2022-09-05 -37 145

Location

Up a driveway on Union Road in Mont Albert North, next to the pipe reserve / cutthrough

Participants

Plans

Gonna walks it from the skate park in Box Hill South. Should be about 10km return.

Expedition

So I've been waiting and watching for like a year to find a hash I can either ride to or walk to, and this one just popped out of nowhere.

Life has changed a bit since my last series of hashes so finding the time to do this in the daylight hours is a bit...challenging. Careers, family commitments etc. But super happy to see Felix and Stevage are still doing their thing and keeping Melbourne on the front page.

I started from the Box Hill skate park then pretty much walked the back streets. Not dressed for the occasion with tshirt and shorts, and it got down to 3 degrees.

The hash point was down a driveway on the other side of a house, which itself backed onto a reserve. Across the driveway was a gate, padlocked, so I couldn't reach the point proper without breaking laws. It didn't help that it was like 2230.

I walked up the reserve and got to 20 metres from the hashpoint.

Then I walked home. On the way home as I passed Mont Albert Primary School. I heard a high pitched screaming from one of the fence lines. Highly unsettling, it sounded just like a human screaming in pain.

Just as I bought out my phone to call emergency services, a large red fox came running out into the streetlight.

So if anyone asks you "what does the fox say", scream in a bloodcurdling way at the top of your voice, as if someone had just done something particularly unpleasant to one of your extremities.

Photos

Skate Park
Getting Close
Closed Gate
Closest
Night Lemons


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