Venue: Bukit Beruntung-Rasa Road
Hare: Steve Robinson
Co-hare: John Dodgson
Scribe: Juicy Rump
The hare and his co-hare were very quick to pounce on this area, generally still considered virginal, made accessible by the recently opened link between Bukit Beruntung and Rasa. This, in fact, was their second effort, although their roles were reversed, I understand. Fact is, the area we ran today has been ‘covered’ from many different vantages in the past. But starting from a new run site gave the run a different, interesting twist.
Owing to the concurrent Pan Asia Hash being held in Kuching, the decimated pack of stayed-behinds were understandably much less than your usual Saturday crowd. Tucked into a corner tarmac of the poorly occupied housing estate, the pack was whisked off sharply at 4.30pm straight towards the moonscape adjacent to the abandoned palms; thirty, forty acres of cut-and-fill effort laid to waste by an over-ambitious developer caught in the frenzy of the last economic boom.
The 1st check was cleverly placed a hundred meters up a bukit, and had at least half the pack caught. Papers were found back and on the lower slope, veering to the left along the palms. A pleasant trot for about 7min took the runners to the edge of the palms where the 2nd check was encountered. As myself and some others were still descending from the hill having been caught by the 1st check, a somewhat comical scene developed below us, seeing the pack responding like a swarm of bees to the calls of On On, and then abruptly stopped and about-turned to the shouts of false trail!
The trail was quickly discovered on the bottom of a denuded ravine, and took the runners along a run-off stream overgrown with those nasty elephant grass that has blades as sharp as knives if one gets sliced at the wrong angle. Inexplicably, however, the trail went for only 200m from start to check #3, which was really short. The pack spread out and fanned in all directions forward and up both hills to the left and right. It took at least 10min of intense scrutinizing before someone went backward and found papers just a little way up a bramble-covered slope.
We inched our way up in single-file following the path cut by maintenance crew of the pylons, avoiding the rough and tough needle-like branches of the brambles, and got to the base of a pylon where papers led off to the left along the ridge for an obvious check #4. Shouts of On On was called from the lower reaches of the steep slope, and the hashers scrambled like a pack of migratory wildebeests (at least that’s what Charles Lee described it) down the slope, kicking up a storm of dusts that was scorched dry by the hot spell and a recent fire. The trail, however, turned out to be a falsie, but the actual trailed was easily found in the opposite direction, to the right. A good stretch of running ensued, mainly going gently downhill, for about 1km. The succeeding check #5 proved to be quite a dud, and the papers to the left of it enabled another stretch of good jogging. When we got to the grassland just before the road, there was a bit of disarray due to styrofoams that resembled papers so much that the runners were confused momentarily. The confusion was quickly cleared, and papers continued to the edge of the road and, promptly, check #6.
Papers were found on the other side of the road, through a 3m tunnel that spans it. A whole lot of SCBs took the opportunity to take the obvious shortcut home. But from there, the runners were taken on a circuitous 2.5km through estate trails, with another 2 checks thrown in. FROPs arrived back in 1hr 18min, which was just right.
All in all, a great effort, although the promise of water and flooding was not kept!
Scribe Report for PH3 run 24th Sept.05
Hare: Michael Chow
Co-hare:Salim Dhalla
Location : Ulu Yam ( Along road to Genting Highlands)
Scribe:Steve Robinson
This run was unusual as the first half of the hash was, for me anyway, in the car! By sheer coincidence there is another ‘Lucky Light’ restaurant at the crossroads traffic lights immediately before the one I was supposed to be at, but to be fair it was not half way between the designated points, so my mistake. And so after traipsing around I suddenly noticed a sign on a tree in Times Roman font 12! Luckily I had my handy pocket microscope and so it was at 5.05 ish I arrived, it must have taken you ages to do those 2 signs, so next time why not just one sign and simply allow 2 hours to find it. Great parking, plenty of shade. 5.15 and I was off much to the astonishment of Nan and the beer wagon security force. Its always easy catching up from the rear and rather than catch up to quickly I decided the best thing was to do the first river section 4 times! Someone had laid torn paper back to the start from the first check (that was incidentally still in place!!!) it was here I met Arne and Terry who gave me spiritual comfort and told me it was my duty to fulfil my destiny and compete the scribe mission or I would face extreme punishment at the circle!.
Still only 100m from the start I focussed on the job in hand, now 5.30. In my effort to catch up I also took my socks and shoes off to keep dry and maintain maximum running efficiency when free from the river! Big mistake – after taking them on and off 5 times I thought ‘oh damn’ or something like that and ploughed into the river, and accepted the fact that half a yard of sand would be accompanying me for the rest of the run. The river section was really cooling and clean, great fun. And so up into the hills for a windy section through the light bush and bamboo. From the ridge back down Franz Clammer style, nice and quick, really picking up speed now. Would you believe it, another check still in place!!! I must be getting better at this as it was clearly a back check and I soon picked up the pace again. Wow this section was really steep, a good climb through several tiers of rubber and pathways. At this point the track was wide and clear and my favourite section as this was an excellent palm track and made for fast running.
I had given up on catching anyone, but suddenly up ahead my first encounter and a quick hello to Carol, then CK and then Yeung. Speeding past these and in my hast I short cut to the path below and raced miles down a hill to yet another check in place!!! Oh shit!!! Back up the hill, and finally another 3 more people that looked very strangely similar to the other 3 that I had passed earlier! same clothes everything. My confidence was up and this was clearly the run in and home – the river ahead, children shouting and playing and Barry and friends with a glorious site – a case of Tiger Beer. So happy I dived into the stream and wallowed in the sheer achievement of it all. 3000 steps back to the start and met by Nancy, and May who were polishing off a bottle of Port – nice drop of stuff I must say.
A very good turn out and lots of stories being shared from the previous weeks Pan-Asia Hash. An excellent circle which starred yours truly and a naked butt on the ice. By the way I am writing this from Pantai Medical centre specialists clinic for frost- bite and Hash tropical diseases. Opera gave us an extraordinary rendition of ‘A cat being strangled’ by Benjamin Flaust! Barry, Terry and Colin (the quiet one), were excellent Bomo’s and beers were sloshed readily. Two non-payers were publicly castrated for all to see.
Onto the famous Lucky Light, not the one by the traffic lights, but the one cunningly disguised as a Pasar Malam night market. I must congratulate the food and the amazing speed as it was obviously being ordered from a place in Ipoh. These DHL guy’s are really good – and the mock-up kitchen and staff, really clever stuff. We had a great table and may I indulge myself and thank my table friends for an excellent evening, they are Petra (from HK), Melissa (Egypt), Max & Anita (Max, excellent Jimmy Leggit look-alike), John Dodgson, Sarah Tan, May, Paul, Nancy and Alex Kirkman. A star studded table and an excellent hash. Front runner in just over 1 hour. Thanks to Michael Chow and Salim Dhalla, and all who were involved on this Hash – good job. Papi
Hare : Bernadette Kulen (Ben)
Scribe: Soo Weng Heng (Uncle Soo)
Occassion: Torch Light Run
Comic: John Robertson
Location:Bukit Cahaya
It has been a long time since we started our run at 7.30 pm and the feeling
was a little uncomfortable that I have to drive to the run site at 6.30 pm
when under normal circumstances, we would have completed our run by then.
Upon arriving at the run site, there was no air of festivity and no
registration. Checked with Nan and she said that this torch light run is a
normal run but only starts at 7.30 pm. The focus of the committee this
year is on our 1500th run sometime in Dec.
The stand-in GM Dave made an announcement before starting the run. He has
cautioned all of us that there have been many runs set in this area and we
should only follow the paper with the treeman. The run in started at
twilight and up a gradual hill. It was interesting to see a line of lights
following behind when you looked back. The first check was easily broken
and not being in front and only being able to see as far as my torch could
shine, I have no idea who broke the check. I was also busy conversing with
Ron and Helen. I understand the second check took a longer time to break
as paper was found down a small hill. It was indeed pleasant to see
coloured markers all along the way. It gave us assurances that we were on
the right track.
Somewhere after the third check, Ah Wan was up to his mischievous behavior
and he frightened May and some ladies when he jumped out from behind a palm
tree pretending to a modern day Pontianak. May and the other girls
screamed their hearts out and I wonder if they wet their pants as well.
For this trick, Ah Wan was given an on down.
During the run or (walk for some of us) we were overtaken by some faster
runners, two of whom were Patrick Russel and David Wilson. Patrick came
with miner's headlight which could change intensity at will. He also
carried a powerful torch and of course his fog horn. The music from his
horn was of great assistance to many of us as we could have a good idea of
the direction of the run. David too had two torches, both on at the same
time and from afar, it gave the impression of two runners approaching.
Overall there were six checks and when we came by to the cowshed area,
paper went up the tarred road and then left into the rough area. We had
the opportunity of short cutting by turning left along the tarred road but
with the encouragement of Yoke Chan and Liz, we decided that it would be
best to follow paper all the way. Following the abandoned golf cart path,
we were home in 10 mins.
It was a well set run and papers were laid mainly on the main estate roads
with some occasional meandering here and there. The FROP were back in an
hour followed closely by the pack in the next 30 mins. Everyone enjoyed
the run and the hare was rewarded with a good run T-Shirt. Thanks Robin
for an enjoyable run and evening. On On.
Uncle Soo
Run Site : Bandar Sri Damansara
Hare : Uncle Soo
Co-Hares : John Koh & Diva
It was clear from the onset that this was one runsite quite familiar to most Klang Valley hashers. There was ample RSC hash signs to the run-site, the hare probably killing two birds…?
It would be the ideal run-site, situated at the end of the road at the Sri Damasara housing estate, on the overhead bridge overlooking the NKVE, if not for the ‘kongsi’ at the other end of the bridge. Still, it accorded enuff cover for open air showers, etc.
It was a mighty hot day, the run started on time and as expected, we ran into the hills which used to house the orang asli of Sungai Penchala some 10 years back, but the area was now swiftly being developed. It was a relatively small group by the usual Saturday standards.
The first part of the run was surprisingly pleasant as we meandered along grassy slopes and past the huge lake where residents were fishing. There was enough hills for a good sweat out. A tricky check at the top of the hill as we came out into the tar road kept the pack together. The checkers were sent scurrying down the road into yet another hill trail. It was single file all the way here as there were ample thorns above and below; a number of runners trying to overtake had to endure angry scratches on their legs and ankles.
Another check in the middle of this downward trail had everyone waiting in line as those checking ran up and down, and Chai Lean and Mrs Soo managed some time to compare t-shirt sizes. The on call (?) was forward down, which led to the open road to Damansara Perdana hillslope where construction was on-going. We ran past lorries and excavators down the dusty slopes, probably giving the workers something to talk about.
Yet another check at the foot of the hill halted our progress; most of the runners, now at the back, caught up with the pack at this point. We must have been there a good 15 minutes as Charles Lee and company ran around the construction site behind the Mutiara Damansara houses. A few smart alecs declared that the way home was back up the hill but even as we trudged up, another check call was declared. At this point, someone declared that we were running backwards , but further checking yielded no clear solution so, having had enough of the waiting, we proceeded up the hill back to the run-site, on the way which afforded us an excellent view of the NKVE highway and its surroundings.
Managed to catch up with gossip and stuff back at the run-site but couldn’t stay for circle and on-down due to prior commitment elsewhere. Anyhow enjoyed the run, good run-site with no hassle of traffic and distance for once. A very relaxing afternoon of exercise and fun.
Anyone who was present for the circle and ondown welcomed to forward their comments here!
Scribe: Lilian (for Mohd Noor)