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maldonsfecht maldonsfecht:

novachick novachick:

maldonsfecht maldonsfecht:

I'd have loved the Olympic symbol to have been a kilted Highland soldier in a redcoat... but then that doesn't represent "culture" or "diversity..." hahaha guess I'll have to wait for the Halifax olympics for that one...

Halifax Olympics With Kelly as our mayor That'll happen

That was a good one

a man can dream.. a man can dream... haha

besides, I want THE DINGLE to get int'l renown

Pretty spot though isn't it

[maldonsfecht]

and how

[raydan]

I've been away from NS for a long time.
I remember going to the Canada Summer Games in 1969.

[maldonsfecht]

a bit before my time... so I missed out on the excitement my folks were there though

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I love inukshuks,any hoe operator has made one with boulders at one time or another.
I build em everywhere I go,even the shitter.

[raydan]

From WIKI:
Officials in various wilderness parks across Canada are forced to routinely dismantle inuksuit constructed by hikers and campers, for fear that they could misdirect park visitors from the actual cairns and other markers that mark various hiking trails. The practice of erecting inuksuit in parks has become so widespread that Killarney Provincial Park, on the north shore of Ontario's Georgian Bay, issued a notice in 2007 urging visitors to “stop the invasion” of inuksuit.[12] In some areas, including Northern Ontario, a large number of inuksuit have also been constructed along the Trans-Canada Highway.

[novachick]

raydan raydan:

From WIKI:
Officials in various wilderness parks across Canada are forced to routinely dismantle inuksuit constructed by hikers and campers, for fear that they could misdirect park visitors from the actual cairns and other markers that mark various hiking trails. The practice of erecting inuksuit in parks has become so widespread that Killarney Provincial Park, on the north shore of Ontario's Georgian Bay, issued a notice in 2007 urging visitors to “stop the invasion” of inuksuit.[12] In some areas, including Northern Ontario, a large number of inuksuit have also been constructed along the Trans-Canada Highway.

Don't give a rat's ass I still love my Inuksuit

[raydan]

novachick novachick:

raydan raydan:

From WIKI:
Officials in various wilderness parks across Canada are forced to routinely dismantle inuksuit constructed by hikers and campers, for fear that they could misdirect park visitors from the actual cairns and other markers that mark various hiking trails. The practice of erecting inuksuit in parks has become so widespread that Killarney Provincial Park, on the north shore of Ontario's Georgian Bay, issued a notice in 2007 urging visitors to “stop the invasion” of inuksuit.[12] In some areas, including Northern Ontario, a large number of inuksuit have also been constructed along the Trans-Canada Highway.

Don't give a rat's ass I still love my Inuksuit

I've done a lot a trails in Québec, the Maritimes and New England.
A lot of cairns to mark the trails.
I've seen people build them, not realizing the repercussions or not giving a shit.

Building them in your own backyard though, I've not nothing against that.

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Every morning when I walk into security at the prison to trade in my drivers licence for a security clearance tag I walk by an Inukshuk,right at the front doors.

In Nunavut an Inukshuk can be a single rock standing upright on a hill side to signify a good fishing spot or the spot ookpik was buried after getting half eaten by a polar bear.

After a few years you can pick them all out,first few years they just looked like rocks to me,once pointed out,hmmmm,there all over the place,some lead the way home,some tell where shelter is.

My best friend who died a few years ago from cancer was a mountain surveyor and built a lot of inukshuks on the tops of mountains every chance he had.
They were his personal guides in case he ever went back,plus he was like me and was happiest in the mountains or flying around in a chopper to places not many see.

[sandorski]

Oh, I need to go build one. Don't have rocks though, I wonder if cardboard boxes will work?

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The inukshuk I built in the shitter was at discovery camp last september after the roof blew of while the heli pilot was taking a dump.heh heh!

As Camp manager it was my duty to build a new one the next day but the pilot and his engineer had piled rocks in the shitter to keep it standing,they left the roof for me,so I built an inukshuk.

[Lemmy]

How Canadian is that? A goddamn Inukshuk in the shitter....

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Lemmy Lemmy:

How Canadian is that? A goddamn Inukshuk in the shitter....

That camps only ten miles north of Rankin inlet,I would never build one on the tundra,that would get me set out on an ice floe naked if the locals got lost because of it.

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[Strutz]

jimzie jimzie:

What is it with city folk and piling rocks?

City folk? Until the 2010 organizers decided to use this as a symbol I really don't think there were many in "the city". Besides you live in Calgary, last I checked this was still a city .

I was suprised to see this be the Olympic symbol but I think it is a "politically correct" choice. Really doesn't bother me, like everything else to do with the party we're paying for but unable to attend. What were they going to use...a beaver smoking a doobie? Oh...that's right...the torch is covering that particular part of our culture.