Location: Ulu Yam
Hare : Nancy Stott
Scribe: Richard Foyston
Comic: Mary Morss
Short summary for those who don’t have much time:
A pleasant afternoon: scenic location, nice weather, checks worked roughly as planned, but lots of hillwork. Judged a T-shirt.
Slightly longer version for those who feel need:
The great and the good of PHHH gathered at the well-known Ulu Yam. This area has lots of hills and single file trails and this run has both in abundance.
From this run site there was nowhere to go except up, which is of course where the pack was sent, through some mature but well-tended rubber. Basically no respite from the hill until the first check, which was broken quickly so that most runners missed a beautiful view, just forward, over the valley . After the check there was nowhere to go except down, this time through abandoned rubber which, for the agriculturally inclined, showed the overgrowth that results from one cycle of low prices – and it is a lot.
Second check was in the valley which meant, of course, a long uphill would follow. And so it went. Six checks in all, I think. The fifth was particularly interesting. This are has been used with varying frequency over the years, and it seemed a lot has changed since the last time your scribe was there. Some previously cleared areas had rapidly overgrown, but at the same time it appears home sites are being cleared (on the rather steep hillside after the check) as if a development of some size is under way.
First runner in recorded in a little over an hour with most of the pack not too far behind. The run length averaged out the previous two weeks which have been a bit longer but the hills seemed to provide everyone with about as much exertion as they wanted.
A total of six tables assembled for the On-On and a fine dinner was consumed, no doubt. The hare was given a deserving T-Shirt for his efforts. Your scribe was honoured to learn that his absence was noticed.
Great afternoon, nice spot, well-set run, though it has to be said that a run site on an operating road has some disadvantages for beer wagon revelers and local residents alike.
Many thanks to the hare.