19 Jan 04

Bandit was just finishing marking trail as the first of the Hashers arrived. A.I. must have searched High and Low to locate KrunchA, but find him she did, evidenced by his return to the fold. Next to arrive, after a short absence due to work, was Bobcat, and, almost as he arrived, also pulling into the car park was a green Tray Truck, which was instantly identified as not being Gunna. When a young girl was seen to hop out and head for the nearby swings, interest was almost lost. Almost, but not quite, as, when the driver got out of the cab, he was soon identified as Mr Ed, making his almost annual appearance. Why he chose to do it so far out of town was not determined.

At the appropriate time, after waiting for any more attendees, Bandit instructed the pack on the trail, indicating that there were Wimps, Normal and Rambos run tonight. When comment was made about the grass and dirt on his back, Bandit indicated that the Wimps run ended just before a very steep incline which had resulted in Bandit being on his back for a time. With that, it was "On On".

The "On" was located outside the Tourist Information Centre and had Hashers disappearing in all directions, some even to the toilets. Eventually, trail was found to head up past the Post Office and down past the swimming pool to a "Two-Way" at the nursery. The dogs checked out trail as Snoopy dragged A.I. left towards the Highway and Wally led KrunchA back towards the center of town. Not having found anything by the bend in the path, Kruncha took up a position leaning against the fence and waited to be called "On Back".

And called "On Back" he was, as Snoopy, assisted by A.I. and Bobcat, found trail then another "Two-Way" had most of the pack heading around a loop towards the Showgrounds. Kunoath and KrunchA thought they knew better and followed the other leg of the check, which continued towards the Highway. Eventually, having found no trail at all, Kunoath (who had arrived very late, but had easily caught up to the pack) and KrunchA rejoined the rest of the pack. Trail continued around past the Showground and on to the next corner, where a "Two-Way" had A.I. checking up a dead-end street, but, finding an arrow, called "On On". The pack followed, all except Mr Ed and Kunoath who were busy talking at the check, and KrunchA who was busy checking out the other direction. Bandit took pity on A.I. and soon called her, and the rest of the pack, "On Back" to continue following Kruncha in the other direction.

A.I. had trouble following KrunchA, as he had apparently disappeared. He could be heard, all right, just not seen. When A.I. arrived at the old Rail Road cutting, she was called back by Bandit, as she had missed the arrow that pointed Down Down into the cutting. This was where Bandit had scored the gravel over his back, and was to be the "On Home" point for the wimps, but as Rat and Onca had not made the trip out of town, all the pack continued "On".

After A.I. had made it down into the cutting, trail continued along the Rail Trail with arrows on the occasional pieces of flat surfaces. After passes the local footy oval, trail split with the "Normal" trail heading "On Home" past the Skateboard rink. The "Rambo's" trail continued "On" past the old Railway Station.

Bandit prepared the Nosh of Snags in bread. As G.M., Sting, was not present, there were no "Down Downs", not even for A.I., who celebrated her Birthday on the previous day.