#:  Nearing 1000 - 995.9

Date:  June 30, 2004

Venue:  Herrontown Woods from Autumn Hills lot 

Hare:  Jan (almost named Ayooooooooga! at Rosedale Park once)

Hounds:  Hey Yo Paully, Nuttin Stuck, Megan (V), Geezer (DNF), Hand Solo (DNF), 
         Soft Bottom, Safe Sweats, Born Dork, Stigmata, Varoon (V), Jacob (V), 
         Kathleen, Corey, Dana (V), Jamie (V), where:
                    V = virgin; and
                DNF = did not finish.

Time:  varied from 1:35 to 2:05, but wasted by all

Allusion:  Bill Shakes Beer

Nice group, especially for an early summer's evening.  On-On after explanations and a 
second explanation after Hand Solo and another car of Virgins pulls up.

Trail, straight through most checks on trail - therefore, we're all strung out and 
looping upon each other.  

I myself decided to diverge through condos, pass the sewage authority and over the 
landfill, eventually to Smoyer Park and Herrontown woods side entrance before getting 
back on trail (thanks for yelling!)

I caught up with Soft Bottom (you be the judge), and Safe Sweats, and Hand Solo.  We 
figure everyone else bagged it- we knew for curtain Geezer had.

More trail, now though with subtle check maneuvers and occasional long distances between 
the 3rd and 4th marks off such (I relish this tekneek).

We were all about to give up in a parking lot and hitail it back to the cars.  But alas, 
too much bouncing flesh was out there so we stuck it out.

We lost HS (word had it he and Geezer rondayviewed "On the Waterfront" at the open-air 
amphitheater at 9 p.m.) and SS (only to appear later) but caught up with Jamie, Varoon, 
Corey, Dan, and Kathleen.  We also found the hare and had to restrain ourselves from 
ringing his neck.  (We rang our shirts over him instead.)

Much more running ensued until we got to the final check - everyone bit on the asphalt 
deadend but me - I myself doubled back to catch up to them until I saw the mark on the 
back of the boulder (dork, this is not a rock, not even a cobble, but a boulder).

Great beer.  But like the Phillies, we lost the opener, so had to garnish our handing off 
skills.  Not so hot wasabi peas, awesome Wack-a-Dame brittle, weird salsa and salsa 
substitute.

Corey, who had hashed once with us before years ago (coerced then by Lady MacBeth - who is 
doing well I heard but not sure about that guy she may or may not be engaged too - Lame 
Oh! I think his name was), ran to the start to find the missing Dana.  We all were excited 
to see such companionship.  But even more excited thinking how their bond may be more than 
just hash verification.

Safe Sweats volunteered to set the first July hash (7/7) (bring your own Seagrams!) unless 
PTC runts to fool us into thinking he'll set again.

#996.9 Polish Twin C brings it on? Someone else does a write-up?
 

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Hounds Notes:

PHHH #995.9
Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Weather: 97 % full moon, flawless skies
Place: Autumn Hill, Herrontown Woods, Hilltop Park, old Herrontown Road
Hare: Jan
Hounds: Hey YO! Paully, Safe Sweats, Hand Solo, Geezer, Soft Bottom, 
Bjorn Dork, Stigmata, Kathleen Coggeshall, Dan Waldbaum, Nuttin' Stuck, 
rookies: Megan McGroddy, Corie, Amy, Jacob, Varoon, Dana (add more 
names at your leisure - I've surely missed one)
Sleeping Hounds: Premature Graduation
Time: 1st wave: 1:25, 2nd wave: 1:40, 3rd wave: 2:40 (0 % sunshine, but 
the moon was coming up for Stigmata)

Trail:
Eagle Scout project cleared by Boy Scout Troop 43. Loops were added as 
needed by the pack.
Red Herrontown Woods trail (and extensions)

Trees:
  Acer rubrum (red maple)
  Aralia spinosa (devil's walking stick or Hercules' club)
  Betula populifolia (gray birch)
  Carpinus caroliniana (musclewood)
  Carya ovata (shagbark hickory)
  Carya glabra (pignut hickory)
  Carya tomentosa (mockernut hickory)
  Cornus florida (flowering dogwood)
  Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
  Fraxinus americana (white ash)
  Hamamelis virginiana (witch hazel)
  Liquidambar styraciflua (sweetgum) -- lots of it
  Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip tree)
  Pinus rubra (red pine) -- a plantation of them
  Prunus vulgaris (self heal) 8/01/98
  Quercus alba (white oak)
  Quercus palustris (pin oak)
  Quercus rubra (red oak)
  Quercus velutina (black oak)


Shrubs:
  Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
  Cornus racemosa (gray-stemmed dogwood)
  Ligustrum sp. (privet)
  Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
  Mitchella repens (partridgeberry)
  Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
  Rubus phoenicolasius (wineberry)
  Viburnum acerifolium (maple-leaf viburnum)
  Viburnum prunifolium (blackhaw viburnum)

Vines:
  Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
  Hedera helix (English holly)
  Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
  Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
  Smilax rotundifolia (round-leaved greenbrier)
  Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
  Vitis riparia (riverbank grape)

Herbs:
  Arisaema triphyllum (Jack in the pulpit)
  Boehmeria cylindrica (false nettle) 8/01/98
  Cimicifuga racemosa (American bugbane)
  Circaea lutetiana (enchanter's nightshade)
  Claytonia virginica (spring beauty)
  Geum sp. (white or rough avens)
  Impatiens capensis (orange jewelweed) 8/01/98
  Penthorum sedoides (ditch stonecrop)
  Pilea pumila (clearweed)
  Podophyllum peltatum (mayapple)
  Polygonatum biflorum (Solomon's seal)
  Polygonum cespitosum (cespitose knotweed)
  Polygonum virginianum (jumpseed knotweed)
  Solidago caesia (blue-stem goldenrod)
  Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage)
  Trifolium repens (white clover) 8/01/98
  Ulmus rubra (slippery elm)
  Veronica officinalis (common speedwell)

Rushes and Sedges:
  Juncus tenuis (path rush)
  Scirpus atrovirens (dark green bulrush)

Grasses:
  Microstegium vimineum (Japanese stilt grass)

Ferns:
  Dryopteris marginalis (marginal woodfern)
  Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
  Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern)
  Thelypteris noveboracensis (New York fern)

check for more details at http://nynjctbotany.org/njnbtofc/herrontn.html
and
http://nynjctbotany.org/njnbtofc/autumn.html




next week's hare:
Safe Sweats (unless PTC finds a flat and/or job??!@#$%)

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Badinage Blog:

Jan,  

You forgot the bratwort plant, or was that bratworst?
HYP, Soft Bottom, Safe Sweats and I emerged at the 'Piscopalian Church and ran off 
in all directions.  I was set upon by some Pissed Episcopalians. Coulda been worse, 
at least they weren't Lutherans.  By the time I recovered my bearings I was nowhere 
to be seen.  Staggered back to the cars, did a striptease into dry clothes and 
buggered off home.

Shitty Hash!

Solo



Bratwurst ...

We were missing you at the on-in. Several blindly shouted "on-on"s were 
apparently not loud enough to be heard at the start ... You should have 
stayed on trail - it went well hidden through dense woods, lush ferns, 
muddy streams (looks like a dry summer so far), abandoned sewer access 
roads, elegantly circumventing all yellow posted signs, and you would 
have been safe from all popes, cardinals, priests, provosts, imams, 
pagans, etc. ...

Dr. N(2)O NaMe




All the bratwurst I have ever eaten has been the worst.  BTW, the name "Dr. No" is 
already taken.  Geezer still wakes up in a cold sweat at the mention of that name 
and the memories it brings back.  Of course "Dr. N(2)O NaMe" is available.  OTOH, 
you don't get to choose your own name anyway.

BTW2, cardinals are OK, it's the canons you got to watch out for.

(speaking from bitter experience) Solo