Hard to believe, but this year’s BFH3 Red Dress Hash marks the 20th year we’ve been drinking and setting fashion trends across Bloomington! Twenty frickin’ years!
What else happened in 1997, besides the BFH3 starting?
* The Dow Jones hit 8,000 for the first time
* The first Harry Potter book was published
* Titanic premiered in December
* Um…Dolly the Sheep was cloned…
Heck, in hindsight, the founding of the BFH3 was as big a story as anything else in 1997! So we’re going to celebrate!
A picture of BFH3 at some time in our history…taken by a photographer who couldn’t frame the shot because he/she was too drunk
What’s going on this year? Well, there’s going to be a prelube hash on Friday night, April 21, with details to come. You pay the usual $7 for that one — stay tuned for more details.
The main event, however, takes place on Saturday, April 22, when the 2017 BFH3 Red Dress Hash starts at 2pm from the IU Cyclotron parking lot in Bloomington. Red dresses are mandatory! No one shows up without a red dress on (unless you wear a blue dress, but it better be stained)! Expect an extended trail with extended beer checks, with dinner to follow post-trail circle. Here are directions to the start:
The address of the North Technology Park, formerly known as the IU Cyclotron (or it might be called the Indiana University Integrated Science and Accelerator Technology Hall, or The Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter, or possibly “An Empty Building That Used To Hold a Big Cyclotron Thing”) is 2401 Milo B Sampson Lane in Bloomington. From downtown Bloomington, go north on Walnut to the IN-45/46 East Bypass. Turn right onto the bypass (toward the football stadium). Across from the football stadium parking lot should be signs for Technology Park North; turn left/north onto Milo B. Sampson Lane, and go to the parking lot in the back.
From Indy or farther north, take IN-37 to the 45/46 exit and go toward Bloomington. Keep going straight through four stoplights (you’ll pass Denny’s on your right) and look the sign to Technology Park North on the north side of the bypass.
From Louisville, take I-65 to the Columbus/Nashville IN-46 exit, and follow 46 through Nashville. Stay on 46 for a long time — once you get to Bloomington, you’ll pass College Mall on your left — and turn right onto the bypass (still following IN-46). Take the bypass till you see the Technology Park North sign on your right.
To register, bring your cash to the start and pay ONLY:
* $30 for trail and goodie and circle and food after
* $20 for trail, goodie, and circle only, no food
* $15 for on-after (no trail or goodie)
Questions? Contact White Lightning at jbranigin@gmail.com, or call 812-219-6566. On on!
