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

PostPosted: Fri 03 Jun, 2022 4:40 pm
by Last
Do you need coordinates?

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

PostPosted: Fri 03 Jun, 2022 10:43 pm
by eggs
Cannot find the houses, but if that is a lighthouse on Husey, then you are probably near Akrakirkja

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

PostPosted: Fri 03 Jun, 2022 11:38 pm
by Last
Too far north. This is just a farm.

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

PostPosted: Sat 04 Jun, 2022 4:06 pm
by Last
eggs wrote:Cannot find the houses, but if that is a lighthouse on Husey, then you are probably near Akrakirkja


the first four letters are correct

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

PostPosted: Sun 05 Jun, 2022 3:06 pm
by johnw
Only because I found a coastal view with farms in it - somewhere near Akrafjall, Akranes?

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

PostPosted: Sun 05 Jun, 2022 7:10 pm
by Last
Correct John, Along the road near Akranes

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

PostPosted: Mon 06 Jun, 2022 11:38 am
by johnw
Would not have got it without the clues and good work by others.

USA, taken from a moving train on the way to a coastal port:
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Moose Pass village on Trail Lake (upper) from Alaska Railroad "Coastal Classic" en route to Seward, Alaska USA

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

PostPosted: Thu 09 Jun, 2022 11:01 am
by johnw
Way up north...

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

PostPosted: Thu 09 Jun, 2022 4:17 pm
by sandym
Random guess, aren't they all - Bear Lake on the AK train line.

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

PostPosted: Thu 09 Jun, 2022 5:53 pm
by johnw
sandym wrote:Random guess, aren't they all - Bear Lake on the AK train line.

Not Bear Lake. Right idea, different animal but not named for the lake/s.
You're in the frame on the correct train route. Go about 35 km north.

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

PostPosted: Fri 10 Jun, 2022 4:01 pm
by sandym
I am really literally making wild guesses but Kenai Lake?

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

PostPosted: Fri 10 Jun, 2022 6:36 pm
by johnw
sandym wrote:I am really literally making wild guesses but Kenai Lake?

Closer, you're about 10 km away. This small settlement is named after a large endemic animal.
The lakes have a different name and are connected to Kenai Lake.

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

PostPosted: Sat 11 Jun, 2022 5:51 pm
by sandym
Moose Creek? Trail Lake? The large endemic animal has to be a moose, I think. Although it could be a bison, but moose are much more common.

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

PostPosted: Sat 11 Jun, 2022 8:45 pm
by johnw
sandym wrote:Moose Creek? Trail Lake? The large endemic animal has to be a moose, I think. Although it could be a bison, but moose are much more common.

Good enough. Moose Pass village on the middle/upper Trail Lake. Over to you.

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

PostPosted: Sat 18 Jun, 2022 7:40 pm
by johnw
Sandy seems to have gone missing. It's been a week, anyone can go.

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

PostPosted: Sun 19 Jun, 2022 12:12 pm
by sandym
Sorry, just busy.

As it is ski season, I'll post a picture from skiing in the USA. Name of the pass and bonus points for the valley behind the pass. The valley is very well known as is the pass.

quiz.jpg

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

PostPosted: Mon 20 Jun, 2022 11:29 am
by johnw
Let's start somewhere. No idea of the view because it was a whiteout when I stopped there briefly - Loveland Pass?

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

PostPosted: Mon 20 Jun, 2022 3:18 pm
by sandym
Wrong state, go west. John Muir called the range "The Range Of Light."

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

PostPosted: Mon 20 Jun, 2022 9:24 pm
by Graham51
The Range of Light is Yosemite so is this Tioga Pass looking to Yosemite Valley?

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

PostPosted: Tue 21 Jun, 2022 7:20 am
by sandym
The right range, wrong pass. You cannot drive to this pass, must walk or ski.

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

PostPosted: Tue 21 Jun, 2022 11:07 am
by johnw
My knowledge is limited to Yosemite Valley. Thinking about "well known" in a different context - Matterhorn Pass?

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

PostPosted: Tue 21 Jun, 2022 1:46 pm
by sandym
Here is a close up of the hut at the pass.

hut.jpg

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

PostPosted: Tue 21 Jun, 2022 4:28 pm
by johnw
So it's actually nowhere near Yosemite :? ? [/Tosses Yosemite Wilderness map aside]
Albeit I know the trail of the same name connects there because I walked on it briefly -
John Muir Memorial Shelter aka Muir Hut, at Muir Pass, Kings Canyon NP.

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

PostPosted: Wed 22 Jun, 2022 2:20 pm
by sandym
Photo is from the summit of Black Giant, looking down on Muir Pass with the Evoloution Valley behind. It is the Sierra Nevada range, from north of Yosemite to south of where we finished this traverse. The only other person we met in 8 days was skiing north to Tioga Pass as we were skiing south towards Mount Whitney.

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

PostPosted: Wed 22 Jun, 2022 3:47 pm
by johnw
Let's stay in the USA. Name the river:
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

PostPosted: Wed 22 Jun, 2022 4:18 pm
by north-north-west
It looks like a Fred to me.

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

PostPosted: Thu 23 Jun, 2022 12:23 pm
by johnw
north-north-west wrote:It looks like a Fred to me.

Ah, I see you took the literal approach NNW :wink:.
I was thinking something a bit more earthy. But I have to go now, I've left the kettle on around the corner.

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

PostPosted: Thu 23 Jun, 2022 5:34 pm
by sandym
Are you in Colorado?

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

PostPosted: Thu 23 Jun, 2022 8:06 pm
by Graham51
Is this Columbia River?

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

PostPosted: Fri 24 Jun, 2022 9:21 am
by johnw
Graham51 wrote:Is this Columbia River?

Not the Columbia River.
sandym wrote:Are you in Colorado

Not Colorado but I am in an adjoining state.
Cryptic clues in my previous post are significant.