Chris’ Rambling Thoughts
A few thought pieces written by Ourano Pointers and our affiliates.
Mountain Meditations
When someone lives and breathes their very existence and life’s work, it’s glaringly obvious to the average observer. This is the only way one can transcend the mundane and push it into the world of art. But it costs almost every single cell of who you are to commit to
Watch Your Footing
‘Watch your footing’, I repeat to myself over and over again as we make our way down from the high peaks. The pieces of millennia old basalt rock that litters this part of the Drakensberg range gives way and cartwheels down slope all around me with every step. The dogs
Field Journal Entry
I say it every time, and I probably sound like a broken record, but there is something medicinal about these harsh mountains. They heal you. Maybe it’s the selfsame energy that forms mountains when two immovable plates collide, and this coming together, and coming to the surface brings with it
Mountain Meditations
Sometimes I can’t verbalise what these places mean to me, and do for me. You enter them and leave them as a different man. Every single time. Irrespective of the inner dialogue or war that you may be waging. Entering them in the best head space will still leave you
Pointer Ponderings
‘There is something grandiose about a Pointer in full gallop, something paradoxical in that it plays on various emotions depending on the person; it can either stir the soul and bring on pure and utter admiration, adulation and even yield one emotional or it can completely intimidate and leave one
Elevation Requires Isolation
To become better at anything you must all but become that thing. Immersing yourself so deeply in it that you cannot hear anything else but the soft call of your soul coaxing you on in the direction of your truest self. That soft whisper will drown out all the naysayers,
Barkly Days
‘I had lost sight of Arturo for three or so minutes – irrespective of how far he ranges in the mountains, he always reports back eventually, or even merely checks in. Another two or so minutes had passed and still no sign. I decided to go off course and look
Mountain Meditations
“The Peripatetic Way is medicinal and healing in these harsh mountains in an incorrigible way. It will extirpate your fears, insecurities and hang ups. Swiftly. Like a Cretan dagger to the lung. Taking a moment to feel my jelly like legs, or catch my breath when rucking up a steep
Male and Female Musings
I love male Pointers. You just can’t beat them when they’re on form, and pushing the envelope like only a Pointer can. They provide their own challenges to a trainer, and a good trainer, who understands what a Pointer really is, will harness these characteristics and mould a formidable hunting