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Blaze Creek FSR
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And I was a little excited, my son having left me his car for a month, to finally get out and do some exploring.
On google maps I noticed Blaze Creek FSR, which leads off and through many switchbacks eventually comes to the west shore on the east arm of Kootenay Lake.
I'd tried it years before, failed, the road was closed off, deactivated, and so I hoped that somehow it had been reactivated.
A long drive to no results. Still closed off, and so exploring a few other places I've explored countless times before, I'm going to need a few days off in a row, time to gather up my pack and walk into the woods, it's the only way. Find new horizons, new treasures, this summer so far has been a bust but it's all there, there are too many signs and wonders.
Pi
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Epiphanies.
I've often puzzled over the irreducible nature of Pi.
Then I had that little flash, light-went-on in my head, Pi - by it's nature describing the relation of the circumference to the diameter, is an irrational number that somewhere within it contains all other numbers. All possibilities, all realities are compassed within Pi, hence it must be irreducible, it is infinite and unbounded.
And it's corollary, the symbol of infinity, an 8 on it's side - ∞ - is simply a circle warped into 3 dimensions. As writing must by it's nature reduce something to 2 dimensions we have the explanation.
The simple things. Math would have been a lot easier had we just gotten to the point.
Athanasius Kircher's map of the interior of the earth
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Not much help to the prospector, but an amazing work of art.
The Family Jamboree
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10 years, give or take, since the last one.
Saskatchewan, 4 days driving, 2 day visit, no time to visit Moose Jaw.
Exploring Regina, the Palliser Limestone buildings, old buildings, character buildings, the downtown, spread out, perpetually under construction, the outskirts, train warehouses, the shortened prairie trees that offer no shade, the vast, sweeping, unending prairie, the shorebirds on alkali flats, had I more time ten thousand places I should return to and explore, photograph, but the days, they're spent with relatives, catching up, the Family dynamics.
I must return, to take pictures, explore further, while on the surface there's nothing there there are an abundance of old buildings, churches, short creeks and hollows, places to screen for arrowheads, artifacts, but this trip, not wasted, spent on people, but in the future I can see a summer spent just going town to town, covering every back road with a pan and screen, taking pictures. Something to work towards.
A big, big sky.
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