German Hashathon - 2025

Note: this was the 750th trail I have hared over the past 40+ years of hashing.

Getting caught up after a long weekend. I rolled into the campsite on Friday afternoon in order to scout my trail for the weekend. Hashathon is a one day, (usually) 4 trail day, with all 4 trails combined achieving the distance of a marathon. This year, due to small numbers, we did it all in 3 trails.

My Friday afternoon scout covered 18 kms of scenic joy, trying to figure out a fun and interesting path to lead the pack on. There were a couple spots of NO JOY, that I was able to bypass on Saturday.

After a fun Friday night around the campfire (and I made sure not to drink toooo much), I tried to get a good night's sleep so I was ready to go Saturday morning . . . BUT, elsewhere in the tent was a snorer (name redacted to be fair, not his fault he is a f*cking human lawnmower when sleeping). I got a solid 4 hours of sleep, but awoke to the old John Deere revving up. You can have a listen in the photos section.

Anyway, as the sun broke on a new day, the pack gathered for trail 1, and off they go . . . at this time, I set off to set my trail. With a few edits along the way, and eliminating some of the worst bits, it came in at 16.5 kms. When I asked the pack if they preferred me to run it with them . . . OR . . . provide drink stops, for some reason they unanimously chose drink stops. So I got a break there, but most of the pictures I have were from the scouting, or a few from other hashers on trail.Read more