GAME: Where am I?

[Robbo]

Well done, FF

Your turn...

[flyfisher]

Sorry for the delay, I'm having vista troubles, someone else like to put one up
ff

[flyfisher]

???

[tasadam]

If you want to email me an image I can post it for ya.
My email address is linked at the bottom of my web site.
If you're going to, best announce that intention here before someone posts an image.
I'm online for a while.

[tasadam]

Flyfisher has gone offline so I will throw this one in...
Feel free to ask for clues if it's too tricky.

[dee_legg]

Am I in saying the first set of trees on the ridge King Billys?

[tasadam]

Am I in saying the first set of trees on the ridge King Billys?

Um, I looked through all the images I have from this location and was not able to tell. But I think I would be right in saying I don't think so.
There is something very significant just to the left of this image.
Being that it is evening, this was where my tent was.
It's a recognised camp, and is used "often".

[dee_legg]

Just to the left???
What help is that!
Hahaha, I'm giving up.

[photohiker]

Don't worry Dee, if I ever win one of these I'm gunna post an ink spot or the morning tea leaves.

I'm guessing we are in a valley. (duh!) Is the ridgeline vegetated?

[eggs]

With the difficulty being provided by some of our more recent entries, we may have to revisit walkinTas "rules" on what to post.
I think it was assumed they would all be panoramas, but if not, to at least have some recognisable distant feature.

I'll be peeved when the first picture of someone's cup at a campsite showing only the tea leaves at the bottom is posted

[tasadam]

Don't worry Dee, if I ever win one of these I'm gunna post an ink spot or the morning tea leaves.

I'm guessing we are in a valley. (duh!) Is the ridgeline vegetated?

With that guess, you're half right.
The ridgeline is indeed vegetated.
Signature vegetation -

As seen looking from the ridge.

[eggs]

To get some progress, how about waterfall valley looking across the ridge with Barn Bluff off to the left?

[tasadam]

With the difficulty being provided by some of our more recent entries, we may have to revisit walkinTas "rules" on what to post.
I think it was assumed they would all be panoramas, but if not, to at least have some recognisable distant feature.

I'll be peeved when the first picture of someone's cup at a campsite showing only the tea leaves at the bottom is posted

Fair call, and I am here to offer clues, which is why I decided to add that pic and offer such clues.
I think someone will get it pretty quick now.

[tasadam]

I think someone will get it pretty quick now.

So quick in fact, that it beat my reply.

The clues -
Significant to the left, and the direction was heading up - indeed a mountain,
A camp site used "often", quotes highlighting it, to suggest maybe as often as the Overland track...
With that guess, you're half right - in a "valley" - half the name.
Signature vegetation - from a post a few pages back in the game that eggs pointed out,
And several other clues ready to go if they were needed, including one with a bit more foreground including the dunny -

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Your go eggs

[eggs]

I don't know how often someone gets them right by accident, but the photo of vegetation you put up had me rethinking as coastal.
Good think I had your new post flagged before I submitted.

As for your clues, you must be someone who likes cryptic crosswords.
The only thing that I picked up on was the thought that the Overland track is a popular spot. Rest was pot luck.

I still have a few photos I could use, but only a few taken off slides.
This one is of me on my honeymoon - I look a lot different now
Accuracy please

[tasadam]

Aw shucks, I thought you went to Strathgordon for your honeymoon.
I know you can't be up on Cradle somewhere, because I KNOW that carpark is bitumen.
Though it sure looks like Mt Campbell down there...

EDIT I should add that I can't pick the exact location because I don't know without trolling maps to try & work it out.

[norts]

Come on Tasadam, car park hasn't been bitumen for that long. I rued the day the decided to bitument the road to Cradle.

Roger

[eggs]

Ok - when I post from my slides, forget current day conditions.
This shot will be 26 years old.

On my honeymoon I went around the island for a month.

[Taurë-rana]

That's how I remember seeing the carpark from that sort of direction. It's about time I went for a walk up Cradle I think.

[tasadam]

I've been trying... Some would say I've been very trying...
I can't figure out which bit of rock you're on because I don't know the view from either.
So I will submit my evidence in the hope it helps someone else out.

My thinking is that it could be the high point to the left (eastern side of it), or it could be straight out to the right. Or I could be wrong on both counts.
But I haven't hit the maps, and I'm out of time for tonight. Surely someone knows how much of Dove Lake you can see from either location.
Good night.

[walkinTas]

I'll be peeved when the first picture of someone's cup at a campsite showing only the tea leaves at the bottom is posted

Lets hope it doesn't come to that! Unless of course the tea leaves happen to form a perfect panorama.

Its nice to have an easier one every now and then. I totally drowned in the river. And I nearly broke my neck looking for the light switch in that last one by TasAdam.

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Not that it helped me much in any event. But at least I found the track after I turned the lights on. Hang on a minute!... I think the track is this way....
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Eggs, My guess is you are standing on Weindorfers Tower.

[eggs]

There are several named peaks on the main ridgetop of Cradle
As tasadam points out, I am not on Cradle itself
But I am not on Weindorfers either -
that is at the end of the ragged edge to the right

So what is the name of the peak I am on?
Hint - if you don't have a map handy,
use "The List" online maps set to the 1:25000 series

[walkinTas]

It must be Smithies?

[eggs]

Yes - it is Smithies Peak

It was an easy scramble from the track to Cradle along the southern side of the ridge to Smithies.
Getting down was a bit tense when my wife wouldn't lower herself down a 6 ft drop with my help.
After discussing whether a helicopter would be necessary, we found an easy bypass on the southern side again.
From there it was straight down the gully scree to the plateau - a track to Smithies which used to be marked on older maps.

As for Weindorfers, has any reader been up there? I imagine you would need to be a rock climber to do it?

Over to walkinTas

[walkinTas]

Ok try this one, there are plenty of clues for everyone here. Yes, the tripod wasn't level, the lens sucks, and I didn't use a filter, but this game isn't about photography. Let's just say its nearly a good photo.

Where am I standing?

[tasadam]

Is it embarrassing to say I don't recognise those bumpy bits? Have to cross reference them with a photo from a viewpoint I know...
Should I be ashamed? When I find out what they are, I will know...
But, for now, work.

[walkinTas]

You should recognize all the bumpy bits.

The closest one on the left of screen is very distinct. This game has had pictures from there, or and close to there.

[eggs]

tasadam

maybe its your computer monitor
I reckon Mt Hyperion on the left is fairly distinctive, and Pelion West on the right is generally easy.
That leaves Ossa in the middle and that funny peak lower down on the left is probably Pillinger from behind.
That would place walkinTas on the other side of the Arm River Road...
now to dig out "The LIST"....

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[Mickeymoo]

Looks like Pelion West, Thetis, Achillies, Ossa, Pelion West and Cathedral? So given the angle I'd say maybe taken from near the top of Oakleigh?

[walkinTas]

You are certainly right about the bumpy bits, but not close to where I am. I used a lot of zoom (about 150).