The Hare list for 2020 is listed at the very end of this web page

Important – If you can’t be hare on your nominated date, please try and switch with another hare for a more convenient date. Tell the HR/WW about the change! so the website can be updated!!

If you have a special run/date upon which you want to set the run, please contact the Hare Raiser asap

Committee

At our AGPU (AGM) on Mon 11^th Nov at the Greengate Hotel the new mismanagement Committee was appointed for 2019-2020:

• Grand Master (President): Lost Jewels (Contact Darren on 0437 617 498)
• Religious Adviser (Vice President): Next Week
• Hash Cash (Treasurer): All Fours
• Social Sex (Secretary): Fookarwee & Hash Royal Hussy (Contact Fookarwee (Carol) on 0418 276 808)
• Wine Mistress and Beer Meister: Fookarwee & Tart
• Web Wanker/Hare Raiser: Ozmoses (Contact John on 0409 227 205 or johngorr@optusnet.com.au)
• Scribe: vacant - looking for volunteers...
• Beer Wench: Parking Pussy
• Haberdashery: Over The Top
• Choir Master: Love Bra
• Hash Flash: Bad Bag Lady
• Trail Master: All Fours

More Information!

We are Sydney’s newest Hash and are actively looking for people to join us. If you have found out about us from one of our flyers, thank you for following up and welcome! Please read on and see if this is for you. You are more than welcome to just come along to see what we do, no obligation. For locations of our upcoming runs, see above.

The Hash is an international phenomenon started over 80 years ago, with groups found in most places of the globe, all over Australia, and the best of which can be found in Sydney.

We get together every Monday evening to go for a walk/jog/run that lasts about one hour. Our trail is set by the ‘hare’ and is marked with (environmentally friendly) chalk or flour, forming the trail that we Hashers follow. The trail is set in a different part of town each week, depending on the whim of the hare for that week. After the ‘run’, we have a drink or two to quench a well-earned thirst and afterwards, there is an open invitation to a cheap and cheerful dinner close by.

Newcomers are always warmly welcomed and will be matched with a friendly old-timer to show you the ropes. No experience necessary! Please come along and see if you like us. The first time is free and after that the usual cost is $5, which includes drinks at the post-mortem circle and at the dinner.

If you don’t live or work close to the North Shore, then please give one of the other Sydney Hashes a try .

How Did We Come About?

A bunch of us belonged to various Hashes for years but over time and with circumstances changing (such as moving with work or family) we got too far away from them for it to be convenient to attend. As we live and/or work on the North Shore and there is no Hash convenient to us, we decided to start a new one. With the large number of people working around the North Shore and similarly, the large number of people that we see out in the neighbourhood either walking, jogging or running, we decided to give it a go. Thus the North Shore Wanderers were born (over many beers and wines at Trust Me’s on a Saturday evening in late August 2004).

With a lot of work put in by the committee and encouragement from many seasoned Hashers, our first run on 15 November 2004 was spectacular. More people turned up than we ever imagined and we thank them all for getting us off to a great start. However, the serious effort now begins with the objective of introducing as many new people on the North Shore to Hashing (and the Wanderers, of course) as possible. As they say, the more the merrier.

Please let me take this opportunity to thanks the following Hashers for their encouragement and support in the early days:

Dirty Weekend, Lady Di, Right Said, Double Pay, Top Bunk and Mistletoe. I also want to thank the two harriettes who got me into Hashing all those years ago, namely Eveready and WD40.

What Are We?

Many people like to pound the pavement in isolation or to a stopwatch, we like to do it together in a non-competitive way. We’re just a bunch of normal people who like to keep fit and socialize. It is much easier to motivate yourself if you have a regular commitment and a group of friends who participate. We do not charge membership fees and we are not a club. You simply contribute a set amount (currently $5) for the drinks each week.

Our Objective

Our objective is for everyone to join in and be social, we thus ensure that people are not walking the suburbs on their own. The runners/joggers/walkers usually leave in groups and they (sometimes) get a map of the trail so they can decide how much of the trail they can fit in within a reasonable time limit. The Trail Master marks the trail with helpful arrows once the right trail has been identified.

About the Hash

The Hash House Harriers is a world-wide phenomenon. There are many other websites that can tell you the full history of the Hash so I won’t go into it here. We do not (usually) advertise, and mostly people hear about us by word-of-mouth.

Each week, we run in a different but pre-determined part of town and a person is nominated to set the 'run', this person is referred to as the 'Hare'. The run is marked with chalk, flour or paper (whatever degrades quickly) which the rest of us (called the 'pack') follow. The objective is for all people (walkers, joggers and runners) to get back at the same time. This is achieved by laying ‘false trails’ and ‘on-backs’. In essence, we are a non-competitive bunch. After the run we form a 'circle' and have fun as we talk about the run.

The evening finishes off with everybody going to an arranged place for dinner, usually a reasonably priced, down-market restaurant, someone's house or some other special arrangement. Then we go home and do it again the next week in a new location with a new Hare.

Haberdash

To identify ourselves from the other people on the street, (other than the familiar calling of "on-on") most of us wear a Hash shirt of some kind. These are plentiful and all Hashes frequently produce them for special events. Check with the Haberdash for available items such as T-shirts, polos or rugby tops.

The Rules

Rule 1 – There are no rules!

Rule 2 – See rule 1!

Mis-guided Principles

Although there are no rules, the following mis-guided principles have been put together and are generally ignored:

1. NSWHHH aim to cater for runners, joggers, walkers.
2. Committee members should be given a break and not be in the same position in consecutive years (unless elected in absentia, or it's a really pissy job that no one else wants).
3. The Annual General Piss-Up (AGPU) to select a new committee is to be held annually in November.
4. Runs are to be set predominately on the North Shore, or wherever the hare of the day decides.

The Details

The founding committee has after long and arduous deliberations, amply lubricated by beer and wine, decided on the following in terms of running the Hash:

1. We run on Monday nights at 6:30 pm.
2. The hare supplies at least two maps of the run, one for the Trail Master and one for the walkers.
3. A grog bucket will be available at the circle.
4. Run fees $5 for everybody except virgins (have never hashed before). Any claims to virginity will be subject to examination by the committee. This fee covers the run and circle activities. You turn up, you pay.
5. A pre-run circle is held with instructions by the Hare on the trail ("clearly marked, no one should get lost"), and to introduce visitors and virgins.
6. During the pre-run circle, the RA will pair up any virgins or out-of-town visitors with a local Hasher to help prevent them from getting lost, and introducing ones self.
7. During daylight saving, Hares should be mindful that "too much bush is barely enough".
8. The Hash Cash will keep track of the number of runs people attend.

Contact Us

You can call us (see Committee listing for phone numbers) or e-mail us (may be very slow to respond). Join our mailing list (click on "Join Mailing List Only" in the confirmation email).

Hash Hymns

Singing is a tradition in Hash and is what sets us apart. Here is our theme song.

Notices of upcoming events

2019/2020 Run List Correct as at 27 December 2019

Important – If you can’t be hare on your nominated date, please try and switch with another hare for a more convenient date.

Date Run # Hare

16-Dec-19 RUN 783 & Xmas Party All 4's

23-Dec-19 Christmas New Year Break

30-Dec-19 Christmas New Year Break

06-Jan-20 RUN 784 Bad Bag Lady

13-Jan-20 RUN 785 Bren Gun

20-Jan-20 RUN 786 Flaming Balls

27-Jan-20 No run - Australia day holiday

03-Feb-20 RUN 787 Fookarwee

10-Feb-20 RUN 788 Hash Royal Hussey

17-Feb-20 RUN 789 Hill of Grace

24-Feb-20 RUN 790 Short Sheeter

02 -Mar-20 RUN 791 In Quick

09-Mar-20 RUN 792 Karma Sutra

16-Mar-20 RUN 793 Slippery Crutch

23-Mar-20 RUN 794 Lost Jewels

NOTE: All dates to be amended when Covid 19 is over!!

30-Mar-20 RUN 795 Leyland

06-Apr-20 RUN 796 Love Bra

13-Apr-20 No run - Easter Monday

20-Apr-20 RUN 797 Candlesticks

27-Apr-20 RUN 798 Love Bra

04-May-20 RUN 799 Margarita

11-May-20 RUN 800 Ozmoses

18-May-20 RUN 801 Over the Top

25-May-20 RUN 802 Next Week

01-Jun-20 RUN 803 Parking Pussy

08-Jun-20 No run - Queens Birthday

15-Jun-20 RUN 804 Rocky

22-Jun-20 RUN 805 Tart

29-Jun-20 RUN 806 Chatterbox

06-Jul-20 RUN 807 Touchy Feely

13-Jul-20 RUN 808 Lone Ranger

20-Jul-20 RUN 809 Doc

27-Jul-20 RUN 810 Vixen

03-Aug-20 RUN 811 Bondi

10-Aug-20 RUN 812 Boomerang

17-Aug-20 RUN 813 Old Boar

Cod Piece on stand-by for a cancellation