Coming into this weekend I had to decide which day to hunt. Both days had drawbacks. Saturday was to be high winds and Sunday had the possibility of snow/Ice during the hunt and afterwards. I decided to go yesterday. I figure not much would happen because the scenting would be poor but it would still get Wally and I out.
I wasn't expecting much because of the high winds and thought maybe we could get some short runs in if we got low and stayed out of the wind. For the first 90 minutes that seemed to be the case. We came out of Indian Echo and crossed the road and started heading north behind Spring Breeze and Moriah farrm. We passed beehives and eventually crossed back over Catterton rd. Wally I were last in second flight, so after everyone else had passed through the gate I jumped Wally of the barway jump that was there. We then cut through to McNeeley's and then over to Yadkin.
We worked through Yadkin and then back across Buck Mountain Ford Rd when the hounds hit. They were off and running and followed the creek south before making a u-turn and coming back up the creek. They came back to the ford and it took a bit before they latched onto the scent again. They went around the back side of Yadkin and then up Buck Mountain. They started down and went off the north side where the fox was lost in the wind.
It was a great run. As the horse travels it covered four miles in about an hour and ten minutes. I was in second flight behind the juniors and they did great whether it was running hard on the trails or negotiating some pretty deep muck.
For the day we covered 12.24 miles with a top speed of 19.6 MPH.
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