Hares: Bankok and FloaterHounds: WAM, Phantom, Bigbird, Ferret, Grasshopper, Soc App, Martini, Liz, Tenzing, Chris & Pink2Lips.Biker: Why Bother.
Twelve Hashers, good and true, assembled at the car park awaiting the off, given on the stroke by Ferret in the absence of our Hares still battling manfully (& womenfully?) in the woods laying our trail.
Eleven of us followed the trail on foot parallel to the road, crossing it a short while later, while Why Bother in his fetching Bone Dome , went off on his bike, crossing our path once before meeting us at the regroup to partake of his share of the sweeties.
Meanwhile we went merrily on our way along footpaths going down through the woods, then right, then left, then whatever, Ferret invariably out in front calling the On on, occasionally other hashers finding the trail as it wound right, left, straight on, back up the hill, crossing the road, back down the hill, etc etc through the maze of paths of the Quantocks.
At one point as we crossed back over the road, we came face to face with our hares, but then left them behind as we started a long, long descent, happy in the knowledge that we were going to have to climb all the way back up again in a short while!
Just when we felt we couldn’t go down any further we reached the regroup, where miraculously Why Bother appeared, followed shortly after by our hares to enjoy the sweets. Grasshopper recognised our regroup stop as the same one on the Boxing Day hash, Did he remember what sweets we had that day as well!
Now came the long haul back up to the start, however at a check a couple of hundred yards up the trail, Ferret and the fit carried on up the path without flour (other hashers please note: No Flour) with the result that the pack divided into two, just six of us hardy souls finding and continuing on the marked trail and the other five short cutting.
By now it was getting quite dark under the trees, so on went the lights as we followed the trail ever upwards, sometimes left, sometimes right, but always up, at long last coming out at the car park.
A discussion of On Down venues was discussed with the Carew Arms being preferred by the majority, where we all went to get a well earned drink.
Many thanks to Bangkok and Floater for another enjoyable run around the Quantocks.
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