"The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother. I shall always delight to meet an ass after my own heart when I shall have finished my travels."
-Sam Clemens
"How much a dunce that has been set to roam,
Excels a dunce that has been left at home"
-William Cowper
There are a TON of options to hash in the city and environs. Check below for names, locations, descriptions, and links. More will be added in the near future
NYC has a solid hashing community. Between the NYCH3, BH3, KH3, GGFM, NASS, LILH3, QBKH3, CUNTHHH, and NAWW there are trails at least 3 times a week (though the exact schedules change Summer to Winter) with plenty of one off events. Starts are usually always directly off a subway stop, and generally end near one as well, for easy in/out. Check here or subscribe to the mailer for info about exactly where and when.
Summit is generally a pretty outdoorsy hash. Bring your shiggy socks, but not the good ones, cause Summit's definition of shiggy stretches to include both brambles and sewerage, and everything in between. Starts are near NJ Transit stops usually, and a pickup can be arranged if you let them know ahead of time.
Rumson Hash House is an older more traditional kennel. Male only, except for certain big events, and not as much singing in circle, although there is r*nning and drinking.
The Princeton Hash is a true r*nner's hash. If you're training for anything or are just sick of the same three NYC parks and are ready for an 8 mile r*n through the woods with no clear idea where you're going, this hotbed of racism is the place to go. Same rules apply for getting out to Princeton as Summit.
The Highland Hash House is another Type A hash, but from what we at the CUNTH've seen (a.k.a Cockmaster & Commander) they know how to have a good time too. Check their blogspot for locations and dates.
The Lehigh Valley Hash House is the fat guy in an open Hawaiian shirt with a beer hat and a stogie of the local hash scene. With FOUR active hashes supported by a combined population a tenth that of NYC, they run all over the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton metropolitan area of PA, and the surrounding suburbs and woods. Lots of songs, lots of beer checks, lots of drinking, and generally a little easier on the running and shiggy, unless Grabbag is haring... If you don't have a car, there is a casino bus that will take you to the Sands Bethlehem (more or less in the center of the area) from which a LVH3 hasher will be more than than happy to pick you up. Works out to be roughly free, once you've turned that $30 slots voucher into about $10 of real people money and got your free cheesesteak from the food court.
The Scranton Hash House Harriers are a small but scrappy hash out of Scranton, which bears the exact same resemblance to The Office's TV version of Scranton that an ugly woman named Betty bears to America Ferrara in a fright wig and glasses. Accessible either by taking 80W to 380, or the worlds worst bus system (Martz) out of Port Authority. Hashing the 1st Saturday of every month, check their blog/calendar for whens and wheres
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Traveling further abroad?
There's a hash out there waiting for you.