Monthly Archives: December 2017

Enough of this smoke. I’m outta here – part 2

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Studio Bell. Studio Bell, home of the National Music Centre (NMC), opened on 1 July 2016 so had I come to Calgary a mere 15 months (and a few days) before I did, I wouldn’t have been able to visit …

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Enough of this smoke. I’m outta here

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I ended the previous post with the events at Logan Pass – the westernmost point to which we could travel on the Going to the Sun Road on 8 September 2017 and a photo – taken from a safe distance …

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It’s Glacier Park and it’s on Fire – Part 3

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General Phillip Sheridan, who also unsympathetically prosecuted many battles in the west, recognized the role of both the government and the railroad in forcing the indigenous people onto reservations with no compensation beyond the promise of religious instruction and basic …

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It’s Glacier Park and it’s on Fire – Part 2

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More of the tour. According to the National Park Service (NPS), these are the notable distinctive features that set the mountains of Glacier NP apart from the rest of the Rockies:. There is the relatively flat lying Lewis Thrust sheet …

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It’s Glacier Park and it’s on Fire

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Although I was in no danger on the east side of the park, when I share the photos I took at Logan Pass, you’ll see that the post title isn’t entirely hyperbole. Among the last things I did yesterday was …

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