Wow, that's amazing because it sure looks like the one in Hershey, PA.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quebec Gen
On the right track, but the wrong state....Quote:
@ Mark: could that be Solar One in Boulder City?
Mark
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Wow, that's amazing because it sure looks like the one in Hershey, PA.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quebec Gen
On the right track, but the wrong state....Quote:
@ Mark: could that be Solar One in Boulder City?
Mark
Palm trees don't grow in PA.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
Oh yeah.... silly me.
The Saguaro Solar plant in Red Rock, AZ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
Not in Nevada and not in Arizona -- so it's in California.....
Where is this?
http://homepage.mac.com/erich_oettin...wisty_road.jpg
It sort of looks like a front range location -- but it sure is green.... hmmmmQuote:
Originally Posted by Kestrel
Mark
Yes, it is Golden, Colorado taken from the Lookout Mountain Road near Buffalo Bill's grave. (A fun little side trip from Denver BTW.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
The photo was taken this afternoon. It's green because we have had a fair amount of rain and snow recently. Come in late summer and those hills will almost certainly be brown.
Is that SEGS near Barstow or Kramer Junction?
Where is this?
http://homepage.mac.com/erich_oetting/pics/ladders.jpg
George, the object in question is actually located near Daggett, and it was originally named Solar I, and it was part of the SEGS project. It was operated by in the early 1980's by SCE and DOE. I can remember watching a bird get transformed into instant BBQ in that early period. It was shut down in 1988 and renovated in 1995 as Solar Two. A third transformation was made in 2001 when the University of California at Davis created the C.A.C.T.U.S. facility (Converted Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Using Solar-2). I've flown over it in recent years in a private plane -- it can be somewhat blinding.... More information about this place can be found here. When I took that photo in 2003, I had to ignore a whole bunch of no trespassing signs -- I was there with a team of scientists and so we had some justification for being there. (But even so, a security detail arrived to herd us away).Quote:
Originally Posted by glc
Mark
I feel like Indy Jones after he fell into the snake pit... That looks like a serious climb -- I wonder how well attached those ladders are? I can state with certain authority -- I've never seen that view. Maybe you need to offer us a clue?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kestrel
By the way, I've done that loop around the front range that includes the stop at Lookout Mountain -- both times I've been there it was too cloudy to see much -- Wow, what a beautiful day when you were there!
Mark
Oooh, suicide ladders. I just want to go there and climb all of them:D I can't wait to know.
Crazy Gen
The sign at the bottom of the climb might help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
http://homepage.mac.com/erich_oettin...er_warning.jpg
It's only a few minutes from home, so I get to pick nice days to take that drive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
Thanks for the clue -- it only took me about 30 seconds to find this....I would say that this is the approach to the Alcove House at Bandelier National Monument about an hour from Santa Fe in New Mexico!
Mark
Yes, it is Alcove House.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
Can you tell me where this is?
http://homepage.mac.com/erich_oetting/pics/house.jpg
In SE Wyoming -- but not quite sure -- I've got to check my photo archives
Yep, I think that is -- I even have a photo with several of the RTA Mods standing in front of this... have to find it.
Well, here's a couple of them anyway -- Megan and Gen
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...ft-laramie.jpg
(And they are standing on the parade ground behind the mystery building...)
Mark
Yes, it is Fort Laramie. You got that a lot quicker than I expected.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
But do you know where this is?
http://homepage.mac.com/erich_oetting/pics/object.jpg
The geographic center of North America -- in North Dakota?
Or maybe of the USA in Lebanon, KS?
I'm a member of the Shaw Family -- whose ranch house (near the town of Orin, Wyoming), is now a state historical monument. Fort Laramie is home turf for me. My cousins own just about all of the land around Ft. Laramie. And the family has donated huge tracts of land for historical preservation in the area.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kestrel
Mark
It's not in Kansas or North Dakota.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
This is too tough... hard to even guess what the relative size of this monument is....
Mark
50 state geo center is in South Dakota; be that it?
The geographic center of the USA is in North Dakota... see this link.
Mark
(and if the pages of this forum are loading slowly -- we've noticed it too -- it will be fixed by this time tomorrow).
Windy day uh?:) Oh, this brings back great memories. I really enjoyed that branding...especially the food since most of the time I didn't have a clue what I was eating:D lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
As I remember, its a bit over two feet in diameter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
It's at the end of a nature trail on an All American Road.
Would a monument to Lewis and Clark be getting warmer?
Mark
It's more of a monument to scenery.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
The device is called a "Mountain Index". Each of the lines on the outside is inscribed with the name of a mountain. When you look across the disc and line up a name with the center bump, it points at the mountain.
There is a plaque below honoring a man named Toll.
Given your location, I would bet we are discussing Mt. Toll in Colorado, but Toll Mountain near Big Bend National Park in Texas is possible too. Still looking...
Ah... good clue. OK, the Toll in this case was Roger Walcott Toll, a former superintendent at the Rocky Mountain National Park so this is at approximately 12,304 feet in elevation on the Tundra World Nature Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park!
Mark
Where was I standing to capture this view?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/.../mystery-3.jpg
You got it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
At the end of the trail is a rock outcropping. To see the Trail Ridge Mountain Index you have to climb to the top of the rocks.
http://homepage.mac.com/erich_oetting/pics/mt_index.jpg
Nice photo!
Mark
approximately
36 degrees 6 minutes 11 seconds North
114 degrees 55 minutes 54 seconds West
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I'd actually place it at:
36 degrees 6 minutes 11 seconds North
114 degrees 55 minutes 58 seconds West
But for the rest of us -- taken at Lake Las Vegas, NV
Name of town and state?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...05/church3.jpg
(let me know if you'd like a larger image...)
Gonna have to go look -- but first guess -- Ft. Bragg, in California -- Well, maybe not Greek Orthodox (no dome) but sure is a pretty shot! Maybe it's in Alaska -- Russian Orthodox influences?
Wrong state.
Baker Cottage, in Ouzinkie, Alaska? (Kodiak Island)
Right state, and it is on an island, but not Kodiak, and it's not a cottage.
Somehow I missed a reply; yes, Russian Orthodox.
I really thought it was the one at Ouzinkie, Alaska. But now I see that the roof line is not correct and the absence of close-in spruce trees has me still looking...
Yeah, this is a real needle-in-the-haystack kind of thing. I am tapped out of time -- hopefully one of our Alaskan members has seen this.
Mark
Here's some hints:
This island draws tourists for three reasons:
Birding
Marine mammals
Native culture
I took my kids there a few years back so they could visit the town their great-grandmother was born in... same name as the island.
Proceeds from this island into the US Treasury paid off the purchase of Alaska in a little over 20 years, and none of it was from gold. The U.S. paid $7.2M to Russia for all of Alaska, yet:
"Others would comment more specifically, “This island ...., though comparatively small, is one of the most, if not the most, important of all late possessions of Russia America…I cannot but regard this point of more intrinsic value for a steady revenue than any other in the whole territory.”11 This industry alone quickly repaid the U.S. Government the purchase price of Alaska. The net revenue to the government was $6,020,152 from 1870 to 1889 and $3,453,844 from 1890 to 1909 (Osgood et al. 1915, 25).
Last clue: NOT part of the Aleutian chain.
I really don't have time to be doing this.... but...
Puffin Island -- Oil -- I see the church in the attached photo -- but I am still....?
The Pribilof Islands of Alaska are a small cluster of volcanic islands located about 250 miles north of the Aleutian Chain and 300 miles west of the Alaska mainland. They are often described as the “Galapagos of the North.” That would seem to fit the bill described above...
St. George Island has a town called St. George-- but the photo of the Russian Orthodox Church doesn't really look like the one you shot... so, I think I/m close, but not positive yet!
Final Answer: Holy Martyrs Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Church in St. Paul.... (based on the fact that it doesn't seem to have the onion-shaped structure -- it was repeatedly blown off in winter wind storms according to some text I read). Still haven't seen a photo to match yours, but I am convinced it is St. Paul on St. Paul Island because of the telecommunication/radar dishes seen here.
Good clues though!
Mark