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Post by Hard Rock Cafe on Jul 28, 2011 10:35:32 GMT -5
We're off to a camping trip in Glacier National Park tomorrow. Does anybody have any rockhounding recommendations along the way from Minneapolis that would be easy on the wife and kids?
I've got plenty of Montana (Moss) Agate and I'm not too interested in the sapphire gravel, although we may do that if we get tired of Glacier.
I'm mostly an agate person, although I won't turn up my nose at good jasper, if that helps.
Thanks in advance! Chuck
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 28, 2011 14:06:43 GMT -5
Black diamonds in the Lewistown area,up on the Judith mountains.........Easy finds and diggings too.....Easy drive to location with car and a great view for lunch...... Glendive,MT area has montana agates and fossils,plus dino bone.......
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Post by Hard Rock Cafe on Aug 8, 2011 12:06:48 GMT -5
Just got back. Thanks for the tip on the dobe diamonds in Lewistown! A little hard to find, but had fun collecting them.
I was in Glendive collecting agate over Memorial Day. It's still really wet there and difficult to get a hotel room because of the ND oil boom.
Chuck
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Post by Fossilman on Aug 8, 2011 15:58:58 GMT -5
Glad you had fun collecting...............Glacier is the only place I haven't been to in Montana so far-even lived there for 26 years-LOL.........I go to Glendive alot.but I have cousins there(that helps on the stay)..... How was Glacier?
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Post by Hard Rock Cafe on Aug 9, 2011 13:54:42 GMT -5
Glacier was fantastic; absolutely beautiful. Great weather, too. Saw my first grizzly while hiking.
They're predicting that the glaciers will all be gone by 2020. There is a photo exhibit in the Many Glacier Hotel that shows how much the glaciers have receded in the last 100 years.
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chassroc
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Post by chassroc on Aug 9, 2011 15:23:24 GMT -5
You better be quiet about the Glaciers melting. That's Political heresy around here.
charlie
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Post by Hard Rock Cafe on Aug 15, 2011 13:07:59 GMT -5
I know what you mean, but I don't think there's any debate that they're melting. Some want to debate the cause.
Chuck
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Post by grayfingers on Aug 15, 2011 14:04:20 GMT -5
Well, the thing is they have been melting for a long time, Everyone has a right to believe as they see best, but the park's glaciers have been slowly melting away since about 1850, when the centuries-long Little Ice Age ended. The climate in Glacier is presently warming, a weather station inside Glacier National Park that shows the average temperature for the last decade there was 2 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the station's 1950-1979 average. IMHO there is no proof that this is due to (man-caused) global warming. We do not have enough historical data to support the theory of man-caused climate change. In the case in Glacier, these glaciers have been melting long before mankind was able to produce much CO2. Having said that, I am all for clean energy, energy conservation and especially energy independence. I can not support the drastic knee-jerk measures some claim to be needed. We need to make decisive but careful decisions to find a reasonable balance between the two extreme views on this issue. This is what Keith Fellbaum, of Little Falls, Minn., (a former Glacier Park engineer and was later chief of maintenance) has to say about the glaciers. He started working there in 1963. www.dailyinterlake.com/news/local_montana/article_51fc3a44-4f3f-11df-a1a9-001cc4c03286.htmlGlad you had a nice trip, it is beautiful country.
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Post by tanyafrench on Aug 16, 2011 11:05:28 GMT -5
That would be a great trip, so glad you were able to see the glaciers.
Grayfingers, thanks so much for posting to this link! What you say helps stem a lot of the Global Warming critics. I loved reading the article and it gives me ammo for those who feel that we are causing all the problems. I do believe in preserving our natural beauty and preserving our forests and plains but I don't feel we have caused global warming.
Tanya
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Post by skystone on Aug 16, 2011 11:40:19 GMT -5
Well I generaly don't like to get into the "global warming" thing. But what you don't hear from all the "people are doing it" crowd. Is that volcanoes pump out thousands & thousands of cubic feet of CO2 when they blow up. How many have blown their tops since Mt St Hellens? Mt Penatubo, a couple just recently in Iceland, My Killaweya(sp?) has been blowing for years & on & on. They've pumped out more green house gases in the last 20 years than man has. Not to mention if you speak to astronimers. They will tell you the sun has been in a cycle of increased activity (normal) for the last 20 years. The global warming people only look at (or tell you) about the last 20 years. So is it man-made or naturally occuring cycles? The Sahara desert was a forested area a few thousand years ago. Was that man-made? Or a natural cycle? Heck we've been warming ever since the Ice Age 10,000 years ago (or so) Mike
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