BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:183@sh4.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180822T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180822T230000 DTSTAMP:20181113T195504Z URL:https://www.sh4.org.uk/events/hash-1157/ SUMMARY:South Hams H4 Hash 1157 - Shipley Bridge DESCRIPTION:Back to The Packhorse in South Brent\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nT he Words according to Tyred Bunny\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n& nbsp\;\nWhat a start to proceedings!?! Overshot stuck for interesting snip pets of history regarding Dartmoor – still is only been there for 280 mi llion years. With an almost total absence of virgins\, and the only notice being Sticky Bush’s offering of a fund raising party for a hospital in Sierra Leonne (that Derriford work closely with)\, it was over to the hare .\nPugsley hadn’t had an easy time: What to lay the trail in? He was con cerned about the locals (and possibly the sheep) eating a trail laid with flour. Plympton SH3 had recently laid a hash in the same area using sawdus t\, so the usual alternative was discounted to avoid confusion (confusion on a hash? Unheard of!). So the only obvious alternative was…..… keepi ng true to the local mining theme……….pebbles (duh!). Of course\, the re was an outside chance that they’d be confused with the local ‘popul ation’\, so he’d coloured them all (water soluble paint)………..but that would have been too easy\, so to maintain everyone’s interest (and generate a few arguments) he had gone to the trouble of using different c olours. “Trouble of”? or just what was left in his children’s paint set – a worthy sacrifice Ethan &\; Danny\, well done – many thanks from an almost grateful SH4. Colours? well I think it was four colours\, b ut the only ones of any real interest were purple because the collector of the most purple ones would win a prize.\nThe trail itself was a long long c.7 miles which Pugsley warned should not be attempted if you were usuall y at the back of the shorts (was that a nice way of warning me off)\, and/ or hadn’t got a torch. There were two other divides (I think\, I was alr eady committed to the long) making up a longer short &\; a short/walker s route.\nSo it was off up the road towards the dam. The trails were almos t independent with the long/short divide coming up almost immediately: The longs taking the route up the service road hill\; and the shorts carrying on along the road to the dam. Rear Entry almost immediately ran into cani ne trouble\, getting a hard time on the hill from a white van man for not cleaning up his dog’s shit and not having the pooch on a lead.\nThe rest of the longs was a long 3 mile slog up the dismantled tramway to Petre’ s Cross on Western White Barrow. It was too much for some\, particularly w ith Pugsley’s warning ringing in their ears\, and they turned back from whence they’d come. Overshot\, concerned about their safety/wellbeing (w hat a leader) ran back after them and thereby started a long evening of co nfusion. At the top of the saddle Bit of Rough thought he should go back a nd check on Overshot\, and suddenly we’d got hashers all over the moor o n a foggy night.\nOthers were moved to join them\, or was it just to get a way from Dim Wit’s moaning? He seemed to have a problem with: The steep long accent\; the colour of the pebbles – the purples weren’t purple e nough so he picked up rather more just in case\; the “O/H” being too f ar from the CP (well it was all straight on to the CP from the “O/H”). Mind you\, he wasn’t the only one with Punctilious having his own whing es\, mainly about Lymes disease.\nHaving crested the barrow\, it was a rel atively easy\, if steep descent to the clapper bridge\, before re-joining the shorts at the head of the reservoir\, and then a long run back down th e eastern side of it.\nTales from the shorts were mainly about a continuou s fight through gorse &\; bracken along the western edge of the reservo ir\, where Jerk claimed seeing the pebbles was almost impossible.\nThe on- down was the Pack Horse\, South Brent. It was all a bit quiet with some ha shers not making it back to the pub\, and some still out on the moor looki ng for each other. Rear Entry stood up as the evening’s RA and asked for comments on the trail which included “two many checks on the longs” t wo being the actual number of checks in 4 miles\, and they were pretty muc h straight-ons\, and praise for the wonderful scenery. The later was proba bly only seen by the evenings fallers when they actually nose-dived into t he ‘nice scenery’. These included Gomez &\; Twisted Sister\, althou gh she hotly disputed it.\nAs most of the likely recipients of down-downs were not there\, or still on the moor\, and it wouldn’t have been good f orm to give himself one for canine troubles\, Rear Entry abandoned them co mpletely. A late call from the floor reminded him that Pilt Down Man was d ue for his 200th T-Shirt which was duly dished out with the promise that t he associated down-down would be forthcoming in the near future. So here ’s my list of ‘would have been down-downs’:\nPugsley for the trails and having the initiative to lay it using 30kg of pebbles – nutter!\nPil t Down Man for his 200th hash (as someone who seems to have been a charact er in SH4 for a very long time I’m amazed its only 200).\nDim Wit for mo aning.\nRide Along Rick for picking up all the purple stones just to win.\ nSticky Bush for safely returning from raves in Ibiza.\nOn-on to The Pig ’s Nose\, East Prawle for what needs to be a prompt start (long trail?) WITH TORCHES – cliffs are even less forgiving than the moor.\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \; - Back to The Packhorse in South Brent\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nThe Words according to Tyred Bunny\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \;\nWhat a start to proceedings!?! Overshot stuck for interesting snippets of history regarding Dartmoor – still is only been there for 2 80 million years. With an almost total absence of virgins\, and the only n otice being Sticky Bush’s offering of a fund raising party for a hospita l in Sierra Leonne (that Derriford work closely with)\, it was over to the hare.\nPugsley hadn’t had an easy time: What to lay the trail in? He wa s concerned about the locals (and possibly the sheep) eating a trail laid with flour. Plympton SH3 had recently laid a hash in the same area using s awdust\, so the usual alternative was discounted to avoid confusion (confu sion on a hash? Unheard of!). So the only obvious alternative was…..… keeping true to the local mining theme……….pebbles (duh!). Of course\ , there was an outside chance that they’d be confused with the local ‘ population’\, so he’d coloured them all (water soluble paint)……… ..but that would have been too easy\, so to maintain everyone’s interest (and generate a few arguments) he had gone to the trouble of using differ ent colours. “Trouble of”? or just what was left in his children’s p aint set – a worthy sacrifice Ethan &\; Danny\, well done – many th anks from an almost grateful SH4. Colours? well I think it was four colour s\, but the only ones of any real interest were purple because the collect or of the most purple ones would win a prize.\nThe trail itself was a long long c.7 miles which Pugsley warned should not be attempted if you were u sually at the back of the shorts (was that a nice way of warning me off)\, and/or hadn’t got a torch. There were two other divides (I think\, I wa s already committed to the long) making up a longer short &\; a short/w alkers route.\nSo it was off up the road towards the dam. The trails were almost independent with the long/short divide coming up almost immediately : The longs taking the route up the service road hill\; and the shorts car rying on along the road to the dam. Rear Entry almost immediately ran into canine trouble\, getting a hard time on the hill from a white van man for not cleaning up his dog’s shit and not having the pooch on a lead.\nThe rest of the longs was a long 3 mile slog up the dismantled tramway to Pet re’s Cross on Western White Barrow. It was too much for some\, particula rly with Pugsley’s warning ringing in their ears\, and they turned back from whence they’d come. Overshot\, concerned about their safety/wellbei ng (what a leader) ran back after them and thereby started a long evening of confusion. At the top of the saddle Bit of Rough thought he should go b ack and check on Overshot\, and suddenly we’d got hashers all over the m oor on a foggy night.\nOthers were moved to join them\, or was it just to get away from Dim Wit’s moaning? He seemed to have a problem with: The s teep long accent\; the colour of the pebbles – the purples weren’t pur ple enough so he picked up rather more just in case\; the “O/H” being too far from the CP (well it was all straight on to the CP from the “O/H ”). Mind you\, he wasn’t the only one with Punctilious having his own whinges\, mainly about Lymes disease.\nHaving crested the barrow\, it was a relatively easy\, if steep descent to the clapper bridge\, before re-joi ning the shorts at the head of the reservoir\, and then a long run back do wn the eastern side of it.\nTales from the shorts were mainly about a cont inuous fight through gorse &\; bracken along the western edge of the re servoir\, where Jerk claimed seeing the pebbles was almost impossible.\nTh e on-down was the Pack Horse\, South Brent. It was all a bit quiet with so me hashers not making it back to the pub\, and some still out on the moor looking for each other. Rear Entry stood up as the evening’s RA and aske d for comments on the trail which included “two many checks on the longs ” two being the actual number of checks in 4 miles\, and they were prett y much straight-ons\, and praise for the wonderful scenery. The later was probably only seen by the evenings fallers when they actually nose-dived i nto the ‘nice scenery’. These included Gomez &\; Twisted Sister\, a lthough she hotly disputed it.\nAs most of the likely recipients of down-d owns were not there\, or still on the moor\, and it wouldn’t have been g ood form to give himself one for canine troubles\, Rear Entry abandoned th em completely. A late call from the floor reminded him that Pilt Down Man was due for his 200th T-Shirt which was duly dished out with the promise t hat the associated down-down would be forthcoming in the near future. So h ere’s my list of ‘would have been down-downs’:\nPugsley for the trai ls and having the initiative to lay it using 30kg of pebbles – nutter!\n Pilt Down Man for his 200th hash (as someone who seems to have been a char acter in SH4 for a very long time I’m amazed its only 200).\nDim Wit for moaning.\nRide Along Rick for picking up all the purple stones just to wi n.\nSticky Bush for safely returning from raves in Ibiza.\nOn-on to The Pi g’s Nose\, East Prawle for what needs to be a prompt start (long trail?) WITH TORCHES – cliffs are even less forgiving than the moor.\n\n\n\n\n\ n\n\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Hash Trails LOCATION:Shipley Bridge Shipley Bridge\, South Brent\, TQ10 9EL GEO:50.450891;-3.859462 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Shipley Bridge\, South Bren t\, TQ10 9EL\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Shipley Bridge:ge o:50.450891,-3.859462 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180325T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR