# There's a Mt. Saskatchewan?? WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 4, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322 "2005-05-04T03:29:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/1 "2005-05-04T03:29:08Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/2 "2005-05-04T03:52:06Z")
> [@Northern Piper](#): > > 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? ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/3 "2005-05-04T03:54:29Z")
I just popped in here to say that the only place more fun to say than Saskatoon, Saskatchewan is Walla Walla, Washington. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/4 "2005-05-04T03:56:42Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > 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.) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/5 "2005-05-04T04:15:10Z")
[Visual aid](http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/imagesv2/img0058.jpg). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/6 "2005-05-04T04:34:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/7 "2005-05-04T04:34:32Z")
**Larry** , you should see the view looking east… ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/8 "2005-05-04T04:38:43Z")
nice pix, **Gorsnak** - it that oats in the first one? ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/9 "2005-05-04T04:42:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/10 "2005-05-04T04:54:05Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Crimmsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Crimmsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crimmsy)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/11 "2005-05-04T04:56:49Z")
> [@the CBC](#): > > [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? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/12 "2005-05-04T04:59:01Z")
I think they’ve rented space at the Swiss Navy Recruitment Centre. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/13 "2005-05-04T05:13:43Z")
> [@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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/14 "2005-05-04T05:18:16Z")
Amazing pics, **Gorsnak**! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/15 "2005-05-04T05:27:02Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > 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] ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/16 "2005-05-04T05:29:31Z")
And **Gorsnak** ’s second pic is where I think I got stuck for 12 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Crimmsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Crimmsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crimmsy)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/17 "2005-05-04T05:29:48Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > 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 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/18 "2005-05-04T05:39:02Z")
> [@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. How do I know that these pics weren’t taken in Manitoba? :dubious: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/19 "2005-05-04T05:51:04Z")
My mom was born in Saskatchewan. When she visited BC, she said that the mountains got in the way of the scenery. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322/20 "2005-05-04T06:28:59Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-mt-saskatchewan-wtf/302322.md?page=2)