One or more people are designated as the Hare or Hares. The hare will plan a route through wooded areas. At the designated starting area, the hare or hares will take off with bags of flour. As they run their route, they will deposit handfuls of flour on the ground, to the sides of trees, or behind rocks and bushes. The flour will serve as their "scent". Ten to fifteen minutes after the hares start, the "hounds", everyone else, will follow the trail trying to catch the hare(s). If the hare is caught, the hare relinquishes his or her pants/running shorts and finishes the trail in whatever they have chosen for an undergarment that day. The hares will try to lose the hounds by setting false trails, staging coolers of beer, or any one of a hundred other means of stalling their hunters. At the end of the trail, a "circle" is held where battle weary hounds and hares usually gather around a bonfire, cooler of beer, and a table of munchies where an entertaining round of "Rugby" type songs are sung and accolades are sung to the various members of the group. A five dollar donation is all that is required.
Warning: The "circle/finish" often has songs containing vulgarity not suitable for small children or most farm animals. Drinking and partial nudity may also be present during various parts of the run depending on how many of the debaucherous Chicagonites stumble way up north here.