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If you’ve been down around Okotoks you may have passed a giant rock just off the highway west of town. Ya we're talking big rocks here. In fact this is the very rock that Big Rock Brewery is named after. You can find it 20 km south of here in a field - And we DO mean big - it weighs 16,500 TONNES
Conglomerate boulder on hilltop Just about anywhere you look in the valley bottom of the Crowsnest Pass you will find large errant boulders laying about. They have been left, for the most part, where they first landed but sometimes they get shoved off to the side or used for obstructions to keep red necks off of non-motorized trails. There is a remarkable collection of them scattered about in the bush around here, in some of the most unlikely places and they are often visible on the hillsides above the Crowsnest River. I grew up playing on a huge displaced boulder that is definitely what one...