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^^^^WOW those "ape-hangers" sure look stupid, and how would you control the bike ?

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Originally Posted by craigster59 (Post 8860952)

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Lake Louise?

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Originally Posted by look 171 (Post 8861068)

Lake Louise?

That's my guess too. That whole Banff area is spectacular.

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Originally Posted by Craig T (Post 8861077)

That's my guess too. That whole Banff area is spectacular.

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One winter, my wife and I walked half way across the frozen Lake Louise. My wife freaked out all the way there and back. Beautiful county up there.

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Originally Posted by look 171 (Post 8861068)

Lake Louise?

Yes, 1910.

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Originally Posted by Craig T (Post 8861077)

That's my guess too. That whole Banff area is spectacular.

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I took a canoe out on that lake in '75, that water was so clear.

it was really cold too!

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Originally Posted by sammyg2 (Post 8861175)

it was really cold too!

And deep

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Originally Posted by masraum (Post 8861201)

And deep

I believe one feller come from Arkansas. Uh huh.

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it's 230 feet deep uh huh.

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Originally Posted by sammyg2 (Post 8860877)

Any tar on that beach came from NATURAL seepage.
There is oil under almost all of the ground of So Cal. Some of it comes to the surface under the ocean, mostly prevalent in Santa Barbara and Carpinteria, but it also seeps from long beach up to Malibu.
But cha can't blame it on big bad companies, it's all mother nature.

Fascinating sammyg2.

What are Oil and Gas Seeps? - USGS PCMSC

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Oil and gas seeps are natural springs where liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons (hydrogen-carbon compounds) leak out of the ground. Whereas freshwater springs are fed by underground pools of water, oil and gas seeps are fed by natural underground accumulations of oil and natural gas.

Schematic drawing of Earth's crust; see caption at left.At right, the schematic shows a vertical slice through the Earth's crust, with folded layers of sedimentary rocks holding oil and gas in the crest of an underground fold. Sometimes oil leaks out of the fold and forms a natural oil seep at the land surface.

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Oil that leaks to the Earth's surface is eventually transformed from a clear fluid to a tar-like substance called asphaltum. The lighter components of the oil are lost to evaporation, and the remaining heavier oil is oxidized and degraded by bacteria until it becomes sticky and black. In this photo at right, asphaltum from a cliff-side seep near Santa Barbara, California, forms a hard, rolling surface that looks like old, worn pavement. Asphaltum from this and similar seeps may have been collected by the Chumash Indians to caulk their canoes.
Photo by I. Priestaf. From Onshore Oil and Gas Seeps in California.

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2000 yr old Asphaultum Hafting
Texas Arrowheads .com - An Asphaultum Covered Artifact from Harris Co.
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This is a rare find for my part of the world.

In both Central Texas and along the Middle Texas coast the rains and associated humidity have washed away almost everything that is even remotely perishable. So you can imagine my surprise when I witnessed my friend Tim Page find this asphaultum covered artifact in the bottom of a Harris county creek!

Asphaultum washes up from the oil rich gulf of Mexico on the beaches here. While many people today mistake this asphaultum on the beaches for pollution from our offshore oil drilling activities, it has in fact been washing up naturally throughout time.

The Texas Indians were quick to take advantage of any gifts of nature and this naturally occurring asphalt was no exception. In late prehistoric times it was used to coat the inside of clay pots to make them more waterproof. All the way back into paleo times it was used to help haft projectile points. Asphaultum is most commonly seen as residue on points or other hafted artifacts. This point still has all of the asphaultum hafting left on it. Perhaps it survived because it was entirely under water, at any rate I was simply amazed to see it found!