Today was hunting at Greenfields. It was the best weather we have had in a well, the footing was good, and the views were spectacular. Alas, it was not a very busy day.
The hounds had multiple false starts where they'd get going and then be called back, or they would get going and stop suddenly. This probably happened four or five times early in the hunt. We did have one good short run near the end. We were over on Liberty Corner and hooked into a field just off of Langhorne Road. Top right of the track above.
It turned out that the way out of the field was blocked by downed trees. Of course that is when the hounds hit and we had to loop back out of the field to get around to where the hounds were. By the time we got around the hounds had gone silent. It was a sporty little run. The GPS on my horse showed a top speed of 21 MPH.
It was not to say the day was without entertainment. The original plan was to cross from Greenfields over to Lone Oak (I may have that name wrong). We had just crossed over and Matthew was hunting the hounds when BAMMM! a gun shot in a stand of trees along the field we were in. It turns out there were people hunting rabbits. It's the second time in the last month or so that we had to displace due to live gun hunting.
Change of plan and we were off to Liberty Corner. We worked around Liberty Corner and not much was happening. The first interesting thing is about technology. I saw I had a good houndtrack when I got home except that the top of the track was missing. It disappeared just as we crossed behind the kennels and then reappeared when came out from behind the kennels later in the hunt. So that is the geeky interesting thing.
I was never aware, or maybe its new, that there is an Equine and Farm Animal rescue that borders Liberty Corner. We passed it coming and going and they had it all - chickens, sheep, pigs (practice for Miller School), mules (in with the pigs and sheep) and horses. As far as I know all of the FHC horses reacted very well.
We did cover a lot of ground today - 10.9 miles.
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