There's a Mt. Saskatchewan?? WTF?

[Northern Piper]

Ahh - it's not actually in Saskatchewan. My sense of world order is restored.

Saskatoon couple to climb Mt. Saskatchewan (http://sask.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=climb050429).

[Cunctator]

Ahh - it's not actually in Saskatchewan. My sense of world order is restored.You'll have to explain this one a bit more. Why shouldn't there be a Mount Sakatchewan?

[LifeOnWry]

I just popped in here to say that the only place more fun to say than Saskatoon, Saskatchewan is Walla Walla, Washington.

[Kyla]

You'll have to explain this one a bit more. Why shouldn't there be a Mount Sakatchewan?

Because Saskatchewan, like much of the middle of North America, is flat flat flat.

I'd be just as startled to hear there was a Mount Illinois. Although there are a lot of weirdly named suburbs...Mount Prospect, Arlington Heights, etc. It's FLAT! There are no hills!

(There's an MST3k movie that's supposedly set in Illinois, but is obviously filmed in Southern California. The camera pans across some low mountains and one of the bots intones "That's my favorite mountain in Illinois!" My friends and I laughed for five minutes straight.)

[Larry Mudd]

Visual aid (http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/imagesv2/img0058.jpg).
:D

[Gorsnak]

The usual joke goes something like this:

Saskatchewan, where you can stand on a chair and watch your dog run away...



.....for a week.


Or:

On a clear day, if you stand on a cream can and look west, you can see the back of your head.

I like Larry's visual aid, but here's some more accurate ones:
link (http://members.shaw.ca/djklassen/visualaid1.jpg)
link (http://members.shaw.ca/djklassen/visualaid2.jpg)
link (http://members.shaw.ca/djklassen/visualaid3.jpg)
link (http://members.shaw.ca/djklassen/visualaid4.jpg)
Yes, those are bison in the third picture.

[Northern Piper]

Larry, you should see the view looking east...

[Northern Piper]

nice pix, Gorsnak - it that oats in the first one?

[Gorsnak]

Yes indeed. Taken during last fall's harvest. It's oats in the second one, too, though a different field. The South Saskatchewan River makes an appearance in the second shot as well, though it's way down in its valley, which can only be picked out by the line of bush just below the horizon. It's nicely illustrative of how deceiving the flatness can be. That picture looks very flat indeed, but there's a really honking big river in a pretty substantial valley right in the middle of it.

[Northern Piper]

Cunctator, as Gorsnak's pix make clear, here in Saskatchewan we tend to hide our scenery. Too many people would want to stay and crowd the joint up if they knew how pretty things are.

[Crimmsy]

Saskatoon couple to climb Mt. Saskatchewan (http://sask.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=climb050429).
"But they and the other members of the Saskatchewan section of the Canadian Alpine Club say they're ready."

The Saskatchewan section of the Canadian Alpine Club, eh? Verrrrrrrrrrrry Interesting. Where do I sign up?

[Northern Piper]

I think they've rented space at the Swiss Navy Recruitment Centre.

[Cunctator]

Cunctator, as Gorsnak's pix make clear, here in Saskatchewan we tend to hide our scenery. Too many people would want to stay and crowd the joint up if they knew how pretty things are.Sakatchewan's a fairly large province though, isn't it? It looks pretty big on the map. I find it hard to believe that it's all as flat as the scenery in those photgraphs. There must be some mountains.

[Larry Mudd]

Amazing pics, Gorsnak!

[Frank]

Sakatchewan's a fairly large province though, isn't it? It looks pretty big on the map. I find it hard to believe that it's all as flat as the scenery in those photgraphs. There must be some mountains.
Prove it. I've been there. Hitch-hiking through it. Took me some time to realize that when I saw a car in the distance, I didn't need to stick out my thumb for an hour.

[side note]
My grandfather was born there. (In Saskatoon actually, where on my excursion I wound up partying through the extremely short night.) There is a picture I hope I inherit of him standing next to a sign: New York is big, but this is Biggar.
[/side note]

[Frank]

And Gorsnak's second pic is where I think I got stuck for 12 hours.

[Crimmsy]

I find it hard to believe that it's all as flat as the scenery in those photgraphs. There must be some mountains.

I found this website (http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/saskatchewan/gallerypage.php?load=cragsdunes) with some neat pictures of Saskatchewan scenery. As a recent import myself, I didn't think I'd find pics like the ones on that site. Guess I need to get out more :)

[Yeticus Rex]

The usual joke goes something like this:

Saskatchewan, where you can stand on a chair and watch your dog run away...



.....for a week.


Or:

On a clear day, if you stand on a cream can and look west, you can see the back of your head.

I like Larry's visual aid, but here's some more accurate ones:
link (http://members.shaw.ca/djklassen/visualaid1.jpg)
link (http://members.shaw.ca/djklassen/visualaid2.jpg)
link (http://members.shaw.ca/djklassen/visualaid3.jpg)
link (http://members.shaw.ca/djklassen/visualaid4.jpg)
Yes, those are bison in the third picture.
How do I know that these pics weren't taken in Manitoba? :dubious:

;)

[Sunspace]

My mom was born in Saskatchewan.

When she visited BC, she said that the mountains got in the way of the scenery. :D

[Cunctator]

Prove it.Well, Crimmsy's photos, and the fact that the highest point in Sakatchewan is in the Cypress Hills at an elevation of 1392m, are enough to suggest to me that that whole province is not flat.

[Gorsnak]

And Gorsnak's second pic is where I think I got stuck for 12 hours.
I doubt it. I'm sure I would have heard about it. :D
How do I know that these pics weren't taken in Manitoba? :dubious:

;)
Pfft. Like they have scenery like that in Manitoba. :wally

[Frank]

Well, Crimmsy's photos, and the fact that the highest point in Sakatchewan is in the Cypress Hills at an elevation of 1392m, are enough to suggest to me that that whole province is not flat.
Yes, it does appear to be proved. I'll have to look for those parts my next time through.

[SkipMagic]

I like Larry's visual aid, but here's some more accurate ones:
link (http://members.shaw.ca/djklassen/visualaid1.jpg)
link (http://members.shaw.ca/djklassen/visualaid2.jpg)
link (http://members.shaw.ca/djklassen/visualaid3.jpg)
link (http://members.shaw.ca/djklassen/visualaid4.jpg)
Yes, those are bison in the third picture.

Hey, you all stole Kansas!

[Little Nemo]

I've found it disconcerting when I travel to Texas and the horizon fades away for miles. I'm too used to the mountainous terrain of New England and New York.

[brownie55]

Well, Crimmsy's photos, and the fact that the highest point in Sakatchewan is in the Cypress Hills at an elevation of 1392m, are enough to suggest to me that that whole province is not flat.
I thinks at least some of those are from valleys looking back up to level.

[Muffin]

Climbing expeditions to the highest points in Kansas and Nebraska:
http://www.dimensional.com/~jbettin/air/index.htm

From the above: Part VII: Man Down at Fencepost Traverse!
http://www.dimensional.com/~jbettin/air/ks007.htm

[Northern Piper]

Sakatchewan's a fairly large province though, isn't it? It looks pretty big on the map. I find it hard to believe that it's all as flat as the scenery in those photgraphs. There must be some mountains.I'll grant you some hills and river valleys, but mountains is what they have in Alberta (http://raysweb.net/willmore/) and British Columbia (http://www.kootenayrockies.com/), blocking the view.

[RTFirefly]

The American version of making fun of climbing Mt. Saskatchewan would be the ascent of Mt. Sunflower (http://206.124.0.15/~jbettin/air/ks009.htm), the highest point in Kansas.

[Mycroft H.]

The Saskatchewan section of the Canadian Alpine Club, eh? Verrrrrrrrrrrry Interesting. Where do I sign up?
At least there is no mention of John Cleese mounting an expedition to climb the Twin Peaks of Mt. Saskatchewan.

[Yeticus Rex]

At least there is no mention of John Cleese mounting an expedition to climb the Twin Peaks of Mt. Saskatchewan.
Which reminds me that I really do enjoy telling my wife all about the Snake running through the Grand Tetons every chance I get.

[matt_mcl]

Well, Crimmsy's photos, and the fact that the highest point in Sakatchewan is in the Cypress Hills at an elevation of 1392m, are enough to suggest to me that that whole province is not flat.

Five provinces have lower highest points than Saskatchewan: Manitoba (832 m), New Brunswick (817 m), Ontario (693 m), Nova Scotia (532 m), and PEI (142 m).

[Muffin]

Which reminds me that I really do enjoy telling my wife all about the Snake running through the Grand Tetons every chance I get.Better not tell her that I poached that snake once.*



*A friend and I kayaked a very short section of the Snake between Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks during a high flood that had closed it to rafting. Had some really big waves!

[Muffin]

The Saskatchewan section of the Canadian Alpine Club, eh? Verrrrrrrrrrrry Interesting. Where do I sign up?Here: "The Section tries to fill the alpine needs of enthusiasts living hours away from anything remotely vertical." (http://www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/sections/saskatchewan.html)

[Crimmsy]

Heh. How 'bout that. Colour me impressed :)

[RTFirefly]

Five provinces have lower highest points than Saskatchewan: Manitoba (832 m), New Brunswick (817 m), Ontario (693 m), Nova Scotia (532 m), and PEI (142 m).It's not how high it is, it's how flat it is. The highest point in Kansas is over 1200m above sea level, but it doesn't get particularly steep anywhere.

[Mycroft H.]

Kansas has actually been proven to be flatter than a pancake ( http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i3/kansas.html).

RTFirefly, thanks for your previous link to the Mt. Sunflower ascent webpage. Once again I get directed to a great webpage by a Doper. I hadn’t looked at it before my post about John Cleese, but found mention of him and the Monty Python skit on the Mt. Sunflower pages. Funny coincidence!

[RTFirefly]

Kansas has actually been proven to be flatter than a pancake ( http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i3/kansas.html).

RTFirefly, thanks for your previous link to the Mt. Sunflower ascent webpage. Once again I get directed to a great webpage by a Doper. I hadn’t looked at it before my post about John Cleese, but found mention of him and the Monty Python skit on the Mt. Sunflower pages. Funny coincidence!I stand on the shoulders of giants.

I'm 99% positive that I got the Mt. Sunflower link from another Dope thread, a few years back. I can't remember to whom I'm indebted for the link, but damned if Dopers don't come up with the best stuff.

I'm just recycling.

And your "Kansas proven flatter than a pancake" link was great. I'm printing that one out for my mother, who was born in and grew up in Kansas.

[Speaker for the Dead]

I never realised so many people knew about Saskatchewan. We need a SaskDope.

[kushiel]

Okay, most of the high points in Saskatchewan manage to hide themselves in the southern part of the province. Being such a big province, those hills are a small fraction. Come up north to Waskesiu, pretty damn flat around here. I swear, I almost died when I went to BC driving on all those curvy hills.

/proud Saskatchewanian

[Yeticus Rex]

The American version of making fun of climbing Mt. Saskatchewan would be the ascent of Mt. Sunflower (http://206.124.0.15/~jbettin/air/ks009.htm), the highest point in Kansas.
I also found Return to Thick Air - Mission to climb Panorama Point, Nebraska (http://206.124.0.15/~jbettin/air/ne000.htm) even more hilarious.

The vain attempt to find Sandy Irvine near the summit was priceless.

[cmkeller]

I've been to Saskatchewan (and all other provinces of Canada), and they ain't exaggerating about its flatness. But what's worse about the place is the locals' unwillingness to let drivers-through use a bathroom. When I passed through Saskatoon, I must have stopped in five gas stations before giving up on finding a publically-available privy. I didn't urinate until I reached my hotel room in Prince Albert...

in the can.

[Muffin]

I stand on the shoulders of giants.

I'm 99% positive that I got the Mt. Sunflower link from another Dope thread, a few years back. I can't remember to whom I'm indebted for the link, but damned if Dopers don't come up with the best stuff.

I'm just recycling.Try looking a couple of posts above your Mt. Sunflower post. :D

Given that that website has been circulating about the climbing community and outdoor rec community for a few years, I wouldn't be surprised if it has been posted on the boards before, and from there into our Favorite Links.

I guess we're all simul-recycling! :)