[Steppes] The Hawkins Site

[jack spinks]

The area next to the melee field was marginal and the event was limited to 20yd shots. Given that some are able to shoot an apple at 30-40yds in the William Tell event, that is disappointing.  It can also be dangerous since Warlord is a much larger event than any that has been held there in the past.
   
  The area in the emergency spillway is, as Lady Lyneya stated, adequate but not excessively so. It must also share with equestrian in that same area with very limited access. (It is also bloody hot down there since no breeze can get down there).  There ARE problems but they also exist at almost every site.  I, for one, have seen no discussion of other sites and am reserving judgement until I know more. 
   
  Count Gunthar does bring up some interesting points, however, with regard to folks mainly doing their own thing.  Perhaps we, as a community, should consider how to make our 4 day event such that folks will stick around after "their" event is over and support each other in our various endeavors?  And maybe learn a bit about other events in the process.
   
  Jaque the Spink
   
  
crystal.lemming at prudential.com wrote:
  Are we talking about the same area? I know some years the archery at 3
Kings was held next to the melee field.



Susan McMahill 
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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> _______________________________________________>
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