post a picture of yourself
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Arth,
Are you a big chap or do you just have a girly size chainsaw?
If it's the former then please disregard the latter :sulkoff:
LOL the guide bar is 16 inches not sure if that makes me look big or the chainsaw look girly.
Not a picture, but a video. This may give you a clue as to where my avatar comes from. The recording quality is not too good, as it was done on a mobile phone.
Geoff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxon8V-6re8
Geoff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxon8V-6re8
Our drummer used to get so animated when he played this that he reckoned he gave himself whiplash.
Geoff
I just googled Athabasca glacier (looks nice btw), and found on Wikipedia,
"The Athabasca Glacier is one of the six principal toes of the Columbia Icefield, located in the Canadian Rockies. Due to the warming climate, the glacier has receded more than 1.5 km in the past 125 years and lost over half of its volume. It currently recedes at a rate of 2-3 metres per year"
You begin to realise the seriousness when they put it like that!
I saw a couple pictures in one of the museums in chamonix a while back too of the mer de glace from there a hundred or so years back and the glacier today. An eyebrow-raising moment!
"The Athabasca Glacier is one of the six principal toes of the Columbia Icefield, located in the Canadian Rockies. Due to the warming climate, the glacier has receded more than 1.5 km in the past 125 years and lost over half of its volume. It currently recedes at a rate of 2-3 metres per year"
You begin to realise the seriousness when they put it like that!
I saw a couple pictures in one of the museums in chamonix a while back too of the mer de glace from there a hundred or so years back and the glacier today. An eyebrow-raising moment!
There were little signposts all the way up to the car park then continuing up the track to the glacier. The first one I noticed was for 1920 `ish I think and that seemed like miles away from the start of the icefield.
I couldn`t get over the fact that there were continous bus tours running that actually drove on the ice, right across the top of the glacier. You could see huge amounts of melt water running off the glacier and disappearing down a hole and off down the hill. BUT the most frustrating part was idiots walking onto the ice when there were signs everywhere asking you not to. There were information boards all the way up the track to the ice, and most of these told of people disappearing through the ice and into a crevass. Some were never seen again, some died instantly and one young girl only about 10 years ago got wedged in a crevass for a few days, rescuers were unable to free her and she died right there through hypothermia and exhaustion. Despite all the warnings folk just wondered off up onto the ice and away out of view.
Great place though and would recommend it to anyone, Canada is an awesome place.
Rich
