Category: Rear Loader

Tale of the Trail – Chicago Hash #1443

Monday’s Hash was a blast! Chicken Stiffer complained that he didnt have any time to set a trail, but it was a great trail with an awesome beer stop! We started off with a good pack of 17 and headed out and about in the Lincoln Park Neighborhood. There were a few tricky checks from hell and a lit of new scenery that we havent covered in the past.

We zipped through a couple new subdivisions and twisted though the usual hood too. At one point the visitor from Sin City and myself ended up getting cut off from the pack while checking out a long false check and then decided to range down a really long block. At first, I thought we were screwed, but eventually sniffed out trail under the “L” tracks and ended back up in front.

The FRB of the pack changed hands often with this maze of checks and splits. EZ on the Ass, Rear Loader and Clavin Klein were all swapping out the position while Horn-E ranged to the point we lost him at the check just before the Beer Stop in front of the US Beer Comany. Stump Humper and Rhotan sniffed that one out and we all headed through the A. Finkl and Sons foundry to get a lung full of Asbestos. The Beer stop was at an old dock on the far end of their office parking lot. Everyone made it except Spotted Cock and Horn-E. We had no idea where they were, but eventually Spotted showed up, after running the trail backwards from a point he ranged out the trail with Horn-E, and said Horn-E kept going to the On-In!

The Beer stop was a literal Blast….most of it coming from Chicken Stiffer’s Butt. We all headed out and sniffed out the trail which wound around until it eventually came to Armitage. It followed along the hood and right back to Beaumonts where we enjoyed cheap beer, pizza and a great circle by Calvin and Stumpy.

Great Hash people! Too bad you missed it!

RL

Monday’s Hash was a blast! Chicken Stiffer complained that he didnt have any time to set a trail, but it was a great trail with an awesome beer stop! We started off with a good pack of 17 and headed out and about in the Lincoln Park Neighborhood. There were a few tricky checks from hell and a lit of new scenery that we havent covered in the past.

We zipped through a couple new subdivisions and twisted though the usual hood too. At one point the visitor from Sin City and myself ended up getting cut off from the pack while checking out a long false check and then decided to range down a really long block. At first, I thought we were screwed, but eventually sniffed out trail under the “L” tracks and ended back up in front.

The FRB of the pack changed hands often with this maze of checks and splits. EZ on the Ass, Rear Loader and Clavin Klein were all swapping out the position while Horn-E ranged to the point we lost him at the check just before the Beer Stop in front of the US Beer Comany. Stump Humper and Rhotan sniffed that one out and we all headed through the A. Finkl and Sons foundry to get a lung full of Asbestos. The Beer stop was at an old dock on the far end of their office parking lot. Everyone made it except Spotted Cock and Horn-E. We had no idea where they were, but eventually Spotted showed up, after running the trail backwards from a point he ranged out the trail with Horn-E, and said Horn-E kept going to the On-In!

The Beer stop was a literal Blast….most of it coming from Chicken Stiffer’s Butt. We all headed out and sniffed out the trail which wound around until it eventually came to Armitage. It followed along the hood and right back to Beaumonts where we enjoyed cheap beer, pizza and a great circle by Calvin and Stumpy.

Great Hash people! Too bad you missed it!

RL

Super Bowl Hash

By Rear Loader

Sunday’s hash was quite the treat…….if you enjoyed death marches with no marks. It started off quite well, we headed west over to Clark that the pack was kept together very nicely with a few splits and circle jerks. The Trail then headed south on clark and turned into the parking garage of the Century Mall. We climbed up to the third floor and went to the exit door. There was an arrow there that gave you 3 choices to choose from . Virtually Hung opted for the door that went into the mall and I followed. The rest of the pack opted for the door that went down and back into the garage. We didnt see any marks and looked kind of odd running through the mall, but Virtual was sure he made the right choice! When we exited the mall, we found a well hidden arrow that pointed across the street. Cum in my Asphalt, Virtual and I followed a couple of arrows that led to a check on Diversey. Now this is where it gor bad, from this point I never saw the pack again until we made it back to the bar. I went East, Virtual went South and Cum in my Asphalt I lost track of, but it looked like she hung out at the check.

I followed a couple arrows and found nothing so I headed back to the Check, but no one was there. I thought virtual found trail and I headed south on Clark. Again, I followed two arrows and saw nothing more. I decided to go back to the check again. I decided to head North on Broadway followed one arrow, but again found nothing and decided to range East, hoping to find something. I could not hear any whistloes or “On On’s” being called, so I gave it a shot. I ran into Virtual who said he found nothing in that direction. We figured that the true trail had to go west on Diversey and sure enough it did. I briefly saw the pack ahead of me on Diversey, they finally caught up to us from that garage mess. They turned down an alley, but Virtual was sure that the trail went straight and sure enough, it did. We followed the marks to a check back down a side street. The pack caught up and they turned around, I continued to look for a hidden mark and made my way to Diversey where I ran into Mudsucker who was bragging that he was an FRB for about five minutes. When we got back to Diversey, the pack was gone. I said screw it and ranged down a side street, parallelling the back and found some arrows. I followed those with Mudsucker and Virtually hung to a check near St. Clements. We could not find any marks after this point. I saw the pack congregate near the check, but I was running around looking for marks. I ran into Learning to Blow and we decided to range to the south where we soon found marks. The marks turned left, but i kept going straight thinking that they came out nearby, boy was I wrong.

Fom this point I never really found trail again. I ended up on Fullerton and Lake Shore Drive where I found Smelly Concha who claimes that he hasnt seen the pack for a really long time. He found a check behind the museum but lost the trail from there. He headed back to the check and I decided to hit the running path to see if there were any marks. I ran north for a while and never saw another hasher again. I got to a point near diversey and never saw any marks. I decided to go west and back to the bar where there was no one. I figured that I might be able to follow the trail backwards and run into the pack, so I headed North on Broadway and the East to teh Park. The trail headed under Lake Shore and then South and kept going and going and going. I had images of the Two Tickets / Sugar Nipples Lake Shore 10K and decided to turn around and go back to the bar where I ran into Virtually Hung and Cums in my Asphalt.

At this point they told me that the beer stop was under the bridge by Diversey Harbor…..great the one place I didnt look! In anycase, we had an expedited circle due to the kick off of the super bowl and a lot of great food put out by the bar. Overall a fun time despite the fact that I got lost!

Rear Loader

Hey guys,

If you didnt get out to the Hash on Monday, you missed a great time! We started out at about 730pm and headed out on a trail that twisted through the lincoln park neighborhood schools. I think we may have hit every one of them! After touring the finer edumakashunal instatushuns in the city, we came up to the famed Lincoln park. We had a tough time with a few checks and after running General Grant we headed up to the Zoo and a funky circle jerk which sent us out to the parking lot. Virtually Hung sniffed out the trail and took us through the lot to the north end of the zoo and down a path along side one of the lagoons where the hares were waiting with beverages.

Several of us took off back on trail and followed the new ON IN marks until we decided to short cut. Just Nasir lead the way on a split that took us down a side street where we soon learned we were not on trail. We knew where the bar was and just decided to keep going toward the bar. At some point Horn-E and I ended up going in another direction, but soon found some marks at Lincoln ave and started following the real on in trail. We twisted through a few alleys and streets until we came up to Halsted and ran back into Just Nasir and Ahead of him was Dragon Queen & a few other FRBs that followed the true trail the whole way back

Beaumonts ended up being a GREAT venue. We had great pitcher prices and food deals. I think we went through a hundred chicken wings and several pizzas. I finally decided to head out at 1030pm and there were still quite a few people enjoying the last remaining pitchers.

Hats off to the Hares for a great run and an awesome venue!

Rear Loader

The Tale of the Trail

The Chicago Hash 4/17/05 by Rear Loader

Excellent Run on Sunday! Lifa and Bloody Thighs laid a great twister around the Graceland Cemetery and in and around the Lawrence / Broadway neighborhood. We had a great Beer Stop at Party Central #2 (Bloody’s House!) It was one heck of a trek back to the bar, but we made it in good time. The Holiday Club had some cheap pitchers and Bend Over Rover led us through a great circle! A few folks that we havent seen in a while came out to visit, visitors from New Zealand were on hand, a couple of mystery Chicago hashers that claimed to be hashers and from Chicagom just never hashed in Chicago and last but not least, a couple virgins! Great turn out!

The Tale of the Trail

The Chicago Hash 1/30/05 by Rear Loader

Sunday’s run was a good time with a wonderful turn out for a cold January day. We ran a beautiful square which started at the bar, went down to the lake, over to Lawrence and up to Bloody Thigh’s house. As usual Horn-E was absent, he claims that he got lost and was found back at the On – In. From Bloody’s house we ran straight back to K’s Dugout for a circle which was led by Milk my Yak and Rear Loader. It was a marathon circle with lots of accusations and down downs. We had a visitor from Okinawa H3 ( I forgot his name, sorry) who brought a couple of great hash shirts from the Okinawa H3. We had a drink-off to determine the winners. On the Harriet side, CP, Bloody Thighs and Red Snapper all did down downs to get the shirt and the winner was Red Snapper! On the Guy’s side, there were several contestants and we had to narrow it down to 2 finalists, Mudsucker and Rear Loader. Tensions were high as these two beer gladiators chugged it out for the prize. Sugar Nipples sang us a new song to commorate this battle of the big mouths. It was really close but Rear Loader came out the winner. Mudsucker was quoted as saying….”but you knew the song! I didnt know it and was trying to hear the down down down!”