Got sent this cool river runner site

[Landdownunder]

https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/?fbclid=IwAR0RUStVtCh6MJy4Bsi3SKWdCfWKzhftoJpmflKW FXDfFN-hMpYByD2dIQE

[Landdownunder]

Well I thought it was.

Someone hot link it can do that on my phone

[seldomseen]

Tried copy and paste on my phone and got nothing.

[burnt]

Really cool! Thank you for posting that.

Reminds me of when I was helping with harvest in Alberta in 78. Can't remember place names very well, but near Stirling. We drove a piece west, I think, and was swathing barley on what the boss called "The Ridge", just a twisting mass of hills and hollows.

He said that at that point of the province, the watershed split and ran either west or north, I think, being the Continental Divide. I may be mistaken on the details but that's what I recall.

[Guest]

that is really good
seldom, it doesn't work on safari but does on chrome

[GDR]

Really cool! Thank you for posting that.

Reminds me of when I was helping with harvest in Alberta in 78. Can't remember place names very well, but near Stirling. We drove a piece west, I think, and was swathing barley on what the boss called "The Ridge", just a twisting mass of hills and hollows.

He said that at that point of the province, the watershed split and ran either west or north, I think, being the Continental Divide. I may be mistaken on the details but that's what I recall.

You can ski accross the continental divide but I'm pretty sure you weren't swathing barley up there🤔

[GDR]

Yes very nifty website. The Rosebud River starts at my place and as you follow it down I see some of the names and lakes the Sk Agrivillers talk about so that's cool. It's amazing as I see how much my river can swell here during runoff at the headwaters and all the other tributaries as well, how can the banks hold all that water for thousands of miles?

[burnt]

You can ski accross the continental divide but I'm pretty sure you weren't swathing barley up there🤔

Well you would know better than I but I do recall the chap saying that the waters ran in two directions from that point.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Fascinating tool. But not quite accurate. Unless water has learned to run uphill.

Just a few miles west of our farm there is a divide. everything west of it ends up in the North Saskatchewan River, and east of there ends up in the South Saskatchewan, not to be reunited for another ~1500 km according to the website.

And the bigger river keeps trying to break into the smaller river and go east, instead of north which appears to be the natural route it would want to take, and has in the past, man keeps trying to stop it. Just as well that it doesn't since we have some land in the path it would take.

It already does it underground, feeding springs that go the other direction.

[TSIPP]

Most of my pasture is on a continent divide, north side would drain into the Hudson Bay and the south side into the Gulf of Mexico.

The jagged border between British Columbia and Alberta is another continental divide.

Maps are fun!

[Landdownunder]

Says I’ve got water courses here as well a big negatory but interesting all the same

[TSIPP]

Some watershed maps of this area show all my water flowing north and some maps show some north and some flows south, realistically it doesn’t flow very far in any direction I’d say most of this area is in a dead zone.

[blackjack]

I live in central Alberta burnt but I do know the milk river ends up in the Missouri River while I think it’s the saint Mary heads north east to the south Saskatchewan river.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Some watershed maps of this area show all my water flowing north and some maps show some north and some flows south, realistically it doesn’t flow very far in any direction I’d say most of this area is in a dead zone.

I was looking at a map of the Saskatchewan river watershed. It shows a big gap between the north and south sask rivers somewhat centered on the Sask AB border and straight west of Saskatoon.

So if that areas isn't part of the watershed, and it can't go anywhere else, being surrounded by the Sask river watershed, is it just a giant pothole that doesn't drain? Destined to become an inland sea if it ever rains there?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Saskatchewan_basin_map.png

[blackjack]

Battle and red deer river and their tributaries end up in north and south Saskatchewan rivers.