Game: Where-is-it? (international)

[johnw]

Time for some clues. I'm heading towards a glacier bowl somewhere above me.
If you head left on the valley floor below it will take you to a body of water associated with Captain Cook.
Also bringing the photo onto the current page (North America):

Overlooking Moose Meadows and Girdwood Airport from the North Face hiking trail on the Mt Alyeska massif, Chugach Range via Girdwood, Alaska USA

[johnw]

A railroad runs along the coastline at the end of the mountain range ahead.

[GregR]

I'm thinking maybe you are near Anchorage Alaska. With Cook Inlet just down yonder and you're trying to reach Byron Glacier in the Portage Valley area.

[johnw]

I'm thinking maybe you are near Anchorage Alaska. With Cook Inlet just down yonder and you're trying to reach Byron Glacier in the Portage Valley area.

Good logic Greg, but not Portage/Byron. I'm about 30 km NW from there.

[GregR]

I'm thinking maybe you are near Anchorage Alaska. With Cook Inlet just down yonder and you're trying to reach Byron Glacier in the Portage Valley area.

Good logic Greg, but not Portage/Byron. I'm about 30 km NW from there.

Not good enough logic though...

How about O'Malleys aka the football field.

[johnw]

How about O'Malleys aka the football field.

About 30-40 km too far to the WNW

[GregR]

How about O'Malleys aka the football field.

About 30-40 km too far to the WNW

3rd time lucky perhaps. Bird Ridge

[johnw]

3rd time lucky perhaps. Bird Ridge

Still about 15-20 km too far west. This is at a very popular location with numerous activities in addition to hiking.

[GregR]

3rd time lucky perhaps. Bird Ridge

Still about 15-20 km too far west. This is at a very popular location with numerous activities in addition to hiking.

Ok you seem to be looking down at Girdwood Airport on a trail heading up towards Chillkoot knoll . Perhaps the Alyeska North Face Trail as it seems to have a series of tortuous switchbacks to begin with.

[johnw]

Ok you seem to be looking down at Girdwood Airport on a trail heading up towards Chillkoot knoll . Perhaps the Alyeska North Face Trail as it seems to have a series of tortuous switchbacks to begin with.

Yes Greg. I'm climbing the last section of the North Face Trail, which is where all those switchbacks are.
Overlooking Moose Meadows and the little Girdwood Airstrip below.
Chillkoot Knoll is one of the features around the glacier bowl below Alyeska Peak, but no hiking trail to there AFAIK.
Warning signs about crevasses when you follow other trails up to the glacier.

Edit: Didn't realise I had previously posted a similar shot, albeit from a different position and angle.

[GregR]

Ill change continents to Asia. Very hilly part at that. What village am I in.

[GregR]

24 hours and no guess's. Hmmm. 85 views...

Hint: The hills in the picture are pretty well known and the village has a quite impressive Bhuddist Temple.

[wobbly]

Well that's Ama Dablan on the right. (and possibly the summit of Everest behind the ridge on the left) So from memory you are probably at Tengboche. Many years ago I spent 3 or 4 days there recovering from altitude sickness.

If i'm right anyone can go.

[GregR]

Wobbly you are correct on all counts.

'm standing outside the Tenboche Monastery waiting for it to open. From right to left you are looking at Ama Dablam, Lhotse (under cloud) and Everest peeking above Nuptse.

Over to Wobbly or anybody else......

[Graham51]

I'll go.
What is the name of this feature in UK?

[johnw]

Ingleborough, Yorkshire Dales?

[Graham51]

It is in the Yorkshire Dales but it’s not called Inglenorough.

[ribuck]

Pen-y-ghent

[Graham51]

Pen-y-ghent

That's right.

[ribuck]

Thanks, Graham. This photo is of railroad in North America where you can buy a ticket to ride standing at the front of the locomotive!

Please name the railroad, the nearby large town, or the piece of land.

[johnw]

White Pass & Yukon Railway near Skagway, Alaska?

[ribuck]

Not in Alaska, johnw.

[ribuck]

Maybe this photo will help:

[johnw]

Google is not my friend for this one. Despite extensive searching, I've got nothing...

[ribuck]

Well, this is nearby in the same state:

[ribuck]

And this is nearby in the same state:

[ribuck]

Same state again. No-one recognises this?

[wobbly]

Without some more specific clues it seems to me it could be any of a dozen or so western USA states. Narrowing it down. Are you somewhere in Arizona?

[ribuck]

It's Colorado. Does that help anyone to name the railroad, the forest, the mountain range, the place with the monumental rocks, or the nearby town?

[johnw]

It's Colorado. Does that help anyone to name the railroad, the forest, the mountain range, the place with the monumental rocks, or the nearby town?

This has been a tough one but I think I have it now (hopefully!). Without the Colorado clue had no chance.
I only honed in after getting lucky matching the loco colour scheme in the second photo to the Leadville, Colorado & Southern Railroad. According to an article I found it operates from Leadville "on a route that rises over 1,000 feet from the Arkansas River Valley, travels through Freemont Pass and provides for views of Colorado's two largest mountain peaks, Mt. Massive and Mt. Elbert".
They offer locomotive cab (and caboose) rides although no mention anywhere on the internet that you can ride any loco anywhere outside, though obviously it's possible.
Ironically I've done a couple of train trips in Colorado myself, up Pikes Peak on the cog railway, and we took the California Zephyr overnight from Denver to San Francisco through the Rockies. Both were spectacular.