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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby eggs » Wed 06 Sep, 2017 11:50 am

It is Mt Emmett - but I will need a better answer than near Rodway.
I'm quite close to a named location.

Bonus points for naming some of the peaks on the horizon [click on the photo for more detail]
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Wed 06 Sep, 2017 1:08 pm

Artillery Knob?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Wed 06 Sep, 2017 1:16 pm

Can't believe I've forgotten if the vertical cliffy one is Clumner or a turrana Bluff. I've worked it out so many times!! But can't work it out out on my phone. :-(
Then Mersey Crag? ...or WOJ - Temple? King Davids Peak? Oh to have a brain that doesn't leak!
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby eggs » Wed 06 Sep, 2017 1:44 pm

Well done Tortoise.
I was heading for Artillery Knob.

Leaving out the plateau peaks on the LHS we have just left of centre: Clumner Bluff and then the Temple and King Davids Peak.
The next grouping to the right consists of Pillinger and Rogoona, and in the gap next to Emmett we have Cathedral, et al and then Pelion East
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Wed 06 Sep, 2017 6:38 pm

eggs wrote:Well done Tortoise.
I was heading for Artillery Knob.

Leaving out the plateau peaks on the LHS we have just left of centre: Clumner Bluff and then the Temple and King Davids Peak.
The next grouping to the right consists of Pillinger and Rogoona, and in the gap next to Emmett we have Cathedral, et al and then Pelion East

Thanks, Eggs. So Clumner is the vertical cliffy one. It's visible from so many places!
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Wed 06 Sep, 2017 8:13 pm

Go on, somebody have a stab at it. It's not too hard. Pumpkin time is very early for me tonight, and I'm busy tomorrow.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby stepbystep » Wed 06 Sep, 2017 9:11 pm

The slopes of the Dial?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Thu 07 Sep, 2017 8:17 am

I think it was actually from Stuart Saddle, but effectively the same thing. Over to you, SBS. :)
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Fri 08 Sep, 2017 8:18 pm

Looks like SBS forgot he was going snow camping somewhere. Anyone can go. :)
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Geevesy » Fri 08 Sep, 2017 8:38 pm

Ok this one should be a sinch...
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Geevesy » Sat 09 Sep, 2017 5:34 pm

Ok not a sinch? High mountain on the central plateau...
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Sat 09 Sep, 2017 6:00 pm

Ummmm Jerusalem?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Lophophaps » Sat 09 Sep, 2017 6:13 pm

Taken from Rogoona?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Geevesy » Sat 09 Sep, 2017 7:04 pm

Jerusalem is correct. Your turn Tortoise.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Sat 09 Sep, 2017 7:13 pm

Ta Geevesy. Next one:
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Mt Barrow from Markham Heights
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby waif » Sun 10 Sep, 2017 7:47 am

looks like you're just in front of a dolerite cairn on a mountain :P
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Sun 10 Sep, 2017 8:45 am

waif wrote:looks like you're just in front of a dolerite cairn on a mountain :P

At sunset. Spot on, Waif. :)
I thought the shape of the mountain was distinctive enough, being very well known. But as I also was unwittingly deceptive about the size of the cairn, here's a view in the other direction:
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby stepbystep » Sun 10 Sep, 2017 9:37 am

Tortoise wrote:Looks like SBS forgot he was going snow camping somewhere. Anyone can go. :)


Whoops, sorry....moving house :roll:
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Geevesy » Sun 10 Sep, 2017 11:53 am

Somewhere on Ben Lomond I was thinking Tortoise... were we looking at Barrow in the first photo?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Sun 10 Sep, 2017 12:42 pm

Yep, Geevesy, it was Barrow, and yes, I was somewhere on Ben Lomond - with a very good view of Barrow - so...
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Sun 10 Sep, 2017 1:10 pm

Actually, this could be a good time to mention my 2nd most favourite website, in case there are people playing the game who don't know about it. It's a brilliant resource, the depths of which I am never likely to plumb. But it's great for printing out relevant bits for a walk, and it's great for this game. And great just to peruse, dreaming of more walks to come.

http://maps.thelist.tas.gov.au/listmap/app/list/map
You can search for anywhere in Tassie. My preferred view is usually scanned maps. Hover over the 'Basemaps' tab in the top righthand corner to get the menu.

Back to the photo in question - LISTmap really gives you 4 options with such an excellent view of Mt Barrow from Ben Lomond Plateau. 2 of those (edit: which are more out of the way) I have never heard people talking about, so I'm thinking it'd be unlikely that one of them would have such a fine cairn as the one in the 2nd photo. So that should give you a 50% chance of guessing right.
Edit: though of course what I've not heard might not help you. :roll:
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby eggs » Sun 10 Sep, 2017 9:10 pm

Markham Heights?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Sun 10 Sep, 2017 9:17 pm

Thanks, Eggs. Over to you.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby eggs » Sun 10 Sep, 2017 10:28 pm

OK

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Geryon from a small tarn near Lake Elysia, the Labyrinth
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby bushwalker zane » Mon 11 Sep, 2017 6:28 am

Well it's Gerry, as seen from the Labyrinth. Maybe looking across from one of those little reedy tarns near Lake Elysia?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby eggs » Mon 11 Sep, 2017 8:36 am

Yes - this was quite close to Elysia
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby bushwalker zane » Mon 11 Sep, 2017 9:51 am

Awesome :) So good up there.

Okie dokie, where is this?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Thornbill » Mon 11 Sep, 2017 10:16 am

Looks like Mt Freycinet...
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby bushwalker zane » Mon 11 Sep, 2017 12:20 pm

That'd be because it is!
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Thornbill » Mon 11 Sep, 2017 1:52 pm

Cheers Zane. Right, where was this one taken from?
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