#12 – Night Bell at Hanping Hill Run Rehashed

Hare: Push Up Bra
Hashers: Doggie Style, Pelagic, Jessica
After much initial concern over the starting point of this glorious run, a
second email was sent out with “better directions and a useful map”. Neither
of which helped very much. Doggie Style was spotted by Pelagic, who was
thoroughly confused and looking for the “signage”, already following an
arrow marked trail. Together they made their way to Push Up and Jessica who
were quietly waiting for the group at the entrance to the Sudi. Which of
course was not the intended starting point, but according to Push Up, he
felt unwelcome by the guards who gave him the evil eye and abruptly washed
away his markings! And so the run began, with only 3 brave souls to attempt
another Push Up fun filled run. It started out fairly easy with a jaunt down
Nanshan Lu, then the arrows pointed straight into the brush. No trail, just
trees, shrubs, mosquitos, and lots of mud. The trail coninued like this for
some time wandering the hillside. The runners began referring to themselves
as monkeys, as there was quite alot of climbing and grabbing onto trees.
When they finally came upon an actual path, it was an upward climb from
there. Lots of stairs. There was another veer into the woods that led to a
rocky cliff of sorts. Quite slippery and sharp. Ask Jessica, she drew blood!
There was only one CB on the way up, and one on the way down, both of which
were detected by Pelagic, much to her shagrin. At the top of the stairs,
were 2 ratty pups and a nice view awaiting them. After a quick breather and
a chance to wash their hands, the downhill descent began. A nice slippery
muddy trail that led to a small tea field, where pelagic was “attacked” by
another mangy pup. Doggy Style found the right trail out of the tea fields,
which led us behind a lovely pile of garbage and into a construction sight.
Then finally onto a home stretch run back to the Sudi. It was decided to
forgo all down downs and singing, and the group opted for some nice cold
beers at Maya. All in all a success, as only one person drew blood, but
definately the dirtiest run so far. The group looked like a bunch of
homeless, sweaty, scragglers creeping back into civilization.

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