Venue: Kg Batu 30 ( Just before Ulu Yam Lama)
Hare: Danny Fun
Co-Hare: Many Chinese
Scribe: Joel Gauson
Because I was scribe, it was my turn to run while the missus took care of the kids. The traffic from the toll to Rawang was very congested most probably due to the road works on the bridge widening just before Rawang. Eventually I succumbed to the Malaysian way of driving, cutting down the inside on the hard shoulder to overtake the traffic jam. It took about half an hour from the toll to Rawang. After that the journey was surprisingly quick.
As we entered the run site we engaged our four wheel drive only to find at the run site a hasher was having difficulty parking his vehicle. After some friendly advice about how to engage his four wheel drive he did so and successfully parked his pick up. As other cars arrived you could observe a worrying trend of spinning wheels…would Dave and his winch be in demand again?
The run started promptly. The pack seemed rather small; maybe they were all stuck in the traffic jam? The running was good on well manicured tracks… well for the first few minutes anyway. The Hares kindly took us through some lovely squishy swamp, the wiser older hashers stayed on the track kept clean and dry to meet us up hill for the first check. As the pack was quite small check breaking took quite a bit of time. Eventually the check was broken forwards (ish) over on the other side of the valley.
After this the run mainly followed trails and stream beds. The paper was laid in the stream so there was no real option than to get wet. There was little opportunity to stay on either side of the river bank as the trails that where there moved away from the valley quite quickly. Eventually we came out of the water into the reserve for the high voltage transmission cables. Checking ensued and as we had almost given up checking and were just about to start back checking (Ton shouting “check back” trying to motivate but ) Dave Kamikaze (and his dogs) broke the check. Opera kindly kept on calling to bring the pack through. More streams, more paths and onto another check. If I remember correctly this was a circular up a hill and down into a valley. This again took lots of checking. Eventually I started back checking and found a small path with some paper on it and just when I thought I had broken the check I heard “oo ee, oo ee” just a head of me. I suppose I can’t complain about this call because it was a call. Most Petaling hashers are mute when they run. Of I ran (calling ON ON) and was quickly caught by the rest of the pack.
I got the next check completely wrong, checking along way off in the wrong direction. Thanks to Rambo standing honking a horn, we (Dave Wilson, Patrick Russell (plus dog) and myself) managed to rejoin the run. Shortly there after we were met by Paul Smith and Nick “WeatherCock” coming towards us. They said they had arrived late and decided to go in backwards. Nick said the finish was about half an hour away. This was quite comforting as I had no idea where we were and how far it was back especially as we had been out for 2 hours already. (!)
On to the final check, which was a back check. Dave Kamikaze spotted that it had already been broken so we followed the torn checking paper down in to the river and back up the bank.
Then we ran for about another half hour to get back to the run site just as it was getting dark. 2½ hours. Wow. Phew.
Showered, got changed and left.
I have heard since that the last runner was out at 8.30 which makes the run 4 hours long. And the hares got a toilet seat and a ten week-er.
In summary long trial or should I say “trail”. Long checks (Not so “Dam Funny” Danny Fun). Good trials though. Thanks.
ONON Ngiau Chee