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 followthewhiterabbit
  
Location: Lower Main land
Gender: Male
 |  | calgary exploration
< on 9/29/2005 10:02 AM >
|  | | | I was going to give a hint of info for people interested in exploring calgary but the only calgary thread was filled with FLAMMING non sense not useful. So here it is. I dont live in Calgary but if your up for a drive to Camrose, there is a wiked thingworth exploring. There are caves and pictographs in the mountains near camrose dating 9000 years ago.. you can see the caves totally burnt with ash from when the kootney indians used to live there up till 200 years ago when they got chased into B.C by our grandparents grand parents. So I'f this is something you are into, i can give you more details just message me. its an easy hike. roughly 45 minutes, and over 1 waterfall.
It seems you've just been looking with your eyes closed. |
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FyRePhReAk
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Gender: Male
disassociative
| | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 1 on 9/30/2005 4:27 PM >
|  | | | Camrose Is a slight distance from Calgary.
Walk away. |
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AgentNox
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Gender: Female
I love the smell of asbestos in the morning!
| |  |  | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 2 on 9/30/2005 5:52 PM >
| | | | Meh. You know you're up for it, Fyre. I have an anthropology degree and kickass hiking boots, and I'll want company who is sympathetic to frequent stops for photography.
I probably won't make it out until I finish up the MA next spring, but I'd be interested to know where it is.
"If you don't have bits of gear dangling from you, then you're not really adventuring."
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Mister Sable
Location: Palliser City
Gender: Male
The Man with the Hat (the other man)
| | | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 3 on 9/30/2005 7:39 PM >
| | | | That's just my scene. Apparantly, I'm a certified advocational archeologist, so that seems wicked cool. I'm also really into prehistory and such. Count me in.
Cloak and dagger, man, cloak and dagger. |
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AgentNox
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Gender: Female
I love the smell of asbestos in the morning!
| | | | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 4 on 9/30/2005 11:14 PM >
| | | | Let's do it up, road trip style.
To the Noxmobile!
"If you don't have bits of gear dangling from you, then you're not really adventuring."
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Jester
Location: Vancouver,B.C. Canada
Gender: Male
Always just out of sight...
| | | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 5 on 9/30/2005 11:25 PM >
| | | | Pick me up ?
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. |
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followthewhiterabbit
Location: Lower Main land
Gender: Male
| | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 6 on 10/1/2005 10:18 AM >
| | | | Since Agent NOX 's pic is soo sexy I'd be in too. My question is, is she breaking into the mens washroom or the womens? jk./ ok so this thing took me reading through 6 different hiking books to even get in the ball park. A one line reference to pictographs was made once in a 400 page hiking book which was 40 years old. Get the picture? I would post it as a location but im not keen on tones of people hitting this thing.. The caves turned out to be a bonus that hadnt been mentioned. and im not even that familiar with camrose given that im originally from edmonton and now Vancouver... but if you go to the nordic center...... in camrose, your looking for a hike called the grassi lakes hike. its a trail built by men in the depression who were unemployed spear headed by a guy with the last name Grassi, Cool old benches still line the trail, anyways you hike this trail for 40 minutes or so, it will bring you up along side a water fall and towards three emerald lakes.... ive included a pic... anyways, some people do cliff climbing in the area and if you keep walking up the trail past the lakes, you will come to a place whith a rock and a chain around it asking you not to touch it.. and on it youll see some pictographs.. ill include the pics here... and you will also notice the caves.. there is one or two descriptive signs that explain whats going on but the general idea is not to have this thing too public because then these 9000 year old drawings would be in danger.. so there you have it... if you need more specific info i can try and help out.. i did the trip in 2002 i think. one last note, my guess is there is a bunch of stuff still undiscovered in the surounding forest, cause there are cliffs everywhere its a gorje or canyon type environment and i only had the chance to explore the most easily identifiable area, anyone with more time and willingness to do some bushwacking will in my opinion likely encounter way cooler stuff. After all living in one place for 9000 years your likely gonna leave way more then just a few caves and some dravings of some antler animals and your local medicine man holding a dream catcher. So PLEASE if you do explore and find stuff, I WANT PICS!!!! I soooooo wanted to explore more but couldnt as day light was running down.. I would probably thinkg a couple days would give this a good chance at finding something new. I'm very surprised it hasnt been turned into a UNESCO sight or a provincial park... Maybe this could be an excellent PHD Agent NOX... I'd be up for going to hear you defend it :D
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Endersgame
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Gender: Male
| | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 7 on 10/1/2005 3:11 PM >
| | | | Just a note in regards to the site you are talking about. It's definitely not Camrose! No mountains there. Camrose is about an hour southeast of Edmonton. You are probably thinking of Canmore as there is a nordic center there. Which probably makes it a lot easier for the Calgary people (like NOX) to get to. Which means there is nothing good near Edmonton... again! lol
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FyRePhReAk
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Gender: Male
disassociative
| | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 8 on 10/1/2005 10:03 PM >
| | | | Canmore perhaps then?
Walk away. |
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followthewhiterabbit
Location: Lower Main land
Gender: Male
| | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 9 on 10/2/2005 12:19 AM >
| | | | Indeed Canmore, I've always got those two names mixed up... yeah it is just outside of BANFF.. Lucky my camera has things right.
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Endersgame
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Gender: Male
| | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 10 on 10/2/2005 3:52 AM >
| | | | And on the bright side, Canmore is much more picturesque and enjoyable than Camrose! Although if I ever run across anything good there I will let you know.
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Kay O. Sweaver
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Gender: Male
Happiness is saying yes more often than no.
| | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 11 on 10/2/2005 7:12 AM >
| | | | I'm always up for a trip into the bush, archeological discovery is just a bonus. I'm sure there are a lot more undocumented sites out there from a wide range of time periods its just a matter of being alert to your surroundings. I also know that us urbanites are a lot less observant when immersed in the natural world. I quite possibly would have totally missed that stuff.
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Amy Smith is an infected slut |
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followthewhiterabbit
Location: Lower Main land
Gender: Male
| | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 12 on 10/5/2005 9:14 AM >
| | | | I generally dont miss much... thats the benefit of being curious... I've got stories of being stuck half way up a mountain in a 4x4 truck, whitenuckling as i scraped the side on trees .. Thank-heavens for rentals.
It seems you've just been looking with your eyes closed. |
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Viper
Location: Vancouver, BC Canada
Gender: Male
Trespassing On!
| | | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 13 on 10/5/2005 5:36 PM >
| | | | Posted by followthewhiterabbit
whitenuckling as i scraped the side on trees |
In the 4x4 community here we call this a B.C. paint job.
Earth, the world's most dangerous planet!
"The will to do, the soul to dare." -Sir Walter Scott |
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followthewhiterabbit
Location: Lower Main land
Gender: Male
| | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 14 on 10/6/2005 5:16 AM >
| | | | Does the paint job include a BC Body job? lol I ripped the molding right off and bent the panels to shit...
It seems you've just been looking with your eyes closed. |
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Viper
Location: Vancouver, BC Canada
Gender: Male
Trespassing On!
| | | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 15 on 10/6/2005 7:06 AM >
| | | | Just the driver's side front bumper pushed in a bit when I spun out around a corner when it was wet out and tagged the side of a brand new Ford pickup, and custom front fender chop. Next week 33" mudders are to be put on.
Earth, the world's most dangerous planet!
"The will to do, the soul to dare." -Sir Walter Scott |
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followthewhiterabbit
Location: Lower Main land
Gender: Male
| | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 16 on 10/6/2005 7:17 AM >
| | | | shame to wreck a nice truck on a road... at least in the forest i feel somewhat justified...
It seems you've just been looking with your eyes closed. |
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Viper
Location: Vancouver, BC Canada
Gender: Male
Trespassing On!
| | | Re: calgary exploration
<Reply # 17 on 10/6/2005 10:52 PM >
| | | | Didn't wreck it, just pushed in one side of the bumper about an inch (and caused about four grand damage to the Ford.  Damn new insta-crumple vehicles). Plus I just bolted on a bush bumper so it hides most of the bumper.
What? Calgary something?...
Earth, the world's most dangerous planet!
"The will to do, the soul to dare." -Sir Walter Scott |
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