The Mountain looked just great with the surroundings green and sparkling.
The pack of twenty split evenly into runners and walkers, the latter being led by Deeper. Runners and part running walkers passed by the toboggan run, up through the village and on to the base of most of the tows. Cooch broke a check and led us part way up the Painted Run, across by the water storages and to a difficult check. Sweaty eventually broke this check and the trail went up to the back of Summit and along to the Hash Halt at the lookout.
There were many group photos with views to Mt Buller in the background. It was noted that Pointy actually ran to be in a photo. Then Prickly Bush had an urgent phone call from Deeper. Apparently one of the walkers had seen how the previous check had been broken and the on-on route marked…. Disaster, the home trail and not the out trail had been found. So it was back tracking for what seemed like a kilometre until the check was rebroken.
We all, except Pointy, headed north with down and more down to Mc Millans Flat. The FRB’s negotiated a long on-back and alleged they marked the correct route. However, Over-the-Top, Lost Jewels and Lubang knew better and followed the clear flour arrows across the wooden bridge. After plodding up 400m on arrows there was of course the on-back. That was the last time the slow ones saw or heard the main pack.
Naturally we all had to climb back up to Summit. Here there was some adding of rocks to the cairn and viewing of the Latrobe Valley. Then this basically clockwise run finished with lots more downhill including a check. Pointy had left his mark so we knew he was not lost but just short-cutting. After a total of somewhere between 8 and 9.5 km it was thankfully back to the lodge.
Walkers Report
No Balls reported on the walk. Her technical mind was impressed with the comms towers but also liked the wild flowers and hash poo. The 4.5km walk was scored at 21/21.
Runners Report
Sweaty Box talked about the run and deducted three from the possible 21 for the check stuff-up.
Charges
There was an in-doors circle with many charges.
- Baw Baw virgins: Game-On, Over the Top, Lost Jewels, Lethal, Tahlia and Tanysha.
- Cooch was charged for no run book and for having an impossible clean car – must have used the on mountain car wash.
- Klingon for trying to teach Add-on algebra and Lube Oil for being on three legs.
- Add-on for reading a book during the circle (Algebra?)
- Prickly Bush for suffering a lot of roots on the run. Also for sore bum muscles.
- Sweaty for suggesting one could shag on a cairn rather than being a shag on a rock.
- Big Ears for lack of attention re the hare’s designation of on-backs.
- Klingon for laying bum nuts.
- E&B and Over-the Top who leant so hard on a building column there was risk of structural damage.
All this circle nonsense was followed by afternoon tea with cake, pre-dinner drinks with nibbles and dinner with everything. There will be no mention of the late night karaoke…………….