Foxy teamed up with Angry Inch to set a run out at the Wat Umong area… My memories of Wat Umong involve steep climbs and at the base of the mountain I doubted there was much choice… Indeed one of the runs with the biggest elevation change last year was the run Mr. Poo set from there on New Years Day. Ugh, reluctantly I set off to get some exercise.
The hares were looking smug as they pointed us out – up the hill. I jogged off with Turkish, and promptly got the first few checks wrong. Trailing behind Turkey we headed up the mountain (for the first time). Turkish doesn’t call, but you know he’s on trail when after 100m or so he starts running. So we were left to visual hashing…
Finally Turkey got one wrong and I led Graven back down the hill, only for the trail to suddenly, abruptly turn right and go BACK UP the hill!!! Argh! I know where this is going – over the waterfall… Another long climb awaits! Trail led down to the left and there was a check in the stream – where did the main trail go? I couldn’t remember for a moment, but hacked my way across and climbed up to a level where I found the trail just as HRA & Turkey joined behind. Time to go back down…
I figured we’d go straight down the nature trail and the hare’s would have adjusted the trail from before? But no! Again there was a sharp turn to the right, and we were climbing again! Back up over another ridge, with only Graven alongside. A final circle had us confused until we found the On-In and made it to the beer. Apparently it confused HRA even more, and Turkey set off on another lap… Evil Pure Evil!