Double Celebration = Double Walk

It was a long evening at hash yesterday. Diplo's always a pleasure to walk and run except it was a shock to see the driveway immediately leading up to the site was trimmed back - never a good sign and we just hope they are not going to start building in the area.

It was the National Day / Chinese New Year run so we were expecting it to be a good one. The run started fairly straight forward going into a part we have been to before. 15 mins into the run we came across the two veteran ladies hashers both in their 70s and 80s. From there we proceeded to run what I thought was the whole jungle - I found the first two checks and after what seemed to a never ending run we eventually came came out after 1:20 mins. But before we got too comftable we relised that the two veteran hashers were still inside including a couple others and we figured out they were still a long way away. So at 7:15pm I voluntered myself with the two hares to go back in.

It's not the first time I've been in the jungle in the dark (and it won't be my last) but this evening maybe because the two ladies were a pressing concern, fear had no chance of creeping in though I did have a flash back to this incident which seems to be a recurring theme for Diplo. After 15 mins walking we eventually got to the first lady who was doing pretty much ok but tired but it was the other lady we were worried about who was tired and dehydrated. But we were still very far from the exit. Both hares were experienced hashers especially one who knew the jungle like the back of her hand. Despite Diplo having 1001 trails this lady was able to take us on a shorter route out - not too many can do that during the day!

So with a shorter trail laid I helped the more able lady out - I am grateful another hasher lent me her better torch cos mine was absolutely useless - mental note to change batteries! We were eventually out just after 9pm with the group behind coming out an hour later. Only the two ladies involved know why they did not turned round when they were supposed to but we guess they thought the run was shorter than it actually was. It's a lesson leant for all of us and a big relief that we all came out safely. Still it was an excellent run - thanks again hares!