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Sure shooting there’s a tractor hauling a seed driller just over the hill.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Well now, that was 14.5 seconds of downhill thrills. Let’s get on the lift and do it again!
That’s an awesome photo…
(and yeah, a great downhill on a mountain bike…wish I was there…:)
Many years ago it might have been Road and Track had a similar photo with a vehicle about to launch upwards from the bottom. The caption was
“Prairie State Hill Climb”
I thought it was quite funny when I saw that many years ago.
Huh, a hill in Saskatchewan. Who knew?
It can’t be Saskatchewan:
1) your dog could hide on the other side of that hill forever, so it wouldn’t take three days to run away
2) no seals anywhere in sight – so where did Super Dave’s “genuine Saskatchewan sealskin” REALLY come from? Eh? Huh?
The seals were actually imported from Japan, by Super Dave’s loyal assistant and stunt coordinator Fuji Hakayito (little known fact). Japanese seals were known to be of low quality at the time and that may have led to the frequent equipment failures.
The article does mention that the ski hill was “raised” an additional 150 feet by pushing up the surrounding farmland, thus bringing the hill to a total height of 151 feet. Prior to its construction in 1971 there was literally no place in Saskatchewan for a dog to hide.
In 1904 when Ukrainian settler Wally Kravchenko* added a second story to his one-story farmhouse it became the tallest structure in the province and rumor was, if you looked out the two second floor windows, you could see straight to the Alberta border one one side and to the Manitoba border on the other.
* Taken from the book “A History of Saskatchewan”, Bergamon Press, 14 pages.
“… you could see straight to the Alberta border one one side and to the Manitoba border on the other …”
– As a sort of parallel situation with Newfoundland during Confederation, the harbour at Port Aux Basques had a big rock in the middle of it. Port Aux Basques is the southwesterly port in Newfoundland, and was being set-up as the major ferry port on the island; and this rock was about as much in the way as a rock could be, so they paid to have it blasted out. Once this was done, big waves and Atlantic swells now had free access to wash right into the port, rendering it unuseable for just about any ship including the ferries. So they paid to have a concrete breakwater put in, more-or-less where the rock had been.
It’s said that on a clear day in Port Aux Basques, you can see the Treasury Building in Ottawa.
Har Bananada at its finest!
Right up there with:
I can see Russia from my kitchen. There’s two islands in the Bering strait, one USA the other Russia, only a kilometer apart. Hmm.
They had to push a lot of dirt to make that pile.
Hmm, the Cypress Hills area of Saskatchewan (and Alberta) has some elevation to it, being clear of the ice sheet during the last ice age, there’s a ski ‘hill’ on the Alberta side as well, it’s no Lake Louise, but offers a fun time for those not inclined to drive 4-5 hrs one way to go skiing for the day!
Actually, the Cypress hills area offers quite a bit of recreation activities, the Saskatchewan side has a small lake, beach, large camping area, pool, a lodge and even an astronomical observatory and hosts the Saskatchewan Summer Star Party every year. Also, some interesting geography, it’s the highest point east of the Rockies, before you get to Labrador.
The highest evevation in Saskatchewan is in a field in the historic Fort Walsh area, itself an interesting stop.
Yes, from the crest of the hills at Fort Walsh you can actually see the tip of the Sweetgrass Hills poking over the horizon in the distance.
I might add not any liberal mp’s elected in entire province
Otherwise known to Saskatoon ex-pats as “The Prairie Pimple” on “Lake Blackhead”. Made completely out of garbage, it was so icy (“How icy was it?”), it was completely unsuitable for skiing because the non-stop Prairie winds would polish any compacted snow to a fine sheen. The lake was good for waterskiing, however, as I can attest.
That goat path is probably a lot less bumpy than the roads in Moose Jaw!
Looks like Blackstrap mountain.