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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 20, 2017 - 06:28pm PT
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Well, it's a little early, but it's never every year a country turns 150. That's right, as of July 1st Canada will celebrate what the pretentious call its sesquicentennial.
And, on a mountain-related subject, for the first time someone has ascended all of Canada's thirteen summits: "Canadian mountaineer Len Vanderstar and his team just became the first group to climb each of Canada’s 13 provincial and territorial high-points after reaching the summit of Barbeau Peak in Nunavut yesterday."
https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/decade-long-expedition-first-reach-highest-point-every-province-and-territory
OK, so how many of you can name all of Canada's provinces and territories? And only in Canada would the highest point of an admittedly rather flat province be named Glen Valley. Still, Mount Saskatchewan, in the Icefield Ranges, remains unclimbed after several attempts - the first in 1967, our centennial year.
In other news, the annual Haines Junction - Haines bicycle race last weekend was cancelled, due to snow. However, a relay of unicyclists was able to complete the course. http://www.canada.com/sports/four+unicycles+only+team+finish+gruelling+yukon+relay+after+shut/13458246/story.html
And the famous Haines Junction sourtoe has gone missing: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/toe-stolen-yukon-dawson-city-sourtoe-cocktail-1.4168541 An all toes bulletin has been issued.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 21, 2017 - 12:47pm PT
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I thought about applying for political asylum at yer embassy on Trafalgar Square.
But then it occurred to me I wouldn't find a proper Spotted Dick in Winnipeg.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 21, 2017 - 01:06pm PT
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The article in Canadian Geographic contains the following innumeracies:
Glen Valley, P.E.I.: 142 metres (4,656 feet)
Mount Nirvana, N.W.T.: 5,956 metres (9,098 feet)
Oh well, they never claimed to be Canadian Mathematic.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jun 21, 2017 - 03:03pm PT
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And do you have to use a GPS to find the hi-point of Manitoba.
At least Manitoba probably has a high point. Unlike Saskatchewan, which is so flat that you can see an ant on the horizon at sundown.
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Jun 21, 2017 - 05:46pm PT
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So, I'm wondering just how many people who are not nice live in Canada; 700, 1,500?
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jun 21, 2017 - 08:45pm PT
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i'm picturing summit registers, cairns, wads of survey tape and tattered yankee flags planted on lot 67.
lots of love neighbors, sorry for the inconvenience
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jun 21, 2017 - 11:49pm PT
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hey there say, mighty hiker...
as to this, ... wow... did not know this, of course:
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 20, 2017 - 06:28pm PT
Well, it's a little early, but it's never every year a country turns 150. That's right, as of July 1st Canada will celebrate what the pretentious call its sesquicentennial.
wow ,thanks for sharing...
say, i never been to canada, but loved the photos, so, one of my
main characters in my books, well, his ma is from canada... :)
had to get it in there, somewhere, :)
happy canada anniversary, as it nears, fast... :)
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jun 22, 2017 - 08:54am PT
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If I were younger, I'd start training hard to prepare myself for an expedition to Saskatchewan's high point. Here's an image, looking east across the summit plateau.
Talk about gnarly approaches! It's over 500 feet from where you park your car, and the elevation gain is almost 25 feet!!!
Oddly enough, it is (relatively) high. Over 4,500 ft.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 30, 2017 - 07:36pm PT
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jun 30, 2017 - 07:46pm PT
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Happy 150th! All you north of our borderers!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 30, 2017 - 07:58pm PT
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Despite the Barrie rels I've nuthin' but luv for you hosers. If only Canuckian Immigration better represented the Canuckian psyche. They are the gold standard for psycho bureaucrats. Of course, I've not been to N Korea so YMMV.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Jun 30, 2017 - 08:44pm PT
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I'm in CANADA! Fort Nelson on my way to Liard Hot Springs!
I'm a gonna watch the parade tomortoe, eh?
Susan.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 30, 2017 - 08:46pm PT
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tomortoe
Is that with toe jam?
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jstan
climber
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Jun 30, 2017 - 08:53pm PT
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Recently heard that Canada has an immigration program for americans with technical skills. They promise to provide you with a work permit (and subsequent citizenship?)
within two weeks!
No half million dollars required.
Who'd have ever thought Bessel functions would be a path to a secure future?
If you have never met a differential equation you did not like
Strike now man! The iron is hot.
A whole country full of civil people. Incredibile!
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Jun 30, 2017 - 08:53pm PT
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I think it's Canadian for "tomorrow" eh? Ah?
My eyes are f*#ked after a 600 mile day.
Susan
Edit: OMG. Driving from Jasper to Fort Nelson! I did it in 2011 and it was logging, logging and more logging trucks. Now it's OIL! About every 10 miles behind a thin, single row of screening trees are these HUMONGOUS oil operations. Everything is shiny and brand new. And all the infrastructure. I must have passed, or been passed by a thousand oil trucks. I saw more "Wide Load" trucks carrying heavy machinery in a day than I usually see in a year.
Then the pop up villages of temporary portable housing for the workers. The hookers must be around somewhere???
This part of Canada has certainly embraced oil. It was amazing to see.
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50
climber
Stumptown
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Just got back from a trip to Montreal and Toronto. Looks like we just missed the main event for the celebration...
CBC News
Big rubber bird: Whale of a duck floats into Toronto with some crying foul
A giant rubber duck that caused feathers to fly for weeks before its arrival has settled into its temporary new home on Toronto's waterfront for Canada 150.
The six-storey-tall yellow duck was inflated on Toronto's harbour front on Friday morning ahead of the weekend RedPath Waterfront Festival.
The duck's $200,000 price tag had some critics crying foul, questioning the bird's connection to Canada 150 festivities.
The festival, which has received government funding in previous years to promote tourism, received about $120,000 from the province and $250,000 from the federal government from the Canada 150 fund to tour the faux fowl in six cities.
The giant rubber duck is based on similar floating structures by a Dutch artist that have traveled the world.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 1, 2017 - 11:47am PT
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I'd just like to know where the sasquatchtennial bit came from.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 1, 2017 - 02:45pm PT
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The (temporary) largest flag in the world, at Brockton Point in Stanley Park. Note the adjacent cricket pitch, said to be the fairest in the world.
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