Tagged With "Badlands"
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Re: An introduction to Alberta's Badlands: Hiking in Horseshoe Canyon
The visible geological processes, and the stubborn persistence of life among them, are just fascinating...Thanks for the view!
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day. April 22, 2014: Alberta's Badlands
Very cool place to visit! With it also being so close to Calgary it can be your main focus of a vacation or just a stop on the way.
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day. April 22, 2014: Alberta's Badlands
Hi Archie, Welcome to TravelGumbo! Maybe sometime you can share with us some of the beautiful scenery in Saskatchewan.
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, May 21st, 2014: Hoodoos
I'm always amazed by the effects of differential erosion in the badlands, SCP! Beautiful images which are immensely more effective than those showing the hoodoos with the walkways surrounding them now. Thanks for sharing these!
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, May 21st, 2014: Hoodoos
I love when aspects conspire to produce startling events, like when we run into a friend in a completely unlikely place. In this case, elements and forces running into each other to produce this other-worldly landscape. Nature making a joke or art, not sure which. Maybe both.
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August 28, 2018: Night Sky over the Drumheller Hoodoos
Pierre shares some photos of a beautiful night sky over the hoodoos in the Alberta badlands.
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, June 9, 2015: World's Richest Deposits of Dinosaur Bones, Dinosaur Provincial Park
Here are some pictures I took during a recent visit to Dinosaur Provincial Park, which is located about a 3 hour drive east of Calgary, near the town of Brooks. Arriving at the park is like stepping into another world. It is said that the...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day. April 22, 2014: Alberta's Badlands
Driving 1.5 hours northeast from Calgary over the prairies, the landscape changes suddenly from rolling grassland and grain crops to dramatically eroded hilly layered sedimentary rock formations. These are Alberta's Badlands, a rough...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, May 21st, 2014: Hoodoos
The name “hoodoo” comes from the word “voodoo” and was given to these geological formations by the Europeans. They are found throughout the Drumheller Badlands in Alberta. The Blackfoot and Cree believe the...
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An introduction to Alberta's Badlands: Hiking in Horseshoe Canyon
Most of the hikes I've featured on TravelGumbo are in Alberta's Rocky Mountains, with good reason. The scenery in these mountains is truly spectacular, the altitude not overly taxing, and the long summer days are usually dry and sunny. But...
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Monument Rocks, Kansas (Where Gumbo Was #321)
Gumbo was visiting Monument Rocks in Kansas. These are eroded rock formations in the "Badlands", rich in aquatic fossils and natural beauty.
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March 1, 2019: A Day in Drumheller
DrFumblefinger spends a day in Drumheller with some visitors, and shares photos of some of what they saw.
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Re: August 28, 2018: Night Sky over the Drumheller Hoodoos
Beautiful night photos. StillCountryPhotos posted photos of the Drumheller hoodoos photographed in daylight some years back in case you'd like to see the landscape of the area. https://www.travelgumbo.com/blo...ay-21st-2014-hoodoos
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September 10, 2020: USS Enterprise, Vulcan
DrFumblefinger visits this copy of the Starship Enterprise, situated in the Badlands town of Vulcan, Alberta.
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Red Rock Coulee Nature Area, Alberta
DrFumblefinger visits the seldom visited but interesting rock formations of Red Rock Coulee in southeastern Alberta.
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Re: Red Rock Coulee Nature Area, Alberta
I've always been fascinated by geological rock formations ever since I signed up for a college course in Geology that was my final course allowing me to graduate before being drafted in the US Army.
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Alberta Badlands
Jonathan L offers a view of the Alberta Badlands, near the town of Drumheller.
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Two Small Churches in Alberta's Badlands
DrFumblefinger visits two largely abandoned churches in the small Badlands town of Dorothy, Alberta.
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Bad Boys of the Badlands
DrFumblefinger comes across this group of bighorn rams in the unseasonably early snow of the South Dakota Badlands.
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Atlas Coal National Historic Site, Alberta
Gumbo was visiting the Atlas Coal Mine in Alberta's Badlands, just south of Drumheller. It is the best-preserved historic coal mine in Canada and the only one with its tall wooden tipple preserved.
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Alberta Badlands, Canada
Jonathan L gives as a beautiful picture of Alberta, Canada's Badlands, near the town of Drumheller.
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Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Badlands National Park
Samantha shares some pictures of a couple of Bighorn Sheep she saw while in Badlands National Park in South Dakota.