HASH
This is Hash. It's just a mark, a spot, usually a dribbling of flour. Flour is the method preferred and most often used to lay trail. You will be looking for and following these hash marks to follow trail. A variety of other methods can be used to mark trail - from glowsticks to balloons to toilet paper...one hasher has even tried to used grass clippings (though a failed attempt it may have been); the hash encourages creativity. Sometimes chalk is used, in which case, hash will likely look like this:
TRAIL MARKINGSThese are the most common signs you'll see on trail.
DECISION POINT (DP)
When you cum across this mark, you must make a decision which way to go. Trail may lead off in any of 369 degrees - there may be many bad trail, but only one true trail.
TRUE TRAIL
When you cum across this mark, keep going...you're going the right way!
BAD TRAIL
When you cum across this mark, turn around and go back to the last decision point and go a different way.
YOU'VE BEEN FUCKED
This a particularly nasty bad trail mark, reserved for long, out of the way, shiggy bad trails. When you cum across this mark, turn around and go back to the last decision point and go a different way.
CHECK BACK
This mark will be ac-cum-panied by a number. When you cum across this mark, go back the number of hash marks indicated and search for trail from there.
TITTY CHECK
This mark is a favorite among the pack. It is a special decision point. When the pack cums across this mark, the harriets in the pack have to either show their titties to the pack, or take it upon themselves to find trail, as the hounds of the pack wait for their signal of true trail. This mark is born of a response to feminism, which the hash gleefully supports, and in fact...the hash encourages our harriets to participate every bit as much as the hounds do - but this mark will allow the harriets to revert to a simpler time in life when they could simply bare their breasts and allow the men to continue to do all of the hard work.
NAUGHTY CHECK
When you cum across this mark, you should wait on this mark until the next wanker behind you spanks you, and you continue on trail, and that wanker takes your place and wait their turn to be spanked.
BEER NEAR
This is the best true trail sign of all. When you cum across this mark, you know you are in close proximity to Beer and it's somewhere nearby; keep following trail. This mark is a necessity and must be laid by the hares preceding a beer stop because it not only helps to alert the hares as to the location of the pack, but is also invigorating to the pack a sign of good things to cum.
BEER HERE
This is the mark all hashers are searching for. You have found the Beer. This mark indicates a Beer Stop. You will stop here for a frothy beverage, lingering for about ten minutes before continuing on trail, while allowing the hares some lead time to lay the next leg of trail.
OTHER TRAIL MARKINGS
There are still other markings you may see on trail to make things more interesting.
SONG CHECK
As you know, hashers are singers. This mark is often laid so that the hash may serenade a carefully chosen audience along trail with a song from the hash hymnal. This mark is also a benefit to the hares as it allows them extra time to lay trail.
TURTLE CHECK
When you cum across this mark, the pack should stop and wait for slowest hashers to catch up, so that the pack stays in a group. Hashing is a social sport, not a competitive sport. This mark is also a benefit to the hares as it allows them extra time to lay trail.
LEAP FROG
You may be feeling "lost and fucked" on trail, but that's not what this mark means. When you cum across this mark, the wanker in front of you will bend over or kneel down, allowing you to jump over them, and then it's your turn to bend over and be jumped.
Again, there may still be others not shown here for various reasons...a mark a hare invented for a particular run relating to the theme, a holiday, or just for the helluvit...the hare just needs to explain it to the hounds in "Chalk Talk."
