High Blantyre

Glasgow H3 #1951
My fourth and final hash trail in Scotland for this trip . . . headed to New York next, on Wednesday. Like other hash clubs in Scotland, the Glasgow H3 has only restarted hashing a couple months ago.
There were only about a dozen of us on trail, but it was fun, with several back checks at the start. So I started being a little more adventurous. After turning left at a check around the 2 mile mark, and finding another check . . . I ended up tracking trail backwards for a loop. I passed the pack in reverse, and rejoined them back along the way. But at the 2.5 mile mark, after coming back off a long false trail, I got to the next check and ended up finding nothing. Undeterred, I continued off with no trail and found some very interesting trails on my own. Reaching the high ground, I crossed a farmers field, crawled under the fence, and kept going until the trail finally went back down hill. After a bit of back and forth, I waded across a stream, jump a fence at what turned out to be Crossbasket Castle (hotel), circled around to the front, pushed my way through one of those big wrought iron gates, and scampered back into the finish, well ahead of the last few hashers still out on trail. Once everyone was accounted for, we drove over to the hares house and had a quick circle, and then a nice feed on what was described as Scottish (something or other . . . was like a vegetable stew). Made some new contacts for gathering hash history for a future article, and then made my way back to my hotel for the evening. Good times on the hash.Read more