Re: Who's Hills?

From: janewilliams20 <jane_at_...>
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 10:50:25 -0000

> We all know that Sartar is a hilly kingdom. There is much talk on
> this list, and even in official material, about hill clans and
people
> taking to the hills and moving sheep up into the hills in warmer
> weather, etc.
>
> But I keep having this suspicion that we aren't all visualizing the
> same sort of hills. Now, I'll grant you that there will be
> variations even within something as small as Sartar, but getting
some
> sort of common ground might be a useful thing.

I would suggest to start with that we narrow it down to those sorts of hills where sheep are raised? And after that, to those where moving them to higher ground for the summer is something that happens, and is a major move, not just two fields away?

I know of this being done in Snowdonia, the Lake District, Scotland (not sure which bits of Scotland, though, and it varies a lot) and the Alps. Also in the Yorkshire Dales. Anyone want to add more? I only know Europe, and not much of that: any Aussies want to tell us about sheep-raising?

We also know that the high Quivin peaks are impassable and in fact unclimbable by normal means. So they're a bit more vicious than anything in the UK, at least in spots.

And we know that it gets seriously cold in winter.

How about the Alps as a model? Never been there myself (plans for the summer will change this), but descriptions look good.