Foy,
That's pretty impressive to pull that one out of the memory bank with no hints!
Mark
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Foy,
That's pretty impressive to pull that one out of the memory bank with no hints!
Mark
What is this building?
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/MysteryBuilding.jpg
Parliament Buildings; Legislative Assembly, Victoria, British ColumbiaQuote:
Originally Posted by CalOldBlue
The statue is the memorial to WWI
Lovely flowers!
Mark
... what took you so long? :)
Yep; saw them and decided to squat down and make them the focus of the shot.
Lovely town Victoria; and for US Citizens a great place to enjoy a certain country's rolled tobacco products. Just don't bring them back across the border.
Was smoking my final one on the fantail of the ferry to Port Angeles, when a couple of fast intercept Coast Guard vessels, complete with 50 calibers mounted stem and stern came out of nowhere and paced us. Almost convinced myself they could smell my smoke and were coming after me. I knew they were just using the ferry as a training exercise, but it was fun to imagine being arrested for smuggling... kind of.
I might have gotten it faster.... if I had been logged in....Quote:
Originally Posted by CalOldBlue
Very nice.Quote:
Yep; saw them and decided to squat down and make them the focus of the shot.
Do you like "Camacho Triple Maduro" as well? If so, you'd probably relate with this article....written by another FPI writer.Quote:
Lovely town Victoria; and for US Citizens a great place to enjoy a certain country's rolled tobacco products. Just don't bring them back across the border.
Mark
Millions of people have stood in this spot over the years....
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-066.jpg
So what city and what is this building?
Mark
I thought at first it was the Santa Barbara courthouse, but the entrance is wrong, too plain.
Union Station in LA?
Definitely SoCal either way; architecture too distinctive plus all those palm trees.
AH! You can just make out the street sign!! Union Station.
Yeah, I thought leaving the "Union Station" sign readable would be appreciated for a Monday!
You got it.
Mark
Where is this?
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/MysteryTrail.jpg
I am afraid I've not see this place. Great geologic forces at work therein. Wonderful photo.
Mark
This is a historically significant place -- Where is it and what was the historical significance?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-067.jpg
(Photo by Mark Sedenquist)
Whitney Trail. Shot taken about a mile or two short of the summit, where the trail is actually on the west side of the Sierra crest.
A lovely hike if:
1) You manage to get a permit through the annual lottery
2) You prepare yourself physically (4 months of hiking up and down Mt Diablo at least once a week until we got tired of it and started abusing Tamalpais, Hamilton, Saint Helena, Mt. Rose. Add to that carrying the full pack across SF during Bay-to-Breakers to get used to hiking with the gear.
3) You have the right gear (this assumes you're not insane enough to do the 11 miles out 11 miles back 6000' elevation gain in one day.
4) You acclimate for the elevation (we spent a night in Reno and two nights in Mammoth).
As for #3, while we were setting up at Trail Camp (12,000') we had one group come ask to borrow matches because when packing they grabbed a box of toothpicks instead of matches, and another couple walk by arguing about who didn't read what instruction telling them they needed HOT water to reconstitute their freeze-dried meal packets (neglected to bring a stove). The last group was really sad; they reached Trail Camp alright, but with "car camping" sleeping bags instead of 3 season models; after a night of freezing to death they headed straight back down the trail in the morning, never did the final 4 miles/2500' feet to the top.
Then there was the group that came up the trail carrying plastic kayaks so they could cross over and drift down the river on the other side into the valley. Oy my aching back!
Other than a relentless uphill slog, the trail is in great condition and if you are in decent condition you don't need to be a mountaineer. Decent condition: able to jog at least a 5K and willing to put in some practice time on uphill hiking to get the right muscle groups in shape for back-to-back 3000' gain hikes. We ran into a guy who must have been in his 70s coming back down. Added incentive to summit.
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/MeOnWhitney.jpg
Don't step back, it's a long drop to Iceberg Lake: Don Casey
I've not been up to Whitney yet, but I've hiked some of the alpine country south and west of there, -- what river were these yahoos thinking of?Quote:
Originally Posted by CalOldBlue
I've done some uphill slogging in the Khumbu range in Nepal -- the thin air does tend to put most of life's challenges in the proper and immediate perspective.Quote:
Other than a relentless uphill slog, the trail is in great condition and if you are in decent condition you don't need to be a mountaineer.
Loved that photo!
Mark
... the Kern. Unless they were planning on paddling around Guitar lake for awhile then hauling them back over the crest.
Yeah, amazing what your body tries to tell you when the oxygen load drops to less than 2/3rds what it is used to. Also can't get the morning coffee hot enough. Science says about a 190 degree boiling point at Trail Camp.
Here's a shot taken from almost the same spot but a wider view, you can see the south side of Whitney and how the west face isn't all that steep... trail continues around the base of the summit through a small snow field (this is early July) before it makes a right turn and does the final uphill. Summit is a little past the highest point in this photo.
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/W...lFinalSlog.jpg
Final bit of Whitney Trail: Don Casey
Lastly, here's the Sierra crest at dawn from Trail Camp. The trail is on the far side of the sawtooth ridge (you ascend the infamous "97 switchbacks" to the left of this photo, cross over the crest, and traverse the far side (prior pictures). Whitney itself is just out of this photo, to the extreme right.
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/M...tTrailCamp.jpg
Sunrise on the Sierra crest from Trail Camp, Mount Whitney Trail: Don Casey
Back to my last puzzle....
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
Thanks Mark,Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
I know not whether it's a blessing or a curse, given the periodic inability to remember important things, as opposed to remembering only pleasant things. That CRS (Can't Remember Stuff) is tough sledding as I navigate through my mid-50s.
One of my geology professors 35 years ago asked his colleague to characterize the students in my class, as he would have most of us in the next course in our major's normal sequence. About me, Professor Callahan said "He never forgets anything he sees in the field". True enough, I suppose, but as noted, not always the most desirable of attributes.
Foy
Foy,
I imagine we arrived on this earth about the same time -- and I too have advancing CRS. And like you, I have a highly developed sense of visual memory -- for places. I seem unable to remember faces and/names very long, but if I've seen a bend in the road, I can usually remember it years later.... Not a very useful skill, except when playing this game on RTA!
Mark
Does the phrase "Lewis and Clark" ring any bells for you WRT this location?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
Well with that clue, is it an unusual angle and fairly dry looking shot of Black eagle dam, Great falls Montana?
Ryan dam? Further downstream?
Until your post (above) I always thought this was simply called the Great Falls (for which the city was named). The falls caused a significant portage for the explorers Lewis and Clark. Here's a page with a "wetter" view....
Well, thanks to CaLOldBlue, I am back to thinking that it was the other dam -- weird -- I know there was a park there (with some very scary warning signs) -- but I think Ryan Dam is more correct. Here's a page from the NPS that tends to support this notion....
Mark
Foy sent me an e-mail suggesting that we've been favoring too many places in the west.... So, here's a building that is NOT in the west. What city is it located in and what does it house?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-068.jpg
(Photo by Megan Edwards)
We IT types can be so annoyingly detail-oriented at times....Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
After CalOldBlue's suggestion, I searched up (but did not save or respond as I feel like that's "cheating" in this very enjoyable ongoing game) an image of Ryan Dam. The overall structure and the outcrops upon which it sits look correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by CalOldBlue
And Oh Fudge, I commented to Mark in good faith about the possibility of more East Coast locales to be included in the game, and his first response is to depict architecture, the least observed and least remembered physical phenomenon in my aging memory bank. I won't even hazard a guess on this one. I used up all of my luck, months worth, on Stonington harbor just days ago!
Foy, hoping for mountains, valleys, rivers, and lakes (or beaches).
Maybe Mark can (re)post some guidelines... I know some of the images I've posted I would never expect anybody to figure out without a little online research (after clues). The Church on Saint Paul Island and Josie Bassett's cabin for example... interesting locales with interesting stories, but somewhat obscure. If we want to pick obscure locations but give people a shot at finding them then we would have to allow some online research.Quote:
Originally Posted by Foy
Mark; any thoughts? Maybe research only allowed after 24 hours?
Methinks that this is for fun....As a result we "don't need no stinkin' rules-guidelines..." Gen & AZBuck get the credit for starting this -- It's pretty self-regulating, if you post a photo of something that only a handful of people in the world know, you're gonna have to give some hints. Since it's a road trip site, it would be nice if the photo could be accessed via a public roadway -- but again, I don't see any need for any rules (except the usual ones on this forum WRT politeness and decency).Quote:
Originally Posted by CalOldBlue
Mark
I believe this to the the Museum of the American indian on the Mall in Washington D.C.
I haven't personally been there (it was under construction the last time I was in DC), but I have a smidgen of NA in my family tree, and I've been kinda following it... I think I saw a picture of it once and I recall a description of it as having flowing walls etc.
One of it's names is the National Museum of the American Indian, here is Megan's story about her trip the museum shortly after it opened in 2004.
Excellent work!
Gents and ladies,Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
My "cheating" comment was entirely tongue-in-cheek. My thinking, strictly on my own account, is I don't want to affect anybody's enjoyment in researching/thinking/guessing by taking a previously posted guess, doing a bit of research, and jumping back in with some representation or inference that my guess is solely my own.
With politeness and decency as our only guidelines, I say "let the games continue!".
Foy
Looking over my photo collection -- much of my current digital images were shot in the west.... So, here's another easy one.... I bet you've stood here too?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-069.jpg
(photo by Mark Sedenquist)
It looks a little like from Zabriske point, but I'm not sure.
It's a little unusual to see rain clouds in Death Valley -- but that's the view from Zabriske Point looking almost due east....
Mark
I was pretty stumped on the ones on the east coast -- this one is another from the West (sorry Foy).... What's the name and location of this one? One hint: This is one of the tallest lighthouses in America....
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...ark-070jpg.jpg
(Photo by Dan Sedenquist)
No worries here, mate. I'm enjoying the heck out of these visual brain-teasers, and their locations are all fine with me. I'll post some East Coast scenes before long.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
Keep 'em coming, regardless of the longitude reading.
Foy
No idea where this is (in the fact the only photo I've known for sure in all 28 pages was the one from Ely ... and someone beat me to it) but I didn't want this one to pass without saying: Wow, what a stunning photo.
{Thanks for that high praise -- coming from you -- that's high praise indeed! Slight correction for those just joining us today... instead of 28 pages, there are actually an additional 30 pages here, for a current total of 59 pages in this "Where in North America" is this place? game....}
That's one lovely photo.
I have no idea which lighthouse it is.
Is that Point Arena?
It's on the California coast... (and no, it's not Point Arena... but a pretty good guess)
Then it must be Pigeon Point.
Perched on a cliff on the central California coast, 50 miles south of San Francisco, the 115-foot Pigeon Point Lighthouse, one of the tallest lighthouses in America, has been guiding mariners since 1872. Its five-wick lard oil lamp, and first-order Fresnel lens, comprised of 1,008 prisms, was first lit at sunset, November 15, 1872. The lens stands 16 feet tall, 6 feet in diameter, and weighs 8,000 pounds.... read more here on the State Park website...
Here's an impressive aerial photo and part of the property is actually now a hostel!
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