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A Crock of Schmidt

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Little Elbow Campground – Little Elbow Provincial Recreation Area – review

July 5, 2021 by acrockofschmidt 1 Comment

One summer. That’s all it took. One. Summer. 2020 was a perfect storm of Zen-like camping with our combined unemployment allowing for camping during the week rather than weekends coupled with pandemic protocols leaving campgrounds at half capacity. I capitalized on this with gusto, venturing out to never-before visited first-come-first-served campgrounds with the whole family […]

Filed Under: Camping Schmidt Tagged With: Alberta, Calgary, camping, fossils, Kananaskis

St Mary Lower Campground – St Mary Reservoir PRA – review

June 16, 2021 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

You think you’re a pretty good judge of character, good or bad, and then somebody comes along and blows that hypothesis all to hell. St. Mary Lower campground … YOU … are that somebody. I had little desire to ever visit this campground, let alone spend a weekend at it. Tucked into the inside bend […]

Filed Under: Camping Schmidt Tagged With: Alberta, birds, camping, fossils, St. Mary Reservoir

Fort Steele Campground – review

September 23, 2020 by acrockofschmidt 3 Comments

Nothing piques my interest in a campground more than a terrible review. In particular, I love a bad review bemoaning the strictness of management. I say this in dead seriousness and with full recognition of my hypocrisy relative to my younger days, but if you’re pissed off that a campground won’t let you have “fun” […]

Filed Under: Camping Schmidt Tagged With: camping, Fort Steele, fossils, gold panning

Dinosaur Provincial Park – review

June 20, 2018 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

“But it’s a dry heat.” In my estimation, these words are worthy of a thorough flogging with a filled, 2L water bottle.  I’ve lived in both humid climates and arid climates and I can assure you hot is hot.  That glowing yellow ball of fusion in the sky doesn’t care how moist the atmosphere is […]

Filed Under: Camping Schmidt Tagged With: Alberta, badlands, camping, Canada, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Dinosaurs, fossils, UNESCO

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