IH3 Trail #717: Fertilize Her’s First IH3 Trail

IH3 Trail #717

FertilizeHer’s First Haring for IH3

Hector National Forest

April 27th, 2014

On a blustery day, a few re-dick-u-louse wanks got lost on their way to trail in the Hector National Forest.  Arriving about 40 minutes late to Chalk Talk were Master Baster, Trust Me It Won’t Spread, Tastes Like 10th Grade and Ookie Cookie.

We were late due to several nonexistent short cuts through the forest. Searching for a radio tower is not easy with all the trees in the way.

Waiting for them when they finally arrived were C’mon We’re So Close, Brown Hole Delivery, Spike and our Virgin-to-Ithaca Hare, FertilizeHer.  He had volunteered to set trail for us, being an experienced hare from Buffalo, after Tasty had said at a previous trail that we hadn’t missed a trail in the 3+ years she’d been hashing.  FertilizeHer did not want to disappoint the die-harder hashers who were not otherwise engaged in r*cist activities (Seneca 7, anyone?) that day.  Note the low turnout —> the usual suspects did down-downs at the following trail.

Once we had finally gathered ourselves together for Chalk Talk, our Hare explained a new mark that we’d see on trail that day — A Singapore Back Check (SBC). When you see this mark, trail could go off any spot of flour between itself and the last check you saw. Cool. Off we went into our beloved National Forest.

It was a mucky day in early spring — lots of damp, mud, wind, and cloud cover. It was April in Ithaca and we were happy to only have two layers of clothes on.

There were 7 hounds this day and Trust Me was being happy hanging back with her main squeeze (our hare) so as the only running harriette,Tasty really got a good day’s run trying to keep up with all the long-legged harriers and not get lost where the cows would catch her.

Some highlights of the day:

-Baster disappeared into woods on his own (I know, this goes without saying)

-While looking for the start of trail, driving through the woods, everyone in Baster’s car saw trail marks on the roads

-C’Mon We’re So Close nearly got named something about an elephant penis but instead was renamed MSDS (and I cannot remember what we decided it stood for – Mastodon-Sized Dick Something?) due to a very sciencey conversation at BN#2 and the fact that he was wearing a shirt with a periodic chart of the elements on it

-Goggles found on trail for safety 3rd

-Ookie and Brownie committed arboricide (ok, it was already dead but still standing)