INTERAMERICAS' HASH 2025 - Main Event

We are here in New Orleans for this grand event. I arrived on Monday evening, and went out scouting trail on Tuesday. My trail site is about an hour north of the venue, and was intended to be 8-10 miles long, so it took me about 6+ hours to get trail sorted. Wednesday was a blur, but bounced back to run a couple local prelube trails on Thursday.

On Friday I dragged my cohare (Drag Queen) and sweep (IboIbo) out to set trail, so another 5-6 hour day up and back. Friday night we had the opening ceremonies, but I made an early night of it to get up early today.
There are 1500 or so signed up for this event, but only one bus was assigned for this trail, so we had just under 50 on trail (as you can see in the pictures). All did well, and we soon had everyone back for circle.
One of my initial instructions was, due to the nature of the forest here, even though you might hear someone yelling ON ON very near you, it is best to stay on trail as the narrow maze of dirt tracks are separated by water crossing and swampland. One hasher, who we'll just call "The Poster Child for I F*cking Told You So" saw the finish from about 100 meters away, and decided to go straight in, instead of following the marked trail. She was heading in, then disappeared in the swamp, gone from sight. By the time some of the hashers got close, she had managed to drag herself over the bog and back on dry land . . . but was COVERED IN MUD. 🙂 Now that is FAFO on the hash.

Circle was a lot of fun, with everyone getting involved with charges, and singing songs . . . then we had the hour long bus ride back for showers and back to the venue for dinner, bids, music and dancing.

More to follow, as I will host the same ballbuster trail again tomorrow for another 50 hashers.Read more