Hashing with the Hashers.

You may ask, what is Hashing? Well there are many clubs, or what we called kennels all around the world. Our main thing is that we are "A Drinking Club With a Running Problem." What we do is get together during the week and have some fun following a trail and then afterward singing some bawdy songs and of course drinking beer. The trail is set in a hound chases hare format. Usually there is one to two people that are the hares and they take a bag of flour and some sidewalk chalk and make a trail. The "Hares" get a 10-15 minute head start and take off down the street, trail, woods, or wherever the meeting place is and lay drop little handfuls of flour or draw directions with the chalk on the ground. Now having two hares and a little bit of a lead this allows the hares to lay false trails that lead nowhere. But there is always 1 true trail that will lead to the end.
Ok, now the hares have their lead and are out setting a trail and it's been about 10-15 minutes. What next? While for that 10-15 minutes the "Hounds" or main pack have been sitting around drinking beer, singing bawdy songs, and getting instructions on what kind of symbols or markings that they would see on trail. At the sound of a whistle the pack of hounds is off to chase the hares. The object of the run is to catch the hares before they can get to the end. If a hare is caught there are penalties to pay at the party after the run.
So the hounds chase the hares to the end and then the debauchery begins. Now you really have to experience it, because it is unexplainable. But to put in simple terms it is a party of drinking and singing late into the night.
For more information on the Hash House Harriers check out the links below.
http://www.half-mind.com/
http://www.phoenixhhh.org/
http://www.gthhh.com