HHHi HHHashers
Check calendar at https://www.brownbearsw.com/freecal/HashCal and my site at HHHinChicago.com.
This week's hashes:
Visitors and new hashers (virgins), we start meeting at the listed
times and start hashing a half hour later. Time for a quick beer.
This Week:
Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 7pm. The Chicago Hash,
Mudsucker will hare from Turtles at 238 W. 33rd St. Taking the Red
Line, Exit at 35th St stop and head north on the platform to the 33rd
St. Exit. Go left about a block. $10 Hash Cash, ChicagoHash.com
Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 7PM, The First Crack of the Moon Hash. Horn-E
will lay trail out of Double Bubble at 6036 N. Broadway. There will be
some Haberdash available for all of you wankers who don't have any so
you can show your pride in being a hasher. $5 Hash Cash. HHHinChicago.com
Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 7pm, The Thirstday Hash. Just Ben is scheduled, but no location yet again. Keep checking at their web site, Hash Cash, $10. ThirstdayH3.com
SAT, AUG 18, 2018, 2PM, THE BUSHMAN HASH.
Horn-E will hare from Cumberland and Irving Park at the Bus shelter on
the North West Corner. Please, if driving park in the first parking lot
to the west on Irving Park, north side of the street, and head to the
east end if possible. There will be some grilling after, or so I've been
told. If you can, bring some snacks or such to share. Harrietts, this
is the men's hash, but we welcome Harrietts if they have the balls to
join us. If not, Horn-E will provide you with two golf balls in a sock
to wear on trail. We accept creativity. For this you will be given a
special bandanna for joining us. Hash Cash, $5. HHHinChicago.com
Last Week:
On
Tue, I did the 4X2H4 Hash an I hared from Lotties with a total of 9
Hounds. Then the rains came as I was about to leave home. So bad my
street was flooded, over the curbs on both sides. That is a heavy rain.
So I prepared for the worst and only a few hounds and a semi live trail.
I arrived at 6:15 and Soul Taco was there and ready to run. The sky now
looked like no rain so I took off laying trail with dry wall. The plan
was to head east, but not past Ashland to the east and Armitage to the
north, and to the south go only two blocks south of North. Then race
back to the start to find out who was there so I could buy enough beer
while laying trail. The pack was growing and there would be 7 of us.
Three six packs. They were to take off and I went back to trail to
finish laying it. Trail now stayed between North and Armitage and not go
as far west as Western. Worked fine as I tried to run with a heavy back
pack and hope the following pack of hounds wouldn't catch me. So, how
do you do that. Tricky Checks and Splits, as often as possible to slow
them down like a real hash and give myself more time. It worked. And
almost everyone finished within a tight group. But now there were 10 of
us and not quite enough beer. And then the bitching began. Five or more
miles. Well, true trail was about 4 exactly. The checking got them, but
it did keep the pack together. We finished without a BN. I made it up as
I went and suddenly I saw the spot, so I just laid a B. Hell, I'm right
there so they can't miss me. on the 606 bridge over Damen with a slight
cool breeze on a muggy night. After, we went back to Lotties for
another and I bought a pitcher of Old Man Grumpy. Good stuff from a
grumpy old man.
Sun, Aug 12, or Mon Aug 13 or Tue Aug 14, 7pm, All I did last week was the 4X2H4 HashThe First Crack of the Moon Hash. ????? will hare from ????? $5 Hash Cash, HHHinChicago.com
Sun, Aug 12, or Mon Aug 13 or Tue Aug 14, 7pm, The First Crack of the Moon Hash. ????? will hare from ????? $5 Hash Cash, HHHinChicago.comBitch of the week:
Here he goes again. We are in a metropolitan area of 4 or 5 million
people and yet we continually have low attendance and no hares until the
last minute and no locations when we have hares.
Lets try hares. We have 10 hashes and about 16 or 17 hashes a month.
That is fine, if we had the attendance to go along. But we don't. So we
need to use our hares more sparingly. We don't need three hares on any
regular hash, and then have a hash a week later that can't find a single
hare until someone finally steps up at the last minute. I'm doing that
tomorrow. Lets spread the hares around. Yes you can do it alone, or in
pairs, but we don't need a pack of hares. And the more hares, generally
the more a trail gets screwed up. Just a thought.
More on hares. If there are two hares, why can't one actually sweep the
trail, probably better then the pack, and maybe even add some short cuts
for those that fall way behind for some reason. The idea isn't a race
with three checks, but the pack running together with 6, 8, 10 good
checks. And a sweep can observe what went right and wrong with their
Checks and Splits, etc, and learn from it.
And if you sign up for a hash, lets get these locations into the Hare
Raisers, mostly Lifa and SnatchSquatch or even me so we can post them.
Believe me, advance notice improves attendance.
The pack: When the hares aren't sweeping, and various hounds sweep,
please keep it in mind what exactly you are doing. We in the back really
appreciate these sweep marks whether we are slow, a late arrival or
someone who was out of sight Checking a False only to come back and find
everyone gone. When you make that mark, you have taken control of the
hash trail and you need to point it exactly back to the true trail,
especially if that means putting down more then one mark to get the pack
back to a true hare mark.
Attendance. All hashes have bad days and some have good days
occasionally. Two weeks ago CH3 only had three regular hounds and three
newbies. Last week 4X2 actually had 9 regular hounds. So we have these
newbies and we try to tell them how much fun the hash is. If it is so
much fun, where is everybody. Hard to retain these virgins or even got
them to return for a second try, no matter how much fun the trail was.
Even when it is a small group, we all need to spend as much time as we
can making it fun for these virgins. That is the only way they will come
back. That an a full schedule to pick from so we really look like we
are a sustainable organization.
Circles: Another point brought out lately is our circles. We can do a great circle in the Chicago Area. But, do we need an hour long circle several times a week? Do they get old and tiring for many and they just quit coming around? Do
we need to keep some good songs going, DFL is about as lame as they
get. Do we need this long explanation for virgins on how to do a Down
Down? Tell them in advance. Do we need R. A's that are all clones
reading from a play book? Ingenuity. Are they so long that we run out of
beer with continuous 'When one drinks all drink' until we run out of
beer. And then it is so late that no one actually mingles and sticks
around as people have to leave and go to work the next day. We need more
after circle mingling time. And not 3 or 4 drink stops. One at the
finish and then a circle and then some party time. And leave on time,
not 7:45 or later. And be finished with trail and one beer stop and back
in the bar by 9:00.
I could go on. I love hashing even as it is, but I've seen it better
when we averaged near 30 hounds. These are just some talking points.
Talk to others and see what you think. Write me with your own ideas. But
meanwhile, volunteer to hare, including some of the monthly hashes and
Hares PLEASE come up with timely locations. We need more people deciding
on us first and not deciding on something else because no location was
posted and they found something else to do.
C U Tonight
On On
Horn-E