This May Be Harder Than I Thought

[drelmo]

In the real world, the Dolomites are a part of the Italian Alps

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[jeffr23]

Well, if you want to stretch definitions a bit, there's the Calrissians.

(There appears to be a memey viral thingamabob along those lines going on right at this very moment, in fact, so that may be too trendy for your world...)

[tfbretz]

You could call them the Sweetbacks, for reasons lost to time.

[drelmo]

If translated into dog-Latin, that might work.

[schroedingerbat]

The Roundtrees
The Hammers
The Wheatstraws
The Coffys

All for reasons similar to those alluded to above...

[mcroft]

Frans Vulpes

[drelmo]

Foxy Brown, I take it?

[mcroft]

The same. Or just call them the Frans Mountains and have a pair of tall peaks close together called The Vulpes.

[arch_scrivener]

From the linguistic dustbin of grossly inappropriate figures of speech, you could call them "The Woodpiles."

Despite its purely annoying etymology, "The Urkels" has a mosterish/geologic ring to it.

What's "Red Fox" in Greek?

[schroedingerbat]

I remember that "kokkino" is "red". Google translate tells us that "fox" becomes "alepoú" (αλεπού) when pushed over to Greek.

Tinkering around with pluralization rules gets us "kókkines alepoúdes" (κόκκινες αλεπούδες) - "red foxes". I believe the comedian spelled it with two D's and two X's, though.