A coyote was spotted just a little ways from the meet drinking out of a cow trough. Weather that was the coyote that ended up being hunted or not was hard to say. Matthew started out paralleling the road towards the ford. It wasn't but a few minutes when they all started speaking. They then looped back as if they were going to go up the mountain. They passed the house and then came down the driveway. That's when things got going fast and far.
The coyote and the hounds crossed the road and headed out on a pretty straight track that was splitting the difference between Markwood Rd and Catterton Rd. They eventually turned back towards the meet a few hundred yards shy of Buck Mountain Rd right behind the auto repair place. It was pretty fast as the hounds showed a top speed of 27 miles per hour and were often over 20 while on the run.
After making the turn they headed on almost a straight line back toward the ford from where things started. Mostly they spent the time hugging along the backside of the developments. Back behind one house where the hounds slowed for a while they gave a thrill to some little kids and there mom who came out of their house to watch the hounds.
It was a great, fast run that took about an hour and forty minutes and covered just over 11 miles. The second flight covered around 6 miles. On the map the blue line is second flight and the orange line is hounds.
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