[Steppes] The Hawkins Site

[Susan McMahill]

No, your Grace, it is not as large as Canton's and is far too small for our needs. At most it can accommodate 10-12 people on the line at one time. At Canton, we can have twice that many. I have marshalled target archery at Hawkins several times and this last Three Kings, ran the target archery. There are safety and visibilty issues involved because of blind areas at the top of the dike and up the hill toward camp. Hawkins is marginally about 100 yards wide and is plenty long for what we need, but not wide enough. A couple of years ago, the target archery at Hawkins was almost shut down because of issues pertaining to the dike and the hill as safety zones. I'd rather not see that sort of thing happen at a Steppes event.
 
Lyneya de Grey



> To: steppes at lists.ansteorra.org> From: crystal.lemming at prudential.com> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:50:54 -0600> Subject: [Steppes] The Hawkins Site> > > Actually there is a very large area next to the lake that we can use for> target archery. It is easily as large as Canton's archery area. I don't> think we used a it this last 3 Kings. But I'm pretty sure we used it for 3> Kings 2005.> > Conal> > -------------------------------------------------> > The Hawkins site is too small to support the size of archery tournaments we> hold in order to have the tournaments completed in a timely manner. We need> a minimum of 100-120 yards square. It has the depth, but not the width. we> have been pushing it to get done in time for court as it is the past couple> of years. If we have to use a smaller firing line, we will go well into> court before we have a champion.> > As far as the lake....I don't know. I am not a lake swimmer generally and> would prefer to keep my state of undress private. I also think that if we> are worried about problems with mundanity, then we will find that modern> bathing suits and bathing attire which will be most common, will be VERY> mundane. Period bathing attire in the lake would be...well, the most period> would be without bathing attire which wouldn't go over at all, I'm sure.> more acceptable bathing garb could be heavy and somewhat dangerous for> people not used to swimming in long dresses.> > Lyneya> _______________________________________________> Steppes mailing list> Steppes at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/steppes-ansteorra.org