rivière à trois

[Glacier]

There is a somewhat erotic phenomenon you find in a few places in BC where you driving in one major river drainage basin, and then you enter second major drainage basin, but then you blink, and suddenly you're in a third drainage basin. Here are the most geographically exciting examples.

1) Highway 6 driving east past Cherryville toward Needles. You're in the Shuswap/South Thompson Drainage. You go over Monashee Pass, and you're in the Kettle River valley, then within a few minutes, you go over a second mountain pass, and you're in the Columbia system.

2) Highway 5 heading north toward Valemount, Jasper, or Edmonton. You're heading up the North Thompson past Blue River. Then suddenly you're heading along Canoe Creek which feeds the Columbia River. Then you blink, and you're in the headwaters of the Fraser River.

3) The Coquihalla is closed yet again, so you take highway 3 home for the Coast. You're mad about taking the long way so you drive 150km/h up highway 3 past Hope in the Fraser drainage. Then suddenly you're in Yankee drainage flying along through the Skagit Valley. Since you're anti-American, you drive even faster in a fit of rage, and before you have time to blink, you're in Similkameen territory, and you can relax again.

[dirtybiker]

Thanks, hopefully I can remember all of this so on road trips with others I can expound
my vast knowledge of such things with pin-point accuracy and timeline.

[Hurtlander]

This is only two river drainage basins, but I’ve always liked the country around Canal Flats where the Columbia River and Kootenay River are less than one kilometre apart on flat land, each flowing in opposite directions.

[George+]

And where there once was a canal connector.

Or at least a start on one.

[Omnitheo]

There is a somewhat erotic phenomenon you find in a few places in BC where you driving in one major river drainage basin, and then you enter second major drainage basin, but then you blink, and suddenly you're in a third drainage basin. Here are the most geographically exciting examples.

I’m so turned on right now. Geography really gets my motor running.

[twobits]

Must confess that I was hoping it was a typo of exotic vs erotic.

[Glacier]

Must confess that I was hoping it was a typo of exotic vs erotic.

No typo. It's a three-some between rivers.

[Catsumi]

I now must avert my innocent eyes.