Hangover Hash...

While a bunch of folks spent the night in Coo, many of them left in the morning back to Brussels or Holland. That left only a small group to attend the Hangover Hash, which started at the train station across the street from our hostel, with this view along the way.

Opee and Gives It a Blow left just a few minutes before us to set the trail, which soon went down some stairs next to Coo Waterfall, Belgium’s highest natural waterfall at 50 feet (15 meters). 

Then the trail headed up some steep stairs into the hills, weaving through lots of autumn leaves. 

Veronica and I didn’t even pretend that we were going to run as evidenced by our hiking boots and backpacks. 

Here’s the view from the watchtower at the end of the Coo Chairlift, which is an attraction at the amusement park next to the falls. Below us was the Coo Hydroelectric Power Station.

This strange tree made me laugh with a single leaf at the end of each skinny branch. 

After we finished the trail, we witnessed the most dramatic exit from a hash trail that we’d ever seen (or hope to ever see). FCTW kindly accompanied a hasher who had experienced chest pains after going up the steep stairs back down into the village. By the time we finished trail, an ambulance had already arrived and then requested a cardiac expert to be transported to the patient. 

After a quick check-up, our hash friend was loaded into the air ambulance and taken to the hospital in Liege, which was about an hour away by car. The rest of us were pretty mesmerized by watching the helicopter lift off right in front of us. After a five-night stay in the hospital, the hasher was released to go home and has been back on trail (albeit walking rather than running) many times since.

Afterwards, we held a short circle and then Veronica and I took a few minutes to walk down the variety of staircases to catch different views of Coo Waterfall.