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This location is north and east of Valley of Fire State Park. It's within half an hour of the Clark County fairgrounds....
Mark
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This location is north and east of Valley of Fire State Park. It's within half an hour of the Clark County fairgrounds....
Mark
Or is this one too hard?
Mark
Nobody is ever going to come up with Logandale Trails.
http://www.logandaletrails.com/
It's very cool -- like driving in Zion NP, except you can drive just about anywhere you want to go.
There's relatively little cliff-side driving and so your lovely navigator would probably be comfortable....
Mark
No off-highway driving required with this spot....
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(Photo by Dan Sedenquist) -- That's our dad standing there...
Where is this?
Mark
Lava, of course. Barren hillside behind.
"Barren" excludes Hawaii.
"Lava" tends to mean somewhere along the "Ring of Fire".
Could be Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California.... but I'm going east.
It's been a while (two decades, approx), but my guess is "Craters of the Moon", in Idaho.
COTM was definitely my first thought, but I just don't remember a hill that looks like that along the drive. It MIGHT be the hills to the north, but those hills weren't that barren.
I have been yet, but I'm going to guess Lava Beds Nat. Monument in NorCal.
You're both getting very darn good at this deductive reasoning part of the puzzles. In this case, it is Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho.
Mark
This photo makes me yearn for this country...
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-123.jpg
(Photo by Dan Sedenquist)
Where is this? Thousands of people stand at this spot every year and take a similar photo....
Mark
Well, the western coast of the Big Island, from a point just north of Kona and for a good 30-40 miles on up, is in the rain shadow of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, each just a touch under 14,000' above sea level. The "saddle" between them is over 6,000'. The hotel where we stayed for a wedding in 2005 had no roof over its several story atrium. They receive < 9" of rain per year in that little area.Quote:
Originally Posted by CalOldBlue
That side of the Big Island is drier than week-old toast left on the dashboard of a locked-up Chevy. The terrain is all lava flows, some from the late 1800s, and some primative soils derived from weathering of the older flows. The puzzle picture could have been taken there.
The transition from desert to rain forest is very quick. As one approaches Waimea from Kona, the scrub brush picks up over a several mile stretch, then almost as though you've crossed an invisible line, which topographically you do, the long grasses of the Parker Ranch appear, and within a couple more miles, you're in trees, and the transition is complete to full-on rain forest within a few miles on down the road towards Hilo.
The Big Island is one of the most amazing places I've ever had the pleasure to visit. I want to go back.
Foy
I'm going to say the picture was taken along Going-To-The-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, MT.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
Foy
Somewhere along the Million Dollar Highway out of Ouray?
Foy! You got it, this photo was taken in early July, 2005 and that glacier at the top of the headwall is nearly gone. I love how you can trace the creek all the way to the edge of the glacier...Quote:
Originally Posted by Foy
Mark
Calling all deductive reasoning puzzle masters... Where is this one?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-124.jpg
(Photo by Dan Sedenquist)
This is Flat Top Mountain and Falls in Glacier NP. Been there, done that and made the picture.
Jerry
Flat top Mountain eh? That entirely appropriate, given the view and also knowing the the parent company of RoadTripAmerica.com is Flattop Productions, Inc.
Nice to see you registered here!
So have you seen or take photos of the current puzzle? If so, where is it?
Mark
I Think it is in Wyoming somewhere near Gillette.
Jerry
Gillette, Wyoming is known for coal. The mining town pictured above was founded much earlier and is principally known for it's immense copper, silver and other precious mineral mines.
Mark
The flag-bearing mining headframes are in Butte, MT.
There's a great mining museum there, pretty much rock throwing distance from those headframes.
Are we going to see something else from that vicinity soon?
Foy
Butte’s history is revealed in its skyline, the omnipresent black steel headframes, and the gaping hole in the earth known as Berkeley Pit. These are two of the more vivid reminders of a town that started as a mining camp and grew to a city of over 100,000 by 1917.
Before the gold rush of the 1860s brought prospectors and settlers to the area, Native Americans and fur traders frequented this semiarid valley. When the placer ran out in 1867, the population of about 500 dwindled to around 240. It wasn’t long though before the potential for mineral riches in the quartz deposits was recognized.
While the cost of smelting the complex copper-bearing ore was high, investors like William Andrews Clark and Andrew Jackson Davis began to develop Butte’s mines and erect mills to extract the silver and gold. The riches in the hills made Davis Montana’s first millionaire.
By 1876, Butte had become a prosperous silver camp with over 1,000 inhabitants. Marcus Daly arrived that year representing the Walker brothers, entrepreneurs from Salt Lake City. His mission was to inspect the Alice Mine for possible purchase by the brothers. Daly purchased the mine and successfully managed it for the Walkers. The town of Walkerville, which still overlooks the city of Butte, sprang up around the mine and other mines in the area.
You can read more in Michael & Heidi Pfeil Dougherty's truly excellent guide to Montana and Wyoming found here.
Excellent work -- I may have some more photos from around there -- I'll look!
Mark
In the mean time, here is another 'rock' to be identified.
http://inlinethumb15.webshots.com/42...600x600Q85.jpg
Photo by: Jerry Kendrick
1) What is the name of the rock?
2) Where is it located?
I'll check later on to see if anyone needs a clue.
Jerry
........of Montana mining geology, glacial geology, and geomorphology. And while I earn my living pushing paper nowadays, my interest and fascination with field work continues unabated, as it has since the early 1970s.
We took our sons on a 2 week fly-n-drive RoadTrip in 2000 and the Big Hole, the Pioneers, the Beartooth Highway, Yellowstone, Butte, and Rock Creek canyon were on the tour. We visited the Berkeley Pit while in Butte, just after the mining museum tour.
The story on the Pit is a great many underground mines had become sub-economic over time. The claims were assembled and a program of open-pit mining was undertaken. I don't recall how long that went on, but I believe it was over a period of decades leading up to the 1970s.
Once persistant low copper prices ended mining for good, the Pit began slowly filling with groundwater. The groundwater interacted with sulfide minerals in the rock and the result is some of the most acidic surface water to be found anywhere. Unless there's been a breakthrough in recent years, the experts are still perplexed over what to do with all that acid water. The Pit is one of the largest excavations on the planet and now it's largely full of bad water.
Marcus Daly built a large smelter a ways downhill from Butte at what became Anaconda, MT. I believe there was large-scale electricity production from electric locomotives where gravity brought millions of tons of ore to the smelter and the locomotives were rigged to act as generators on the downhill run. Between harvest for underground mining timbers and the effects of localized acid rain and particulate deposition from the smelter, an extensive area around the smelter was reduced to a moonscape. The smelter is closed but the extensive piles of tailings and a huge smokestack remain.
I love me some Montana geology!
Foy
On the road out to Josie's place:
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Photo: Don Casey
Getting out of a plane in Butte one February evening was the coldest experience this California boy ever had. Took all 60 miles of driving up to Helena with the heat turned up high to defrost my mustache.
Jerry,Quote:
Originally Posted by jayree
Don, (CalOldBlue)nailed this one in just under an hour of your posting it --So obviously, we need some more of your rocks here!
Mark
You are right it is one of the stops on the Tour of theTilted Rocks in the Utah section of Dinosaur Nat'l Monument. I'll try to find a harder one next time.
Jerry
Foy keeps making noises about contributing some of his extensive photo collection from the southeastern sections of the USA -- but his knowledge is about the west is pretty darn good too...
Mark
This rock may be a little harder to identify because there are not many visable clues, but it does have a name.
http://inlinethumb37.webshots.com/23...600x600Q85.jpg
Photo by: Jerry Kendrick
1) What is the name of the rock?
2) Where is it located?
Jerry.
Good grief -- what body of water is that sitting in?
Mark
Yes, the one I posted earlier was from Stanley Park as Marks suggested.
Here's another whilst you ponder the latest photo:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2377/...508ef6b441.jpg
I guess this is a superior puzzle! The name of the rock has to do with it's distance from the nearest town.
Jerry
Here is a visual clue. I have erased the name of the rock from the sign but, perhaps, someone has seen it.
http://inlinethumb33.webshots.com/26...600x600Q85.jpg
Photo By: Jerry Kendrick (Edited)
Jerry
I assumed it was a Great Lakes locale right from the start. The "superior" clue then brought me to Mr Google, who quickly brought me to jayree's own photo posting showing Five Mile Rock, near Grand Marias, MN.
Foy
You have five great choices to determine the body of water in which this rock resides.
Jerry.
You are so right. It is Five Mile Rock located 5 miles north of Grand Marais, MN on the North Shore Scenic Highway (MN Hwy 61).
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(Photo by Theresa Beal)
What mountain is this? Where is it? Why is it named what it is?
This mountain has a venerable name and is part of a venerable range.
Foy
Smokey Mountains? I don't suppose you could drop the name of the state?
As in "on top of Old Smokey"?
Krikey, this clue is as twisted as those used by Don Casey methinks....
(And I mean that in a good way...)
Mark
I'm thinking 'honored', as in Mount Washington in the Presidential Range portion of the White Mountains; in New Hampshire.
Yeah, I could go with that definition -- but the shape of the mountains doesn't really fit what I remember about the Presidential range.
Here's the usual view of Mt. Washington and I'd expect to see the towers up there -- but they are missing from the mystery photo...
Still cogitating....
The "venerable" context here would be "aged or old", and in a family way, such as one might refer to a certain ancestor. Which, in fact, referring to this class of ancestors, we often use the term "venerable" to indicate both age and honor.
"my venerable xxxxxxxx"
The mountain is in my home state of North Carolina, but is not in the Smokies.
Foy