To provide riders with 120 minutes (about 20 km) of interesting riding
over varied terrain, with the entire pack finishing within 20 minutes
or less of each other. No one should become lost.
Level
of riding
A hash should be rideable.
How
1. Two months before...
... Set the date and choose the starting point
- Enough room to park
30 cars (preferably free parking).
- Shady place to hold
the circle and hand out drinks.
- Choose a nearby restaurant,
(or hawker centre) for lunch after the circle.
Make sure it is open on Sundays. - Inform the On-Sec of
all details of your hash at least 2 weeks before your hash.
- The ideal hash is 20km
long and lasts for only 2 hours.
- A good hash needs between
3 to 10 recces.
- The idea is to lay a
trail which keeps the pack together.
- Avoid main roads.
- Make sure the in-trail
doesn't cross or come too close to the out-trail or
first timers might find themselves going round in circles.
If unavoidable, set home-paper after the pack has passed.
Decide on your check strategy. Back-checks are best. - Use open country to
lay silly loops where slow riders can easily short cut to catch up front
riders.
- Never put out-paper
checks near the home trail or people might complete the hash in a shorter
period than expected.
- If having a drink stop,
have it about 60% of the distance through the hash.
- Two types of drinks
stops:
- Hawker center/gas
station drink stop - riders buy their own drinks.
- Ice box drink stop
- hares are responsible for costs incurred on drinks or fruits supplied.
- Hawker center/gas
station drink stop - riders buy their own drinks.
2. One week before
... Gather hares' biodegradable paraphernalia
- 10 - 12 rolls of toilet
paper
- Chalk or gypsum plaster
for road sections if any
- Flour (good for sunny
days only)
Note: Never use anything
that will take forever to disintegrate.
Remember to keep our country clean
and green.
3. The Day Before
... Set the trail
- Better pre-lay the day
before unless it rains and you have to go out again on the day itself.
- All hashers are half
blind and play follow the leader. Lay 2 - 3 times more paper than you
think nececessary.
- Paper hung on trees
and on top of tall grass won't disintegrate if it rains overnight.
- Remember that unlike
runners, bikers tend to look up and ahead.
... Put paper in the distance where it can be seen in the distance. - Trail turn-offs must
be clearly marked. Use BIG chalk marks on paved roads.
- Trail markers should
be visible at all times unless you are at a check.
4. The Big Day
- Be at the hash site
3 hours before to freshen up or lay the trail.
- Try to be back for the
start to make any announcements.
- If you are out still
laying the trail and can't get back in time, never mind.
Better to finish laying the trail. - The trail should start
at the hares car or at the ride site.
- Tell the GM or the pack
where the drink stop is.
- Sweep behind the pack
and observe how well they can read your trail. You will learn alot from
this.
- Let the pack solve any
checks themselves. But if they are still there 10 minutes later please
say something!
- If there are people
who obviously cannot go on or first timers who find it hard and want
to short cut, you must show them a shorter route.
If anyone is lost, hares
must locate them.
- Do not lay trails across
a main road.
- Try not to lay the trail
through stagnant water - mosquitoes and soil disease kill !
- Spray paint (soluble
and non-soluble) is forbidden.
And lastly,
Don't try to enter the Guiness Book of Records for the longest and most
difficult hash set.
- Hounds must call the
words 'On-On' every 20 - 40 metres when paper is found.
- Do not shout 'On-On'
unless you yourself are on paper.
- Checks are designed
to allow the rear of the pack to catch up with the front.
There are usually 5 - 8 checks per run. The trail may resume any direction up to 500 metres away. - Checking - When you
are either lost or if you are checking and would like to know where
the rest of the mob are, the call is 'Are You'. Everyone who hears this
has the responsibility to respond with a 'Checking' or 'On-On'.
- S.C.B - Short for Short
Cutting Biker. If you have short
cutted, don't call 'On-On' until the pack reaches you. If you do, you
may be stuffing up a carefully put together ride.
- Make all back checks
down dead-ends. You won't go wrong.
- Don't lay checks in
the last 1 - 2 kilometres.
- Never lay checks at
a road junction.
- Running hash check strategies
don't work on the bike hash.
- False trails can only
start at a check.
- A false trail peters
out quickly ... don't lay it too long.
X or O Open field check T Back check
