Chapter 15 - Suspicious Minds - 01 29 47

01 29 47
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DVD Time Code = 01 29 47
Location: Hwy 742, 2.1 km south of Goat Creek Picnic Area
GPS:   51d 2m 39s    -115d 24m 57s
Map / Satellite Image: Google Link
Site Name: Riding Ridge #2
 

Travel Directions:
The Riding Ridge is near the northern end of Spray Valley Provincial Park, off Hwy 742, 9.4 km south of the Three Sisters Drive intersection in Canmore, and 26.1 km north of Mule Hill (Rummel Creek). The site is to the west.

To reach Hwy 742 (also known as Spray Lakes Rd. / Smith-Dorrien Rd.): From Hwy 1 (Trans-Canada Hwy), use Exit 91 “Hwy 1A - Canmore.” Follow Bow Valley Trail 2.2 km, turn left (northwest) onto Railway Ave. Proceed 0.5 km and turn left (west) at Main St. (also known as 8th St.), go 0.6 km and turn left (south) onto Bridge Rd. (also known as 8th Ave. / Rundle Drive). At the “T” intersection, turn left (south) on Three Sisters Drive, proceed 0.6 km and turn right (west) at Spray Lakes Rd. (also known as Hwy 742). (Or simply follow the helpful “Kananaskis Country” signs throughout Canmore.) See map of Canmore.

Remarks:
Annie Proulx was quite specific in her story; Ennis and Jack never returned to Brokeback. [1] That experience, that memory, far more precious than any other, was too special for them to risk disturbing.

Perhaps by accident, or possibly by design, the filmmakers brought the men back some 12 years later to the Brokeback location where young Ennis had gone to meet the Basque and order soup. Their lives now, far more complicated, far less blissful.

[1] Brokeback Mountain - Story to Screenplay by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (Scribner) ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9416-4, page 17.

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