Lost Patrol’s dusk patrol lapsup lederhosen and strudel – Summer Run in Winter
Rolling and Tumbling off Bantry Bay Road
We all gathered for the “Summer run in Winter” with some forgetting to get their “get out of jail and arrive on time pass” (namely Kitty, Ayatollah & God Knows) with the Swiss Hare Lost Patrol advising us there were 3 trails …4km, 6km & punishing 8km, ably supported by the one and only Nutcracker. After all the instructions, many taking notes for future reference, the pack finally took off, some returning to their cars to get torches????, over the Wakehurst Parkway foot bridge and off into the wilderness of the Manly-Warringah War Memorial Reserve.
Great weather, fresh air & birds singing, although Grape thought it could have been 2C warmer (…shit Grape, put a jacket on or a skirt,) through the Allambie Heights Estate for a bit of flower picking. Then we entered the wet bush tracks and encountered the cunning and scheming plans of the hares with very cleverly disguised check backs, which by the way were the longest in living Hash memory…some were in excess of 5kms much to the disgust of XXXX
It was after all these check backs that we knew Lost Patrol can’t count it was going to be a shit load longer than 8km. In fact it was a minimum of 9.5km with Music Man covering at least 15km as the poor bugger utilised all the check backs.
The track took a heavy toll on our brave Hashmen with first Last Card hitting the turf and suffering damage to the knee followed by Super taking a “Casey Stoner” style tumble/roll to make a miraculous recovery to end up upright and back in stride (could not repeat if he tried) then the Check Back King took a tumble and became a little disorientated …..probably thinking I should have caught an earlier flight to Uzbekistan.
After the bucket we were off to the Austrian Club for a terrific meal of 14 Vienna Schnitzels followed by Austrian Apple Strudel washed down with Glavine…damn good tucker had by all. To top the evening off “Ziggy Stardust” the wandering Squeeze Box player entertained the troops with a plethora of Austrian/Swiss/Czech/German ditties.
Then the peace de résistance was the Fantastic Swiss Choir including two huge Swiss didgeridoos about 30 feet long, giant cow bells and a harmonica (normal size) who yodelled some Swiss classics to great Hash applause. After the entertainment, humour was a plenty from Pee Dub and Philthy but Tic Toc stole the show with a “Little Johnny” classic which will go down in the “anals” of time although Philthy’s Abo joke was a close second.
Fantastic news from Jungle Jim…..he is fighting fit and back to his normal jovial self and somewhat relieved.
Google Earth : Run 2295