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Hashers Stranded Overnight on Mountaintop Part 2
CONTENTS
Vol. 13 No. 11
November 2014
Editor’s Notes
(Formerly Asia-Pacific Harrier)
www.harriermagazine.com Editor / Publisher Jim Edens publisher@harriermagazine.com
Administration Lisa Sukita customerservice@harriermagazine.com Design / Artwork / Photos / Layout / Digital Edition / Website Jimmy Wilkins jwilkins@harriermagazine.com America Correspondent Sean Gilmour seanspg@gmail.com Europe Correspondent Julie Burgess jaburgess@planet.nl International RDR Editor Jay Hopkins hopkins.jay@gmail.com
Contributors (in order of appearance): Editorial / Photos / Graphics Dr Ian T Nicolson Lord Lucan Lilian “Running Star” Wee, Boon Kee, Jennifer Lim Hot Ass Winner RoDeHo Sweet Transvestite Stockholm H3 Regular Contributors: Kurt Bodmer, Julie Burgess, Paul Cade, Jim Edens, Randall Salisbury, Ian Slater, Lisa Sukita, Jimmy Wilkins
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We welcome anything related to hashing. * All submissions are subject to the editor’s axe.
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The world-renowned Pattaya Jungle Hash celebrated a major milestone with the flair and style found only in this part of the world. A horde of hashers joined the PJH3 faithful for a weekend that few will forget…but some can only recall as a happy haze. Off to Malaysia, the birthplace of the Hash as the RCC took to the tracks for a Wild West Train Pub Crawl. The trail ran the rails from Kuala Lumpur to Ipoh in the scenic terrain typical of this historic region. Like sand in your shoes and cactus in your shorts? Saddle up and head out west of Tombstone for the Tour de Tucson. Join the JHavelina H3 celebrating 20 years of rambling thru the desert. Whoever said that Germans have no sense of humor has never met the Sembach Hash House Harriers. Costumes, drama, and fun to the extreme are the order of the day in the badlands of Deutschland at the annual Sembach H3 End of Summer Hash.
What happened to the 79 Guam hashers stranded on a mountaintop as the rain poured down and dark closed in? The night turned tragic when one hasher fell off the cliff and these hashers faced much more than they bargained for. We are pleased to bring you another edition of the Stockholm Absolute Hash Trash. Many thanks to the hardworking editor of this amusing publication, and to our editors and columnists around the world. Harrier Magazine’s annual Best Events of the Year edition is coming up soon, so send us the nominations for your favorite HHH events. I look forward to seeing you on trail soon. On On, Jim Edens, Editor-in-Chief Harrier Magazine – Fun on the run since 2002 International Edition with readers in 100 countries www.HarrierMagazine.com
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On The Cover: RLC HARRIERS WILD WILD WEST ALE PUB CRAWL BY TRAIN Photo By: Boon Kee
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Events
Peach Fuzz H3 1000 Iceland Hash Euro Bus Tour Inter-Scandi Pan Asia Hash 2015, India South Indian Super Hash Hanoi Away Run: Cat Ba Saigon RDR Cambodia Nash Hash 2015 Subic Bay 21st Anny Pan Philippines Nash Hash 2015 Bimbo’s 69th Birthday Bash Philippines Hash Bash 2105 Interhash 2016: Bali 2018 Interhash Bid, Fiji Amari Midnight Charity Run 2015 Mongolia Sunrise-Sunset
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APEC Travel Card: OK for USA Pattaya Jungle H3 300th Wild Wild West Ale Train Pub Crawl Sembach H3 End of Summer Tour De Tucson Hashers Stranded on Mountian Top 2
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30 Departments Editor’s Welcome Hash Boy Hash Calendar Running Calendar Humor: On the Ice Featured Hash Trash Recent Back Issues
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PATTAYA 300 JUNGLE H3
CELEBRATES THEIR 300th RUN WITH THREE DAYS OF EVENTS
The 18 Harrier
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300th Run
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TAF, Arseaholic & Fishy Fingers
By Lord Lucan - Co Founder & Ex GM PJH3 www.pattayajungle.com
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lthough the purists may disagree, hashing is not just about getting out on trail to work up a sweat which is perhaps a statement that becomes more poignant as we inevitably get older. It is also about reminiscing with old friends and of equal significance making new friends over a few bottles of amber liquid. Certainly, the Jungle Hash took this matter into consideration when we thought about what type of weekend would appeal to the majority and between the four chapters in the Jungle Family we formulated what we hoped would be a relaxed and enjoyable weekend.
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ALE TRAIN PUB CRAWL by Lilian “Running Star” Wee photo by Boon Kee event by Jennifer Lim, jenlim01@hotmail.com
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Harriers’ very first ‘Wild Wild West RLC ALE TRAIN PUB CRAWL” was held on 16th September, a date specially chosen as it was Malaysia Day
Malay
public holiday. The idea for the Train Crawl was first mooted as a successor to the Jungle Pub Crawl held in 2012, followed by the Bus Crawl in 2013. The name was derived from the famous Sixties TV western, The Wild Wild West’ featuring the adventures of two US Secret Service agents traversing the West on their luxury train. Hence, the concept of merging a train ride with a hash pub crawl, where participants follow a paper trail leading from pub to pub, was born.
Preparation for the event began months ahead with the Organising Committee ascertaining the feasibility of procuring tickets for 3 KTM ETS (Electric Train Service) coaches from Kuala Lumpur to Tanjong Malim to Ipoh. Once confirmed, promotion and detailed planning proceeded with attention paid to the minutest aspect to ensure the absolute success of the event. Everyone in the organizing as well as the working committee were strenuously briefed on their respective roles.
...Continued from the October 2014 edition of Harrier Magazine.
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Hashers Stranded 2 Overnight on Mountaintop A GUAMAZING TRUE TRAIL ADVENTURE
o, there we were, eighteen hashers stuck on the upper slope of a mountain, well past dark, unable to scale the steep and slippery slope back to the top, incapable of climbing down the sheer cliff face leading to the bottom, shivering in the frigid rain, huddling tightly together to stay warm, clinging to roots and clumps of sword grass to keep from sliding to our doom, dehydrated and out of water, waiting to be rescued, and wondering whatever became of the poor bastard who fell over the cliff a few hours ago. A well respected local hasher put us into this predicament trying to be helpful by telling the pack of a much safer way down from the mountain in the dark, only he had his mountains mixed up and actually gave the pack the worst directions in hash history. Oh, if only I hadn’t visited Guam! If only that fool hadn’t directed the pack off true trail! If only the pack hadn’t listened! And, if only we had a rope and a grappling hook with which to climb to safety! But, I did, he did, they did, and we didn’t. At least Guam Fire Rescue was on the way and would soon save us, because they must be experts at this sort of thing… right?
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