Tips for hares setting trails on CSH3

Hares, get the hounds to go where you want them to go. Perhaps easier said then done considering some of the hash challenged morons amongst us but here are some tips that might help.

- Control the hounds: The trail markings need to be always set in the traditional way and be clear and unambiguous. Often when some hares try to be tricky or expect the pack to guess what to do next at some strange marking innovation it finishes in disaster. Its not needed. Some runners will screw it up all by themselves.

- Do not hide paper on the running trail behind trees or shrubs: The next piece of marking paper should be seen from the last one, especially going cross-country where the trail is not perfectly obvious.

- Hares, your opportunity to deceive and play with the pack’s mind is at the checks. Be tricky as you like where you hide the paper as long as you follow the standards – first paper within 50 meters from a cross check, and within 100 meters from a circle check. Then make the trail paper very obvious after that.

Cross check	X   Nb: Don’t use V checks
Circle check	O
Check back	|

Cross check: From a crosscheck multiple new trails commence within 50 meters. False trails can be laid up to 150 meters further along clear trails but less if its heavy jungle. We don’t want to discourage checking or get people lost trying to catch up again after checking.

Checkback: When using paper most hares now use a Bar checkback to mark the end of the false trail, its a single line of paper across the trail (with some stones or a stick on it).

Circle check: The one and only trail commences within 100 meters anywhere within 360 degrees from the circle (including off the trail before reaching the circle check).

Be careful that hounds don’t find your on-in trail at the start of the run. If your on-in trail approaches anywhere near your out trail do not mark the last section. Stop laying paper at least a half klik away. Go back later to complete the trail and the On-In.

For environmental reasons use only the amount of paper that achieves an adequately marked trail, don’t drop big blobs, make tidy checks, and avoid using any plastic stuff that turns up in the paper. Use rice powder where possible especially through villages or in national parks.

45 minutes: Runs should be no more than 45 minutes for FRB’s and everyone back in 1 hour. If hares need to set a longer special run there must be a Point B opt out at about 40 minutes, B should have drinks, and then the total run A-B-A should not be longer than 70 minutes for FRB’s.

Hope this helps you set the best run of the year.

Superman