Athens Hashers running with the
Wessex HHH in the UK

17th - 24th - 31st January 2010
(3 runs)


Wessex Hash House Harriers: http://www.wessexh3.org

 

17th January - St. Leonards Hotel,
185 Ringwood Road,
St Leonards, Ringwood, 

Dorset
BH24 2NP

The lat/lon coordinates of the starting point & circle: 50°49'40.67"N, 1°50'20.20"W

Elevation: 25 metres above sea level

Trail cartographic Length = 15.3 km (almost 10 miles)


No photos for this hash

 

24th January - The Rising Sun pub
Bashley Common Road (B3058)
Wooton, New Milton,
Hampshire, BH25 5SF

The lat/lon coordinates of the starting point & circle: 50°47'3.43"N, 1°39'25.73"W     

Altitude: 57 metres above sea level

Trail cartographic Length = 6.5 km

The trail

The pub was situated in the New Forest

View from outside the pub

New Forest sign

 

Mauricio ouside the pub before the run.

Note the patriotic English St. Georges flag flying on the flagpole


The Bookmaker, front running the pack in shorts engages with the mud

 

The Bookmaker shows off his injuries...

 

Bleeding on the hash

 

Mauricio, The Bookmaker and Mad Dog

 

Mad Dog, Mauricio and The Bookmaker

 

Rogues gallery

 

Lining up the beers in the pub

 

The pub menu. Note the good prices. And this pub is popular.
A good meal and a pint of beer cost about 11 pounds or 12 euros (at present exchange rates)

 

Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with gravy and lots of potatoes & vegetables -
almost too much to eat!

 

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Yum yum!

 

The desserts menu

 

OK, So we were really greedy and had the apple pie
& clotted cream with a coffee as well

 

The tray of down-down beers.

The main circle is held AFTER the pub meal with the Wessex hash

 

The circle - with about 35 hashers (Orginally about 50 but some had already gone home)

 

Harriette DIO's with photos

 

- Combined Wessex and Hampshire hash -

31st January - The Alice Lisle pub
Rockford, Ringwood,
Hampshire BH24 3NA

The lat/lon coordinates of the starting point & circle: 50°52'18.97"N, 1°46'29.10"W     

Elevation: 22 metres above sea level

Trail cartographic Length = 7 km (approx)



The trail. The straight lines are where the GPS lost track of the satellites & are not the true trail.

 



Signpost giving an idea of the pub location.

 

The pub sign

 

A very nice old pub

 

Mad Dog's sister Teresa, nephew Christopher & brother-in-law Simon -
were visiting and joined Mad Dog and Mauricio on the hash.

 

The huge pre-run circle

 

The Wessex GM Mr Beaky
(The Wessex hash strangely don't have an RA but they have a GM and 6 JM's)
Note the frosty grass.

 

The hasher in the costume apparently does it for fun.
He walked the trail in the costume too.

 



Would be a great outfit for Carnival!



The Wessex hash sign-in board

 

Visitors pay a pound each.

They have to check when they leave to do the run and when they return -
so everyone is accounted for.

 

Before the run ....

A hasher reaching a set number of runs has to drink beer from the piss pot.

The hares are given a down-down.

 

The trail is laid in sawdust (which is actually quite difficult to see)
Chalk powder was used for the walkers trail on this occasion.

 

Mud, glorious (frozen) mud! Note the frost on the grass.

 

Navigating an icy bog

 

Wild New Forest ponies

 

The walkers wind their way through the bracken

 


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Panoramic view of part of the New Forest area

 

Short cutting in costume

 

Mauricio runs on

 

After the run... A huge "all you can eat" Roast Beef & Roast Pork
with stuffing & Yorkshire Pudding + veg meal from the carvery for just 9 pounds

 

 

Mad Dog's nephew Christopher get a virgin hasher's down-down

 

Wessex GM Mr. Beaky takes the circle

 

The colourful hasher has now changed into
another costume to decorate the main circle.

 

 

 

NOTE: 1 mile = 1.609344 kilometers

NOTES

To save a photo to your disk drive:
- Internet Explorer - Netscape Navigator - Opera -

(1) Right-click your mouse on the photo
(2) A menu appears
(3) Click on "Save Picture As"
(or "Save Image")
(4) Pull-down the "Save In" menu (click the down-arrow)
(5) Double-click on a disk drive letter (to choose a drive)
(6) Double click on a directory icon (if applicable)
(7) Type in a File name of your choice for the picture
(8) Click Save

To send the photo by e-mail as an attachment:
- Outlook Express -


(1) Click the "Create Mail" button to start a new e-mail
(2) Click Insert > File Attachment
(3) Pull-down the "Look In" menu (click the down arrow)
(4) Double-click on a disk drive letter (to choose the drive)
(5) Double click on a directory icon (if applicable)
(6) Click on the photo file name to highlight it
(7) Click "Attach" to attach the photo to the e-mail

                                                                        MD Feb. 2006



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