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

Postby johnw » Thu 15 Jun, 2017 11:08 pm

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Lake Wakatipu from the Mt Crichton Circuit track, via Queenstown NZ

I'm happy if someone can name the lake.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby L_Cham_67 » Fri 16 Jun, 2017 12:08 am

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

Postby johnw » Fri 16 Jun, 2017 2:21 am

L_Cham_67 wrote:Lake Wakatipu?

Correct L_Cham_67, taken from the Mt Crichton Circuit.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby L_Cham_67 » Fri 16 Jun, 2017 10:44 am

Cheers johnw
Staying in NZ...
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Panekiri Bluff cliffs from Bald Knob
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby ribuck » Fri 16 Jun, 2017 11:46 pm

Hmm, this feels a bit like the main ridge that runs north-south through the Paparoas.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby L_Cham_67 » Sat 17 Jun, 2017 9:45 am

Not in the Paparoas. Think North island, near a large body of water. Don't know whether this'll help or not, but there is also a hut on this ridge/bluff which shares its name with the ridge/bluff.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby ribuck » Sat 17 Jun, 2017 5:39 pm

Now it feels like Panekiri Bluff, which means the large body of water will be Waikaremoana.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby L_Cham_67 » Sat 17 Jun, 2017 6:20 pm

Tick and Tick. This is looking along the cliffs from Bald Knob.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby ribuck » Sun 18 Jun, 2017 12:59 am

Thanks, L_Cham.

Whereabouts in Europe is this place?

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Parc Natural de la Muntanya de Montserrat, Spain
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby ribuck » Mon 19 Jun, 2017 1:09 am

The rock on the left is named after the animal it resembles, by the way.

This is in mainland Spain. Here's another photo:

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

Postby johnw » Mon 19 Jun, 2017 1:49 am

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

Postby ribuck » Mon 19 Jun, 2017 4:36 am

You got it, JohnW!

The area can be visited in a day trip from Barcelona by train and cable car (and the mountain on the left in the first photo is Elephant Mountain).
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Mon 19 Jun, 2017 9:55 pm

ribuck wrote:You got it, JohnW!

The area can be visited in a day trip from Barcelona by train and cable car (and the mountain on the left in the first photo is Elephant Mountain).

Thanks ribuck, your last clue really helped. I somehow stumbled into efficiency by searching for "rabbit mountain" or similar and one thing led to another...

Let's go with another from NZ:
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Knob Flat and adjacent mountains, Fiordland NP via Te Anau New Zealand
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Mon 19 Jun, 2017 10:30 pm

First thought was Rees valley but it doesn't match my photos from our Earnslaw trip so I'll go my other hunch and say Knobs Flat
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Mon 19 Jun, 2017 10:49 pm

MountainMadness wrote:First thought was Rees valley but it doesn't match my photos from our Earnslaw trip so I'll go my other hunch and say Knobs Flat

That was quick. Correct MM, taken from Knobs Flat on the way to Milford Sound. Only walked maybe 100 metres from the road for this view.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Tue 20 Jun, 2017 8:49 am

Yes we pretty much did the same thing.

Where am I standing in the South Pacific (apologies for the small photo)

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

Postby MountainMadness » Wed 21 Jun, 2017 12:49 pm

Its a major port (perhaps less so in this day and age)
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Thu 22 Jun, 2017 11:15 pm

Stumped on this one. I've been to Noumea, it isn't that. Also looks wrong for Suva or Lautoka in Fiji, and that exhausts the ports I've visited around there. Doesn't match anything else I've found so far.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Fri 23 Jun, 2017 10:44 am

I'm one for adding photo clues but most annoyingly I've lost most of my photos from here.....

Another small photo (sorry) but this is taken from nearby of one of our work sites (gives you scale of the place - with a prominent mountain in the background)

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

Postby wobbly » Fri 23 Jun, 2017 10:06 pm

Looks like Port Morseby?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Sun 25 Jun, 2017 10:20 pm

Yes wobbly has it (sorry have been away). Photo taken from Burns Peak. Mountain in second photo is Mt Victoria.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Tue 27 Jun, 2017 3:14 pm

This is too much of a coincidence for me to ignore - Burns Peak is in a news article I was reading today!!!!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-27/w ... ed/8651802

Not sure if wobbly is about so anyone else want to step in?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby norts » Tue 27 Jun, 2017 4:51 pm

I will have a go, I can never get the NZ or European.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Wed 28 Jun, 2017 1:18 pm

No bites so I'll have a crack

Haven't been there but is that the flat granite scree summit of Mt Whitney? I've always been amazed that the highest summit in the contiguous US is so flat.........
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby norts » Wed 28 Jun, 2017 2:57 pm

Yep that be it.
Alot more snow in the Sierra this year than when this was taken last year.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Wed 28 Jun, 2017 9:14 pm

I'll spot browsing photos and trip reports and make it to the US one of these days.....

Short on photos so back to good old NZ

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

Postby MountainMadness » Thu 29 Jun, 2017 9:29 pm

C'mon this is a very cool hut - hopefully some of you have been there before!!

Here is a shot taken an hour or so earlier at sunrise.

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

Postby johnw » Thu 29 Jun, 2017 10:24 pm

Unfortunately my NZ adventure to date has been mostly looking up towards such places. So I haven't been here but could it be Esquilant Bivvy below Mt Earnslaw?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Fri 30 Jun, 2017 6:56 am

Yes that's it John. There were mattresses in the hut so we had a mighty comfy sleep!!
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Sat 01 Jul, 2017 2:57 am

MountainMadness wrote:Yes that's it John. There were mattresses in the hut so we had a mighty comfy sleep!!

Thanks MM, I like that airy view from above the hut. How did you even get up there, crampons and ice axes etc?

Switching back to USA for this one:
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On Keonehe`ehe`e Trail (Sliding Sands Trail) in the Haleakala volcano crater - Haleakala NP, Maui, Hawaii USA
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