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Celine_Dion
Trad climber
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Boring? Your Vegas strip would be a ghost town without my Canadian effervescence.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Yes, it's completely flat, and they have one hundred and thirty-two words for different kinds of snow, except in Vancouver where they have over two hundred different words for rain.
That's why I left.
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hamish f
Social climber
squamish
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No wonder Jim is always building Starbucks. It's not the talls or the grandes, it's the double D's.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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So, justthemaid, did you just wake up bored, or ... ?
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Compared to Thousand Oaks, even Rio looks tiresome...
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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we took a family vacation to canada sometime in the 60s. dad had gotten a super 8 and spent most of the very boring vacation--sudbury, ottawa, montreal, quebec city--filming things like the changing of the guard.
what i want to know is, do those idiots in red coats and bearskin babushkas make canadian powers-that-be feel any safer than our overweight skinheads in fresh-out-of-the-box nikes?
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hamish f
Social climber
squamish
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I remember chatting to some old timer at Desert Hot Springs 25 years ago and he thought we all lived in igloos and got around on snowmobiles. Classic. He had obviously spent too much time in the sun.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2012 - 10:41am PT
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Someone remind me again..
Where exactly is Canada? I think someone told me it is in northern Texas or the Russian Gulag or something. Red suits? My guess is Gulag.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Where exactly is Canada?
Yeah, it's a bit hard to find. You have to go north through Washington and into Alaska. Then you keep heading north for a while through Siberia until you reach the North Pole. From there, you continue north for quite a long way, and eventually you reach Canada.
You'll know you're there when this guy pops out from behind a big snowdrift and mumbles "How's your beaver, eh?"
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Picture it thus way:
gawd, they all talk funny.
(don't change it, malemute.)
:-D
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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I hear it's as boring as bouldering
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Boring
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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"As American as mom and apple pie" (never did figure out why United Statesians has any monopoly on either).
"As Canadian as it was possible to be in the circumstances".
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired in Appalachia
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I lived in cold, frigid, snowy upstate New York for a while.
The summers were short and cool. The leaves started changing in mid August.
Winters were brutal. Four feet of snow with each storm.
And then....
I realized that there was a whole other country even further north....
My tuk is off to my Canuk friends, even the Quebexicans.
Did you know that most people incorrectly spell the country's name?
It is spelled with only 3 letters, and all 3 are consonants:
C, eh? N, eh? D, eh?
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Grampa
Trad climber
OC in So Cal
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I married a Canadian and after many visits, I can tell you, stay home. There is no reason to go to Canada.
The place is dangerous. Here is typical wildlife in downtown Calgary:
The summer ice climbing sucks:
Summers are way too cold:
The lakes have white stuff in them:
You have been warned, do not go to Canada.
[Oh yea, they also are our number 2 supplier of oil, from those evil oil sands.]
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired in Appalachia
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Thanks Malemute
Actually I love Canada. Vancouver is my favorite city in the whole world. I regularly go up to Toronto and kayak on the Ottawa River. I am even a collector of First Nations art.
Eh?
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MH2
climber
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Yup, that's Canada. Happy to show you and explain it to you.
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Grampa
Trad climber
OC in So Cal
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Sorry, I forgot mention the fishing is awful. This is all my son could catch on his second day fishing in Saskatchewan.
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