Originally Posted by
gemera
My last foray in to the wilds was stopped 7 miles out by a stubborn cow. Most cows tend to ignore you, but there had been some stories of ramblers being charged by cows and ending up badly injured. Unlike most cows, when I got to the fence it stared straight at me as if to say "What the hell are you doing here!", and when I pretended to look away for a few minutes and then looked back it was still staring at me.
I decided to risk it, and went over the fence, and unlike any other cow, instead of moving away with my every step into the field it kept coming towards me. So it was either make a mad dash to the other side at some distance, or retreat.
So I retreated. Only to find that 100 metres down the path I'd come up and needed to get back down, someone had let out another herd of about 20 cows onto what had previously been an empty field. Given that I had also been stalked by a bull on the way up in a field of cows on my left, it wasn't clear what else was down there.
Tune into part 2 to find out if I survived.