Follow scents

We had been trekking through the trees for hours now following the scent of the tracker but we didn't seem to be getting anywhere, the tracker's scent seemed to be never-ending, I was starting to get agitated again and Colt was whining in my head but I didn't have any words of comfort for him, we were all sweating, tired and aching but nobody even suggested stopping because that just wasn't an option.

Dawn was right about the bear traps, there was so many that a few of them were only missed by inches so we had to make sure to tread carefully, but still, we pushed on, nobody wanted to give up but we could all feel we weren't getting anywhere, dad kept trying to be optimistic 

"come on guys not long now"

then a little while later

"just up ahead guys"

and then

"soon be there"

but we could all feel it was pointless, we were getting nowhere.

We saw a gap in the trees and for the first time in hours you could see the hop