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Nice pics. Those red rocks are concretions. Sediment in the bottom of a river way back when collected around something, possibly organic. Kind of like a pearl, they grow bigger over time as sediment builds up around it. Usually there might be a fossil inside, I've picked up a few ammonites that way. I've had people tell me they're glacial, but it's pretty doubtful anything made of sandstone would last long under a glacier.

That's awesome.. There was a guy up the road a few miles from where my parents now live that hauled a horse to local brandings in the back of his pickup, without stock racks mind you.. Never saw it (way before my time) but have heard it from a number of people.

Kind of a different way to look at take out food I guess..

Just recycled a bit more of my breakfast.. Damn thats funny.

I know of a guy that had a pissed-off Black go right through the cab of his truck when he was tagging calves.. he apparently didn't get the driver door shut quick enough and had her hot on his heels as he went out the passenger door. That bit about the Shetland just made me squirt milk out my nose I laughed so hard..

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Some interesting ways to transport livestock..

Definitely nowhere near a city. I have a bit of a soft spot for the Yukon and NWT, but doubt I'd be able to handle more winter than I already get. There are parts of Sask. that I don't mind at all. Definitely a different outlook than the "every minute of the day is life or death" Alberta attitude. I'd like to check out the Maritimes for sure. Beautiful I hear. I guess my ideal, and has been for a while, would be a few sections, the more the better, around Nanton area,or somewhere in the foothills. Close to the mountains, neighbors a ways off, at the end of a dead end road.

They're supposed to be in the Red Deer river valley, never seen one there though. They glow under a black light, I've meant to try that but haven't got around to it. I've seen them in Writing-on-Stone, they're not very big, for sure.

Switched and doubt I'd go back. Got a 250 GB hard drive, gonna get an external, HD video eats a pile of memory I've found. Got Aperture, like it quite a bit, haven't had any issues yet as far as viruses. Got a 13 " mainly because I travel with it alot, fits anywhere. Itunes is great, haven't really explored alot of the other stuff. I'm a convert for sure.

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They're all over out this way also.

We used to go for them on the east side of the Red Deer in Dinosaur Park. Right below the old Steveville ferryman's house. The trees were covered with ling, burbot, a nail between the eyes and a pair o' pliers to peel the skin off. I was never crazy about eating them, though. Pulled some pretty decent sized ones out of there. Look like salamanders I always thought.

Here's a pic. He was using a skinning knife too, and made pretty short work of those whiteys, filleted perfectly.

Early in the season I usually see whities holding in pools out West. I won't hesitate to stick on a GRHE and pop a few for fun. They are certainly slimy in my eyes, about the only thing I don't really care for. When I went through the north, the natives I talked to looked at you like you'd just got off a spaceship if you said you ate any pike. They were all about whitefish and inconnu, and had little interest in anything else it seemed. Odd, I found, we ate pike every time we got them. I guess they saw more food value in whiteys and coneys. A guy I met in Tuktoyaktuk was netting them (also called "square hooks") in the bay across from town, I met him while wandering around, and offered to give him a hand. He cleaned a couple and gave them to me, and went through all the parts they use, which included the stomach and eyeballs. Not much they didn't use. He gave me fillets and egg sacks, and said it was best fried. The fish was decent, the eggs, not bad.(Maybe moreso because we were hungry..) I managed to get a couple inconnu on spinning gear, fight like hell and get up around 40 lbs. Heard them called "freshwater tarpon", which may be true, never fished tarpon myself. I've been trying to get a lake whitey on a fly, only taken a couple cracks at them, but getting close. Goldeye are another "trash fish" or at least undesireable, when we used to go for lake sturgeon, that I saw in a different light after getting them on dries. I don't mind catching whiteys, around 20 " they're a riot I think, they'll hammer dries too I've found. It would be preferable to me if every whitey I caught would spit the hook just before I landed it though.

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That toque is awesome.

Try uploading it to a web photo site, like Flickr or something, then download it back from the site. I use a Mac and export it to the desktop from the pic program. Always check the file type and size you're using. This way works for me, gets the files small enough to post. But I'm pretty computer-illiterate, so I'd bet there's an easier way.

Nice flick. Sabotage was a nice touch.

Awesome pics

Hehe.. Why do Dutchmen wear wooden shoes? To keep the woodpeckers off their head..

I know some people from that area, Elbow, Hawarden, etc. that said they ship some trout from that farm to NYC? Probably goes for big bucks too. Kinda interested me, we've got 3 dugouts that are unoccupied.. Aerate 'em and raise rainbows for the NYC restaurant scene??? As for backcountry fishin', if Taco and I got together we'd probably have to worry more about woodpeckers than bears..