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Extreme Frontiers Canada.
« on: June 02, 2012, 12:36:52 AM »
I get to watch a little TV from time to time, mainly online from the OZ ABC and SBS. Just watched the last episode of Extreme Frontiers travelling across Canada and some of the scenery is truly amazing. OZ is old, very old in fact and its really different to Canada which has that new look with high mountains, many lakes, forests, tundra, arctic circle torrain, fast rivers, waterfalls etc etc .... a truly fascinating place. Shame its so PHUKING cold.  :P
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Re: Extreme Frontiers Canada.
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2012, 01:46:00 AM »
Canada, beautiful country and the canucks can be canuts at times.  :biggrin:

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It was so dry last week around Virden, Manitoba, that frogs were poundin' on the screen door, askin' for a dipper of water.

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How cold was it last night in southern Ontario? I saw a squirrel towing a blue jay to get it started south.

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Re: Extreme Frontiers Canada.
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2012, 07:10:57 AM »
Last summer when EDGAR took his vacation in Banff,...he wrote a couple of posts telling us how great it was.
I was doing an online search (as I was thinking of visiting the area myself),...and, I discovered this Trip Report on a well-known climbing and mountaineering website: Cycling and Scrambling from Calgary to Vancouver. The description is fairly interesting,...but, what was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, was the Image Gallery that the author included with the article (at the bottom of the page):
Image Gallery for Cycling and Scrambling from Calgary to Vancouver

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Re: Extreme Frontiers Canada.
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2012, 08:29:30 AM »
Canada, beautiful country and the canucks can be canuts at times.  :biggrin:

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It was so dry last week around Virden, Manitoba, that frogs were poundin' on the screen door, askin' for a dipper of water.

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How cold was it last night in southern Ontario? I saw a squirrel towing a blue jay to get it started south.

Jim Carrey - Canada

Umm.... that is only in the winter and the most northern Provinces with almost no population
Here is Toronto's news channel http://www.cp24.com/
In the summer time ...actually this year starting in the spring we had heat alerts and extreme smog advisory  ....
It is the humidity that gets you here .....
In the winter (not all places ) yeah your snot freezes to your face but that is only November to February some northern places middle of march .....
right now you need the air conditioning on
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Re: Extreme Frontiers Canada.
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2012, 09:41:02 AM »
oh - you are Canadian - NOW we know !

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Re: Extreme Frontiers Canada.
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2012, 06:55:35 AM »
oh - you are Canadian - NOW we know !

Not to mess with you but just when you thought you knew ..... :dazzled:
I can speak with Bogdan in his natural tong fluently...
Can't read or write in it
 
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Re: Extreme Frontiers Canada.
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2012, 09:46:51 AM »
i forget - he's either Hungarian or Bulgarian - a gypsy, as i recall

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Re: Extreme Frontiers Canada.
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2012, 09:47:40 AM »
i forget - he's either Hungarian or Bulgarian - a gypsy, as i recall

LOL
Romanian
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Re: Extreme Frontiers Canada.
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2012, 09:58:51 AM »
that's the one

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Re: Extreme Frontiers Canada.
« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2012, 12:07:50 PM »
You may like this one, long ago I learnt how to read and write classical and common Greek and while I am rusty, I can still generally read the words, I just forget what they all mean. Some years ago my local shop keeper was Greek and his son Jim (Dimitri) could speak and understand Greek but could not read or write it. Between the two of us we could read the Greek News papers.  :P
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Re: Extreme Frontiers Canada.
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2012, 12:19:43 PM »
@ Hutch I am addicted to souvlaki (National Greek dish) ..... Stop talking about Greeks I am getting hungry

http://www.mrgreek.com/      (Click on the menu )

I had that last night
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Re: Extreme Frontiers Canada.
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2012, 01:26:46 PM »
Well, first of all hi to everyone, I've been away from the net for a while. I'm out in Banff, Alberta, Canada and I just got into a campground where there is cellular service and consequently high speed service for my laptop via rocketstick. Having travelled most of my country I have to say that I prefer the mountains, I camp, white water raft and climb here for much of the summer months (winter to you Steve). Yes our winters are cold but they have to be to freeze the lakes so we can play the only real sport - Hockey. I prefer summer to winter but there's a lot to do in the winter like hockey, snow mobiling, skiing and best of all finding a nice blonde to keep you warm.

At any rate I'm off to Lake Louise in the next day or two and may not be able to connect there but I check in when I can and if I had bought the bandwidth I would upload some pics. There's a reason we call Canada the most beautiful place on earth...because it is. By the way Steve, we do have a summer here, though you wouldn't think it by the spring we've been having out west, cold and wet.

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Re: Extreme Frontiers Canada.
« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2012, 08:19:01 PM »
have fun Edgar   :t

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Re: Extreme Frontiers Canada.
« Reply #13 on: June 21, 2012, 03:22:13 AM »
Well look at that link that I posted a few posts up ...you can see Toronto's news and weather ...
Today it is 35 Celsius and with the humidity it is over 46 degrees Celsius.....
not so nice to be out ....this will go on for 3 days straight  :(
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Re: Extreme Frontiers Canada.
« Reply #14 on: June 21, 2012, 03:27:42 AM »
you're preaching to the choir
the temps will be around 110 F here for the next few days...
...and for the next few months after that

in Arizona, we have 2 seasons; Hot and Not-quite-as-hot