican BBQ Buffet was waiting. Just prior to arriving at the hotel, the sky opened up and water was quickly ankle deep. By the time everyone had cleaned up, changed, and headed for the Buffet the rain had stopped.

The Mexican BBQ Buffet, provided by the California Mining Cantina was absolutely delicious! There was enough to feed an army, and everyone was well stuffed and happy! What a great way to end a perfect day! Thanks – Dave! A most deserved “Well Done” to your staff!

After another great breakfast buffet, all “hard core, hung over, hashers” climbed aboard the bus for a brutal hilly, hot tarmac, hangover run! The run started and ended with long stretches on hot “blacktop”. The early portion began on the elephant trail and went up, up, up, and F’n up! Of course, it was then down, down, F’n down! The trail was adequately papered and marked considering the heavy rain from the previous night. The only question was: How do you break a floured check to indicate to the back-of-the-packers which direction to go? The run did exactly what it was supposed to do! That is, “make you sweat out the beer and sober you up”! Good job guys!

Back to town for a couple of beers, a long swim in the pool, some food, check-out, and load the bus for home. A great time was had by all! We would like to thank all of the individuals involved with the coordination and efforts of this “Joint Outstation III” run.

On On
Spaghetti Head