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

Postby Last » Wed 12 May, 2021 11:39 am

bout 80 - 100 km northish of there
noen ganger er det godt å være alene i villmarken
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby CBee » Wed 12 May, 2021 11:47 am

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

Postby Last » Wed 12 May, 2021 1:29 pm

Closer, 'bout 50 k due north
noen ganger er det godt å være alene i villmarken
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby icefest » Wed 12 May, 2021 3:27 pm

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

Postby CBee » Wed 12 May, 2021 4:12 pm

You got there first, damn. Tinden Handelssted is that little village. What a maze!
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Last » Wed 12 May, 2021 4:15 pm

Correct icefest, Tindsøya is the island, the peak is Tinden. I wanted to climb it.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby icefest » Wed 12 May, 2021 4:56 pm

Name the bridge or name the dam. This was taken the months before Covid started.... (nov 2019)

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

Postby icefest » Thu 13 May, 2021 7:04 pm

I'm in China
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby icefest » Fri 14 May, 2021 3:49 pm

I'm near a town with a famous love song named after it!
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby CBee » Fri 14 May, 2021 8:03 pm

Xingkang Bridge on the Ya'an-Kangding expressway?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby icefest » Fri 14 May, 2021 8:39 pm

CBee wrote:Xingkang Bridge on the Ya'an-Kangding expressway?

Impressive!
First try too!
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby CBee » Fri 14 May, 2021 9:01 pm

Yeah! Too easy, there was an article about a guy who did a world record of jump from that bridge, or something like that...
Anyone can have a go next. My pictures are too difficult to guess... :-)
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Sat 22 May, 2021 2:01 pm

Been awhile.
Lets try one in NZ.
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Mouth of the Dart as it flows into Lake Wakatipu near Kinloch
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Sat 22 May, 2021 5:39 pm

Mouth of the dart?

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

Postby eggs » Sat 22 May, 2021 6:49 pm

That's correct. Fascinating mixing of local clear mountain streams with the silt laden waters of the Dart as it flows into Lake Wakatipu.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Sat 22 May, 2021 8:16 pm

That whole area is really nice. Still in nz...
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Sun 23 May, 2021 10:16 pm

Looks like this one is stuck in a crucible
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Sun 23 May, 2021 10:46 pm

eggs wrote:Looks like this one is stuck in a crucible
That it is

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

Postby eggs » Mon 24 May, 2021 10:45 am

Crucible Lake looks fascinating
Staying with lakes in NZ:
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Lake MacKenzie from the track descending towards it
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby icefest » Mon 24 May, 2021 3:27 pm

kinda reminds me of lake mckenzie, but I don't think that's right.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Mon 24 May, 2021 4:07 pm

But.... it is right - Lake MacKenzie from the track descending towards it.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby icefest » Mon 24 May, 2021 5:14 pm

eggs wrote:But.... it is right - Lake MacKenzie from the track descending towards it.


That's really unexpected, I couldn't get the top of that lake to line up with my photos.

Staying with lakes in NZ:
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Lake Nerine
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Mon 24 May, 2021 7:38 pm

Fohn?

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

Postby icefest » Tue 25 May, 2021 12:04 pm

Right region, wrong lakes.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Tue 25 May, 2021 1:52 pm

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

Postby icefest » Tue 25 May, 2021 2:17 pm

eggs wrote:Lake Nerine?

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

Postby eggs » Tue 25 May, 2021 3:20 pm

That would be a great step up in my walking in NZ - if I can ever get there again.
Would love to do it.
Staying in NZ:
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Akaroa Harbour viewed near Stony Bay Peak
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby icefest » Tue 25 May, 2021 3:49 pm

Are you walking up to Stony Bay peak, looking down at Akaroa?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Tue 25 May, 2021 4:01 pm

We were on the ridge to Stony Bay Peak at sunset.
We were staying in a novel kind of backpackers very close by at the time.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby icefest » Tue 25 May, 2021 5:10 pm

eggs wrote:We were staying in a novel kind of backpackers very close by at the time.

What made it novel?

Staying with lakes in NZ:
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Skirting Lake Sylvan
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