/u/ubcstaffer123's posts in /r/geography
Canada's Park by the North Pole: Quttinirpaaq National Park on Ellesmere Island offers multiday backpacking routes in the high arctic, including the 4500-year old Muskox Way, the route of ancient peoples. Historic Fort Conger visits are possible only when you are accompanies by Parks Canada staff
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Most climbers complete the round trip to the summit of Mount St Helens in seven to twelve hours. Climbers can go to the crater rim while entry into the volcanic crater is strictly prohibited
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Petroglyphs Provincial Park, Ontario preserves one of the largest known concentrations of pre-contact rock carvings in Canada. Several hundred images were carved by Algonkian Indians between A.D. 900 - 1400
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Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States... But liberal Portland is also the whitest city in the country. Albina—the one major Black neighborhood in Portland—has been systematically uprooted by market-driven gentrification and city-renewal policies
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There are around 300 petroglyph sites on the British Columbia coast, with concentrations on Gabriola Island. Only fewer than 30 can be dated and erosion means it is unlikely ancient carvings would be preserved. The Snuneymuxw request no photographs or rubbings be taken of the petroglyphs
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