All-Japan Nip Nash: Quotes from Hares, Sweeps & Hashers:
Comments from Okutama
"Many thanks to Cockbait, Crusader, Snow White and all the mismanagement members who made this year’s Japan Nash Hash such a great event! ..... It was great to see so many old friends again and meet many new friends...... my body is still recovering from Saturday’s Tama Slammer ball-breaker trail (thanks Snow White) and my brain cells are still recovering from the Sake...... come visit Washington DC sometime for a great hashing experience."
- OnOn Tooth Fairy
"I just want to says thanks to all the hares and organizers of the event...... OK05 was first class. ...... The Tama Slammer trail was awesome - one of the best I've run in years. ...... It ain't easy keeping a hundred plus hashers with the attention span of an empty beer can on track......"
- See you on trail somewhere. onon, -NAMBLA
"Thanks for the great NashHash, nice location, food was excellent and hospitality was marvelous. Thanks again, we all enjoyed the weekend."
- Demon from Nagoya HHH
"Your Sunday party was great, and I hope everyone had a good time. I hope all of you will consider us again......."
- Stuart Bowie, Manager, The Maple Leaf (commenting on the Red Dress Run On-On, which was of course on Monday)
"..... thanks again for throwing such a superb Nash Hash! One of the best interhashes I've been to!"
- Cheers and Beers - Rim Raider
"Reports from the Trail:
Since the Tama Slammer trail rose almost vertically from the camp, it sounded like the pack was right behind me as soon as they started, but after they hit the 187-step stairs they suddenly became very much quieter, with only the occasional shouts of "on-on" at check points. Unfortunately my co-hare Crusader's war wound had started playing up and I had to do the Nokogiri Yama section by myself. Carrying two bags of hash, and shagged out from lack of sleep after working the interhash computers all night and then loading and unloading 150 cases of beer and 150 goodie bags, I found myself unable to run on the few parts of the trail that were even half-way close to horizontal.
I was about half-way up (below 700m) when I heard steps behind me and turned to see Ghost Rider "floating" up the mountain behind me. Since he never touched me, it was technically not a "hare snare", instead he fell into step behind me and we started chatting. What do you do? I asked. "I'm an E-7". I later found out that this meant he was an INSTRUCTOR of the US Marines "Mountain Survival" TRAINERS of elite Marines "Mountain Survival" teams.
We kept on like this, but around the 900 metre mark he said "Snow White, I think I can hear the pack behind us". So I said you can do one of two things, you can stay here and wait for the pack or you can help me mark trail. He volunteered for the latter, as with hindsight I guess all US Marines Mountain Survival Team Trainer Instructors would do, took a bag of hash and dropped a handful when I said "drop a handful", marked a check when I said "mark a check", and finally took the hash and chalk up to the peak of Nokogiri Yama when I said "mark a check-back at the top of the mountain" and I ducked off onto true trail down to the first beer stop.
Curiously, having reached the peak of Nokogiri Yama (1,105 metres) as an appointed co-hare, Ghost Rider then reverted to ordinary hasher and shouted out "it's a CB" when Suntory Rode found him running down the mountain. Perhaps he was scared of getting snared. As I ran through the beer stop, snatching up hash and refreshment that Scent'oPussy had strategically placed, Scent'oPussy was still off marking false trails in all directions and Gympy, quick on the uptake as usual, was standing there drinking a beer. "Snow White - er you must be a hare" as I took the fifth. Path, that is.
This time, the Tama Slammer trail was almost vertically downwards, so once again it sounded like the pack was right behind me, but they must have checked out all four of Scent'oPussy's false trails and even when I fumbled and spilled hash on the trail too close to a check point the checks still slowed the pack down, so miraculously I got to highway 411, where the medium trail crossed and we all passed the On-on sign fixed to a railway bridge high up the mountain side, shortly after the medium trail hashers had been through.
With the pack right behind and my co-hare an hour ahead, I cut out a chunk of trail and ran right into the backside of the medium-trail sweep PeeWee at the place where CockBait and I had our snake encounter, just before the trail started along the defunct railway line. I set the searchlight and train sounds CD going in the darkest railway tunnel, which as planned scared the shit out of several hashers who hadn't worked out that the railway was not in operation.
Even with such a shortcut, it was not long before Ghost Rider came up alongside me again, but again he didn't touch me, and ran off for 10 minutes in the wrong direction where the medium trail hares had marked a CB, even though true trail was well marked, so at least I managed to finish the Tama Slammer trail before the pack.
I still think it's a shame that the lawyers on the Interhash Junta, i.e. Cockbait and Crusader, made me cut out the BEST four hours of the trail - especially the "Indiana Jones" parts where you had to jump from one wooden sleeper to the next, with a raging torrent hundreds of metres below your feet at each step ...........................................
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- Snow White
"About these Photos:
I took some of these shots myself, collected the rest from other hashers, and put some of them together for a slideshow at the Maple Leaf
I will never forget seeing (a certain hasher's) face become extremely pale when he saw that ALL of his pictures were flashing up. Fortunately, I had noticed that a couple of shots were, shall we say, below the level of good taste, even for a hash, and managed to whip them out before making the slide show.
No, they are not on this web site either, and no, they are not for sale. Well, maybe, how much ............. ? "
- Snow White
Next Interhash: The combined hashes of Kansai Zen-NippOn-On Japan Nash Hash 2006
Date: sometime in 2006
Location: somewhere near Kobe
Who's in charge: - Al-kanida - KFMH3; Slimie Limie - KLYT H3; Snake Seaman - KH3; Hash Pig - KLH3; and (maybe with a little help from) Beerhead - OHHH;
