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Second feature: here's a picture from a satellite of a city that I can pretty much totally guarantee I will never, ever visit.

Ulaan Batar

1 posted on 08/18/2009 10:25:27 PM PDT by cogitator
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2 posted on 08/18/2009 10:26:39 PM PDT by cogitator
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always wondered what it meant to have an ass in a boine. now I know.


3 posted on 08/18/2009 10:30:24 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (this slope is getting slippereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...)
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I’ll venture a guess, the shape of the mountain itself?


4 posted on 08/18/2009 10:33:07 PM PDT by JRios1968 (The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
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Something's missing:

Photobucket

5 posted on 08/18/2009 10:41:31 PM PDT by rfp1234
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Beautiful pics, BTW.


9 posted on 08/18/2009 10:45:45 PM PDT by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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[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?


12 posted on 08/18/2009 11:49:44 PM PDT by spinestein (The answer is 42.)
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I'm thinking it's the mountain on the right.

13 posted on 08/19/2009 12:28:05 AM PDT by Nateman (If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
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Glacier activity???


16 posted on 08/19/2009 4:12:25 AM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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The point of division for Pacific, Arctic, and Atlantic watersheds?

Love those “hippies-on-a-stick”!


17 posted on 08/19/2009 5:52:28 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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Obvious: the rock strata are completely horizontal. The entire range was formed by erosion, not upheaval.


18 posted on 08/19/2009 5:56:09 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Your opinion is doubleplusungoodthinkful. You have been reported to flag@whitehouse.gov.)
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I concur with what ctdonath2 said.


19 posted on 08/19/2009 5:58:08 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (Extreme right-winged mob terrorist astroturfing bitter clinging racist birther evilmongering wingnut)
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Spectacular!

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?

20 posted on 08/19/2009 8:10:39 AM PDT by GingisK
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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

22 posted on 08/19/2009 10:18:48 PM PDT by cogitator
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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

23 posted on 08/19/2009 10:29:41 PM PDT by wardaddy (Kite Runner....good movie.)
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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...


24 posted on 08/20/2009 12:28:32 AM PDT by NRA2BFree ("To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." Abraham Lincoln)
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