Venue: Bell & Harp, Coxbench
Weather: Heavy showers with sunny bits, dry for most of the run.
Hash Trail: 6.6 miles as done by Durex. Ambitious figure of eight given the rain had washed away much of the flour. Hare kept busy keeping up with hounds in order to direct them down the checks and relay flour. Too flat and not enough sheep.
A good crowd, probably the largest pack of the year so far, assembled for the start of the trail, obviously not put off by the encircling heavy showers. We discovered today that there was also a "hash" now running from The Boot in Repton, three of their members joined us for this run.
Any run in this area usually involves a steep climb for the first 10 minutes, this trail was no exception. Flour was a bit washed out in parts but thanks to the effort of Rectal Probe the pack kept more or less on trail. Fifteen minutes into the trail I noticed Malteaser was missing in action. I returned to look for her to find she'd managed to go off trail after a particularly difficult check. Knowing the area well I was able to direct her on a good short cut straight down the road to the Bridge Inn while I of course stuck to the correct trail. Another uphill stretch onto Duffieldbank enabled me to catch up with most of the pack. On the top we reached the middle bit of this figure of eight trail, although this fact wasn't known to us at this point, and the hare was lucky to catch and stop most of the hounds returning back along the bottom part of the "8". Instead, we had a further loop up to Holbrook before returning back up onto the ridge and completing the figure of eight. We were joined by Too Tuf and Chicki at this midpoint and they wisely passed on doing the extra loop.
Butcher's Dog, Eunuch and myself led the pack back in - good to have the "A" team back checking together again. We filled a room in the pub where we had an indoor circle led by the Mickleover GM Dobber. The hares were thanked for a good run!
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