The campout this weekend, titled 'Orgy in the Woods' was a lot of fun though it was smaller than previous years. Like the other campouts, it is just a title and not indicitative of anything, so don't get your hopes up. This was the 7th annual event and was hosted out in the sticks at a small cottage on a lake. Though the weather was hot, the shade and cool water made for a good time. Kiddie and I left Friday so we could set up the camper and relax before the stream of hashers came in. The food this year was excellent with Godzilla doing nearly all of the work after stepping up when the scheduled chef backed out a week prior to the event. Frankly, it was the best hash food that I think has been had at a campout.We did a 3-4 mile trail on Saturday that ended up being a real cluster. apparently the hares got completely lost and had us on nearly the opposite side of town from where we were supposed to be. They were snagged towards the end since they were pretty much sapped of energy. I was fortunate in that I called a full 70oz Camelbak that I had kept in the fridge all night. It was absolutely scorching and everyone was quite dehydrated and I had to donate quite a bit of my stash to keep people hydrated. When we caught up to the hares, they had to worse of it since they were mostly carrying bags of flour to mark the trail and hadn't much room for water, so I gave them what was remaining. We ended up at some biker bar that was a stop for a charity poker run, so it was a bit busy there. We had to wait until one of the other hashers could pick us up in groups. We finally got found and the first group loaded up, only to return 20 minutes later having gotten completely lost. After getting new directions the car returned for the second group. As we were heading out, we fortunatly found another hasher that had gotten lost and was nearly wandering along the trail. He was in the mid-to-advanced stages of heat exhaustion and was so disoriented that he didn't recognize the car as we pulled up right next to him. Doctor A and I jumped out so that he could get into the air conditioned car and gave them all the remaining Gatorade, a wet towel, and water that we had left and just ran the quarter mile back to the tavern, again. It wasn't long before another car picked us up and transported everyone back to the bar where the rest of the campers were hanging out. After cooling of we went to the last bar (with a few hard core of us running to the next stop) and hung there for a while.
The rest of the weekend consisted of either soaking in the lake, playing tippy cup, or lethargically sitting around in the shade chatting. It is definitely a fun event and will be a fun thing to attend again next year.
Pictures of the weekend can be viewed at http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=vnlbugz.b2w3t27v&x=0&y=3x7whh
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