Scouting the Trails: Pictures and Quotes from Hares and Sweeps:
Comments from Scouting Trail in Okutama
"I stumbled onto the train straight from Roppongi, a little under the weather - Actually completely trashed ..... Sleep........ Arrive Okutama, feeling completely crappy."
- Cock Bait
"Okutama is in a beautiful valley with the steepest of mountains. Just about every recce we did was an excessive hardship for hungover hashers ..............."
- Stiffie
"At last in a chance conversation with a local Okutama villager we uncovered the most unusual of historical tales and with it an amazing trail. As local legend goes ................ "
- Micro Soft
"Have to repress overwhelming desire to kill Snow White slowly and painfully."
- Cock Bait
"Gone beyond feelings of hatred towards Snow White, now want to kill self."
- Cock Bait
"A hilly trail - a typical Okutama canyon ................."
- Khuming Rouge
"Difficulty walking in a straight line makes trail, which drops vertically away on both sides, an exciting experience."
- Cock Bait
"The second half is mostly downhill."
- Snow White
"After about 15 minutes of trudging upwards you'll be thinking that the third beer you drank for lunch was probably not a good idea. In another 20 minutes you'll be kicking yourself for not drinking a fourth beer to kill the pain of altitude sickness."
- Stiffie
"You will always be thinking, "I am almost at the top!" but you will never be at the top until you least expect it."
- Micro Soft
"Some of these places are not even on the map ...................."
- Snow White
" .............. an astonishing grove of oak trees. .............. Bring some yellow ribbon.............."
- Micro Soft
"Sadly we had to cut out one of the mountains and knocked two hours off the trail ...................."
- Snow White
"Water Stop: Water at a mountain stream .............. "
- Khuming Rouge
" .............. a clearing in the woods which is rumored to be the site of the first love hotel in Japan"
- Stiffie
