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I should have bookmarked the site but can't find it now. I'm looking for a source that tells me the average speed of a horse walking uphill. Context: in Deadfall I have the characters mounted and going up foothills from a river to a plateau in one day, the 3rd day of their journey, and am trying to work out the rough distance that would be.
The journey is a couple of hours on flattish lands from the river, into the foothills and up a windy road for some hours, then probably an hour or so on the plateau itself to their destination. With appropriate stops for rest, watering, etc. They're not fiends nor are they running hell for leather, just trying to get to the destination before nightfall.
I've managed to figure out the distance they travel the first 2 days of the journey is somewhere between 80-120K (roughly 50-75 miles), as it's by horse-drawn barge (over 2 days, with a stop in the middle). Probably closer to the shorter end, really, as there's various stops to load/offload cargo and passengers.
Basically, I wrote all this stuff going by times and now I'm trying to figure out what my actual landscape looks like, and the distances. :)
The journey is a couple of hours on flattish lands from the river, into the foothills and up a windy road for some hours, then probably an hour or so on the plateau itself to their destination. With appropriate stops for rest, watering, etc. They're not fiends nor are they running hell for leather, just trying to get to the destination before nightfall.
I've managed to figure out the distance they travel the first 2 days of the journey is somewhere between 80-120K (roughly 50-75 miles), as it's by horse-drawn barge (over 2 days, with a stop in the middle). Probably closer to the shorter end, really, as there's various stops to load/offload cargo and passengers.
Basically, I wrote all this stuff going by times and now I'm trying to figure out what my actual landscape looks like, and the distances. :)