Some vagueness dispelled

Message from the hare reads: "รายละเอียด แค้มปิ้ง วันเสาร์
จะมีขึ้นหรือไม่ ขึ้นอยู่ที่ ถ้า ช่วงบ่ายฝนไม่ตก ก็จะมีแค้มปิ้ง
แต่ใครที่คิดจะมีแค้มปิ้ง ก็ควรเตรียม เต้นท์ และ อื่น ๆ 
ไปจอดรถไว้ที่บ้าน บักทอย เวลา 3.00 น. แล้วขึ้นรถไปยังที่แค้มปิ้ง" 

Which roughly translated probably means that the camping will be dependent on whether or not it rains, but those wanting to camp should take a tent etc. There will be a convoy leaving Buk Toy's place at 3:00 p.m. for those who want to drive up the hill to the camping site.

It's all gone vague

The Scum's directional department is currently undergoing some minor problems with its run-detectors, aggravated by the absence of the occupant of it's vernacular desk who is currently recuperating from some minor throat surgery in a location known only to the directional department who has been sworn to secrecy by the vernacular desk.
So the best that can be reported is that Saturday's SH3 run will be approximately located as follows:
Songkhla Hash House Harriers run #1718, Saturday 17th May 2014, 4:30 p.m.
Hares: (to include) Sex Sprinter and Buk Toy
Misdirections: From the Ko Yo intersecton take the new Hatyai road for 8.5k and turn left, then follow the road for ... 1.5k (?) and turn left and follow the road/track for...(? - a distance), to the run site about half way up the hill.
The run will be followed by a camp-out at a location known only to the hares, but probably at the top of the hill shown above, which is accessible only to 4-wheel drives with a death wish (see the Hatyai Hash, facebook page, รวมพลคนแฮช (สงขลา) for the gory details!) More information will be posted as it becomes available, but those interested in camping out should bring a tent and likely some food and beer as well which will be carried up to the point illustrated above in a 4-wheel drive, while mere mortals will be asked to walk up from the main run site.
Sunday's HH3 run is also only approximately located at present with the run site likely to be on the southern side of the main Phatthalung-Chana highway, accessible from the traffic lights at Nam Om. Rough directions are: From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 4.7k and turn left then go about 13k to the junction with the Chana road and turn right for about 5k to the traffic lights at Nam Om. Turn left and follow signs to the run site. Hares: currently unknown. However this is probably a run not to be missed as its predecessor about 8 years ago was run deep in completely virgin territory and as well as some great running, featured the only durian stop known to hashing, manned by luscious ... young ladies (ok, Superpig) offering fragrant fruit to the exhausted runners. Mmmmm!

The Semi-Live Hare Run

Or possibly the half-dead hare run, depending on your point of view. At least that’s how one of the hares felt after Friday night’s  quiz show, which as predicted ended in a stupendous win for the victorious SH3 team. Well when I say team, it was actually left to half the team to provide most of the answers while the other half sat in a daze through most of the questions which were almost exclusively music related. I will leave it to other sources to disclose who the reticents in question were.
Some difficulty was experienced by the pack in finding their way around the first part of the run, namely at the second check which had the hounds searching far and wide for the track which had cunningly turned in on itself. Only a Yolk & Egghead were seen approaching to within 50m of the third check, where Yardstick was waiting after making sure all the checks were undisturbed and in place. As it was all the checkbacks and false trails up until that point worked perfectly and the hounds were sent running around in circles before reaching the third check and the start of the hillclimb section of the run.

Only Softcock and OAY took advantage of the medium run cutout (in magenta) while the rest of the smallish pack continued onwards and upwards to C05, and from there one of the most enjoyable downhill runs in the Songkhla area to F06. The third checkback at C07 proved to be problematic for some of the front runners and the long runners struggled back to the runsite in even smaller packs.

Lucky enough while waiting for the remainder of the long runners to never advance past C07 a bedraggled Short Screw and Jack (maybe someone could lob in with his new hash name) turned up, after having missed the short run turn off and doing the medium run instead. Yardstick, SS & son arriving back at the runsite in 1 hour & 50 minutes. Times and comments on the other runs I’m sure will be posted by other persons.

The statistics for the run were as follows:

The long run was clocked at 9.3kms, including all 9 checks, 10 false trails & 3 check-backs. The total ascent was 360m, while the maximum height achieved was 174m above the runsite. The medium run was 6.2kms long, again including the false trails and check-backs, and reached a height of 87m with a total ascent of 222m.
The short run was a lengthy 4.9kms, which included 5 checks, 4 false trails and one checkback. The total ascent was 145m.

Peter and Gordon redux

This week's SH3 hares, the dynamic duo formerly know as Peter and Gordon, will be doing their best to restore the Hash to some sort of normality this weekend, whatever that is.
Details are:
Songkhla Hash House Harriers run #1717, Saturday May 10, 2014, 4:30 p.m.
Hares: Yardstick and R2D2
Misdirections: From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 4.7k and turn left  for 6k, then left (at Ban Tha Kham) for 4.5k to the run site on the right, almost opposite Sai Kao Resort. (Route-savvy hashers will realise that coming from the old Yala Road via the right-hand 16k turn-off at Wat Khun Thong will bring them to the run site in about 5.5k on the left hand side. But beware, there are likely to be no signs on the eastern route.)

Sunday's HH3 run details are mapped below. The squeamish are advised not to look too carefully at the location until about 2 minutes before they are intending to depart from home, having already made sufficient preparations to make a change of heart unlikely! Hares are the Sex People, Who it has to be said set a pretty fair run last Sunday, given the conditions, in a not dissimilar area. So c'mon, give 'em a chance to surprise you!

Finally, the quiz nite postponed from last week will definitely take place this Friday (May 9th) at the Office Bar at 8:00 p.m. The Hash intelligensia are currently undergoing intensive therapy in an attempt to restore them to the fever pitch they had reached when last week's quiz was cancelled. They need all the support they can get!

On! On!

Egg

1716: Turning the hash upside-down

Yesterdays SH3 run, although attended by only 14 people and 4 dogs was by common consent a great success. The format was simple: run, find beer hidden at each of the 5 checks, drink it all, run again.

Somewhere between the 1st and 3rd checks however, most of the traditional long runners found the demands of running and drinking beer in quick succession too much to cope with and substituted 'have a pleasant stroll' for run. Meanwhile the short runners left the long runners in their wake as they forged ahead with the result that at the 4th check, where the beer was hidden in the back of the Eggmobile, it was Mucky Pup and 'Jack' who arrived first, followed by Harram, dogfully sweeping behind the kids to make sure they didn't get lost, followed by R2D2, Crackwurst and new runner Jidapa. Only after they had been held up at the check for about 15 minutes did the rest of the pack stroll in looking for a top up. By that time they had taken about an hour and a half to complete a little under 4k, consuming  a case of Leo along the way and with the prospect of another case to consume there was some suggestion that the run should be abandoned.

But by this time, the short runners had already departed onwards so a compromise was struck with the rest of the pack agreeing to 'run' to the next check/beer stop and then to accept a lift home. With only about 700 meters of running between the two checks but a 2k journey by road, it was clearly going to be a race between the pack and the Eggmobile, which resulted in a tie, the first runner appearing round the corner as the Eggmobile 3-point-turned into place. Needless to say, by this time, the short runners had already cracked the check and were on their way home under their own steam. Oh, and the first runner to arrive at the beer stop? Gan Yao of course - who else!

Back at the runsite, the long runners narrowly beat the short runners home, but then the short runners did actually complete the whole 5.6k of the run with the long runners managing only about 4.5k but then showing their true mettle by drinking not only the remains of the run-beer but also the contents of the beer truck. Stumps were drawn at about 11:00 p.m with Stick Insect, Short Screw, Innuendo and Egghead putting the world to rights while Mucky Pup and 'Jack' watched Mr. Bean.

Quiz nite postponed

The quiz nite tonight has had to be postponed. Ah well; we were so confident!

We never forget you have a choice.

Lots to do this weekend, in fact so much that you can't possibly do it all particularly since there are two runs on Saturday about 200k apart.

For anyone who is not aware, there is a Hatyai Hash outstation run this weekend but despite this, there WILL be an SH3 run on Saturday as there are a number of people who can't make the outstation run, and at least one of our exiles, Smeghead will be making a welcome return to join us. As befits the reduced numbers there will be a single run which will be a light-hearted beer hunt set from Egg Towers, and in deference to Smeggers convalescent condition will be, a) flat, and b) less than 6k with a cut-out at 4k for anyone feeling the strain at that point. 

Details are:

Songkhla Hash House Harriers run #1716, Saturday, May 3, 2014, 4:30 p.m.

Hares: Egghead and Harram

Misdirections: From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 4.7k and turn left for 5.2k then right through the temple arch at Borogam. Go forward 200m and turn right keeping the temple wall on your left for 300m then turn left . The parking area is 60m ahead up the track on the right.   

The HH3 outstation run is at at Krue Ton Thae in Trang province, at roughly the same location that last year's hill walk started from. The (Thai) flyer appears above and there is a map to the resort below. Most people who are going will be taking part in a car rally which will start at 8:30 a.m. at a location a little way up the main Phattalung road. If you are intending to go you probably already have the details but in case you change your mind and decide to join the car rally, contact Sex Sprinter or Super Pig who can give you more information.

Remarkably there will also be an HH3 run on Sunday, set by the Sex people from the site just before the elephant camp on the left hand side of the old Hatyai road  (11k'ish: 4:30 p.m.). 

Before all that there will be a quiz nite on Friday, 2nd May (8:00 p.m.) at the Office Bar. The quiz master is big Alex and the Hash team are already honing their excuses in anticipation of tough competition from the cream of Songkhla's intellectual elite. All proceeds in aid of the blind school.

1715: The run that grew like Topsy

Recce'd and laid in one fell swoop, 1715 suffered or benefitted, depending upon one's viewpoint from the "oooh that looks like a nice trail" syndrome, with the result that the planned excursion of about 6k got stretched to over 8k - nearer 10 if you were unlucky enough to find all the F's.  But it still only took 1hr 5mins for Sex Sprinter and After Shock, and no more than 1-15 for lesser mortals and was almost all running, with only a modest total ascent  of 160m mostly accounted for by the climb up to 145m at the top of the single hill. The short run was a mere 3.3k but was judged sufficient by the distinguished pack that completed it.

And the good news is...

... from the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 10k and turn right at or just before the Nam Noi traffic lights then go about 1k to the market and turn right and follow the track for about 500m to the runsite.

Farewell Kii Leum

This Saturday Kii Leum will lay his last run for us for a while before departing for colder climes in search of fortune if not fame.  Sadly a number of our downunderers will not be around to help us to give him a rousing farewell as there is some arcane ceremony or other going on in Kanchanaburee which they feel impelled by their cultural heritage to attend. So there is a general appeal for anyone not involved in ANZAC day commemoration to come and run wth us on Saturday, lest "Albert" should feel unloved and decide that with his sudden accession to the ranks of the super rich, he is best off staying in Holland.

Map below for the spatially imaginative, but for the rest of us the details are:

Songkhla Hash House Harriers run #1715, Saturday 26th April, 2014, 4:30 p.m.

Hares: Kii Leum and Egghead

Misdirections: From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 4.7k and turn left for 8k then right for 1.2k (at Wat Keow Kloy into Poonakan) then left for 300m up the track to the run site on the left.

No news of the HH3 run on Sunday yet but you'll hear it first when there is. Also in the 'no' category is a quiz nite this week as again, in partial deference to the ANZAC absentees, it as been postponed until next Friday, 2nd May when the quizmaster will be big Alex, who sets a mean quiz. So gird your loins and prepare to fight next week to restore the honor of the Hash team who suffered a humiliating defeat last time round at the hands of the evil teachers.