Wally and I had a fun morning today with THH. It was also a joint meet with Rapp Hunt. I love joint meets when both hunts bring hounds. Today there 16.5 couple 33 hounds) of THH hounds and 7.5 couple (15 hounds) of RH hounds. It is always cool to have the two packs come together and work really well. It was also fun to see quite a few people from RH that I had not seen in a few years.
It was a cold morning as well. The temps were in the mid 40's and the wind was blowing. I wasn't expecting much with that much wind but it seemed we were constantly on the run. One run went about 2.3 miles and we covered it in about 20 minutes. There seemed to be several shorter runs but I lost track.
Later in the meet a coyote crossed in front of the second flight. Beth got the hounds around and got them on the line. The hounds took off pretty quickly. That lead us down a trail that would be politely called a slide. With the recent rain there wasn't a lot of footing to found and slide was all that was left to do.
So it was a good day.
Wally was pretty good although the first hour he was quite strong and fussy with his head. As soon as someone trotted he wanted to canter. This was his first cold day of hunting in two years. So I think he was a bit up from that cold wind blowing up his butt. Overall it was good experience for him to put in the bank. Lots of hills, good running and a cold wind. For the day we covered about 9.25 miles. At one point going up Schoolhouse Mountain he hit 17.8 MPH. His top end was 18.1 MPH today.
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