Venue : Pangsum
Hare : Jackie Braok
Co-Hare : Dave Pendlebuly
Scribe : Mother Sheep
Having arrived at the runsite in heavy rain, it was a surprise to find this clear-up before 4:30pm, leaving a dry but cooler than normal run.
4:30pm arrived with no sign of the GM or JM’s so being the senior committee member present decided to circle-up pack and start the run, at which point just before I called ON ON the GM arrives and denies me my moment of glory.
ON ON was called and it was back down the road a few hundred meetings before ascending up a track into the orchard area where a U-turn in the paper led quickly to the first check. The check was actually cleared very quickly by one of the FROP’s but then called a false trail – leading to the whole pack meandering around other areas, in vain, trying to locate the true trail. By the time the ON ON call down and left from the check, your scribe was way out left and up from the check. This resulted in trying to cut across to the pack only to be foiled by secondary jungle. In the end I had no choice to climb back to the check and follow the pack as last man in. (Actually I could have gone straight up the hill until crossed paper, but short cutting would not allow me to describe the run accurately) Consequently I have no more experience of the checks as I slowly made my way back up the pack.
From the first check the trail descended all the way back down the hill, single file width, but this did not bother me here as I was single, to within 20m of the road. It was then single file, very steep uphill in secondary jungle. Caught the back of the pack here and it was obvious because of this terrain that the pack will be well strung out with little chance that it would ever regroup again.
Having reached the top of the hill and broken out of the secondary jungle (believe there was a check near here) it was all the way down again to the road, along the road and then back up hill again. Knowing that we were going clockwise and would have to go up higher than the last hill. This is when John Castleman’s dulcet tones of ON UP can be a little annoying for stating the obvious, but also very useful if lost!
Eventually we break out on a horizontal, well up and down, track across the hillside, reaching the pipelines. At the second pipeline with the track alongside and now 1 hour 40 into the run it was tempting to follow my advice to others and follow the track straight down hill to the cars. But I am a dedicated scribe and inflicted further torture on myself and turned left and commenced climbing again into another big loop that took about 30 minutes to complete before ending up lower down on the same track mentioned above. 10 more minutes to home. The run took me 2 hours 20 minutes, but was not surprised to hear that FROP in 1 hour 27 minutes as it was evidently apparent if you got to the front you could move quicker without the hindrance of the considerable amount of single filing required.
It was decided not to have a circle on site, partly because of the rugby, but mainly because the hares had chosen a run site in a Kampong, near the mosque and had not got permission. The pack was especially requested by the GM (before she left for Rugby) to ensure that no litter was left behind. LITTER WAS LEFT BEHIND – Cans, Bottles and empty peanut bags. This is probably another run site that cannot be used by Petaling or other hashes because of the inconsiderate nature of a few of our members. Thank you Kana Besar for calming the upset locals when everyone had left the site.
The ON ON was held at Hulu Langat Seafood Restaurant & Beer Garden, where the hares after numerous reminders had promised the pack that the rugby would be shown. When we arrived the Karaoke was in full blast, and things did not look promising, however after about five minutes things were sorted out, Karaoke was switched off and the tables set up close to the TV, but not before some had left for elsewhere.
Sometime during the rugby we managed to consume a six course meal. So with England 25 South Africa 6 and a final whistle the circle was called. In the absence of the GM, who having ascertained that we had rugby at the ON ON had decided to watch it elsewhere, it fell to yours truly to run the Circle. With the following people being called in to the circle
Leaving Petaling again - Paul & Meg Novocco – best of luck in Australia
Returnees - Debra Parry, Greg Bridstock and Len (the hands) Potter. This is the order they stood in as there was no way that Debra was going to stand next door to Len.
Returnees – The Gardener family represented by Richard
Virgins
Guest – Leatherback the GM for East Grinsted promoting his pre-ramble for next years interhash.
Hares Jackie and David where the run was judged an ON DOWN
Len Potter back up to sing us a few welsh songs.
Arnie – for leaving behind the two largest items found at the run site - his chairs. Should never have given him a beer for this sin – as he forgot them again and they are now filling up the back of my car.
The ON Sec for forgetting his lines.
Terry Gardener – for serving Port and Stilton Cheese at the run site. A delicacy that he describes as “for English Gentlemen” – so why did he give it the Germans and ignore your pining ON Sec.
The evening ended with a rendition by all of that excellent hash song “Swing Low” and nobody mentioned that it just happens to be the English Rugby Anthem.
Triple ON was called for the backyard. I did not attend and have heard nothing of the proceedings.
ON ON
ON ON was called and it was back down the road a few hundred meetings before ascending up a track into the orchard area where a U-turn in the paper led quickly to the first check. The check was actually cleared very quickly by one of the FROP’s but then called a false trail – leading to the whole pack meandering around other areas, in vain, trying to locate the true trail. By the time the ON ON call down and left from the check, your scribe was way out left and up from the check. This resulted in trying to cut across to the pack only to be foiled by secondary jungle. In the end I had no choice to climb back to the check and follow the pack as last man in. (Actually I could have gone straight up the hill until crossed paper, but short cutting would not allow me to describe the run accurately) Consequently I have no more experience of the checks as I slowly made my way back up the pack.
From the first check the trail descended all the way back down the hill, single file width, but this did not bother me here as I was single, to within 20m of the road. It was then single file, very steep uphill in secondary jungle. Caught the back of the pack here and it was obvious because of this terrain that the pack will be well strung out with little chance that it would ever regroup again.
Having reached the top of the hill and broken out of the secondary jungle (believe there was a check near here) it was all the way down again to the road, along the road and then back up hill again. Knowing that we were going clockwise and would have to go up higher than the last hill. This is when John Castleman’s dulcet tones of ON UP can be a little annoying for stating the obvious, but also very useful if lost!
Eventually we break out on a horizontal, well up and down, track across the hillside, reaching the pipelines. At the second pipeline with the track alongside and now 1 hour 40 into the run it was tempting to follow my advice to others and follow the track straight down hill to the cars. But I am a dedicated scribe and inflicted further torture on myself and turned left and commenced climbing again into another big loop that took about 30 minutes to complete before ending up lower down on the same track mentioned above. 10 more minutes to home. The run took me 2 hours 20 minutes, but was not surprised to hear that FROP in 1 hour 27 minutes as it was evidently apparent if you got to the front you could move quicker without the hindrance of the considerable amount of single filing required.
It was decided not to have a circle on site, partly because of the rugby, but mainly because the hares had chosen a run site in a Kampong, near the mosque and had not got permission. The pack was especially requested by the GM (before she left for Rugby) to ensure that no litter was left behind. LITTER WAS LEFT BEHIND – Cans, Bottles and empty peanut bags. This is probably another run site that cannot be used by Petaling or other hashes because of the inconsiderate nature of a few of our members. Thank you Kana Besar for calming the upset locals when everyone had left the site.
The ON ON was held at Hulu Langat Seafood Restaurant & Beer Garden, where the hares after numerous reminders had promised the pack that the rugby would be shown. When we arrived the Karaoke was in full blast, and things did not look promising, however after about five minutes things were sorted out, Karaoke was switched off and the tables set up close to the TV, but not before some had left for elsewhere.
Sometime during the rugby we managed to consume a six course meal. So with England 25 South Africa 6 and a final whistle the circle was called. In the absence of the GM, who having ascertained that we had rugby at the ON ON had decided to watch it elsewhere, it fell to yours truly to run the Circle. With the following people being called in to the circle
- Leaving Petaling again - Paul & Meg Novocco – best of luck in Australia
- Returnees - Debra Parry, Greg Bridstock and Len (the hands) Potter. This is the order they stood in as there was no way that Debra was going to stand next door to Len.
- Returnees – The Gardener family represented by Richard
- Virgins
- Guest – Leatherback the GM for East Grinsted promoting his pre-ramble for next years interhash.
- Hares Jackie and David where the run was judged an ON DOWN
- Len Potter back up to sing us a few welsh songs.
- Arnie – for leaving behind the two largest items found at the run site - his chairs. Should never have given him a beer for this sin – as he forgot them again and they are now filling up the back of my car.
- The ON Sec for forgetting his lines.
- Terry Gardener – for serving Port and Stilton Cheese at the run site. A delicacy that he describes as “for English Gentlemen” – so why did he give it the Germans and ignore your pining ON Sec.
The evening ended with a rendition by all of that excellent hash song “Swing Low” and nobody mentioned that it just happens to be the English Rugby Anthem.
Triple ON was called for the backyard. I did not attend and have heard nothing of the proceedings.
ON ON