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Hi Michael, Thanks for the welcome and the invite. If I ever get a break from work, I'd like to head west and do some scrounging around on Vancouver Island, etc. I've heard Washington State has some interesting Cretaceous or Tertiary crab fossils…? Your find of a "clam in a small stream" piqued my interest–do you mean a fossil clam? or a recent freshwater clam? Most of the rocks around the Kananaskis Lodge are Devonian and Mississippian, and clams are relatively rare. (I'm give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn't mean a brachiopod <G>.) There are some fossiliferous Jurassic outcrops at the base of Mount Allan (the ski hill NW of the lodge), so marine clams are possible from there. Did you try taking the hike along the Mt. Allan ridge? If you ever visit there again, and are interested in geology, that is a great (though strenuous) hike. You can climb right to the summit of Mount Allan. The east ridge of the mountain has vertically thrusted beds of Lower Cretaceous conglomerate, which form a row of really weird monoliths up to about 30 or 40 feet tall. Great stuff!