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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Tyreless » Mon 20 Nov, 2017 4:05 pm

That's it, wobbly!
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wobbly » Tue 21 Nov, 2017 8:26 am

Thanks Tyreless
(you may recall I posted a different view of the same glacier last year- which you guessed correctly :-) )
This next one is from south america.
What am i approaching here?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Tue 21 Nov, 2017 8:50 am

Seem to recall similar terrain coming up to Dead Woman's Pass, but weather was terrible so I'm not sure about this
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wobbly » Tue 21 Nov, 2017 8:55 am

Dead Woman's Pass is correct. (Inca trail in Peru)
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Tue 21 Nov, 2017 10:33 am

Glad you had better weather than us. We had no view of Machu Picchu at all (which didn't really bother me - there are plenty of picture of that place on the internet!)

Moving back to NZ - where are we milling around? Since we all seem to know NZ well I've maybe put a tricky one in here..........

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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wayno » Tue 21 Nov, 2017 11:26 am

north end of the bonar glacier overlooking the Waipara river
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Tue 21 Nov, 2017 11:34 am

Thought I'd get a bite from wayno. Incorrect sorry

I'll see who else has a crack and if nothing clicks I'll include a photo with more clues
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Tue 21 Nov, 2017 12:22 pm

Mt Tutoko?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Tue 21 Nov, 2017 7:21 pm

Colder eggs. I was being a bit harsh with wayno as he was pretty close. This photo was taken earlier that morning.

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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Wed 22 Nov, 2017 1:01 pm

Reckon you are being a bit harsh on Wayno... he's probably only a couple of k's away? (Going purely off maps) I'm guessing somewhere between Matukituki Saddle and Mt Barff (great name :lol: )?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Wed 22 Nov, 2017 4:08 pm

Yep maybe I was a bit harsh - wayno does know NZ very well and there was a big deep valley between where I took the photo and the Bonar so I couldn't quite give it.........

Yep we are just approaching the summit of Barff so WFBW has it
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Thu 23 Nov, 2017 6:55 am

Fair enough.... Which well-trodden NZ route am I looking up at here:
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wayno » Thu 23 Nov, 2017 7:24 am

hang on i'll go there and give you the GPS coordinates to make sure I get it right, shouldnt take long... do you need that to the millimetre as well?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wobbly » Thu 23 Nov, 2017 5:10 pm

Reminds me of the climb up to Rees Saddle.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Thu 23 Nov, 2017 5:27 pm

Rees Saddle it is

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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wobbly » Thu 23 Nov, 2017 8:21 pm

Thanks
Continuing the NZ theme.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Fri 24 Nov, 2017 8:00 am

I won't provide an answer to avoid the ping pong between the same people (and anyway I suspect lots of people know this one). I will say tho that the colour and height of the water is a lot different to when I was there - amazing how much it can change in different weather and seasons.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wobbly » Sat 25 Nov, 2017 1:24 pm

I'm heading bush (Ducane) for a week from Sunday 26/11 at 6 AM so unless someone can guess's this NZ location today I suggest Walk_fat_boy_walk takes the win.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Sat 25 Nov, 2017 1:38 pm

wobbly wrote:I'm heading bush (Ducane) for a week from Sunday 26/11 at 6 AM so unless someone can guess's this NZ location today I suggest Walk_fat_boy_walk takes the win.


http://bushwalk.com/wiki/index.php?title=Where_is_it_-_Rules

If no progress is made in 24 hours then the owner of the photo should volunteer some additional clues.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wobbly » Sat 25 Nov, 2017 3:07 pm

A clue then. This water body and it's adjacent hut share a scottish name.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Sat 25 Nov, 2017 7:32 pm

Despite its apparent popularity, I'd like to hike the Milford track eventually. Lake Mackinnon?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wobbly » Sat 25 Nov, 2017 8:13 pm

Try another Mack on another track.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wayno » Sun 26 Nov, 2017 3:27 am

it has no outflow stream, it relies on loosing its water permeating through the ground or overflowing to the surrounding ground, the size of the lake goes up and down, mainly at one end, but the inflow to the lake goes up and down like a yo yo because theres a small watershed. this is only a small part of the lake that is a spillover for the main part of the lake which is often bone dry,
a reminder to anyone going into NZ lakes in the parks, its forbidden to use all soap or shampoo in them to avoid killing plant life in the lake, and animal life in other waterways, this includes "biodegradeable soaps and shampoos" they often arent as biodegradeable as they make out or don't break down fast enough and arent environmentally friendly in reality. take advantage of any bathroom facilities that are available at some huts if you want to clean yourself with water and or chemicals... with lakes like these there is a very slow water turnover often, so they dont flush clean constantly
a summer ranger is now been put in place at blue lake in nelon lakes which has amongst the clearest cleanest water in the world because people want to wash in it, blue lake its forbidden to even swim in it because the water is so pristine. its rare to be banned from swimming in the lakes though,
there is or was a sign here banning waterskiiing on the lake in this photo... please take this very seriously as it can disturb the local wildlife stir up the lake sediment with it's wake and is disrespectful to other people enjoying the peace and quiet.
it even annoys me when people talk constantly at a place like this, breaking the silence.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wayno » Sat 02 Dec, 2017 5:01 pm

no one recognised Lake MacKenzie
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Sat 02 Dec, 2017 8:21 pm

wayno wrote:no one recognised Lake MacKenzie

At least you did wayno, I reckon it's your turn...
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wayno » Thu 07 Dec, 2017 2:58 pm

NZ
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wayno » Sat 09 Dec, 2017 2:28 pm

shot from the same spot
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wayno » Sat 09 Dec, 2017 2:31 pm

shot from the same spot again, where am i standing?
this is looking onto where another track runs. naming that track will be accepted, failing that the mountain range or one of the mountains.
failing that i might have to just accept the park..
have i found somewhere no one else here has been?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wayno » Sun 10 Dec, 2017 3:24 pm

same area
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Sun 10 Dec, 2017 8:01 pm

A fascinating area Wayno.
The Last one led me to think of Cobb Reservoir - which would make the first one over Lake Sylvester.
Curious that Little Lake Sylvester has a dam wall?
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