PRINCETON HHH HASH #666.6 Date:     June 28, 1998 Weather:  Too luscious for Lucifer Venue:    Valley Road - Goat Hill Road - Belle Mountain Ski Area -        Mercer Country Correctional Center - Pleasant Valley Road Time:     2:40 min Set By:   Pyroman and Joy to his Mother Hashers:  Hey Yo! Paully!, Rob Murray, Alan Sherbrook, Speed Bumps,           Julie Polhemus (hey, why isn't she named yet?!), Wacko,        Throatwarbler Mangrove, Delay Lllama, Pushnermaybe                           No Sympathy For The Devil The self-proclaimed Hard Core Hares began the day in wimpy fashion, one fleeing to Atlanta to save himself from the inevitable vituperative amertume and the other bringing his son along as an insurance policy against proper retaliation.  Paully was soaking up some rays with Sinatra blaring from his car stereo as we waited for the caravan to arrive from Princeton.  It was the last we would see of him. The hunt began inauspiciously, the hares suffering from a classic case of over-deviousness, setting only false trails for the first 20 minutes. Fortunately we had Rte. 29 and the Delaware on our left, so we could eliminate many possibilities, but we still had only gone 200 yards on a hash we were told took the hares 4 hours to set.  Soon, however, it became clear that the hares must have gotten lost in the woods wandering in a general direction which we took up, and up and up until we came on the world's least legible "F".  Pushnermaybe tried to divine an "F" out of the large blotch which looked more like the hare tripped and spilled the bucket.  Wacko finally figured some animal must have come along and tried to eat it.  Fed up, he lit off for a road where he was met by Frederika the Hun's brother, Toothless Ted. Ted, who had an unforunate love of gab which accentuated his disability, went on and on about this runner he had met heading toward Lambertville with no shirt on who he directed to the "coon" path down to George Washington park.  Though apprised that this was merely Paully and no one cared about him, Toothless continued to mumble until the rest of the pack arrived and we could make our escape into what turned out to be the world's least passable firebreak.  Speed Bumps took the Geezer award from this brambly excursion.  Given the choice of the firebreak or a rock garden, we took the latter, scrambling through boulder-strewn woods eventually squeezing under a barbed wire fence to the first of two beer breaks.  We were 1:10 in and had not run a step. The hash was proceeding at the same pace as this newsletter, slow, rambling, rocky, toothless.  Joy had vacated so we abused Julie instead for consorting with him.  "He cooks," she replied weakly.  She was saved when attention turned to the fact that Alan was missing.  Losing Paully is of course a given, but this was the first time Alan had been lost. This came as a shock, especialy to Alan, who was drinking beer with us. Turns out we had names crossed with bodies and it was Rob, the other pair of the recent dynamic duo who was missing. We decided tentatively to make Alan's hashname Rob and Rob's Alan to clarify the situation.  This made us feel much better. As we continued onward, the pace picked up, not because the terrain was any easier, but because the hounds were panicked about how long we would be out there, especially those with spouses taking care of little kids who would murder us if we were really out for 5 hours.  Also, the trail headed off downhill, which always speeds things up. We negotiated the descent along a riverbed to Valley Road and then up Belle Mountain where Alan (Rob) was waiting above with taunts until we pointed out that he got a ride.  Shamed, he ran to the bottom of the mountain and back up while the rest of us enjoyed the view and respite.  This was the second beer break, and it was now 2:10 into the hash.  The responsible parent would head home at this point, and the responsible parent did while the other did not - names will be withheld to protect the guilty. Down the other side of Belle Mountain we plummeted, headfirst to a hundred foot drop down into a quarry.  Actually, we stopped just in time and skirted the rim.  What would have been a spectacular vista to most was merely an opportunity "not to check right" to the beleagured hounds.  Down we climbed from the rim to the retaining wall of the Mercer County Correctional Facility (i.e., jail), and slipping through a fence we suddenly thought the better of it and hightailed it out of there but we were too late - the guards converged.  Thinking quickly, we escaped by linking arms together and posing as an immense charm bracelet. Next we descended through what must have been the Dr. No Memorial Forest - the path had only a 4 foot clearance so you had to run bent over.  Happily, No wasn't around and we escaped unsullied.  We found ourselves plodding down another riverbed with Pleasant Valley road looming ahead whereupon we rehashed the final 1/4 mile of Hand Job's 1995 Hard Core Hash along the river to virtually the same ending and a voluminous apres of all sorts of disgusting junk food from Glazed Pretzels to Hydrox. 2:40 and we were on roads for only about 100 yards, except for Paully, who was on roads for about 2:40 before a note on his car led him to the apres. Great terrain, beautiful weather, thoroughly enjoyable afternoon. HEY - WASN'T THIS SUPPOSED TO BE HELLISH!!!  THIS WAS ACTUALLY FUN!!! I GIVE IT A 0.8!!!  BACK TO THE 4's. NEXT HASHES: #667.4 Wednesday, July 1, 1998, 6 pm, 87 Prospect, Hey Yo! Paully! sets 3 miles, no roads #668.4 Tuesday???, July 9???, 1998, 6 pm, 87 Prospect, Skaar Tissue sets #669.4 Wednesday, July 15, 1998, 6 pm, 87 Prospect, I'm So Dirty?? sets, followed by a flesh-eaters vs. vegetarians deathmatch cookout at the Geezer's place #670.4 Wednesday, July 22, 1998, 6 pm, 87 Prospect, Wacko?? sets #671.4 Wednesday, July 29, 1998, 6 pm, 87 Prospect, RoJo?? sets #672.4 Wednesday, August 5, 1998, 6 pm, 87 Prospect, Valerie Harr?? sets ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://www.princetonol.com/groups/phhh -----------------------------------------------------------------------