16 hour old trail in Hancock, NY
16 hour old trail, .99 miles in Hancock, NY. Subject = blue and Maya = red
This trail was a 16 hour old trail laid at 9pm and ran at 1pm the next day. It was one mile long and I went 1.56 miles to complete it in 42 minutes.
My scent article was a headlight. The start was contaminated by 180 students constantly walking about the school grounds for the entire time this was aging. The winds were varied but 75% of the time the trail was aging the wind was coming out of the southwest. Where Maya’s trail starts to head north, we were on a logging road and the whole time as it turns out the actual track was about 100 yards away to the west where she gave three head check during that time. She stayed on the logging road and then where you see our track start make circles 100 yards on both sides of the subject’s track— you’ll notice that the contours start to spread out east and west and therefore the scent picture dispersed. I believe that the logging road earlier in the trail served as a very definitive line for Maya to ride on until that point. She was behaving as if it was a turn so I casted her 100 yards on both sides of the logging road and she would not commit? So I rested her for 5 minutes and then casted her again to the east, she then worked it out, with no thanks to me. I didn’t think to surge her farther forward because she ultimately gave me a negative but what happened was the scent spread out. I should of made one large circlular cast rather than to side-logging road casts and I would have been out of that mess 15 minutes faster. But a nice job. At our most distant point we were 130 yards off the actual track.
