But especially I rejoiced in the companionship of the hills...What I liked best was to get to the heights early in the morning--and early in the season when the stags feed high--and spend the day exploring the corries* from above...[M]uch of [deer stalking's] charm lay in the long spells of idle waiting, one's nose in thyme or heather, when the mind was gathered into the mountain peace. The high moments were the start in the freshness of morning, when dew was on the birches, and one had the first spy from a hillock in the glen; the sunny hours on the tops when cloud shadows patterned the corries**; the return in the evening in a flaming sunset*** with--or without--a lumpish hill pony carrying a stag. Such a day could not be blank even if one never saw a shootable beast, or missed him when seen, for, as Sir Walter Scott said of himself when he watched Tom Purdie at work, 'one's fancy could be running its ain riggs in another world.'
Went back to looking for the definition.
*Had difficulty finding the meaning of "corries." Googled "corry," didn't find definition but came upon this stunning photograph of Corry, Pennsylvania, which I had never heard of.
Went back to looking for the definition.
cor·rie
ˈkôrē,ˈkärē/
noun
plural noun: corries
- a cirque, especially one in the mountains of Scotland.
F$%!&* Pain in my assholes. Wtf is a cirque?
cirque
sərk/
noun
- 1.GEOLOGYa half-open steep-sided hollow at the head of a valley or on a mountainside, formed by glacial erosion.
THANK YOU!
**which are cirques, dummy.
***Like Corry, Pa!
