Fell-runner Norman Hadley experiences the transcendent beauty of an afternoon canter above the clouds, while finding himself the unwilling fox in a strange and unexpected hunt.
That sounds a memorable experience Norman. I've met unaccompanied dogs from the Patterdale hunt a couple of times, had a hound join us for a day's climbing at Mart Crag once, but never anything as unsettling as your encounter
Thanks WaW. It was a great outing but maybe would have been even better without the canine attention. Yeah, those Brotherswater woods are gorgeous. I bet they're full of birdsong right now and it won't be long before the flycatchers and chiffchaffs are back.
I think if there's one thing better than an inversion, it's an inversion with a Brocken Spectre, an almost supernatural sight that makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.
It evoked memories of an arguably-even-finer afternoon running Helvellyn two years earlier https://photos.app.goo.gl/Tw9VmfMFUJaD57ps6 The snow cover then was possibly even closer to your 2015 experience.
Thanks Steve. Yes, I love Brocken Spectres too. I've not yet managed to photograph one that does justice to the experience of having a ghostly doppelgänger.
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