Houston Hash House Harriers

EDIT -Thanks to the 50 or so hashers and friends that turned up to the cleanup this morning. The Buffalo Bayou partnership and St. Arnold representatives were highly impressed! This is part of the continuing process to build the relationship between the hash, St. Arnold (for beer, of course), and the Buffalo Bayou people, who are making huge efforts to gain more public access to various points along the bayou, or can you say “new ending spots for hash trails?” On-on for more…

Back in the day, before we had a website and a hotline and a Yahoo group and Facebook, future hashes were advertised by handing out flyers during the circle.

From Pitts comes this flyer, Hooter Bill’s 700th Run. Some interesting things to note about this flyer:

• • Hash cash was $4 in 1994
• • The fine print: Be forewarned! None of that wanker swill (Bud Light or Miller Light) will be quaffed on this night — Hooter is known as a connoisseur of the finest swill money can’t buy. Did he actually drink a St. Arnold Amber on this night?
• • Pitts also notes that this was the first keg of St. Arnolds ever consumed at the hash.

Hooter turns 72 (!) this week. Happy birthday to our Hash Grand Master.

The Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Half Marathon are only 10 days away and several hashers will be running both the half and full marathon this year, along with roughly 25,000 other people. The Houston Hash Marathon Mile is always the funnest place to be on marathon day whether you’re a runner stopping for a beer break or a hasher fulling the cups.

This year’s theme is “Gone Fishin’.” There will be at least three boats at the mile, and everybody else should bring out their fishin’ poles, lures, waders, favorite hat, stringers, nets, plastic fish, etc. There are also a few hardy hashers who camp at the mile the night before. After the jump, an incomplete list of the hashers running this year. On-on for more…

Dark, rainy and slippery as hell. These are the hardcore Ho runners.

More photos here.

Come party with H4 for Christmas in Vegas. Because what happens in Vegas… well, you know!

A full schedule and registration info can be found here. Update: you can now register online via Paypal by clicking that link.

The Beer Mile will be held in Memorial Park at 5 p.m. on July 18th.

The race is run on a 1/4 mile track in Memorial Track. On the track, we set up a 20 foot drinking zone as the starting line. The goal. Drink 4 beers and run 4 laps. At the go sign, you open and drink a can of beer. When you finish the beer you drop it next to the judges (to make sure that it is empty) and then you run a lap. When you finish the lap and return to the zone, you are handed the next beer. Repeat until you’ve done a mile. It’s fun.

Check out BeerMile.com for the full rules.

Links to a collection of hash hymnals and lyrics are now available here.

The Houston Hash will be celebrating 30 years of beer, sweat and shiggy with our annual Spring Campout and Pub Crawl, May 14-17, at the Flying I Ranch, location of last year’s TXIH. For full details, and to register, click here.

Hares: Roll Model and Pound Puppy

Here is a blast from the past! Rubbin’ recently emailed the GH3′s Yahoo group a Hash Trash (in the form of Powerpoint) from the 17th running of the Galveston Hash, September 2002.