Wally and I had a good day hunting with FHC at Chapel Springs. I wasn't sure what we were going to get. It rained/drizzled on us from home to about the airport and then it stopped. When we got to Chapel Springs the rain seemed to be gone. It was cool and damp, and half the field opted for rain gear and half not. It was anyones's guess who was going to be right.
The day started slow. We had worked our way all the way down the XC field and were just going into the woods when the hounds started speaking. It was a slow run with a lot of field reversals. I think Mathew came and went several times during the run. It did sound as if the hounds had come to a halt and treed or put something to ground. It turned they had kept moving slowly but had run into a kennel of other hounds. So not a blazing run but some good work by the hounds.
We moved on and out into the field by the log cabin. We looped around the cabin and went back into the woods. We weren't far into the woods when the hounds hit again. We ran past Maccie's house and kept going through the woods and above the lake. We were running hard into the open by the equipment sheds and came around the other end of the lake and continued back up to the cabin.
Mathew put the hounds back into the woods and the hounds caught on again and we basically ran the same route until the hounds lost back up by the equipment sheds.
We hunted back in but nothing else developed. it was a slow start but ended up a good day. Amazingly we stayed dry until we were all starting to leave and then the rain kicked in again. The second flight covered 8.5 miles and topped out around 18.2 MPH.
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