Geology Picture of the Week, August 16-22, 2009: A Little Puzzle about Mount Assiniboine

Various

[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?

(Click all but the second for full-size.)

[Danae]

I found this for the states: http://www.stategeologists.org/surveys.php?state=6 It might have something that would help.

[cogitator]

Thanks for all the guesses, but it was pretty mundane. The movie "The Edge" (Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macpherson, and a BIG bear) was on Fox Movie Channel last Sunday. Rather than being in Alaska, it was filmed around Banff, and Mount Assiniboine is seen in several scenes.

Explore Hollywood in Alberta: Tour Your Favorite Movies

The Edge: Filming Locations

[wardaddy]

wow....been a long time...I hiked/climbed with preset assists to the top 32 years ago almost to the date with two other Mississippi hippies..summer...winter would be a serious challenge

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

[NRA2BFree]

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...

[Robert A Cook PE]

Glacier erosion, like the Matterhorn.

Makes you wonder what the whole range looked like ... and where the rest went.

[FrogMom]

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!

[SuziQ]

Heh, never would have figured that out! I'd heard about the movie, but have never seen it. I'll add it to the Netflix queue!

SirKit has been to Banff, and Lake Louise. I'll have to show him these pics to see if he remembers seeing it.