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* [[User:Elbie|Elbie]] and her parents.
 
* [[User:Elbie|Elbie]] and her parents.
  
==Expedition==
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==Illustrated Expedition==
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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.
 
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.
 
Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 prairie.jpg | Mostly, though, it was flat.
 
Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 prairie.jpg | Mostly, though, it was flat.
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Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 soClose.jpg | Closest we could get was about 200 metres.
 
Image:2009-08-02 49 -114 soClose.jpg | Closest we could get was about 200 metres.
 
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.
 
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.canadianbeauts.faketrix.com/images/coatofarms/OriginalFiles/Alberta-coat-of-arms.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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Revision as of 04:14, 4 August 2009

Sun 2 Aug 2009 in 49,-114:
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Location

On a ranch near Lundbreck Falls

Participants

Illustrated Expedition

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