Orienteering Hash instructions

This is a Orienteering Hash / Geo Hash. No flour is used to mark trail.

You are given a clear plastic Ziploc bag containing a topographic map and a clue sheet that you will carry with you during the hash run.

At hash start, you will be shown a map with two circles on it. This pair corresponds to stage 1 locations, indicated by the “1” in the left-most column in the clue sheet. For the sake of this example, the two locations of stage 1 are the south side of a building, and a re-entrant (also known as “draw” in military manuals). Using a pen, you will then copy and mark on your map those two circles.

At both of these two locations, you will find a red and a white ribbon. One of these ribbons will be marked with an “F". This means that this location is a “false”. The other ribbon will be marked with a "T": that is a “true” location. At the "true" location, you will find one map (don’t take it – leave it there) that you will read, look for two circles drawn on that map, and you will copy the circles with a red pen on your map. Those circles correspond for the next stage locations. Go to the next locations, and repeat this process until you find the beer. (also marked on the map is a red triangle: that is where you are now, aka current location).

There are 13 stages in all (the clue sheet in this example is obsolete, it only has 12…) There are two beer/beverage stops: one at the "true" location of stage 8, and a second one at the "true" location of stage 13. A beer stop can be a bar, house, vehicle, a clearing or wooded area (in the latter case, look around for a black garbage bag).

After that, the On-In is 1.8 km long (in an orienteering clue sheet, that number is on the bottom).

For those with a GPS: every map found at the “true” location will have on it the coordinates of the next stage’s two locations. You will have to key-in those coordinates in your GPS.

Remember: leave the map found at the “true” location for the other hashers that follow. Don’t take it. All the maps found at these locations have a red pen to be used to copy the next stage’s locations on your map, the map that is given to you at hash start.

notes:
At the first beer stop, you will not find a map for the next stage. Wait for the hare and the rest of the pack to arrive. Drink some beer/water, socialize, say stupid things. The hare will have a map with the next stage’s locations marked on it to read from.

Right after the first beer stop, there is an option for Super-Eagles to locate the location “E”.

Normal Eagles can continue to the locations in stage 9.

Turkeys can directly go to the locations in stage 11.

An eagle is someone that enjoys difficult trail and masochistic punishment.
A turkey is someone that laughs at eagles and simply wants an easier route to the beer.

Sample map found at a "true" location: