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==Location==
 
==Location==
On a farm near Lundbreck Falls
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On a ranch near Lundbreck Falls
  
 
==Participants==
 
==Participants==
* [[User:Elbie|Elbie]] and her parents.
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* [[User:Elbie|Elbie]], [[User:Elbie's Dad|her Dad]], and her Mom.
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==Illustrated Expedition==
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<gallery widths="400px" heights="250px" perrow=2 >
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 smallCoulee.jpg | I set out with my parents in their car around 13:00. The terrain began pretty much like this: farms, with the occasional coulee.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 prairie.jpg | Mostly, though, it was flat.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 fortMac.jpg | Soon we arrived in Fort Macleod, named after the fort to the right.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 downtownMac.jpg | It's a small crap-town outside of Lethbridge, a small crap-city. Fort Mac is only really notable for its fort, its "historic" decrepit buildings, and being a filming site for ''Brokeback Mountain''.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 prairie2.jpg | Leaving Fort Mac, there was more prairie!
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 cows.jpg | Sometimes the prairie even had cows on it!
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 windmills.jpg | As we started to approach the foothills, we started seeing more windmills. These here provide energy for Calgary.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 blood.jpg | We then passed through the Blood Reserve, which makes up a large portion of the Pincher Creek graticule.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 coulee2.jpg | Another coulee.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 pincherCreek.jpg | The Pincher Creek!
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 feedlot.jpg | One of the many feedlots we passed. This is where your supermarket beef comes from (if you live in North America). If I showed you any more about these, you'd be making a turn for the vegetarian.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 lundbreck.jpg | We arrived in Lundbreck around 14:50; the foothills are ahead.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 foothills.jpg | And soon we were in the said foothills.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 falls.jpg | We made a stop at Lundbreck Falls.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 crowsnestRiver.jpg | The Crowsnest River, which is the source of the Lundbreck Falls.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 falls2.jpg | The falls. From here, we took a Range Road down to where the hashpoint was.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 windy.jpg | By the way, Alberta is windy.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 noTrespassing.jpg | The ranch upon the hashpoint fell was inaccessible. :(
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 soClose.jpg | Closest we could get was about 200 metres.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 hashpoint.jpg | The hashpoint would be where the trees are. Beyond it are Angus cattle (future steaks), and windmills.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 elbieDidntTrespass.jpg | Excitement about getting this far quickly turned into...
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 noTrespassingForElbie.jpg | ...disappointment about not getting to go all the way.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 noTrespassingForDad.jpg | Dad wanted to get to the point too.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 paperAirplane.jpg | We came unprepared for a proxy hash, but would that stop a physicist?
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 badLanding.jpg | The wind, however, would. The plane didn't fall close enough for a proxyhash to be successful.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 paperBall.jpg | My mother proposes another approach to surpassing the wind, which was blowing from the hashpoint. It did not get much further.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 albertaCoatArms.jpg | And so, we set off to try and find the owners of the ranch. And by the way, Alberta is probably the only region I know of whose [http://www.pch.gc.ca/pgm/ceem-cced/symbl/101/images/alberta_coast_arms-eng.jpg coat of arms] looks wonderfully representative of its physical geography. Anyway, we talked to the ranch owner's friendly neighbours and found out that this would not be an Ambassadorhash. Alas.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 moose.jpg | So, we went off to find another picnic location. We found a moose at this one.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 tableMountain.jpg | Table Mountain.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 anotherMt.jpg | More of the Rockies as we searched for a consolation picnic location.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 yetAnotherMt.jpg | View from where we picniced afterward.
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</gallery>
  
==Plans==
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==Ribbons==
Upcoming.
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{{No trespassing | latitude = 49 | longitude = -114 | date = 2009-08-02 | name = Elbie |image = 2009-08-02 49 -114 noTrespassing.jpg}}
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{{consecutive geohash | count = 2 | latitude = 49 | longitude = -114 | date = 2009-08-02 | name = Elbie }}
  
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Latest revision as of 23:09, 9 August 2020

Sun 2 Aug 2009 in 49,-114:
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Location

On a ranch near Lundbreck Falls

Participants

Illustrated Expedition

Ribbons

Notrespassing.gif
Elbie earned the No trespassing consolation prize
by almost reaching the (49, -114) geohash on 2009-08-02.
2009-08-02 49 -114 noTrespassing.jpg
Consecutivegeohash.jpg
Elbie earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2009-08-02.