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?
I just popped in here to say that the only place more fun to say than Saskatoon, Saskatchewan is Walla Walla, Washington.
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.)
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:
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Yes, those are bison in the third picture.
Larry, you should see the view looking east…
nice pix, Gorsnak - it that oats in the first one?
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.
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.
The Saskatchewan section of the Canadian Alpine Club, eh? Verrrrrrrrrrrry Interesting. Where do I sign up?
I think they’ve rented space at the Swiss Navy Recruitment Centre.
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.
Amazing pics, Gorsnak!
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.
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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.
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And Gorsnak’s second pic is where I think I got stuck for 12 hours.
I found this website 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 
How do I know that these pics weren’t taken in Manitoba? :dubious:
My mom was born in Saskatchewan.
When she visited BC, she said that the mountains got in the way of the scenery. 
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.