CH3 #1459

Sunday 10/8/2006 @2pm
Chicago HHH #1459
Great Chicago Fire Hash : Oct. 8-9, 1871

Hare(s): Chicken Stiffer and possible volunteer?
Venue: Morgan’s Bar and Grill on Maxwell Street – 1325 S. Halsted St., Chicago

We lost our hare for Sunday if someone would like to lay trail with me on Sunday please contact me. This is a great chance for Virgin hares to learn from a master hare. (Insert coughing and Choking noises) I have already found a venue for us that has $6 pitchers and good food. If no one will step up than be prepared for a Chicken Stiffer Death March that will cover all the areas of Chicago burned down by that damn cow. Please check out the links to the maps so you can see how far you will be running.

http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/conflag/pic-firemap.html

http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/ruin/pic0563.html

Tale of the Trail – CH3 #1457

The Chicago Hash 9/25/06 by Horn-E

Our hares were EZ on the Ass and Stump Humper. I’d like to say something good about this hash, but I’m just not that big of a liar. Okay, I’m kidding. Sort of. The actual course wasn’t all that bad. The marks just weren’t were Chicago Hashers would normally look for them. Like under a street light. Like on a corner. Like suddenly appearing on the other side of the street. Like somewhat consistently spaced. To often we had a split or a check and didn’t know how far to actually check before turning back. Do we go over a block one time and a hundred feet the next?

The pack wasn’t all good at acting like a pack either. Short cutting. I’m often guilty of this. But when you see a short cut, you have to take it. Ranging. I’m guilty of this. When you range out at a check, and the trail goes another way, you either back track or range towards the lead hound. Not calling out to others. This is a group endeavor. If you are on trail, call it out. When you come to a check, call it out. When someone shouts out RU, reply either Checking, On On, or Looking. Lets work like a pack like a hash should. And blowing a whistle at the third mark after a check or the first mark after a split and never actually checking if anyone actually heard your whistle is the same as not calling out at all. Lets work together so we can resolve trails that aren’t marked all that well in a more timely and organized manner.

And remember that the idea is to run as a group. The purpose of checking and splits is to regroup the pack, not split them up all over the city. One of our newer hashers said at the beer stop that this wasn’t fun. That is how we lose people. Our trails are supposed to be fun, together. I know that both hares tried to lay a good trail. But when that many fast. good hounds are scattered all over, something went wrong. Hares? Hounds?

The On On was good. Stump Humper’s mom put out a good supply of Mexican food for us and we all dug in. Then Calvin Klein led a decent circle and EZ on the Ass was almost overflowing with beer. We had a virgin in Just Kelly. And after the circle she tried to lead us in a dirty song. She sounds like a keeper.

Now everybody make plans for Chicago’s first Sunday hash of the season.

On On
Horn-E

CH3 #1455

Monday 9/11/2006 @ 2pm
Chicago HHH #1455
Labor Day Party Hash

Hare(s): It’s Too Soft and Mystery Hare
Venue: The Union Tavern – 2858 N. Halsted (Halsted & George just East of the Diversey Brown Line stop and up two blocks on Halsted)

NOTES: A-B Hash. 2:00 pm Start Time & Labor Day BBQ cookout afterwards. $10 hash cash.

CH3 #1453

Monday 8/28/2006 @ 7pm
Chicago HHH #1453
WALK ACROSS ILLINOIS HASH

Hare(s): 69 Cent Man & Magnetic Muff
Venue: Christina’s Place – 3759 N. Kedzie (corner of Kedzie and Grace, although there’s no street sign at the corner).

This run will promote Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn’s Walk Across IL Program (www.WalkAcrossIllinois.org), in which he hopes to encourage people to walk (or run) for physical fitness. Participants are supposed to log their weekly miles with the goal of accumulating a total of 167 miles (distance across IL from the Mississippi River at Rock Island to Lake Michigan at Chicago, Phase 1) and then an additional 595 miles (distance from the IL-WI border at Winthrop Harbor to Metropolis, Phase 2).
This will be a leisurely hare & hounds fun run of approx. 4 miles. It is totally non-competitive, so runners of all abilities, and walkers, are invited. The trail, which will be set just before the run, will go through the nearby area (which just might take us past the Governor’s Mansion).