Why oh why would anyone want to live there? It is so barren an desolate.
Yes, but you can see who is coming and watch any approaching storms. And furthermore, the sunsets are fantastic.
All blue and white, just like the flag, ergo it must be Scotland!
I’m not saying it isn’t beautiful, but it needs some trees.
“Why oh why would anyone want to live there? It is so barren an desolate.”
That’s exactly why.
damn i miss the prairies!
Why, it’s Al Gore, lounging in his trunks and flip flops. Just there, on the horizon.
Sure is flat.
I worked with a Saskatchewan… (er? ian?) at a golf course on the Sunshine Coast and he was always complaining about feeling closed in and claustrophobic. He hated all the mountains out here and pined for the prairies all the time.
I drove east one time and got completely lost in Saskatchewan. I couldn’t even figure out which way was up due to the complete lack of any kind of significant landmark. Just wheat with a gash of tarmac as far as the eye could see and I felt like I was in free-fall. I will never again venture east of Alberta without a compass and maybe even some blinkers to keep my eyes focused forward…
I used a bad word I guess. My comment got munched. Darn, took me derned near 2 minutes to write it…
Mountains and trees just block the view.
I’ll save you the hassle of pulling it out of the spill bucket:
I worked with a Saskatchewan… (er? ian?) at a golf course on the Sunshine Coast and he was always complaining about feeling closed in and claustrophobic. He hated all the mountains out here and pined for the prairies all the time.
I drove east one time and got completely lost in Saskatchewan. I couldn’t even figure out which way was up due to the complete lack of any kind of significant landmark. Just wheat with a [slash*] of tarmac as far as the eye could see and I felt like I was in free-fall. I will never again venture east of Alberta without a compass and maybe even some blinkers to keep my eyes focused forward…
*offending word removed?
Not even Kansas is that flat.
Looks just like our part of B.C. today, without the mountains.
My favorite memory of Winter on the Prairies was watching the wind swept snow blowing in sheets over flat fields on a sunny,windy, minus 25 day.
Coming back from a wedding in BC one time I wondered if it would all seem flat and colourless to me. As soon as I started to come out through Calgary I got this emotional rush and I was back in the open again. There is really nothing like it, anywhere.
This land makes a man feel small. And that’s a good thing.
I, too, feel claustrophobic anywhere in B.C. Those mountains ruin the view.
What a great place to plant and grow windmills.
A long straight road into the cold Febuary air. I too live on a similar road but there is the odd bluff of trees in between. It is impossible to get lost in Saskatchewan, all you have to know is that going east and west there is a road allowance every mile and going north and south there is a road every 2 miles except where you are west of the 1st meridian then there is a road every mile. Also going north and south there is a correction line road every 24 miles.
I love the drive , actually I see lots. barns, fences, pumpjacks , elevators .
what aren’t you guys seeing ??.
in BC , its just closer to the road , other than the jacks, they are up by Ft. St. John
It is the opposite of British Claustrophobia, it’s Saskcatchaholdofsomethingsoyoudon’tgetsuckedintoouterspace.
…but at least it’s a dry cold….
I remember at 22 years old my first time west of Ontario. Leaving western Ontario into Manitoba was a shock in the change of landscape. This was nothing however compared to Saskatchewan and its flatness. For a young guy who had grown up and lived his entire life on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula with its hills, cliffs and bays this was like a lunar landscape and remains one of the coolest sensations I have ever experienced.
That was an eventful week. Around the time I was going through Medicine Hat having left Moose Jaw that morning I learned of Diana’s death, August 31st, 1997.
Back in NL now days but my kids are born Albertan’s and I still miss Saskatchewan and Alberta. I hope to return some day but for now the kids get to grow up with grandparents and extended family.
Or it could be looking south early in the morning.
If you think that is barren just add blowing snow to the picture and try to figure out which way to drive. Been there, done that.
Sums up the prairies perfectly, wouldn’t / couldn’t imagine living anywhere else.
There’s one thing I’ve always been curious about and that is:
why are there so many head-on collisions in Sask?
I thought south jersey was flat until I had to go to Kansas once for business. Wow. It’s so flat it looks completely fake. It’s almost like they lined up a bunch of bulldozers and told them to head west. There’s no better place on earth to watch a line of thunderstorms barrel through. Good people too.
That’s flat. I get vertigo standing on a speed bump. My ears pop when I go to the top of a stepstool.
We truly enjoyed our trip down the “Red Coat trail” two years ago. This especially true of the # 13 highway through Saskatchewan.
Whoops! excuse me my wife is calling from the balcony, probably some dolphins, it had reached 90 degrees F. out there which is too hot for me so I came in to see what was on SDA. Cheers; 🙂
Great White North and all that. Yikes!
Angel writes: “Not even Kansas is that flat.” No, it isn’t; but Nebraska is.
Dont hit the ditch or break down, there wont be anyone coming for days, and no cell service so you might as well start walking. And where do you guys plug in your electric cars?
About two thirds of this province is covered in forest.
I want to live here because of the kind of people who don’t want to live here.
Too much cruise control. Just point, set and check every 15 min. Sometimes they tend to wander to the wrong side of the road. But seriously ? If there is fresh snow….and you’re driving at night…..and there’s a decent wind, you can’t see diddly squat, have no idea where the road is and cant see oncoming vehicles until they they are almost on top of you or you are right on their bumper. White outs are common in rural areas but are a real wakeup call to inexperienced urban drivers. Just one of the many challenges that those of us who choose to live in isolated areas face every winter. Severely cold temperatures are another hazard if you get stuck or have a vehicle breakdown. You could freeze to death in less than a hour, so emergency supplies are always in the trunk and under the back seat. Canned heat, candles, food, blankets etc. Life has improved since the advent of cell phones. Realistically I believe the majority of collisions are in urban centers at lower speeds but the severity of collisions in rural areas is a factor due to higher speeds. Different way of life with different hazards. My wife hit a Moose last winter and didn’t see it until it tried to share the front seat with her. There are many hazards on long straight roads that can be encountered on a daily basis. The greatest one is complacency.
Because so much of the roadway is like that. Not many junctions, chances of encountering another vehicle are negligible unless it’s coming towards you on the same road.
Beautiful weather for a day on the slopes! (oh, wait…)
We plug them in at home. Fortunately that flat open landscape allows us to run very long extension cords. And then we turn around and follow them back, so we never get lost.
I once ferried a light aircraft from BC to Ontario with a passenger (who was my ride back, by truck). He had lived his entire life in Ontario and BC and was totally lost from leaving Lethbridge to passing Winnipeg. I’m still here so my navigation skills got us through 😉
Kate, in your pictures of it I always see what I like about this place. You have beautiful eyes.
Saskatchewan….the only province you can watch your dog runaway for three days…
Seriously though, I would love to be out there on a summer evening watching a thunderstorm roll in with a camera set up to capture it all. Or a sunset over a field of wheat. Or…..
Bedrock composed of POTASH and FLOATING ON OIL!
TOO DAMNED COLD though!
Looks like the Texas Panhandle. You could mistake that for Amarillo in the wintertime…
if I remember Kansas was three steps , flat with a set of hills at each drop.
peterj >
“Different way of life with different hazards”
On the plus, you are far less likely to catch the latest H1N whatever virus flown in from Guangdong that morning, and the Knockout Whitey game would have completely different results if it was played at all.
If you look close you can see the curvature of the earth…
I have seen lighting storms once or twice, while we were driving through a sunny day.
I remember being a Power Lineman out there in Southern Saskatchewan, standing up on those poles for hours at a time in the freezing wind, day after day. We were all so happy and loved how difficult it was, and how tough we were to endure it. It was fun.
But when you are there it is humbling like floating on the ocean. The shy is bigger than the land and it is so open and free.
Too damn cold is right. -39 tonight w/ the wind chill. Late February is supposed to be turning.
Somewhere out there is…
Why oh why would anyone want to live there? It is so barren an desolate.
Yes, but you can see who is coming and watch any approaching storms. And furthermore, the sunsets are fantastic.
All blue and white, just like the flag, ergo it must be Scotland!
I’m not saying it isn’t beautiful, but it needs some trees.
“Why oh why would anyone want to live there? It is so barren an desolate.”
That’s exactly why.
damn i miss the prairies!
Why, it’s Al Gore, lounging in his trunks and flip flops. Just there, on the horizon.
Sure is flat.
I worked with a Saskatchewan… (er? ian?) at a golf course on the Sunshine Coast and he was always complaining about feeling closed in and claustrophobic. He hated all the mountains out here and pined for the prairies all the time.
I drove east one time and got completely lost in Saskatchewan. I couldn’t even figure out which way was up due to the complete lack of any kind of significant landmark. Just wheat with a gash of tarmac as far as the eye could see and I felt like I was in free-fall. I will never again venture east of Alberta without a compass and maybe even some blinkers to keep my eyes focused forward…
I used a bad word I guess. My comment got munched. Darn, took me derned near 2 minutes to write it…
Mountains and trees just block the view.
I’ll save you the hassle of pulling it out of the spill bucket:
I worked with a Saskatchewan… (er? ian?) at a golf course on the Sunshine Coast and he was always complaining about feeling closed in and claustrophobic. He hated all the mountains out here and pined for the prairies all the time.
I drove east one time and got completely lost in Saskatchewan. I couldn’t even figure out which way was up due to the complete lack of any kind of significant landmark. Just wheat with a [slash*] of tarmac as far as the eye could see and I felt like I was in free-fall. I will never again venture east of Alberta without a compass and maybe even some blinkers to keep my eyes focused forward…
*offending word removed?
Not even Kansas is that flat.
Looks just like our part of B.C. today, without the mountains.
My favorite memory of Winter on the Prairies was watching the wind swept snow blowing in sheets over flat fields on a sunny,windy, minus 25 day.
Coming back from a wedding in BC one time I wondered if it would all seem flat and colourless to me. As soon as I started to come out through Calgary I got this emotional rush and I was back in the open again. There is really nothing like it, anywhere.
This land makes a man feel small. And that’s a good thing.
I, too, feel claustrophobic anywhere in B.C. Those mountains ruin the view.
What a great place to plant and grow windmills.
A long straight road into the cold Febuary air. I too live on a similar road but there is the odd bluff of trees in between. It is impossible to get lost in Saskatchewan, all you have to know is that going east and west there is a road allowance every mile and going north and south there is a road every 2 miles except where you are west of the 1st meridian then there is a road every mile. Also going north and south there is a correction line road every 24 miles.
I love the drive , actually I see lots. barns, fences, pumpjacks , elevators .
what aren’t you guys seeing ??.
in BC , its just closer to the road , other than the jacks, they are up by Ft. St. John
It is the opposite of British Claustrophobia, it’s Saskcatchaholdofsomethingsoyoudon’tgetsuckedintoouterspace.
…but at least it’s a dry cold….
I remember at 22 years old my first time west of Ontario. Leaving western Ontario into Manitoba was a shock in the change of landscape. This was nothing however compared to Saskatchewan and its flatness. For a young guy who had grown up and lived his entire life on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula with its hills, cliffs and bays this was like a lunar landscape and remains one of the coolest sensations I have ever experienced.
That was an eventful week. Around the time I was going through Medicine Hat having left Moose Jaw that morning I learned of Diana’s death, August 31st, 1997.
Back in NL now days but my kids are born Albertan’s and I still miss Saskatchewan and Alberta. I hope to return some day but for now the kids get to grow up with grandparents and extended family.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/ There’s a poll there that could use a bit of help.
Or it could be looking south early in the morning.
If you think that is barren just add blowing snow to the picture and try to figure out which way to drive. Been there, done that.
Sums up the prairies perfectly, wouldn’t / couldn’t imagine living anywhere else.
There’s one thing I’ve always been curious about and that is:
why are there so many head-on collisions in Sask?
I thought south jersey was flat until I had to go to Kansas once for business. Wow. It’s so flat it looks completely fake. It’s almost like they lined up a bunch of bulldozers and told them to head west. There’s no better place on earth to watch a line of thunderstorms barrel through. Good people too.
That’s flat. I get vertigo standing on a speed bump. My ears pop when I go to the top of a stepstool.
We truly enjoyed our trip down the “Red Coat trail” two years ago. This especially true of the # 13 highway through Saskatchewan.
Whoops! excuse me my wife is calling from the balcony, probably some dolphins, it had reached 90 degrees F. out there which is too hot for me so I came in to see what was on SDA. Cheers; 🙂
Great White North and all that. Yikes!
Angel writes: “Not even Kansas is that flat.” No, it isn’t; but Nebraska is.
Dont hit the ditch or break down, there wont be anyone coming for days, and no cell service so you might as well start walking. And where do you guys plug in your electric cars?
About two thirds of this province is covered in forest.
I want to live here because of the kind of people who don’t want to live here.
Too much cruise control. Just point, set and check every 15 min. Sometimes they tend to wander to the wrong side of the road. But seriously ? If there is fresh snow….and you’re driving at night…..and there’s a decent wind, you can’t see diddly squat, have no idea where the road is and cant see oncoming vehicles until they they are almost on top of you or you are right on their bumper. White outs are common in rural areas but are a real wakeup call to inexperienced urban drivers. Just one of the many challenges that those of us who choose to live in isolated areas face every winter. Severely cold temperatures are another hazard if you get stuck or have a vehicle breakdown. You could freeze to death in less than a hour, so emergency supplies are always in the trunk and under the back seat. Canned heat, candles, food, blankets etc. Life has improved since the advent of cell phones. Realistically I believe the majority of collisions are in urban centers at lower speeds but the severity of collisions in rural areas is a factor due to higher speeds. Different way of life with different hazards. My wife hit a Moose last winter and didn’t see it until it tried to share the front seat with her. There are many hazards on long straight roads that can be encountered on a daily basis. The greatest one is complacency.
Because so much of the roadway is like that. Not many junctions, chances of encountering another vehicle are negligible unless it’s coming towards you on the same road.
Beautiful weather for a day on the slopes! (oh, wait…)
We plug them in at home. Fortunately that flat open landscape allows us to run very long extension cords. And then we turn around and follow them back, so we never get lost.
I once ferried a light aircraft from BC to Ontario with a passenger (who was my ride back, by truck). He had lived his entire life in Ontario and BC and was totally lost from leaving Lethbridge to passing Winnipeg. I’m still here so my navigation skills got us through 😉
Kate, in your pictures of it I always see what I like about this place. You have beautiful eyes.
Saskatchewan….the only province you can watch your dog runaway for three days…
Seriously though, I would love to be out there on a summer evening watching a thunderstorm roll in with a camera set up to capture it all. Or a sunset over a field of wheat. Or…..
Bedrock composed of POTASH and FLOATING ON OIL!
TOO DAMNED COLD though!
Looks like the Texas Panhandle. You could mistake that for Amarillo in the wintertime…
if I remember Kansas was three steps , flat with a set of hills at each drop.
peterj >
“Different way of life with different hazards”
On the plus, you are far less likely to catch the latest H1N whatever virus flown in from Guangdong that morning, and the Knockout Whitey game would have completely different results if it was played at all.
If you look close you can see the curvature of the earth…
I have seen lighting storms once or twice, while we were driving through a sunny day.
I remember being a Power Lineman out there in Southern Saskatchewan, standing up on those poles for hours at a time in the freezing wind, day after day. We were all so happy and loved how difficult it was, and how tough we were to endure it. It was fun.
But when you are there it is humbling like floating on the ocean. The shy is bigger than the land and it is so open and free.
Too damn cold is right. -39 tonight w/ the wind chill. Late February is supposed to be turning.