Today’s trail started from a deserted Wonford Sports Centre
car park. A depleted pack (probably
suffering the after effects of the Autumn Gathering) assembled, on time for
once, for Happy Snapper’s virgin lay.
There were very specific instructions given about the
placing of the marks. We needed to
follow the marks on the right-hand side, although we may also find some on the
left, in which case they weren’t relevant until we were going in the other
direction. It was a three and on trail.
Firstly, we headed out into
Ludwell Valley Park, up and down and around fields. It was slippery in places and I saw Blobby
fall over, although I forgot to tell the sheriff and he got away without a
fine! The second half of the trail took
us across Topsham Road, towards the crematorium before taking a detour into the
trees for a sweetie stop.
Next, we headed towards and over
the river (thankfully by the bridge, although I have known hashes go through it
in the past). There was some confusion
at a check due to the left/right markings, but the real trail went onto a very
busy sports pitch where just about every type of team sport, from Lacrosse to
American Football, was underway. After a
few fish-hooks on the way around, the trail went somewhere that I didn’t. I’m not sure why but Stingray, Splat, Twin
Peaks, Speedy, Childcatcher and I found ourselves following marks on the right
hand side, that had been on the left earlier and then going round in a big
circle. We knew where we were, so there
wasn’t a problem, but we were sure that the remainder of the pack was behind
us, so we held an impromptu regroup.
After a while, we decided that they weren’t coming our way and we made
our way back up towards the crematorium where we saw the pack in front of us
and crossing back over Topsham Road. We
caught up with them just before the on-home markings.
In the closing circle, Mad Max shared
his Birthday cake (left over from the Isca Hash apparently) and Spocky tried to
get rid of his collapsible drinks glasses from the Autumn Gathering.
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19th November: Maristow Avenue, Exmouth - The Btiz's (AGM) (EX8 3LA; map)
