10 FOXHUNTING ON LAKELAND EELLS 



easily be seen threading their way through the 

 rough ground across the wide dale. Scent is often 

 very good indeed in damp snow, though at times 

 it may be just the reverse. " There's nowt sae 

 queer as scent," unless perhaps it be a woman. 



Apart from hunting, I often think that visitors 

 make a mistake in not coming to the fells in winter. 

 Grand as the views are in summer, they are equally 

 fine, if not finer, in winter, when the weather is 

 frosty and settled. 



I have already spoken of the impracticability 

 of the fells as a riding country, for if — 



" He who gallops his hcrse on Blackstone Edge 

 May chance to find a faU," 



the same horseman would find no chance about it 

 on places like Striding Edge or St. Sunday Crag 

 in Lakeland. 



At any time of the year many of the huge 

 crags on the fells are dangerous for hounds, and 

 equally so for the too venturesome follower. To 

 mention but a few, there is the crag overhanging 

 Goat's Water on Coniston Old Man, Pavey Ark 

 in Langdale, Dove Crag at the head of Dovedale, 

 Raven Crag on Holme Fell, and Greenhow End 

 overlooking Deepdale. Most, if not all, of the 

 places mentioned have been the scenes of accidents 

 to hounds, as well as thriUing rescues. 



Considering the roughness of the fell hunting 

 country^ as a whole, it is a matter for surprise that 



