A hare picks out the trail, marking the route with flour checkpoints. After quaffing a brew, hashers continue to the finish, when they begin partying in earnest. There should be enough loops, checks, and false trails that the pack should stay fairly close together. The trail is usually about 10 kilometers long, and takes an hour or two to run. But it can get fairly involved.
Hares take great pride in setting out unique and challenging trails.
For instance, Hunter designed a hash called The Cross-Dresser that required the harriers to start running in Vancouver's West End, make a pit stop at the Dufferin Hotel gay bar, hop on a ferry and run around the North Shore, and take the bus back downtown. Oh, and they were in drag. They were driving around in their van with posters and balloons hanging off it, and they invited us up to their hospitality suite to join in the festivities. Vancouver is a great spot for hashing because of its proximity to wilderness. In hashing's Asian birthplace, runners often took to the jungle.