Any Saskatooneers here?

Any Saskatooneers here?

hermite

#1Aug 25th, 2008

Have you been to the Crooked Forest? This sounds like a very interesting place.
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This is Saskatchewan's Crooked Forest, "a botanical mystery" in which a group of wild aspens bend and loop around each other.
"What causes the grove of trees to grow this way? No one really knows," reads a sign in the forest, also known as the Crooked Bush, near Hafford, Sask.
"Some say a flying saucer flew over the area and changed the chemistry of the earth beneath the roots."
Visitors strolling along a boardwalk find themselves ducking to avoid limbs that have stretched across the path. And be warned: according to folklore there are reports of people getting dizzy and light-headed in the forest. "Only the brave go into the bush on the night of a full moon," reads the sign.

And then there's the ghosts in Battleford. Wow, I wanna go.

karrie

Re: Any Saskatooneers here?

Aug 25th, 2008

I once rode a trail in Highlevel, where trail grooming had cut a swath through young muskeg, and the aspens up to ten feet away from the clearing, all bowed down to try to reach the swath of sunlight. They are some of the most flexible, sun seeking trees I've ever seen. It would be no surprise that they could create a 'crooked forest', especially leaning into a walking path.

dirkdigler

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Jan 17th, 2009

anyone else kind of counting down the days to leave Saskatoon?

Housing more expensive than most western Canadian cities,
wages still lower, crime still higher,
not a lot to do, and sub par down town

The river is nice, but Winnipeg has 2 rivers, and a house costs you $100,000 less
We have Okanagan prices With Winnipeg Winters

Ron in Regina

Any Saskatooneers here?

Jan 17th, 2009

The grass is always greener...

Hazmart

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Jan 17th, 2009

I love Saskatoon, would move back in a second! But thats life!
Anyway hermite, here are some cool pictures of those trees that you are talking about.
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bobnoorduyn

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Jan 17th, 2009

hermite; I've heard of the place but just never got the chance to go, never got to a Riders game either even though my wife went to school with one of the players. Lots of things you never see even when you lived there. Hazmart's pix are cool, when I retire and move back I'll try to visit the place, (and hopefully take in a Riders game among other things).

bobnoorduyn

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Jan 17th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by dirkdigler

anyone else kind of counting down the days to leave Saskatoon?

Housing more expensive than most western Canadian cities,
wages still lower, crime still higher,
not a lot to do, and sub par down town

The river is nice, but Winnipeg has 2 rivers, and a house costs you $100,000 less
We have Okanagan prices With Winnipeg Winters

S'toon is a nice city, but I'm not a city dweller type, I'm more country folk. The nice thing is that you can be a bumpkin and live within a 20 minute drive from the city.

I'm counting down the days 'till I move back.

Spade

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Jan 18th, 2009

I am not sure Saskatoon is a real Canadian city. It doesn't have an Avenue Eh!

VanIsle

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Jan 18th, 2009

Sorry - just don't know how any of you can stay in those cold cold climates. Guess you had to be born there. I don't mean to insult any of you. It's just not for me.

hermite

#10

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Jan 18th, 2009

Thanks, Hazmart, very cool pictures.

Looks like it would be a fun place to be at night when there's one of those big, bright full moons. Or a sunny day with snow. Lots of photo ops.

And, Islandpacific, there is a beauty to snow unlike any other. Unless, of course, you have to shovel it.

Toro

#11

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Jan 18th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Hazmart

I love Saskatoon, would move back in a second!

You must live in Regina!

Spade

#12

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Jan 18th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Toro

You must live in Regina!

Hey, I loved watching the Regina Monologues.

Risus

#13

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Jan 18th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Hazmart

I love Saskatoon, would move back in a second! But thats life!
Anyway hermite, here are some cool pictures of those trees that you are talking about.
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I've seen lots of apple trees looking like that....

Hazmart

#14

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Jan 18th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Toro

You must live in Regina!

Ya Right! A Saskatoonian live in Regina?? Not going to happen!

...Sorry Ron....

Spade

#15

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Jan 18th, 2009

I didn't know there were trees in Saskatchewan until I saw this sign
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Ron in Regina

#16

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Jan 18th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Hazmart

Ya Right! A Saskatoonian live in Regina?? Not going to happen!

...Sorry Ron....

It's all right. I like living in the city who's name rhymes with fun. It's not for
everyone though, or else it would become overcrowded and loss some of
its dirty charm.

I like living in a city where I can commute from any point to any other in about
12 minutes in the summer (or 25 minutes or so in the winter). I like knowing that
if someone commits a personal crime against you (assault, etc...) that you'll eventually
run into them again under more favorable circumstances. I like knowing that when my
car was broken into and my coat (one of four in existence) was stolen....that it'll only
be a matter of time before I spot it and will peal it (and anything else on that person)
off to wash and wear it again....Saskatoon's a nice place to visit, but like you I've got
my preferences too.

P.S. It sounds like Dexter Sinister is somewhere in Regina also.

Last edited by Ron in Regina; Jan 18th, 2009 at 02:07 PM..Reason: Typo....

bobnoorduyn

#17

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Jan 18th, 2009

The nice thing about living in the S'toon area is that you only have to drive a couple or more hours North to find some absolutely spectacular fishing, Regina just adds about 3 hours more to the drive.

Ron in Regina

#18

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Jan 18th, 2009

I know of what you're talk'n about here Bob. I myself do my best
fish'n in Superstore, but I lived in Prince Albert for may years and
always looked forward to the roadtrips that would take me up to
La Ronge (to the cannery....where you could buy a huge fresh lake
trout for a pack of cigarettes), or to Deschambault Lake where you
could trade a couple of watermelons (in the summer) for a 5G pail
of fresh fillets...or just haul someone's outboard motor (tangled up
by wild rice) to P.A. and back (going that way anyway) in exchange
for caribou or moose meat. If you were creative, everyone was happy
with the exchanges, and you ate very well.

Last edited by Ron in Regina; Jan 18th, 2009 at 03:08 PM..Reason: typo's....

talloola

#19

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Jan 18th, 2009

No, but I do have a young relative who just moved there about 4 months ago, got
a job right away. Guess there is work there for the young people.
I would hate the climate, but I'm sure there are some things there that are nice,
afterall it is canada.
I will go through there in the fall when I take the 'great train ride', can't wait, don't
know if the train stops there for awhile, or not.

hermite

#20

Re: Any Saskatooneers here?

Jan 18th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by talloola

I will go through there in the fall when I take the 'great train ride', can't wait, don't know if the train stops there for awhile, or not.

Oh, how fun! I love train travel. You get to see great scenery and the fall should be beautiful. I think we need more trains, fewer planes.

Ron in Regina

#21

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Jan 18th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by talloola

No, but I do have a young relative who just moved there about 4 months ago, got
a job right away. Guess there is work there for the young people.
I would hate the climate, but I'm sure there are some things there that are nice,
afterall it is canada.
I will go through there in the fall when I take the 'great train ride', can't wait, don't
know if the train stops there for awhile, or not.

Train travel isn't what some of you might remember it being. The last
time I took a train, it was about 1984 and I traveled from Regina, SK
to Salmon Arm, BC.

The train was to have left Regina at 11pm...but didn't arrive into Regina
until 5am....and by the time I reached Salmon Arm it was 26hrs behind.
The passenger train was pulled over onto side tracks several times, for
several hours at a time, to allow freight trains to pass by before continuing.
At the time, booze was still free on the planes, but not on the trains...

The two hour flight from Salmon Arm back to Regina was actually cheaper
than returning by train, if you can believe that. I don't regret that trip by train
though as I got to see some very cool things (like going over the Kicking Horse
River or some of those corkscrew like tunnels), but once was enough. Please
take this advice in calling to confirm that your train is more or less on time
before you ever leave your home, as six hours on a wooden bench throughout
the night waiting for a late train is a poor way to start a trip. Why it was so
much cheaper to travel east to west (compaired to west to east) on a train
was beyond me.

The train stations (Regina & Moose Jaw) in southern Saskatchewan that I'm
familiar with have both become casinos since I last took a train.

bobnoorduyn

#22

Re: Any Saskatooneers here?

Jan 18th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by hermite

I think we need more trains, fewer planes.

Heyyyyyyy! Wait just a cotton pickin' minute there...

bobnoorduyn

#23

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Jan 18th, 2009

Ron; If I only wanted the end product I would buy it, but it is the act of fishing that I enjoy; the quiet, the beer, no phone, no worries, ahhhhhh. The prospect of a big jack or pickerel is just a bonus.

Ron in Regina

#24

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Jan 18th, 2009

Bob, I get it....but I get my quiet with no phone and few worries when I'm
out with my dogs. I love to eat fish & game, but not to fish and hunt myself.
The beer I do best in the evenings on my deck behind 6ft of chain link. To
each their own though, eh?

bobnoorduyn

#25

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Jan 18th, 2009

Well Ron, you are right, or as my Pappy used to say, "de gustibus non est disputandum".

Risus

#26

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Jan 18th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Spade

I didn't know there were trees in Saskatchewan until I saw this sign
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LOL, direct hit!

Risus

#27

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Jan 18th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Ron in Regina

Bob, I get it....but I get my quiet with no phone and few worries when I'm
out with my dogs. I love to eat fish & game, but not to fish and hunt myself.
The beer I do best in the evenings on my deck behind 6ft of chain link. To
each their own though, eh?

I guess ma bell didn't think that that neck of the woods was worth the effort to get phones out there????

dirkdigler

#28

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Jan 18th, 2009

Regina has some big advantages over Saskatoon:

Average income a few THOUSAND higher than Saskatoon!
Average house price? Almost $50,000 LESS
Crime? The violent type less in Regina than Saskatoon

Regina gets a bad rap, but financially, it makes more sense than Saskatoon!

talloola

#29

Re: Any Saskatooneers here?

Jan 18th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by hermite

Oh, how fun! I love train travel. You get to see great scenery and the fall should be beautiful. I think we need more trains, fewer planes.

Yeah, I love the trains too, kind of expensive, but if I had the money, I would
take lots of train trips, there are many of them in the states.

talloola

#30

Re: Any Saskatooneers here?

Jan 18th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Ron in Regina

Train travel isn't what some of you might remember it being. The last
time I took a train, it was about 1984 and I traveled from Regina, SK
to Salmon Arm, BC.

The train was to have left Regina at 11pm...but didn't arrive into Regina
until 5am....and by the time I reached Salmon Arm it was 26hrs behind.
The passenger train was pulled over onto side tracks several times, for
several hours at a time, to allow freight trains to pass by before continuing.
At the time, booze was still free on the planes, but not on the trains...

The two hour flight from Salmon Arm back to Regina was actually cheaper
than returning by train, if you can believe that. I don't regret that trip by train
though as I got to see some very cool things (like going over the Kicking Horse
River or some of those corkscrew like tunnels), but once was enough. Please
take this advice in calling to confirm that your train is more or less on time
before you ever leave your home, as six hours on a wooden bench throughout
the night waiting for a late train is a poor way to start a trip. Why it was so
much cheaper to travel east to west (compaired to west to east) on a train
was beyond me.

The train stations (Regina & Moose Jaw) in southern Saskatchewan that I'm
familiar with have both become casinos since I last took a train.

The train trip from toronto to vancouver is very punctual and doesn't
inconvenient passengers much at all, good meals, nice sleeping accomodations,
no wooden seats, as it is for the tourists, and they want them to keep coming, and not get discouraged.