It's properly known as the Okotoks Erratic, but everyone around here has always just called it the Big Rock, and yes, the b**r company is named after it. It is a large chunk of limestone carried down from the rockies in the last ice age. Very interesting piece of history.

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"The Big Rock" is the world's largest known glacial erratic--rock transported far from its place of origin by glacial ice. Big Rock, also known as the Okotoks Erratic, is the largest rock in the Foothills Erratics Train, a group of rocks that were carried by ice along the mountain front and dropped as the glacier melted some 10,000 years ago. The erratics lie in a narrow band extending from Jasper National Park to northern Montana. The Okotoks Erratic weighs 16,500 tons. It measures 9 metres high, 41 metres long and 18 metres wide. The rock has been eroded into pieces, but is still a large landmark on the flat prairie.
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interesting

 

Looks like it'll almost fit in your trunk

it's interesting the tricks that perspective plays with the eyes....
look at the person (young'un) in the yellow t-shirt on the path
That's one big AZZ piece of rock!!

Nice pic Wayne.

 

Yeah, the pic doesn't do the rock justice, that's for sure. Don't have a pic that shows proper perspective and they won't let me drive out and park beside it! Nice of the kid (not mine) to walk out there and offer some perspective.

 

Cool pic Wayne.

Ian is right about the trick perspective can make. We've got some pretty big rocks out this way too. Some are limestone but most are granite on the coastline.

BTW, one of neighbours is the Atlantic distributor for B** R***, and also works out of the same facility as I do.

 

Nice. WHere in relation to Okatooks is that?

 

Just a few miles West. We'll drive by it when we all do the Kananaskis cruise this fall.

 

Wow; definately thought it much smaller until I saw the yellow dot; haha.

 

wtf is up with the censoring?

 

Very cool pic Wayne. I've been around that area back when I lived in Lake Louise but I don't recall seeing that. That rock is huge!!

Btw, the G looks awesome!

 

Perhaps local myth, but the rock used to be in one piece - the farmer that owned the land tried to dynamite it and remove it from the property. All he managed to do was split it down the middle.

 

^local myth alright.

 

What'e really interesting to see and I should have gotten a shot of, is this rock sitting in the middle of a field, and the mountains it came from 30 miles in the distance. Until you know the history, you'd really wonder how it got there.


Censoring is much more stringent in the Canadian section, you are not allowed to type the name of any alcoholic beverage, especially b**r.

^^^ see?

 

b**r

 

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