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

Postby Last » Sun 05 Jul, 2020 6:48 pm

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

Postby eggs » Sun 05 Jul, 2020 8:17 pm

Big clue there.
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New Zealand:
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Heading for the Dome [2672m] on Mt Ruapehu - North Island
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Sun 05 Jul, 2020 9:10 pm

Somewhere on Ruapehu?

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

Postby eggs » Sun 05 Jul, 2020 9:46 pm

There are quite a few distant people in the photo.
So we are pretty much on the main hikers route to the tops of Ruapehu.
It leads to the structure way ahead which is on a middle peak in the Ruapehu craters known as the Dome [2672m].
[The highest point - Tahurangi at 2797m - is in view behind and is not frequently visited.]
Its a magic walk - but needs some care in places.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Mon 06 Jul, 2020 8:49 am

Looks awesome, I've only done the northern circuit in Tongariro. This is in NZ as well:
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wobbly » Mon 06 Jul, 2020 4:06 pm

Maybe the bowl above Routeburn Falls hut.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby GregG » Mon 06 Jul, 2020 4:29 pm

My bid is for somewhere near Anne Saddle running down towards Boyle River, part of St James Walkway in the Lewis Pass area?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Mon 06 Jul, 2020 4:58 pm

Wobbly has it. Looking down to where the Route Burn jumps off the hill.

St. James Walkway is on my list but yet to get there.... closest I've been is Lake Constance and had tossed up pushing through to Lewis Pass but limited transport options meant i had to head back to St Arnaud.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby GregG » Mon 06 Jul, 2020 5:10 pm

I highly recommend the St James walk WFBW, 66 kms of fairly reasonable walking and the lure of a lovely soak in hot springs at the end.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wobbly » Mon 06 Jul, 2020 10:22 pm

Thanks FBW

this next one is from the US of A
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby norts » Tue 07 Jul, 2020 8:35 am

Canyon Land NP Utah
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wobbly » Tue 07 Jul, 2020 10:54 am

Yes it is Norts- Green River Canyon from Green River overlook in Canyonlands NP.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby norts » Tue 07 Jul, 2020 11:52 am

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

Postby GregG » Tue 07 Jul, 2020 6:38 pm

Locomotive is a clue.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby norts » Wed 08 Jul, 2020 9:26 am

I am on the Appalachian Trail.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Wed 08 Jul, 2020 12:42 pm

Mt Washington. Coincidentally I saw this last week on an episode of an American railroads doco series I've been watching on SBS.
Some extreme weather has been recorded at the summit.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby GregG » Wed 08 Jul, 2020 3:30 pm

Haha JohnW, you have an uncanny eye for trains.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby norts » Wed 08 Jul, 2020 3:37 pm

Yes it is.
There is a tradition for AT thru hikers to moon the train as it goes by. I didnt find out about this tradition until after I passed it. Here is the engine close up for you train buffs. Its a cog railway.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Wed 08 Jul, 2020 7:37 pm

Thanks norts. Similar technology to the Abt railway between Queenstown and Strahan, that method having its origins in the mountainous regions of Europe.
Probably the only practical way of getting up the mountain back in the day. I like the way they levelled the boiler on the loco to match the gradient.
Yes I'm probably a bit of a train tragic Greg.

Staying on the North American continent:
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Lake Louise, Banff NP, Alberta Canada
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Last » Thu 09 Jul, 2020 10:23 pm

Is that Lake Louise?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Fri 10 Jul, 2020 9:05 am

Last wrote:Is that Lake Louise?

Yes Last, with some zoom. Quite a stunning location.
But if they took the big hotel away it would be far better.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Last » Fri 10 Jul, 2020 9:30 am

Thanks John. Next
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Near Akranes looking across at Snæfellsjökull
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Fri 10 Jul, 2020 1:29 pm

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

Postby Last » Fri 10 Jul, 2020 1:49 pm

Remiss of me to not say this is Europe. Not Hawaii eggs. Look at the horizon.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Fri 10 Jul, 2020 4:37 pm

The horizon was all I had to work on [most of which is topped with clouds] - apart from what might be volcanic rock.
I know there are lots of crinkles and islands in Norway?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Last » Fri 10 Jul, 2020 6:10 pm

Not Norway eggs. Not all clouds either.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Tyreless » Fri 10 Jul, 2020 7:53 pm

Is it somewhere around Höfn in Iceland?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Last » Fri 10 Jul, 2020 9:42 pm

You have the country right but not the location
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Sat 11 Jul, 2020 7:50 pm

Looking across the Saebraut sea to a distant Mt Esja volcanic mountain range?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby wobbly » Sat 11 Jul, 2020 10:12 pm

Looks like Mt Snæfellsjökull at the end of that peninsular, but not sure where its been taken from.
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