World Hash Events: May 2022

Hello hashers,

Unfortunately . . . INTERHASH 2022 in Trinidad has been CANCELLED . . . But . . .

We're hashing in Trinidad anyway, if you want details on trails . . . join https://www.facebook.com/groups/455155103020401/ - this is a totally grass roots NO FRILLS effort to allow those hashers that still want to go, or have to go due to airline or hotel ticketing issues, etc.

If you are still planning to travel to Trinidad during the week of 25 Apr - 1 May for OUTERHASH 2022, and want to join us for some hash trails, please fill out this form so we know how many will be there.    http://tinyurl.com/TrinidadTrails

Some of the PRELUBE and POSTLUBE events are still a go as well . . .

OPTIONS:
Prelube Cruise . . . sailing from Barbados, http://hashcruise2020.simplesite.com

Postlube Adventure . . . in Brazil, https://brasiliah3.blogspot.com/p/h3-2022-away-hash-join-brasilia-h3-to.html

Postlube to Guyana . . . Mu-sick is also working on an option flying to Georgetown, Guyana departing POS on Monday, 2 May, and taking an all- day tour of Kaieteur Falls (world's highest single drop waterfall - three times the height of Niagara Falls) and Orinduik Falls 3 May,  with a weather backup of the next day (4 May) and perhaps a hash with Guyana H3. 

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Well, the tail end of the pandemic is still effecting some hash events, but in general, the hash world is coming back to (a somewhat new) normal. 

Here are the BIG events coming up . . .

Pan Africa Hash         (Jun 2022) - Uganda (website update in progress)
Inter Scandi            (Jul 2022) - Estonia
Pan Asia                (Oct 2022) - Indonesia
Mekong Indo             (Nov 2022) - Cambodia (official announcement pending)
Inter Gulf              2022 - Nothing announced yet
Inter Cauc              2022 - Nothing announced yet
Pan SoAm                (Jun 2023) - Brazil
Euro Hash               (Aug 2023) - The Netherlands
Inter Americas          (Sep 2023) - Colombia
INTERHASH               2024 - TBD

NASH HASHES:

United States           (May 2022)
Dutch                   (Jul 2022)
Germany                 (Jul 2022)
Philippines             (Feb 2023)
Australia               (Mar 2023)
New Zealand             (Apr 2023)
United Kingdom  (Aug 2023)

See additional information and links to all these events at https://www.gotothehash.net/hashevents.html

Don't see your major event on the list . . . let me know and it will be added.

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Where will the NEXT INTERHASH be?   It is also time to start thinking about the BIDS.  So far, there are registered bids for Queenstown, New Zealand and Goa, India.  A bid is being developed for Turkey (more to follow on that one).  https://www.interhashtrinidad2020.com/2024-bid.html

A secure "ONLINE" voting system is being developed to make your vote heard.  Info to be published soon.

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HASH HISTORY: If you missed it, here are the latest releases . . .

In the Spotlight - 1938 -                       https://groups.google.com/g/gotothehash/c/koIhDcmF1yE

In the Spotlight - Costa Rica -                 https://groups.google.com/g/gotothehash/c/pG1BcpST2f0

In the Spotlight - Ian Young -          https://groups.google.com/g/gotothehash/c/7AlVrASknrk

In the Spotlight - Horse Thomson -      https://groups.google.com/g/gotothehash/c/R3jUZR1c0vQ

New articles being published often . . .  See dozens more at http://gotothehash.net/history/inthespotlight.html

I am currently in the United Arab Emirates attending the Creek H3 2000th Run, and will have other new HHH History articles to share soon.

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So, who is the King of the Hill? 

Last month I asked the question of . . . who is the longest active hasher (not the oldest), and from what I can tell, still active Richard C. A. "Mountain Rescue" McAllister began hashing in Brunei in 1965, and second would be Bob "Drainoil" Leonard who started hashing on 7 Feb 1966.  There is still room for additional submissions, for longest currently active hasher.

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From the WAY BACK MACHINE, hash happenings this month . . . (Note: some hashers have reported that the links below sometimes do not work.  That is due the "html" getting snipped off after the period, due to the width of the text.  To make it work, just make sure the link ends in ".html")

5 YEARS AGO:     
http://harrier.org/pipermail/hash-l_harrier.org/Week-of-Mon-20170327/009060.html

10 YEARS AGO:
http://harrier.org/pipermail/hash-l_harrier.org/Week-of-Mon-20120326/007360.html

15 YEARS AGO:
http://harrier.org/pipermail/hash-l_harrier.org/Week-of-Mon-20070319/004666.html

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Upcoming hash events for the month of May 2022 are listed below.  See the website for more details: http://gotothehash.net/e/hashevents22-05.html

May 6-8
Boozy Luzy Away Weekend
Hosted by the Riviera H3 in Calanques/Marseille, France.

May 13-15
Away Hash
Hosted by the Brasilia H3 in Chapada Dos Veadeiros, Brazil.

May 13-15
2300th Run
Hosted by the Gold Coast H3 at the Beaudesert Caravan Park, Australia.

May 13-15
Friday 13th Two Night Stand Horror Hash Campout
Hosted by the Luna Ticks H3 in Franklin, NC, USA.

May 14-15
Inaugural Hash
Hosted by the O-Kiss-Me H3 in Orlando, FL, USA.

May 20-22
AGM - Weekend at Bernie's
Hosted by the Mount Vernon H3 in Dewey Beach, DE, USA.

May 27-29
Island Weekend
Hosted by the Athens H3 on the island of Corfu, Greece,  This event has an additional optional day in Albania.

May 27-29
Voodoo Campout
Hosted by the Voodoo H3 in Hammond, LA, USA.

May 27-30
USA Nash Hash
Hosted by the Gulf Coast H3 in Cleveland, AL, USA.

See the whole three year calendar of upcoming events at http://gotothehash.net/hashevents.html
If you know of an upcoming event not posted to the calendar, please send me the info. 

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Hashing is fun!  See you on trail someday . . . :O)

On-On,
Hazukashii
Keeper of the old rusty pail, and Chief of the Royal Order of the Smelly Shoe!
http://GoToTheHash.net  (Since 1998)     

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This Sunday's trail, 20th of March

Hashers,

A nice short run and walk this week. Meet at the train station (https://maps.app.goo.gl/pSZE5J3cAwNxKW8R9) at 2:15pm to get the BUS for a 2:30pm departure. It's an A to A trail.

For those driving, the run start is here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/5RD4hxL618jNzBgW9. Be there for 3:30pm.

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On on!

In the Spotlight - 1938

In the Spotlight – 1938
By Ed "Hazukashii" Howell
14 Mar 2022

 

Still to this day, no one has found any documentation that specifically defines when the Hash House Harriers ran their first trail in Kuala Lumpur.  Conventional wisdom had placed the date as sometime between September and December 1938.  About six months ago, my friend Colin "Hema" Snow sent me some interesting news from his personal interactions and a letter from Torch Bennett, that outlined his estimation of the founding date to be mid-summer 1939.  Unfortunately, Torch was not on the first run, having taken leave in late November of 1938 and not returning to Kuala Lumpur until late July 1939.  Torch also made it clear that "G" had not yet arrived in Kuala Lumpur as of the date of his departure.  Although verbal recollections by other early hashers had generally pointed towards a start date of late 1938, Torch was adamant that he was right. 

 

While reviewing more documents on the matter, another letter has shed more light on the situation.  First, a little background.  When Tim "Magic" Hughes was researching the history of the HHH back in the 1980s, he contacted many old hashers to get their story, and in 1987 came in contact with Frank Woodward.  Frank was one of the few early hashers before the war, and is identified on the "List of Office Bearers" of Mother Hash, as a Joint Master in both 1948 and 1949.  He would continue on, working and hashing in KL until his departure in 1953.  Magic had recently published his "Harrier International World Hash Handbook 86/87" and started mailing out periodical HHH News on a subscription basis under the title "Harrier International."   As an introduction, Magic sent Frank copies of his work and asked for some of his recollections on his time with the HHH in KL.   

 

Frank Woodward replied in a letter, stating . . . "I left Guernsey . . . in January 1939 and arrived in Kuala Lumpur about mid-February, 1939.  I had been booked into the Selangor Club Chambers by my boss.  At my first breakfast, I was invited to join the Hash House Harriers and as I had been a cross-country runner at school, I was delighted to accept."  Frank makes the most specific statement on record, for the actual founding date with "I took part in the sixth or seventh run of the club since it was founded."   Having run his first trail in February 1939, that would narrow down the date of the first run to sometime in December 1938, or possibly the first week of January 1939.  Since there were a couple significant holidays in that timeframe, mid to early December 1938 is the most likely date of the first hash trail.  It could not be sooner, as Torch had departed KL in late November 1938, and "G" was not there yet and the HHH had not started.

 

There was at least one account of the earlier Kuala Lumper Harriers (that ran in the city from the early 1920s to the mid-1930s) in the Malay Mail (newspaper) in 1932.  The oldest actual Hash House Harriers document we currently have, to the best of my knowledge, that specifies an actual event date is the notice for the upcoming 100^th Run, which occurred on Friday 15 Aug 1941, just 17 weeks before hashing was suspended due to the onset of WWII. 

 

Frank's letter also includes other insights into the early days of the HHH.  He goes on to say . . .

 

          "In those good old days, most of us Hash House members had Malay car drivers . . . and the procedure on the weekly run days was for the two 'hares' to go in a car with their haversacks full of torn-up paper and the boot of their car loaded up with a large galvanized tin bath packed with ice, bottled beer and ginger beer, to a pre-arranged starting point and then set off to lay the paper trails.  The beer and ginger beer were provided by the 'hares' each week at their own expense.  The club never had any funds as such and administration was minimal." 

 

Frank continued to explain that prior to the war, that trails were generally A to B, and that once the pack had assembled and set off running, the hare's driver would lead all the other cars to the finish point.  He also states "After numerous false trails had been investigated the 'hounds' eventually arrived at the finish point where the 'hares' would have already started on the beer and ginger beer. Shandies were found to be much more refreshing than beer by itself."  Which, to me, is another indictment on the false narrative some hashers believe, that hashing has always been about excessive alcohol.

 

Another revelation was that after the rebirth starting in 1946, trails were much more commonly A to A.  Frank stated "After the war not many members of the H.H.H had car drivers, especially the newcomers who had come to Malaya for the first time . . . starting and finishing points of the runs [were] at the same place; otherwise the routine was exactly as before."

In closing, Frank finished with "I am so glad to hear that the Hash House Harriers clubs are spreading round the world, a fact of which I was quite unaware until very recently."  Both Frank's and Torch's letters are recollections of events that took place more than 40 years prior, so we have to take them at face value.  Just like Frank states, new information continues to be presented to us on the history of the HHH, and more research will continue to expand our knowledge of the origins of this fascinating sport.  More research will need to be done on Frank, but as of the time of his letter (circa 1987), he listed himself as a non-running member of the Tamar Valley H3, in Devonshire, UK.

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On on!

This Sunday's Hash, 13th of March

Hashers,

This Sunday's trail has been set. Meet at the train station (https://maps.app.goo.gl/pSZE5J3cAwNxKW8R9) at 2:15pm to get the TRUCK (wear a hat) for a 2:30pm departure. We'll be crossing the ferry opposite Naga World so you can catch the truck as it passes at 2:45pm. It's an A to A trail.

For those driving, the run start is here: https://goo.gl/maps/NsTDH6Ewnup5etyv9. Be there for 3:30pm

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On on!