Preserve at Fletcher Avenue

Trail started out in North East Tampa, off Fletcher Ave. A little far off the beaten path for the St Pete branch of the family, and the rest of the usuals were off on the annual Pirate Invasion Hash Cruise, enjoying themselves without us.
So that left us with one hare (Hazukashii), and a pack of 5. Those five were broken out as 3 walkers (KISS, On Ahead, and Free Willie), all of which finished the 3.5 mile walkers trail in just over an hour, well done.

The other 2 hashers were runners (Bovine and 2 Rung Circus). When you talk about BAZAAR, you would not normally think of these two (well, maybe), but today they both executed some pretty bazaar shit. Now the walkers had finished the trail in fine fashion, and found the refreshments, and we waited. 30 minutes later, Bovine come in to the finish, backwards, on the out trail. His excuse . . . he got to the check in that little circle in the bottom left corner of the picture, crossed the street and saw the huge flour arrow . . . but did he follow it? Hell No! Why you ask? Because the grass was wet. Our little Wicked Witch of the West might have melted. At least he found his own way back to the finish.

Now, in even MORE bazaar fashion, 2 Rung got to that same check in the bottom left corner, and claims he did NOT see the big flour arrow on the other side of the street. So after having gone right and into the woods, seeing only two plops the first time, thought HELL, let’s just keep going into the woods where there are no marks. I’ll eventually run right back into trail . . . or so he thought. NOPE. 2.5 hours after starting, and after the hare drove around the trail looking for him, 2 Rung finally goes into a hotel (less than half a mile from the start) (and oh yea, where he had followed trail behind the hotel shortly after the start), and called for help.

Lesson learned . . . BOVINE . . . you won’t melt by getting your feet wet. 2 RUNG . . . if there is no more flour, go back to the check and look around again.

My work is done here . . . well done to the WALKERS for simply following trail. The runners . . . not so much.Lue lisää