Hey, Meryl !
I'm definitely around during the summer and had thought about at the very least dropping by the Ranchman's Friday night dinner and maybe hooking up with the other pilgrims at the Full Moon gathering. A guilty pleasure of mine is visiting all of the other sights you're planning to attend in my normal trips around the city and into the mountains and around Alberta., so I probably will not join those tours earlier in the week.
Can't keep from being aware of the various locations as I run errands around town.
It's unfortunate that several of them have been demolished or are soon to be under the wreckers ball as the findingbrokeback.com site indicates - those already demolished include the "Honey/Blue Parka searching" interior location, the Newsome Farm Equipment offices and Jack's Thanksgiving House. The King [Eddy] Edward Hotel, location for the Jimbo the Rodeo Clown Bar, is boarded up and the downtown Legion Hall, site of the Childress 1978 La Shawn dance, is set to be demolished shortly for a new office tower.
Was up having dinner in the revolving restaurant at the top of the Calgary Tower a month ago, pointing out the various remaining locations within sight to a colleague from out of town who was a huge fan of the film and could not believe that everything save the 10-second establishing shot of La Mesillas, NM was shot in and around Calgary. I gleefully pointed down to the area where the 'Mexican alley' was shot, visible from our window as we were eating, and his mouth dropped open !
Yes, a little synchronous that David Trimble would have played the Basque and another quasi-Spanish character in Lillas Pastia. Though, to be fair, I've seen him display his versatility in quite a few productions around town, most recently in Shaw's SAINT JOAN for Theatre Calgary. He's one of the busiest actors in town.
Casey