Venue : Rawang Industrial Estate
Hare : Robin Cox
Co-Hare : Terry Gardner
Scribe : Hugh Murray
As nobody stepped forward and offered me a scribe report for the Torchlight Run, it has fallen on the On Sec to produce one himself.
Where to begin.
Perhaps at the April Committee Meeting when Emilia attending her very first PH3 Committee Meeting is volunteered to chair the organising committee and then find a set of volunteers (Nan, Elaine, Dave W. and Nancy C.)
Maybe it was about five weeks before the event when a group of us met on a Sunday Evening to sort out acts for the show (very difficult to watch the Grand Prix, Tennis drink and rehearse at the same time)
Maybe the Friday afternoon/evening before the event when a group of us turned up a Linatek to get the stage set-up etc. (Another late night by the time we packed up nobody fancied going on for a beer.)
But it was probably Saturday afternoon when we turned up at Rawang Industrial Estate to start registration. By 7:00pm over 200 hashers had turned up and were waiting for the ON-ON call. The Committee deemed that it was still too light for the call (The hares saying that only the first two checks needed any light – and it is a Torchight Run after all. ON-ON after briefing on :- not going in late, this run will be swept. That we have nice chemical lights at the third check onwards, and different colour lights at difficult places, was eventually called at about 7:20pm.
Now everybody knows Rawang Industrial Estate Area, and it is impossible to set a good run there and keep the pack together – not true if you choose a good hare and use a bit of darkness later on. Even the ON sec was there or thereabouts for the first five of six checks. The hares generally used back checks with false trails for the earlier checks that managed to invert the pack from front to back. They also got the single filing snake going down one side of the valley and up the other side (which also proved to be the circular where the back of the pack could cut across. The front runners were in just under an hour with the back of the pack and sweepers in in 1_ hours. Thanks to Robin Cox and Terry Gardener for setting a very enjoyable run.
It was then on to Part 2 of the proceedings at Linatek for makan, acts and disco.
With the last arrivals from the runsite not making an appearance until after 10:30, the acts did not get underway until 11:00pm. I am not able to comment much on the acts, as being involved in the second act, did not actually see the first or third acts. Caught the tango dancing last act. The first act was some erotic shadow dancing. The second act – the oldest swingers in town was a parody (or maybe a true story) of what Charles Lee, Terry Gardener and Paul Smith get up to at the Hard Rock Luck Café every Friday Night. Third act was Fuckawee and Friends in some musical gangster sketch. With the final act being a tango dancing contest – except the dancing didn’t count it was the position you and your partner assumed after the music stopped.
Then it was onto the disco – featuring the first appearance of the new PH3 music machine.
I believe the final people left about 4:00 am after clearing-up