Posted on 08/18/2009 10:25:26 PM PDT by cogitator
Why this mountain?
My little puzzle is: I have a specific reason for posting these pictures now of the photogenic Mount Assiniboine in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, Alberta (adjacent to Banff and Kootenay National Parks). Anybody astute enough to guess what the reason is?
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always wondered what it meant to have an ass in a boine. now I know.
I’ll venture a guess, the shape of the mountain itself?
how about......if you can’t bring Mohammed to the mountain, you bring the moutain to Mohammed?......
Looks like a pyramid.
or.....an ass is an ass is an ass no matter which way you look at it?
Beautiful pics, BTW.
Exactly. Aha, the connection then is that Egyptian PM Mubarak visited the White House today. Am I close to solving the puzzle?
[I have a specific reason for posting these pictures now of the photogenic Mount Assiniboine in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, Alberta (adjacent to Banff and Kootenay National Parks). Anybody astute enough to guess what the reason is?]
They’re still covered with snow in defiance of Global Warming?
I'm thinking it's the mountain on the right.
That was my guess due to the fact that he linked to a city in Mongolia (Uaaalmoola LOL) that is said to be among the world’s coldest national capitals. So it must be weather related in my thinking and thus tied to global warming or lack thereof.
My guess is that they are inspirational pictures. The next mountain to climb and all that.
Just because they are pyramids and were once landing zones for alien beings has nothing to do with it.
Glacier activity???
The point of division for Pacific, Arctic, and Atlantic watersheds?
Love those “hippies-on-a-stick”!
Obvious: the rock strata are completely horizontal. The entire range was formed by erosion, not upheaval.
I concur with what ctdonath2 said.
I've tried in vain to locate an ore map of the world, or even the United States. Do you know where I might find such documentation?
I found this for the states: http://www.stategeologists.org/surveys.php?state=6 It might have something that would help.
beautiful country....really...and the gals in Calgary at the nightclub at the Crowfoot Inn....oh yeah...local guys were big cowboys and hated long haired interlopers who talked funny
Elvis died while we were there I remember getting in the car and hearing it one morning
had to check our sidearms at the border...Hippies had guns then...a different era kids...just look at that famous pic of the Dead on Haight street with guns...
oh well
Very beautiful scenery. I spent 10 days in Banff and it is gorgeous. The mountains are magnificent. I was there in October and there was lots of snow! No doubt caused by global warming. lol...
Glacier erosion, like the Matterhorn.
Makes you wonder what the whole range looked like ... and where the rest went.
Ah! Since I don’t watch TV and have seen about two movies (at home on DVD) this year, I would not know your riddle.
Thanks, though, nice pics!
SirKit has been to Banff, and Lake Louise. I'll have to show him these pics to see if he remembers seeing it.
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