Alice – WTF? Alice stepped up to set a run while on his christmas vacation – cheers! Unfortunately he chose a runsite that was not far from yesterday’s CSH3 run – and he had found part of yesterday’s trail while setting it. He cleared up lots of trail so we wouldn’t get confused – but he didn’t know that Square Rooter randomly heads out and sticks paper to trees in random parts of the jungle. Yes it is true – Square Rooter, unbeknown to everyone else had set about a km of trail climbing a hill to nowhere… “Scouting Paper” he called it…
To make things worse, that bit of trail ran from pretty close to where Alice had put a check – so of course we found that trail first, and climbed up to a ridge where the trail completely ran out (apart from the odd bit of paper on random trees).
The trail set off with an interesting set of loops around a little village – Brown Finger kept spotting paper up ahead (or at least thinking he could), but when he took a wrong turn at the Wimp Rambo split, it was HRA, Graven and I leading Graham up the hill – the hill to nowhere. Mass confusion ensued at the top of the hill. In the end I descended again and found Rin, who suggested we did the walker trail. We did, and found a concerned Alice trying to ride his motorbike up a trail in search of the pack.
Hardly anyone came in from the right direction, with everyone spread out. Fortunately everyone made it back alive – which is more than can be said for yesterday! Perhaps the hasher yesterday followed another of Square Rooter’s decoy trails?