GAME: Where am I?

[stu]

Not Strathgordon or surrounds Adam; (& yes, my workload is suffering also ).
Not King William Range either kramster, sorry.
There is a pretty prominent peak in there which will help determine my location.

[MJD]

On Burgess Bluff looking across Hopetoun to Federation.

[eggs]

Definitely Federation over Hopetoun
Dave Noble has great pictures from a trip over Hopetoun

There are about 3 peaks on the southern Picton range
MJD is a tragic and is probably right
But I will say Abrotenella (cannot remember the spelling) just for fun

I am off now

[Phil]

Maybe MJD has it?.......I was thinking that maybe the photo was taken from the peak which is on the immediate south/west of Lake Burgess but I couldn't find the name of it!! I was also thinking that the photo was looking through to Federation??

[stu]

Near enough Martin, from Anderson Bluff just north of Burgess Bluff.

For those not in the know:
The scrubby conical peak in the right mid-foreground is Piquenit (after the C19th Tasmanian Landscape painter).
Mt. Hopetoun in the mid-centre/left foreground, with the obvious 'S' shaped button grass spur in the bottom left of photo being Lancaster Lead (after Keith Lancaster).
Obviously, Federation Peak & The Eastern Arthur Range in the background.

The views in either direction from this one (right - to the Arthur Plains & Western Arthur Range (see attached enlarged pano), and left to Crest Range, Mt. Bobs, PB, south coast etc) are equally impressive. Views of South West Tasmania don't get much better - a highly recommended walk to anyone who hasn't been there.

The Arthur Ranges from Anderson Bluff.

The camping at Square Tarn also looks very nice in which case all of the South Picton range could be done in a couple of days.

Sorry to ramble on, happy memories of a fantastic summit!
Over to you MJD.

[MJD]

Haven't got many obscure photos at work but this one may be a bit harder:

[Son of a Beach]

The swamp, reeds, buttongrass and gum trees remind me of the Cuvier Valley, but I can't make that mountain fit there. I guess there's a lot of places with similar plains.

EDIT: ...unless the mountain is Little Hugel. Looks about the right shape on the left, but not on the right. And looks like the wrong size.

EDIT again: Actually, looking at theLIST, it might just fit. In which case, it would place the photographer in the Cuvier Valley, east (or north east) of Little Hugel (ie, towards the south east end of the plain).

My memory ain't great, and my camera was out of batteries when I walked through the Cuvier Valley. So it's a bit of a rough guess.

[MJD]

far too far north

EDIT: gotta go to a meeting back in an hour

[Son of a Beach]

bummer!

[Mickeymoo]

I'm going to have a stab in the dark and say it's taken from the plains looking north towards Mt Wright?

[MJD]

Good guess - it's from the Gordon Plains looking at Mt Wright on the way to The Thumbs.

[Mickeymoo]

Ok next one, should be a reasonably easy one, I must dig out some older ones from the archives to use.

[stu]

...must resist...

[stu]

OK, can't resist any longer...
taken from on or near the summit of Florentine Peak.
Mt. Field West to right;
The Needles, Mt. Bowes & Mt. Mueller in distance.

[Mickeymoo]

Close but not quite! It is actually a little deceptive looking at the map as to the angle this was taken from, but not from Florentine Peak.

[stu]

Tyenna Peak?

[Mickeymoo]

Tyenna Peak is in the photo but it's not from there, getting closer

[stu]

I know where you are now, but I may let someone else answer based on your clues.
You're right about the perspective, I've been all over that National Park several times over & was still tricked.
Cheers.
Stu.

[stu]

Mt. Mawson.

[Mickeymoo]

Yep spot on this time! It's actually quite hard to correlate things as it seems like it's more north than it actually is especially with Mt Wedge being that far right of Mt. Muller. Over to you Stu.

[stu]

Yep, I even thought Mt. Wedge was Mt. Bowes!?
This one is very easy!

[stu]

Time for me to knock-off soon (from work & this forum).
Feel free to add the next photo after you've guessed mine as I won't be on again until the morning.
Cheers.
Stu.

[DaveNoble]

The Seven Apostles from Mt Olympus (or the north part of Mt Olympus from the south part - from near the trig). You can see the two lakes on the right. Further back are the Guardians, Mt Gould and Pine Valley.

Nice photo with the snow!

Dave

[DaveNoble]

Ok - assuming I am right. I'll post this one. It may be hard (I had forgotten I had taken the photo - it is quite old - and if I came across it randomly then I would not remember what trip it was taken on) - but it surely shows one of Tasmania's most spectacular peaks. Just name the peak will be sufficient - as the photo is taken just under it.

Dave

[eggs]

Dave

is this one looking back to Secheron Peak in the Frankland Range
I presume you would have come down over the top of it and were looking back?

If it is, how hard would it be to climb directly up from the lake?

eggs

PS - I thought the Seven Apostles were actually on the southern end of Mt Olympus facing out over the Cuvier Valley?

[dee_legg]

Mt Hopetoun?

[DaveNoble]

Eggs is right. Spot on. It is Secheron Peak. This one was taken in 1979 - and I remember when we got out from the trip - the big news was that Russia had just invaded Afghanistan.

Both it and Frankland Peak are hard to get off. We did not manage to find a direct way off either of them - instead we back tracked to the saddles (on their NW sides) and sidled on ledges under the peaks. This turned out to be fairly easy once we started. And since it worked for Frankland Peak - we also tried it on Secheron - and it worked too. We camped not far from where the photo was taken (at an established campsite) - and then descended an easy ridge to Pebbly ck (so we didn't go up Terminal Peak). We had no route notes for the range.

I will soon post photos from this trip on my website.

Dave

[eggs]

A magnificent peak, Dave
I am looking forward to your trip photos

Now for something more mundane

[tasadam]

Gee, um, ar, um...
Restraint......

[eggs]

Quick update on the game stats

As best I can figure, since Sat night 13th June, 66 puzzle images have been posted (with quite a few explanatory or other shots) by 20 different contributors and solved by 18 different people.
I probably should have charted the ramp down in numbers per day, but it is getting a lot quieter. Maybe this week people are remembering to work.

I would be interested in how many visitors find this game interesting or educational, even if you have not played. There have been a few comments to that effect. As a "game", I certainly have been fascinated by a lot of the photos.

Tassie is a big place, but there are a few locations not yet represented in the offerings (King William Range, Eldon's, Tasman Peninsula and the more obscure parts of the North coast - west side and east side. Having said that, there is still a pretty good spread amongst the photos.

As time goes on, there will probably be some overlap, but if people are enjoying the exercise, that should be fine.

Oh - and if only a few are playing, I figure its OK to keep contributing. Let me know if that frustrates anyone out there.

PS - apart from tasadam, does anyone need a clue?