| The Caern |
| The caern as seen in the “real world’ is a roughly eight mile square area north of Paris MT. It is about 20 minutes out of town. To get there you take a small highway and then turn off on Deer Creek Road. Set on the edge of the Bob marshal wilderness this is a very wooded area, with some open spaces that may have in the past been used for either sheep or cow grazing land, but is now home to many mule and white-tail deer. This road winds and turns and goes past one large old Victorian style home, and after about a mile seems to disappear on the edge of thick forest growth at the base of a respectable size mountain. On the edge of the Bawn are many "No Trespassing" signs with a phone number to report violaters. In the caern proper it seems very quiet, as if every tree were listening. Near the center is a small valley with a creek running through it. The creek is Deer Creek and the water is sweet and pure, fresh from mountain springs. On the edge of the green little valley is an old log cabin with beautiful cut glass windows. (See the Freehold) This cabin is set beneath a very very very large cotton wood tree whose trunk at the base is about half the size of the cabin, the tree has been broken off by wind or lighting and shortened considerably, but still healthy and green. On the other edge of the valley is a series of small mounds, and stone piles, which are placed all together. There are no roads so everything has to be carried in. |
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