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Saturday, October 30, provided a brilliant fall day and an hour-long fox chase for the highly successful opening meet of the Rappahannock Hunt's 1965-66 season. “Stonehaven”, farm of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Muth.was the scene of the initial hunt, as it has been for the past decade. In bright morning light; its early Federal stone house stood out against the flamboyant backdrop of Fielding Mountain; U. S. and Virginia flags flanked a stirrup cup table; at 10 o’clock vans, trucks, trailers and cars began to stream up the long farm r«>^d onto the spacious front lawn. Host and hostess and their enthusiastic houseguests greeted 20 hunters and more than 30 loyal ground supporters. There was that special open-meet excitement in the clear fall air. Freezing night temperatures followed by warming sunshine and absolute lack of wind made for decent scenting. Ollie Dodson, Rappahannock Hunt’s able Huntsman, cast hounds in Stonehaven’s back pasture, at the foot of Fielding. About 10 minutes after cast, hound voices sounded a note of urgency from the mountain ridge Jt.-Master Jack DeBergh led the field to the top, then hurried down the steep north side in pursuit of the pack. The chase lasted a good 50 minutes. Hounds worked the track way back into the valley near Poortown Farm, around the far north side of big Poortown Mt., and back over its east ridge onto the open knoll of “The High Hill”, where the fox went to earth. “High Hill”, over 1 ooking Sperryville Pike, is the home
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