Question For the Canadian readers

Bryan Heit <bjheit@NOSPAMucalgary.ca> muttered:

> That part of
> the country is truly the asshole of Canada - dirty, ugly, and
> nearly useless.

That's not a nice thing to say about Alberta.

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"Bryan Heit" <bjheit@NOSPAMucalgary.ca> wrote in message
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> Ours tend to be bigger, but then again, we have more space. I imagine
> that suffield is so large, not because it was intended that way, but
> rather because there wasn't any other use for the land. That part of
> the country is truly the asshole of Canada - dirty, ugly, and nearly
> useless.

Glad you said it, I didnt want to insult the national spirit without
provocation, but from the sattelite, it looks pretty fugly.

Stockton is the asshole of the Western US. When they give Kalifornia an
enema, Stockton is where they stick the hose.

Conversly, you guys have Banff, the Canadian Rockies and the Inside Passage.

In fact your nation is a lot like ours IMNSHO; as far as I am concerned you
can have everything east of the rockies and south of Garberville Kalifornia,
although we really did like Tennessee, and Boston aint bad as cities go, far
superior to LA or Dego. I'd rather take a beating than ever drive through or
near LA again.

> Makes sence.

> > I found it after Popeye wrote and said he was in Calgary. I had the
great
> > fortune of spending a weekend at the Banff Springs Hotel a couple years
ago,
> > so I was just looking around when the rings caught my eye.

> He shoulda dropped me a line - he could of gotten a few wobbly-pop's for
> free out of me. Always happy to meet in person someone from the board...

His new boss works him like a rented mule, he is often within distance of
us, but has no time to spare, and cant drink a drop.

He'll be back, but he was really motivated to get the **** out of Calgary.

nitespark wrote:

> Scott wrote:
>
>> 50.495333, -110.916844
>>
>> This is about the center of the sattelite image I found while playing
>> with
>> Google Earth, WTF is this place?
>>
>> With all the concentric rings and cross roads and such, it looks to me
>> like
>> an artillery range or some similar...
>>
>>
> Its a mock up of Montreal after their surrender to the Muslim terrorists.

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"Scott" <pugetsounddiver@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Bryan Heit" <bjheit@NOSPAMucalgary.ca> wrote in message

>> As for the concentric roads, I have no idea.
>
> No, the rings make perfect sense, many of our ranges are similar; units
> would move along the perifery and fire into the center, larger weapon,
> larger circle.
>
> Makes range control and safety easier.
>
> I found it after Popeye wrote and said he was in Calgary. I had the great
> fortune of spending a weekend at the Banff Springs Hotel a couple years
> ago,
> so I was just looking around when the rings caught my eye.

Concentric roads could be ammo bunkers, can you see any?

"Bryan Heit" <bjheit@NOSPAMucalgary.ca> wrote in message
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> He shoulda dropped me a line - he could of gotten a few wobbly-pop's for
> free out of me. Always happy to meet in person someone from the board...
>
> Bryan

Crap, I wish I coulda.

I'm on this trip from hell, pre-planned today from Grand Prairie to
Cheyenne to pick up a trailer from a breakdown, take it -back- to GP, then
to Pharr, Tx to load for Prince Edward Island.

Back to Knoxville, that's 10,000 miles.

I was in Calgary from probably midnight to 06:00.

I'll try next time, for sure.

I had dinner with Brian Nadwidny last night, he's -hilarious-, and the
Diver From Hell.

Hopefully, he and I can dive North Carolina together this year.

Thanks! Brian, for coming to rescue me!

Now it's time to give Dave a call!

"Douglas W "Popeye" Frederick" <Popeye@finalprotectivefire.com> wrote in
message news:131ba7tndtigc7d@news.supernews.com...
>
>
> "Bryan Heit" <bjheit@NOSPAMucalgary.ca> wrote in message
> news:ev31li$ivr$1@news.ucalgary.ca...
>
> > He shoulda dropped me a line - he could of gotten a few wobbly-pop's for
> > free out of me. Always happy to meet in person someone from the
board...
> >
> > Bryan
>
> Crap, I wish I coulda.
>
> I'm on this trip from hell, pre-planned today from Grand Prairie to
> Cheyenne to pick up a trailer from a breakdown, take it -back- to GP, then
> to Pharr, Tx to load for Prince Edward Island.
>
> Back to Knoxville, that's 10,000 miles.
>
> I was in Calgary from probably midnight to 06:00.
>
> I'll try next time, for sure.
>
> I had dinner with Brian Nadwidny last night, he's -hilarious-, and the
> Diver From Hell.
>
> Hopefully, he and I can dive North Carolina together this year.
>
> Thanks! Brian, for coming to rescue me!
>
> Now it's time to give Dave a call!

Awesome.

Brian is a true soul.

If there is anything you could take from the trip that is good, brian is one
of them.

Crop Circles.

Meeting you and having a face-to-face was a great pleasure. Even
though we've never met eye-to-eye before, it was like meeting up with
a brother. We gotta do it again. I'm not sure if I'll be around for
your return trip to GP as I leave for Vegas on Thursday but the way
people are buying boats up here (presumably to float in their
bathtubs) I'll be seeing a lot of you as long as oil prices stay
high.

As for Suffield, I spent a few days there about 5 years ago as a guest
of the 1PPCLI. I got to ride around in their new (back then) LAV3s and
check out the area. It is truly a desolate area which is most likely
the reason that the military decided way back when to dedicate it to
getting the crap shelled, bombed, tanked, LAVed out of it. The Brits
love it and have a dedicated training facility there. When I went out
we rode around for a day in the LAV3s and set up a bivouac or laager
(or whatever they called it) that evening. As it was time for me to go
home they sent me back in the Quartermaster's half ton. It took an
hour to get to the base. Suffield is a big area of sweet fuck all.
Funniest thing is when the LAV I was on; in the midst of all this
dryness and dust, found the only wetspot within 100 miles and got
stuck in this tiny depression of maybe 12'x12'. It was so weird
because that spot didn't look any different from the surrounding
terrain. Also there are a few ghost towns in the area, remnants of the
Depression, but the guys I was with said that they are mostly just
foundations and dust.

Brian
Edmonton, Alberta


On Apr 5, 7:57 pm, "Douglas W \"Popeye\" Frederick"
<Pop...@finalprotectivefire.com> wrote:
>
> Crap, I wish I coulda.
>
> I'm on this trip from hell, pre-planned today from Grand Prairie to
> Cheyenne to pick up a trailer from a breakdown, take it -back- to GP, then
> to Pharr, Tx to load for Prince Edward Island.
>
> Back to Knoxville, that's 10,000 miles.
>
> I was in Calgary from probably midnight to 06:00.
>
> I'll try next time, for sure.
>
> I had dinner with Brian Nadwidny last night, he's -hilarious-, and the
> Diver From Hell.
>
> Hopefully, he and I can dive North Carolina together this year.
>
> Thanks! Brian, for coming to rescue me!
>
> Now it's time to give Dave a call!

<scuba.edmonton@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1175843769.232399.148540@l77g2000hsb.googlegr oups.com...
> Meeting you and having a face-to-face was a great pleasure. Even
> though we've never met eye-to-eye before, it was like meeting up with
> a brother. We gotta do it again. I'm not sure if I'll be around for
> your return trip to GP as I leave for Vegas on Thursday but the way
> people are buying boats up here (presumably to float in their
> bathtubs) I'll be seeing a lot of you as long as oil prices stay
> high.
>
> As for Suffield, I spent a few days there about 5 years ago as a guest
> of the 1PPCLI. I got to ride around in their new (back then) LAV3s and
> check out the area. It is truly a desolate area which is most likely
> the reason that the military decided way back when to dedicate it to
> getting the crap shelled, bombed, tanked, LAVed out of it. The Brits
> love it and have a dedicated training facility there. When I went out
> we rode around for a day in the LAV3s and set up a bivouac or laager
> (or whatever they called it) that evening. As it was time for me to go
> home they sent me back in the Quartermaster's half ton. It took an
> hour to get to the base. Suffield is a big area of sweet fuck all.
> Funniest thing is when the LAV I was on; in the midst of all this
> dryness and dust, found the only wetspot within 100 miles and got
> stuck in this tiny depression of maybe 12'x12'. It was so weird
> because that spot didn't look any different from the surrounding
> terrain. Also there are a few ghost towns in the area, remnants of the
> Depression, but the guys I was with said that they are mostly just
> foundations and dust.
>
> Brian
> Edmonton, Alberta

Sounds like Shiprock New Mexico...

Douglas W "Popeye" Frederick wrote:
> "Bryan Heit" <bjheit@NOSPAMucalgary.ca> wrote in message
> news:ev31li$ivr$1@news.ucalgary.ca...
>
>> He shoulda dropped me a line - he could of gotten a few wobbly-pop's for
>> free out of me. Always happy to meet in person someone from the board...
>>
>> Bryan
>
> Crap, I wish I coulda.
>
> I'm on this trip from hell, pre-planned today from Grand Prairie to
> Cheyenne to pick up a trailer from a breakdown, take it -back- to GP, then
> to Pharr, Tx to load for Prince Edward Island.
>
> Back to Knoxville, that's 10,000 miles.
>
> I was in Calgary from probably midnight to 06:00.
>
> I'll try next time, for sure.
>
> I had dinner with Brian Nadwidny last night, he's -hilarious-, and the
> Diver From Hell.
>
> Hopefully, he and I can dive North Carolina together this year.
>
> Thanks! Brian, for coming to rescue me!
>
> Now it's time to give Dave a call!


Shit, that's a long trip. Next time, hopefully, but I'm a few months
away from uprooting my arse and moving to Toronto...

Bryan