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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Sat 15 Jul, 2023 12:31 pm

Looks like nnw has gone awol. Here's one to get the game moving again. The area where we camped has a couple of informal names, and it can easily be described if you don't know them:
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High Dome from one of the tarns south-east of Lake Ewart/north-east of Castle Mountain
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Geevesy » Sat 15 Jul, 2023 6:18 pm

Up on the ridge to the south-east of Lake Ewart?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Sat 15 Jul, 2023 6:33 pm

Geevesy wrote:Up on the ridge to the south-east of Lake Ewart?

That's the spot, Geevesy. And welcome back!
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Geevesy » Sat 15 Jul, 2023 7:00 pm

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Geevesy wrote:Up on the ridge to the south-east of Lake Ewart?

That's the spot, Geevesy. And welcome back!


Thank you Tortoise, yes it has been quite a while!

Here is one from earlier in the year.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Sat 15 Jul, 2023 9:08 pm

My first thought was the lake below Weld, but I don't think it quite fits.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Geevesy » Sat 15 Jul, 2023 10:24 pm

Tortoise wrote:My first thought was the lake below Weld, but I don't think it quite fits.


Not Weld, but it is a common high camp when ascending an Abel.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby bluewombat » Sun 16 Jul, 2023 7:21 am

Perhaps Paddys lake
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Geevesy » Sun 16 Jul, 2023 11:23 am

bluewombat wrote:Perhaps Paddys lake


Not that one either. The lake is named after a nearby feature.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby grunter » Sun 16 Jul, 2023 11:44 am

Hartz?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Geevesy » Sun 16 Jul, 2023 3:10 pm

grunter wrote:Hartz?


Not Hartz either. Off track, and has a descent at the start of the walk.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Last » Sun 16 Jul, 2023 4:09 pm

is it on the loddon range?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Geevesy » Sun 16 Jul, 2023 5:04 pm

Last wrote:is it on the loddon range?


Yep, close enough. Needle Rock Tarn.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Last » Sun 16 Jul, 2023 10:01 pm

Thanks Geevesy. I couldn't have got it without the clue. Next
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby grasshopper92 » Sun 16 Jul, 2023 10:51 pm

Can't work it out yet, but I want to go there! :)
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby eggs » Mon 17 Jul, 2023 7:49 am

Rogoona?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Hills » Mon 17 Jul, 2023 9:06 am

Emmett?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Last » Mon 17 Jul, 2023 10:03 am

eggs wrote:Rogoona?

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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby eggs » Mon 17 Jul, 2023 1:02 pm

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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby north-north-west » Mon 17 Jul, 2023 4:38 pm

Going up Jukes. I think that's near the top of the loose scree section below Proprietary.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby eggs » Mon 17 Jul, 2023 6:41 pm

Yes. It was the group turn back point the first time. But successfully traversed going solo this year.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby north-north-west » Tue 18 Jul, 2023 7:57 am

Have to get back to that one of these days. Been ages since I was up there.

What not-entirely-pointless nonentity was I on this (smoky) day?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby grasshopper92 » Tue 18 Jul, 2023 11:12 pm

Tanina?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby north-north-west » Wed 19 Jul, 2023 7:42 am

Yes, the mighty Tanina Bluff. Over to you, grasshopper.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby grasshopper92 » Wed 19 Jul, 2023 10:50 pm

Thanks! What summit were we lucky enough to have a morning snooze on here?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Last » Thu 20 Jul, 2023 11:56 am

Agnew?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby grasshopper92 » Thu 20 Jul, 2023 12:26 pm

Correct, Last!
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Last » Thu 20 Jul, 2023 2:12 pm

Thanks grasshopper, next
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Last » Sat 22 Jul, 2023 9:41 pm

I wouldn't go back here in a hurry
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby icefest » Sun 23 Jul, 2023 1:20 pm

Tramontane!
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Last » Sun 23 Jul, 2023 2:26 pm

further north and more prosaic. This is a day walk
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