Chardonnay’s Working Roots Trail – R*n 1431
22 August 2024 from Hobart Workers Club
Hare: Grassroots Arsecutter
Run Reporter: Wee Bev

Another balmy evening for a Hash. If it was not for the pissing rain!

Despite the inclement weather a fair collection of Hashers climbed the steep stairs (others took the lift!) to the Hobart Workers Club. We had a nice room to ourselves with sociable, round, tables worthy of an up-market function. As a cashed-up union member LA took charge and gave instructions that: we should order our food before setting off on trail and give the bar staff our table number & name to make it easier for them to allocate our meals on our return.

At 6:31, after a few words from the real Hare, we set off into the dark in search of what we thought would be washed away trail!  T’was not the case. In the main the trail was well marked with dribble dropper but there were still a number of hashers who reported ‘losing trail’ at some point.  With the exception of Herr Flick and Spoof, who elected to go on a pub crawl rather than follow trail, most found their way back on trail again in time to get to the piss stop.

Where did the trail go?  As per Maxi’s Strava we went left from the Workers Club and along Liverpool Street to Murray where there was a check and a bit of difficulty finding trail.  After leading everyone on a falsie Grassroots eventually pointed the runners in the right direction and we headed to Collins Street, then up the lane past all the diners in the Mr. Good Guy restaurant wondering what all the fuss was about. Pole Dancer suggested it might be a good spot to set a Hash from. There were certainly enough empty tables!

Check on the corner of Davey and Barrack St had the runners setting off in all directions. TicToc called Hooray and Wee Bev down towards St Davids Park on an imaginary trail while the other runners disappeared in the opposite direction. 

When I got back to the check they were nowhere in sight. I thought that they had headed back towards Macquarie St so headed back there and found the walker’s trail. ‘That will do me,’ I thought. I was sure that I was following the Hare – Grassroots – until the trail went down Molle Street and she went straight on up Macquarie!!! I was either mistaken .. or she was having another episode of the occurrence at the Murray Street check.  Before continuing down Molle St I caught sight of TicToc crossing Molle Street up at Davey St, but was not enticed by her calls. Down Molle towards the rivulet, I found evidence that the runners would join the walkers again there. (According to Maxi’s Strava their route led them to the entrance of the Southern Outlet then back down Gore street to the rivulet track.)

I was alone. No runners or walkers in sight. Then I spotted LA on the other side of the road turning down Liverpool street… shortcutting given the trail was on my side of the road!   She must have had inside information that the trail would send us all the way up to Hill Street past the Marquis…with a few FTs on the way at Bathurst and Brisbane Street.

At the train park the trail headed down Warwick Street. Still no sight or sound of Hashers until after I had checked out a cheeky little FT on Lochner street. I heard Hashers but couldn’t see them… until near the bottom of Warwick. There I caught up with Grizzly, Pee Wee, Prickit, Hands On and Growler. They must have come from another direction! (Grizzly’s strava indicates they came via Barrack St and Watkins Avenue after walking through the Brisbane Street FT).

Back on Harrington and heading for the ON INN we didn’t have far to go before Arsecutter ushered us into Can’t Run’s office and soon to be Air BnB where we quaffed a mixture of Baileys, Tia Maria and Butterscotch Schnapps, marketed as C*ck Sucking Cowboys. Clearfell and his harem were pretty excited about the cocktails provided but it was all too much for Pee Wee, who set off to make use of Can’t Run’s facilities, but did so without telling anyone or locking the door! ( See skols!)

As we were leaving the remaining runners, Pole Dancer and Maximus, arrived so the trail worked out pretty well for the Hare. TicToc & Hooray didn’t make it. Hooray blamed TicToc, but as she did not return to the ON INN she has no right of reply.

From the piss stop the walkers zig-zagged through town, sort of on trail, and got back to the On INN before the rain started again.

Come dinner time the staff brought out meals with no indication of who they were for or even the table they were for!! So much for all the efforts we went to trying to be good club members.

Great effort Arsecutter given the horrid weather you had to endure re-setting trail!

Ony-On
Wee Bev 

DOWN DOWNS

Slippery Nipple was in charge of the Lip Session… Smallgoods had arrived in time for Hash, but only stayed long enough to have a spit the dummy about not being able to find a parking space before heading home again in a huff!

• The Hare(s): Arsecutter and Grassroots
• Can’t Run, 3D and Pee Wee for being C*ntry members.
• Can’t Run– for claiming a 250 run milestone….. but according to Griz’ records he has done 272!!  He has also had a birthday recently!
• 3D and Morticia hash walked together and got lost
• Hooray: also lost trail… Following Tic Toc in the wrong direction!

Skols from the floor

• Grizzly -> Pee Wee… using the facilities at the drink stop (Can’t Run’s place) didn’t think to lock the door or tell anyone where he was going!
  ….. Can’t Run innocently invited Growler to have a look around his prospective air B&B…. She got a bit of a shock when she opened the bathroom door to find Pee Wee performing on the toilet!
• Grizzly -> ‘Hare’ Grassroots for leading the pack astray… talkie-walking on the trail… walked straight past a check and round a corner… as no trail was found from the check .. anxious Hashers decided to follow her up Murray Street… only for her to stop at the Crocs shop announcing “I don’t think it goes this way…”
• Grizzly -> Uber. Was noted to be calling ‘ON ON’ like a big girl’s blouse… softly like he did not want anyone to hear! As Griz got nearer he discovered that Uber was actually singing along to tunes coming from his earphones, not calling!
• Herr Flick -> LA for monopolizing a whole table, excluding Wee Bev while saving spots for Smallgoods & Luv Shack who did not turn up! (Well they did.. but that’s another skol for next week. See above!)
• Griz -> Maxi for diligently organising a hit squad (Softy and Herr Flick) for a scheduled creaming.. only for the lucky Hasher to be absent… all for naught!
• Hooray -> Slippery Nipple for another menu mishap!  Ordered Caesar Salad with no egg but in the absence of names attached to the food being served she took the first Caesar (with egg) that was proffered…  one with egg that should have gone to Spoof! Apparently, the egg was mistreated. Flicked to Hooray.. but landed on the floor instead… so no good for passing onto Spoof when his (actually her), eggless one arrived!
• Slippery Nipple -> Griz  for being absent last week… The Lip session was just not the same without his singing!
• Griz -> Herr Flick & Spoof for completely ignoring trail and doing their own trail around the hostelries of town. They claim they lost the trail at the Alabama… but we know the trail did not go near there!

NEXT RUN

Run 1432: 29 August 2024
HARE APPARENT: Hands On
STARTING FROM: Foreshore Tavern, Lauderdale
RUN REPORTER: Volunteer required!
$5 run fee – buy your own food and drinks at the venue.

RECEDING HARELINE

We have a few gaps in our calendar.  Please volunteer to set a trail if you have not already done so this year!

UP CUMMING EVENTS

• 6 December 2024 | Hobart Posh Hash 1920s cocktail evening @ Big O’s Juke Joint
• 28-30 March 2025 | Aussie Nash Hash 2025, Fremantle
• 8-10 May 2026 | Interhash 2026, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

HASH FLASH

All the photos from Run 1431

MISMANAGEMENT 2024

Contacts for committee members.. tho’ its just as easy to use messenger.. or just ask a stupid question on the facebook page… There will always be someone willing to give you an answer.