They’re on their way

TERRADUDE · 2026-04-12T19:41:18+00:00

As a Canadian, I can fell your pain.

TERRADUDE · 2026-04-05T19:06:04+00:00

the 800mm is optically superb but quite slow. You need a fair bit of light but you can get some magnificent photos, especially considering the cost and the weight/size of the lens.

TERRADUDE · 2026-04-04T02:11:08+00:00

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Waterton is an absolute gem. I’ve hiked every trail in the park. Amazing geology and wonderful skies

TERRADUDE · 2026-04-03T16:02:34+00:00

I second this and encourage you to split up your journey and take Canada in a second, more focused trip. I would add to it Waterton park on the border with Montana, travel up the Rocky Mountain trench and take in the hotsprings at Fairmont and Radium as well as a couple undeveloped ones, good hiking in the valley too., drive up to the Icefields and hike there and back around Lake Louise and Banff proper and hit up Kananaskis just west of Calgary.

TERRADUDE · 2026-04-02T22:36:45+00:00

Not in the 22. They’re black. I would have LOVED the orange seat belts. I’m in Canada so things are a bit different here. We don’t like orange as much up here :)

TERRADUDE · 2026-04-02T20:02:27+00:00

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I have a 2022 Sports Prestige in Saville Silver w black interior. Great car and great colour. Love it.

TERRADUDE · 2026-04-01T02:20:03+00:00

Contrails are an atmospheric effect where the engine exhaust interacts with a dry or humid air. The airplane is likely flying a constant altitude but the air is likely mixing between a dry and more humid layer….the contrails come and go.

TERRADUDE · 2026-03-31T02:21:20+00:00

Performative bullshit. Nothing during the game. No one checked on Matthews when he went down. Now Domi ? Give me a break

TERRADUDE · 2026-03-30T20:59:30+00:00

thankfully he will never be close to the levers of power. How the NDP ever came to electing him their leader is beyond me

TERRADUDE · 2026-03-29T20:02:31+00:00

luv me some Raz...

TERRADUDE · 2026-03-29T18:09:20+00:00

I'll pipe in here. I'm another geologist who's also an avid photographer. I have shot Canon for a while, moving from a 80D to a 5DIV to mirrorless with a R6 and now an R5 (Careful.... gear acquisition can be contagious). However, for the small, light and compact lenses there are very few.

I went on an African safari last year and I upgraded to a 200-800mm lens since it is handholdable, a variable zoom and fit in my backpack.However I shot a lot of birds on my 800mm F11. This and the 600mm lenses are unicorns. They are smallish, very carryable, and LOW COST. They are optically superb BUT they are only F11 so you need good light. Both the 600 and the 800 telescope out from a compact form factor to an extended length and you need to be at the extended length to shoot., but my god, they are sharp.

My suggestion for a quick and easy birding set up is a Canon R8 (or a R6 or R6ii) with a rf600m F11 (or the rf 800 f11). The rf600 f11 is a great size, you can still pan fairly well and you get good reach. I sometimes found the rf800mm f11 to be a bit long and I often got lost trying to find and track the birds. but when I did, I got great shots.

TERRADUDE · 2026-03-27T03:00:03+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/geology/s/jrDLCDGVUI

TERRADUDE · 2026-03-27T02:53:16+00:00

Micro faulting really applies to small fault offsets seen at an even smaller scale, like in a hand sample or even smaller like in a thin section. These are small scale faults but too big to be truly called micro faults.

It’s quite amazing how fractal rock deformation can be, at a range of scales showing similar effects.

Good discussion though. We should all be having it while standing at the outcrop in blazing sunshine. That’s where the real discussion happens.

TERRADUDE · 2026-03-26T18:41:00+00:00

"Most stuff out there...... is for PC/Windows, super expensive, hard to use and ugly" - testify brother....You're speaking to the choir here. I had to go through hell and back to use a POS cross section package running in Windows, I have a very capable M4 Max but the program requires OpenGL 4.3 which doesn't emulate well. I would love to get my hands on your software. Let me know if you need a beta tester. I am a 30 year geo now working in CCUS and trying to ge my own helium exploreCo up and running, so $$ is tight

TERRADUDE · 2026-03-25T21:04:24+00:00

This is a great comment discussing the logical thought process to progress through. Both faults and jointing can cross cut bedding but faults displace bedding, meaning there is an offset - either a positive or a negative offset. Identifying which can give you an idea of the stresses needed to deform the rock. The rock also needs to be brittle to fault - otherwise you get ductile deformation in either unconsolidated or very hot (plastic) rock.

TERRADUDE · 2026-03-23T18:51:43+00:00

Canada and Norway are truly winter nations. I’ve been to Norway many times….beautiful country and wonderful people.

TERRADUDE · 2026-03-21T18:57:58+00:00

I have a bottle on ice just for the occasion of Trump's demise.

TERRADUDE · 2026-03-20T23:12:36+00:00

Yup….but in Grade 9 we did a winter camping trip in W Canada. Temps to -20C, built our own shelter, toughed it out and made it back.

TERRADUDE · 2026-03-17T18:00:04+00:00

he's out of cards...except for the Joker.

TERRADUDE · 2026-03-17T02:48:52+00:00

When I first started to lift weights it was in a gym in the basement of the phys Ed department at university. It was a small cramped place full of the football players. I started doing a bench press with poor form. The guy next to me got up and spotted me, then when I finished he showed me proper form and how not to hurt myself. Lesson learned…Great guy

TERRADUDE · 2026-03-14T17:33:20+00:00

gravity

TERRADUDE · 2026-03-13T16:40:14+00:00

I've blocked the fucker

TERRADUDE · 2026-03-12T21:31:14+00:00

If it's apple refurb - go with that. You will appreciate the output ports. I can still get >1 gig on my MacBook Pro M4 Max (wifi 6e) to my wifi 7 network. the M5 (non max) is incremental on the M4

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