PHHH #1119.9

Date: 11/5/6

Safe Sweats Set it.

Hounded by Pyroman, Little Boo Butt, Speedo Bumps, Oliver the WarmandshrivelledWo nderdog, 
Bjornjork, Weepee, HeyYoPaully, Nutt’nStuck, Delicut Sikee, Exploding feet (did we officially 
REname him yet?) 

Weather: Crisp 55 o and sunny (wind chill 39o at après!)

Time: 1:50 eastern standard  

Venue: Chad Pennington and environs

First half of hash was on dreaded asphalt, concrete and railroad ties downtown. Weepee found 
trail in a seemingly useless side loop thru Ritzy Pennington neighborhood. I myself had seen 
marks on my bike an hour before so I led the pack to the Grammar School – we yelled and waited 
for Weepee (for fear he may be corralled by those kids).

The hare advertised a quick (one hour) hash ending in an open field so we were happy to set 
foot into the Curlis/Baldwin Lakes Area(s). This second half of the hash was nice terrain and 
we were ready for the open field since the sun goes down so quick these days. But alas the 
second half of the hash turned into the second two thirds of the hash as we were led into the 
real NEIGHborhoods of Pennington/Lawrence – you could smell the equis before we saw them!

Freaking double arrow through us all off (not double crossed but two parallel and unidirectional 
arrows). EP, HYP, and DP searched all parts of the huge field while the pack sat with their 
thumkbs up their butts at the arrows. We found nothing but each other so worked our way back to 
the double arrows – the pack had made their BM and were not there anymore (and had not been heard). 
Eventually we caught up to them and we crossed Federal City Road to the blood-letting thorny deer 
trails.

We let some blood and found a couple marks. The Eurovan crew high-tailed it out of there and went 
home on FCR (Pyro, Bump, Butt, and Pooch). Onward and to the river for what was now becoming the 
final two fifths or perhaps sixths of the hash). Wow – we’re in the Rosedale parking lot – wow 
we’re on the other side of the lot now. Wow – we’re directed across the lake with an arrow below 
a check. Make the trek since all other options yielded no marks. Through woods and over Blackwell 
Road on to the old AT&T “pole farm”.

Warm and shriveled hot dogs with noTransfat snax and HeinyCans, Yingling (also in cans), and a 
couple Rock light bottles. Mmmmmmm.

Met the old farmer and his wife who used to dairy farm the après fields. His name was Byrd (not 
the rear admirable) and he spoke of his daughter in Peru using filters to let people drink clean 
(clear anyways) water. Weepee went back later to get her 411 but I think they said her name, 
surprisingly, was Thuy. [The Lawrence Ledger has a T. Deloris Byrd on file – we believe this is 
the infamous Thuy D. Byrd.]

We all watched the sunset over Pennington and the FULL moon (not smiling unfortunately) rising 
over Lawrenceville.

Innumerable birds migrated over our heads at the après for several minutes – it was a true 
spectacle. 

I took the beer in a back pack to my house from the après on foot so that the hounds could all 
fit in the big tan Sweatmobile. I did not pass out (as SafeSweats had feared) – but I did stop 
and piss out once (I think I kept running the second time).


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And this offering from the hare:

A FEW CORRECTIONS:
DURATION TIME WAS NOT 1:50 IT WAS 1:15
THE PENNINGTON PORTION WAS ONLY ABOUT A MILE (15
MINUTES) AND INCLUDED RAILROAD TRACKS. A GOOD 6/7 OF
THE HASH WAS IN WOODS, OPEN FIELDS, OR THORN FIELDS.

IF I DO SAY SO MYSELF, THIS WAS A TRUE ICONOCLASTIC 
HASH. IT HAD A BIT OF EVERYTHING; INCLUDING A
SPECTACULAR FINISH OF OF A COLORFUL SUN A SETTING IN
THE WEST FOLLOWED BY A FULL MOON A RISING IN THE EAST.
AND A PLEASANT WALK ACROSS THE OPEN FILED TO WAITING
TRANSPORTATION.

IT SHOULD BE ONE OF THE YEARS BEST.

AS FOR THE MINI VAN CROWD. IF THEY DID NOT WHIMPER OUT
AT THE THORN FIELD THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN AT THE ON-IN
AT 1/3 OF THE TIME (AND 1/4 OF THE DISTANCE) OF WHAT
IT TOOK THEM TO RUN BACK TO PENNINGTON. THEY WOULD
HAVE HAD BEER AND FOOD; ALONG WITH THE SPECTACULAR SUN
SET AND MOON RISE. SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR.