Trail began in the wild wild west. As Dot remarked upon arriving at the start, it’s very hard to drive much further and still be in Albuquerque. Dot would have been interviewed further, but Geek had to expound for a solid 10 minutes on renumbering the trails again. Remember, this is like Whose Line Is It Anyway?: the rules are made up and the points don’t matter. The hare, a generous individual was blessed and seen off from Westgate community park, starting uphill into the neighborhood. Trail happened to pass by the home of wayward Park It In The Rear, who provided an impromptu rum check. Someone sign HIM up to hare! A few zigs and zags put the pack at literally the end of the road: pavement stops and shiggy begins.
It wasn’t the prickliest of shiggy, but it was that most traditional of desert treads: sand! Fine grained and suitable for dirt biking and burying mobsters. The shiggy had its own threats however: jackrabbits, ATV enthusiasts, firearm enthusiasts, and a true menagerie of garbage. Here the handsome hare led the pack on a few straightaways and uphill to the westgate dam itself. A live-laid beer check provided Miller Lites, PBRs, White Claw Raspberry Iced Tea, and a few NAs.
From there the hero laid flower and chalk straight again! The pack rounded the berm to find a photo check which was CRUCIALLY not part of chalk talk. Oh the spirit of Gherkin was in Dot’s voice when he reminded the glorious hare of his embarrassing omission during circle. Nonetheless, there were great murals and graffitis on the walls. More zigs and zags across the barren savannah guided the hashers back to civilization and pavement.
Trail was dog friendly but it was not exactly rife with friendly dogs. Following marks down an alley yielded backyards full of LOUD aggressive dogs. None escaped their shackles and no one was harmed. Solving some more checks, the God Among Men slithered the pack through the western part of Westgate park and down the arroyo. Finally a BN pointed across the ditch to the On In, a surprisingly sunny clearing with beer and some vittles. The phenomenal hare had remembered to get food at the last minute, which were stale Walmart donuts that are not vegan friendly. Surprising!
Circle was presided over by a delegatory Piggy, and Gaston provided a new opening song, reworking What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor for hashers. It was a winner! His virgin Just H-name (records are scant) aced her down down too. RaguMe and Whale’s drank for doing the trail for the second time (beta test back in June). Dot drank for bragging about his solar eclipse attendance rate, which has brought some…bad luck for the lands he has toured. A Black Angel among us!
Circle wrapped but lost property was returned to Whole Lotta Cum, a shirt left in the tub at Festivus.
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