Aiden- A Cuso Kid: Red Dress Hash

Today, my dad and I went to the red dress hash. A hash a cross country run/walk through different parts of Grenada. They range from an hour to 2.5-3 hour long treks. This is the red dress hash because once there was a lady who decided to do a hash in a red dress and high heels. She probably didn't know what a hash was. So now every year they have one red dress hash to honour her.

This hash started at the Moca Spoke, a coffee shop and bike store near Saint George's University.

At the start of this hash they introduced a new symbol, a square! Some symbols you encounter are shredded paper circles or x's. A circle means pick one of two paths (one is the right way and one is the wrong way). The X means you went the wrong way. The square means pick one of however many paths there are.

Today there were eight different ways you could have gone! Or "on, on"ed (it the hasher logo and it means follow me). We went the wrong way.... three times and eventually found the right path. But then we got called back to the start, so a guy could then bring us back to where we were!

When we got to the top of the crazy steep hill we had to climb, we were at the end of the runway of the Maurice Bishop International Airport.

Hashes normally start at 2:30 p/m/ but this one started a t 4:00 I think they did this because when we got to the end of the runway an airplane went over our heads.

This was a short hash but went up a small mountain. The views were spectacular. My favourite view was of two yachts that were out in the harbour. One had a helicopter!

We finished within an hour. At the end we saw a co-worker from my mom's work at NEWLO.

All in all this was a good hash.