Comments on: Rocky Mountain (very) high

By: Craig Hartel

Craig Hartel — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:58:36 +0000

#10. @Phillip
I hear ya! But in this case, it would have to be “Coast-y Mountain high, British Columbia…”

Doesn’t roll off the tongue the same way, does it?

By: Phillip Helbig

Phillip Helbig — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:30:50 +0000

Is it sad that most readers won’t catch the John Denver reference?

By: Craig Hartel

Craig Hartel — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:31:50 +0000

I added the extra 22 seconds into the UTC time stamp, and found that this is indeed the Coast Mountains, and it is on the BC mainland just east of Vancouver Island. The long body of water you can see in the photo that runs south to north is Bute Inlet. The nose of Dragon is basically pointing right at the inlet.

Here are the coords I used in Google Earth: 50.75 n, 124.4 w – Eye altitude of approx 113km.

By: Avattoir

Avattoir — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 08:17:23 +0000

Jiminy: “about the only spot in Canada that escaped the last ice age.”

With due regard for your albio-vespuccian centricity and all that rot, the only of those spots I’ve seen, smelled, touched, rode around and slept under the stars on is Cypress Hills on the AlSask border (home of the world famous — scratch that — obscure yet beloved Elkwater Rodeo). The view of Jimmy Wales’ nibbelungian horde, which mentions the others, in the Gaspé, the Yukon & the Arctic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress_Hills_(Canada)

By: Fraser Cain

Fraser Cain — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:27:33 +0000

Hey, as everyone said, we don’t have any Rocky Mountains here on Vancouver Island. We have the Coastal Mountain Range over on the mainland, and then a series of ranges here on Vancouver Island. Our tallest mountain is a mere 7,208 feet – nothing like that monster you dragged me up last year in Boulder.

By: kevbo

kevbo — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:16:36 +0000

Holy moly, there’s a lot of us Republic of Vancouver Islanders on this blog…

By: Jiminy

Jiminy — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:50:39 +0000

It must be right over the center of the island over the Strathcona Park area. We don’t have a lot of really big mountains ( not compared to the rocky mountains) although many of those in and around the Strathcona Park area do have snow on the alpine areas well into June.

It’s a pretty tight shot, if it had been much wider it probably would have shown more green around it. Like I say, the areas that have snow on it is a pretty small section of Vancouver Island.

If anyone does look at Vancouver Island with Google Map, check out Brooks Peninsula Provincial Park, up on the north western area of the Island. It is about the only spot in Canada that escaped the last ice age.

Imagine, all of Canada covered with a sheet of mile thick ice except one little peninsula on the edge of an Island. Disney should make a half billion dollar movie about it that no one will watch.

By: Trebuchet

Trebuchet — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:29:11 +0000

The terrain, to me, actually looks more like the Rocky Mountains than Vancouver Island. Google Earth, here I come!

By: Doug Alder

Doug Alder — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:24:27 +0000

Phil – while the mountain may be rocky , if it’s over Vancouver Island then it is not the Rocky Mountains – those would be about 800km east of there The Vancouver Island Mountain chain is part of the Insular chain that runs down the coast of BC and through the Queen Charlotte Islands and Vancouver Island – they are part of the Pacific Coast Range

By: CoffeeCupContrails

CoffeeCupContrails — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:11:32 +0000

Just popped in to scream… “FRACTALS!!!”

Also, for those really confused about when to look for tomorrow’s transit, WolframAlpha is awesome.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=transit+of+venus

Tells me the exact time and illustrates what I can expect to see from Cincinnati. Sa-weeet!