Despite the iffy weather forecast for the day, we managed to get a hunt in in what turned out to be decent but gray weather. We only really got rained on twice today and it was only for a few minutes and barely a mist. It was actually a comfortable day and it had great promise with some damp ground, clouds and still air.
Lot's of promise, no delivery.
We started out by hacking through the woods to the south down toward Esmont Rd. There was very little for trails and a lot of bushwhacking through the woods. The first half of the hunt featured a lot of bushwhacking. The worst part of that was along the power lines. That was pretty much all thorny thickets. Even the hounds wanted no part of it and were traveling single file.
We eventually turned back north and continued working through the woods. We popped out on Green Mountain Road by Nydrie and then back into the woods while paralleling the road. In all this time, the hounds weren't always silent. Multiple times they started speaking but never went anywhere.
Matthew worked around Coleswood pretty well and we had one brief run of about 100 yards. At the end of that 100 yards, the hounds were sticking there heads down a hole. So we are going to count that as running one to ground.
The rest of the day was kind of like the first half except we were out in the fields and not in the woods.
We got done before the rain game. For the day we covered 8.6 miles.
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