Jan 1 2012
Monday, January 02, 2012
The Vancouver Hash House HarriersRun No.1314
at
Myrtle Park, Deep Cove, 1100, Sunday, 01-January-2012
by
Malice
Your scribe forgot his camera and these are supplied supplied compliments of Cream Filled.
Malice (hare), Do Me First (co-conspirator), Beaheader & Trevor (aka Not Harvey), Low Blow & Lucy, Flat Bloke and Vicky, Aw Fuck It & YFI, Plunger & Creamfilled, Porno Prick, Hardon & Akiko, Shitty & Roadkill, Captain Hymen Grinder & Diane, Banshee, Analyser, Maple Dick, Goat Fucker & Manhole (nursing broken ribs), Abysmal & Impaler, and Dangler, yes folks, that's 20 hounds, 3 wannabees, and a hare. Oh, Monkey Licker and his Significant Other also made an appearance and joined us at the Raven.
The idea of meeting at Deep Cove was to witness the annual Polar Bear Swim and to avoid the humbuggery we have come to associate with the same event at Stanley park - no sodding parking, huge bloody crowds, annoying officials with silly rules, and expensive food accompanied by warm beer - yuch.
Malice surpassed himself with this minor epic stretching from the broad and child-filled plains of Myrtle Park to the beer check above the basalt cliffs overlooking Bedwell Bay. Hashers still heavy lidded from their excesses of the night before struggled to maintain some semblance of normalcy: Dangler distinctly queasy and unable to even choke down a chip or a beer! He was not alone, DMF nursing a hangover the size of Mozambique, and so on. Malice pre-laid the run from Myrtle Park to Panorama Drive, tying into the trails leading onto the Baden-Powell Trail, thence up the hill to the road and along to the B-P trail again and to the Beer Check at the lookout. From there we scurried back along the B-P Trail and finally into Deep Cove for the Polar Bear Swim activities including happy throngs around a huge bonfire and young people - almost exclusively young girls (why?) - who dashed in and out of the water. Plunger, Porno Prick and Impaler braved the chilly waters of the inlet for a plunge - very bracing.
Down Downs were conducted carefully in the parking area although surrounded by kids and their parents and a veritable encyclopoedia of doggy breeds. Even the Captain was tongue tied after the night's excesses but all went well and a good time was had by all followed by a mass migration to the warmth of the Raven for lashings of beer and hot food. From there a much depleted hoard invaded chez Blow for even more beer, much mirth at Do Me First and her 'Onsie' and from there to chez Prick for yet more.
All in all an excellent run and an excellent start to the New Year with swollen livers, blood shot eyes and the inevitable hangovers to remember it by.
Plunger is looking for a hare for next week, call him on 604 842 8601 or e-mail him at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
On On for 2012!
Posted by Plunger on 01/02 at 09:00 PM