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Run, Special Event

Run 2371 – Grey Cup Run

Hares:   Snow Blower and Booty Camp

Location: Banff Trail Residence

RA: Abandoned Pussy

Attendance: 19

Where Canadian Football is Played in Calgary

The Beginning

The Grey Cup is the final game of the Canadian football season. The winner gets to take home the Grey Cup.

There was some hope that the local team would be present to compete, but that was not the case. As such, we were relegated to celebrating the Grey Cup football game with a run, and a watch party.

Grey Cup was held in Vancouver in an enclosed stadium, with teams from Toronto and Winnipeg participating.

Booty Camp and Snow Blower hosted the run. This is a special run on the Sunday in the afternoon. Thankfully, the weather was good for the run. Snow predicted for that evening, but the daytime was double digits and sunny.

A group of intrepid hashers showed up, running without the burden of headlamps. We gathered initially inside, awaiting the late cummers to arrive.

Gathering pre run
Are those chips and orange food group?
Shoes off!
CYHMN and Dastardly
Jello shooters abound, Pyro and CYHMN
Hot Cheeks and Ba Ba Beer
Camshaft
Can Crusher
Mmmmm Lady Fingers
Liquor Lots and Bacchanal
Insane Bolt
PMS
Abandoned Pussy

Enough of this warm inside stuff, time to go outside and face the elements!

CYHMN and Camshaft
Can Crusher and Abandoned Pussy
Bacchanal
Liquor Lots
Pyro and Insane Bolt
Mmmm Lady Fingers Mucky Dip and Hot Cheeks
On In and his hash shit
Snow Blower ready
Ba Ba Beer and PMS

Insane Bolt ran the circle and went through the announcements and introductions. Milestone for Mucky Dip – 650 runs! The hares went through the marks for the run.

Circle
Hares
Marks

The pack was released and we were off to find the trail!

The Trail

Through the pathways and back alleys to eventually hit the pedestrian overpass to McMahon Stadium, a shrine for Calgary football. We had a chance to circle the stadium to take in all its wonderment. This location will host the Grey Cup in 2026! Stay tuned!

Ba Ba Beer teaching PMS how to run
They have high density infills here!
Bacchanal showing us the way
Over the bridge to the football stadium
No tailgate parties today

Apparently the walkers also discovered the stadium.

Selfie master at work

Thankfully, there was more trail with considerable elevation loss and gain coupled with a viewpoint or two. Playgrounds included!

Trekking to the hospital area
Santa resting
Picked up a random runner for this section
View of the city
Swingers
How fast can this go!
Faster then we like
Hasher heading for fun
This is how you do it!

Of course there was more uphill and downhill. Why do they call this neighbourhood St. Andrews Heights!

Downhill first
Pizza delivery nightmare

Thankfully, the good marks showed up and we were directed to the regroup vehicle to find suitable refreshments.

Good mark
Better mark
Regroup
LL
Team Pink
Great run!
XXX Ray appears out of nowhere
Blue Balls
Mucky Dip

Down Down’s

After a successful regroup, the retreated to the backyard comfort of our hosts. Not as warm as we would have liked, but OK for the down down’s.

Group assembling
Snacks
Hot Cheeks
Some problem with the hash shit
LL researching ways to get rid of that hash shit

Abandoned Pussy was the religious advisor and delivered the program.

AP with an assistant
Choir
Late cummer XXXRay
AP has plans for the hash shit
Bacchanal makes an appearance
The fast running group
Blue Balls
LL temporarily has the hash shit
Pyro and On In
Scoobie, Camshaft and Mmmm Lady fingers
Mucky – 650 runs
Hosts – Booty Camp and Snow Blower

All was well and AP declared us “on the piss”. Can Crusher took a moment to demonstrate her superior can crushing skills.

We are done!
Watch this!
The can had no chance

We completed the afternoon with a splendid eating feast and the watch of the football game. Now we know that the Toronto team were victorious.

Scribed by Skewbic Hair

Trail Summary

A fine trail through the posh neighbourhoods with some uphill, views and downhill. Some of us went around 6 km. Others went further to enjoy the check backs the hare had provided!

Run, Special Event

Run 2313- Grey Cup Run and Game Watch Party

Hares: Hump the Shark

Location: Rashy Bush and Stool Stuffers Place – Fairview SE

RA: King Shit

Attendance: 21

Crazy Marks!

The Story

The annual Grey Cup football game is the pinnacle of the Canadian Football League season. We plan a special afternoon run prior to the game, the come back to eat, drink and celebrate with a game watch party. This year, however, the home team neglected to succeed in sufficient victories to participate in this years match. As such, the choice was cheering for Winnipeg, or Montreal. A tough choice for those in Alberta.

The Grey Cup
The Grey Cup

The Beginning

We were blessed with great weather for late November, with temperatures around 10 C. 21 Hashers appeared at the Stool Stuffer/Rashy Bush dream house in Fairview to participate in the trail. The group invaded their space and proceeded to chat and socialize prior to the circle.

Strap On Assessing
Dastardly Busy
TW with his rolling firewood
Fun inside – central heating!
Chat time
Slippy and LSOS

The Circle

Eventually, the circle was called to order by PMS. There were a number of announcements for the group prior to going through the introductions. Here are a few photos of the circle.

PMS wondering when this will start
On In is number 1
Booty Camp and Slippy Thing
Hump the Shark and Snow Blower
Roaring Nancy
King Shit and Vinny
Rashy and Dastardly
Knight Stalker and CYHMN
Mmmmm and Camshaft
Strap On, Huggy Bear and Ba Ba Beer
Hump the Shark
Crazy Marks!
The Marks

The Trail

The hares were released to find the marks that Hump the Shark had set to mark the trail. Not to be confused with the plethora of “F” marks legacy of the recent Full Moon Hash, the primary marking was a “G“, symbolizing the Grey Cup theme for the run.

As the scribe was part of the walking contingent, not a lot to report on the true trail, except is was epic! This neighbourhood has a high level of inflatable Christmas ornaments. It appears the some sort of virus was ripped through the neighbourhood as many unblown Christmas characters were observed. I expect this problem to be solved before the big day.

Walkers Parade
No Runners in siight
Strip Mall Action
Deflated Dreams
More Deflation
Stoolies Herd

Regroup

After a challenging trail (and walk), the regroup appeared in the backyard of the host’s mansion. A suitable smokeless fire pit was filled with wet wood and other debris with hope of a warm, smokeless fire experience. Drinking and chatting were in order prior the the down downs commencing.

Smoke Production
Regroup Circle
Smokeless Operation
Snow Blower displaying some of his ballet moves
PMS thinking of Meteor
Stoolie and Hardly solving most of the world’s problems

The Down-Downs

King Shit was the RA for the down-downs. An great display of wit and humour.

KS did a fine job of appointing On-In to appoint a choir, who were Slippy Thong, Snow Blower and Skewbic Hair. Such talent was graciously appreciated by the group.

A fine set of closing ceremony accusation were dreamed up and some fine singing was delivered. KS even had a cheat sheet to make sure he stayed on track! Apparently PMS has some secret French beer, Meteor branded. She seemed to enjoy it! A taste of home!

A little thin on evidence of the down-down’s as the photographer was tied up with choiring.

Game Watch Party

We snacked and drank and chatted until the Grey Cup football game started. Very impressive number of commercials that had to be watched, interspersed with some football action. The Western guys were winning at half time. The Green Day half time show reminded us how old we are all getting. Stoolie and Rashy put on some yummy food. Epic success! Apparently, the Montreal team produced a victory!

Scribed by Skewbic Hair

On On.