PRINCETON HHH HASH #602.4 Date: April 13, 1997 Weather: Swell Venue: Stonybrook Millstone Watershed across Moores Mill Rd. across Crusher Rd to Hopewell. Time: 1:10 Set By: Wacko Hashers: Delay Lllama, Speed Bumps, The Reluctant Breeder, I'm too Desperate, John Clement, LRF, Geezer, Jesse Hammons, Adam Kessel, Brian "Yogi" Rittenhouse, Jeff Skaar, Throatwarbler, Glory Also Ran: Ro Jo RETURN TO THE STONY BROOK WATERSLOG Returning to the scene of the crime is a well-documented habit of criminal minds, so no surprise that Wacko found his way back to the (apparently) ever-waterlogged Stony Brook Watershed nature center. Still more sobering was the fact that two heedless previous hares, Throatwarbler and the Llama, chose to subject themselves to this same territory at the hands of the same unscrupulous hare less than four months after their previous nightmare in this same location. Aided by a bigger pack (twelve, versus four on the previous trip through this terrain) and unencumbered by enthusiastic but erratic personnel like 242 (who spent 20 minutes the last time finding his way back to the start, and had to be dragged bodily onto the trail), the early going went well. Fine sucking mud, lots of ankle-deep water, and busy, enthusiastic young mosquitoes made it interesting for the hounds. The Geezer livened things up by wrestling with (and losing to) a barbed wire fence, producing one the best blood displays in hash annals, as well as a good puncture wound on the hand (Best line at the on-in (from Wacko):"Geezer, I think this is the first time I've ever seen you with blood on your teeth"). It was steady going up to the halfway point, though the sheeplike eagerness of the whole pack to explore the deepdarkpineywoods (and inside knowledge) let the Warbler have the juvenile pleasure of coming up to the regroup crying "I won the first half!!". The second half, though, got the hounds out of the mud and blood business and into some semiserious rock climbing, as they traversed Moore's Mill Rd. and headed uphill. Beautiful vistas of the Hopewell Valley opened before them at the crest, though the trail rapidly turned into extended chugging through fallow cornfields. Soon, civilization loomed across the fields as a town swam into view and a park into the immediate foreground. So, what did we have, a nice civilized cooler location on the Gazebo in Hopewell Park? Noooo. A perversely buried cooler amidst the mankilling thorns and loathsome ooze of a nearby stream...all the better to poison and punish those intrepid enough to dig the beer out, and the better to scare off innocent strollers wondering who these greusome, bloody types were, lingering around the fringe of the park and sipping insipid beer. Postscript: Distinguished Hashing Cross to RoJo, who, having failed to get a life yet, showed up at the start 20 minutes plus after the pack left and made it solo to about the 2/3 point before turning back. Definite full hash credit in the data base, and another line in her already awesome resume for entry into Hash Valhalla. NEXT HASHES: VOLUNTEER TO SET NOW. THE GOOD DATES ARE GOING FAST! #603.4: Sunday, April 20, 1997, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Speed Bumps Sets #604.4: Sunday, April 27, 1997, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, I'm Too Desperate and John Clement set #605.4: Sunday, May 4, 1997, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, A.G.Zaire sets the May Flower Power Hash of Treachery and False Hope #605.4: Sunday, May 11, 1997, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, The Reluctant Breeder Sets #606.4: Sunday, May 18, 1997, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Throatwarbler Sets #607.4: Sunday, May 25, 1997, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, VOLUNTEERS?????? SWITCH TO WEDNESDAY EVENINGS #608.4: Wednesday, June 4, 1997, 6 pm, 87 Prospect, VOLUNTEERS?????? #609.4: Wednesday, June 11, 1997, 6 pm, 87 Prospect, VOLUNTEERS?????? #610.4: Wednesday, June 18, 1997, 6 pm, 87 Prospect, VOLUNTEERS?????? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to the Princeton Hashnet, email the message subscribe phhh to the address majordomo@cdiprinceton.com Post messages to the Princeton Hashnet by emailing to phhh@cdiprinceton.com and don't forget to check out our Web Page http://members.aol.com/phhh ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------