Posted on 09/07/07
Herculean construction effort smoothes road to Olympics
SQUAMISH -- Day by day, piece by piece, Darrell Bay Rock is slowly disappearing.The huge granite bulge just south of Shannon Falls near Squamish, B.C., 45 kilometres north of Vancouver, causes the Sea to Sky Highway to turn at a sharp, treacherous angle. Now it is halfway pulverized, thanks to the careful use of explosives and a portable on-site crusher that turns mountains into hills of gravel.
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