IH3 Trail #435

The Splash Hash…courtesy of Hot Lips, Hare:
Hashing Humans: Hotlips, Dances with Head, Tequila Bill, Staffypuller, Lil’ Missed Muffet, Little Oral Annie, ButtFloss, Ballwrinkle, Spike, Sideshow Jesus, Just Matt (named today! see below) Roadkill, WT, Captain Slimy, and Half Monty.
Hashing Hounds: Hershey, Max and Parker.
Hasing other: Creepy-ass wooden guy with a name I don’t remember that Dances brought

The trail wound its way through the gorges, streams, woods and roads of the upper Taughannock gorge area. Allison, beautiful co-host wife of Hotlips gave us all a ride to our starting point. The trail first went through a tunnel under the road and was the site of Hash Crash #1 which went to Dances, who quickly warned us all to duck. The gash on his head stopped bleeding by the on-in, and all that was left was some small swelling, which wasn’t too bad a thing…with his sweetie out of the country at least one head on the boy got to swell.

It was a beautiful, warm sunny day which made the trail extra fun. Hotlips guided us through lots of splashy streams and back and forth across the gorge, with several hash rests. At the beer stop, Jesus got to give away his beer-stop award specially designed by Monty. The award, a foot-shaped rock, now will be carried by Spike for awhile.

With all the muddy hills to climb and algae there were other crashes, one referred to as "the avalanche" by Just Matt and Sideshow Jesus. With plenty of knowing grins between them on that one it may have qualified as a murky moment but no one wanted the details. There was enough of that as it was…some of us got to see Jesus’ butt at one of the rests…now, how many people can say that on any given Sunday?

Trail ended back at Hotlips’ home, and the on-in was held by their swimming pond with a BBQ picnic to follow! At the on-in, Just Matt was named thanks to a squishy, prickly, sweaty, bouncy ball on a string that he found on trail. Some of the name candidates were Teabagger, Ballslinger, Erectile Reptile and several others, but he was finally christened…Nut Roper!

Among the circle accusations were…not shaving on hash day, Bleabs, Blabs, comptetive running event shirt, coupla people forgot their mugs, and Little Miss’ final regular Ithaca Hash, as he is moving to Colorado. LOA and Floss promised to check in on him at Colorado hashes to make sure he hadn’t reverted to a former hash name, (Muffin muncher or some damn thing) and we all wished that he go in peace and get a piece. Little Miss responded with a down-down for all his friends that got him started on the hash here, and it would have been about as touching as a "Very Special Edition of Seventh Heaven" except the dogs decided to break up our attention by jumping the pen and chasing after the family lamb and young goat! The kids were all right though (get it???) and Roadkill personally…uh…comforted them once the dogs were gone.

Many thanks to Hotlips, Allison and family for graciously sharing their home and the picnic.

Next hash being set by: Dances, I didn’t hear this part…do you usually put this in the rehash???
One after that will be: Set by LOA and Toothy, in honor of their birthdays

On-on, good people! -Staffypuller