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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby peregrinator » Fri 09 May, 2025 4:06 pm

johnw wrote:Has the same first name as a lady who was known for tickling the ivories.


Well, I see there is a Winifred Falls. Maybe that could be it? Not that I've been following any of the other clues. Nor am I am a fan of said pianist.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Fri 09 May, 2025 9:25 pm

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johnw wrote:Has the same first name as a lady who was known for tickling the ivories.


Well, I see there is a Winifred Falls. Maybe that could be it? Not that I've been following any of the other clues. Nor am I am a fan of said pianist.

Correct peregrinator! I know of the late Winifred Atwell but very little about her, just a convenient clue. I doubt she has any connection to the waterfall. All yours.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby peregrinator » Sun 11 May, 2025 9:08 am

South Australia next:

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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby peregrinator » Mon 12 May, 2025 1:50 pm

This is part of a large formation which will be known by many. (Even by many non-bushwakers.) The angle of my approach was not one used by many.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby sandym » Mon 12 May, 2025 4:11 pm

It looks a lot like Wilpena Pound but that seems way too obvious.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby peregrinator » Tue 13 May, 2025 9:25 am

sandym wrote:It looks a lot like Wilpena Pound but that seems way too obvious.


Sandym, making this "way too obvious" was my intention. I'm glad to know you judged this because "it looks a lot like" it. It's the northern end of Wilpena Pound, viewed from the Heysen Trail at the western side of Wilcolo Creek. About halfway between Bunyeroo Gorge and Wilpena.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby sandym » Tue 13 May, 2025 4:39 pm

Next time I'll go for obvious!

NSW and could be equally as obvious as Peregrinator's.

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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby sandym » Wed 14 May, 2025 6:58 pm

Not obvious, obvious.

Very near the ACT/NSW border.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby sandym » Fri 16 May, 2025 7:55 am

Hint number two: Usually walked up from the south. But you can also come from the north.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby peregrinator » Fri 16 May, 2025 8:34 am

sandym wrote:Hint number two: Usually walked up from the south. But you can also come from the north.


Obviously it has to be Quito, in Ecuador on the Equator. Latitude: 0° 15' 0" N. On an unusually rare foggy tropical day.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby sandym » Fri 16 May, 2025 4:38 pm

Close Peregrinator. That is, of course, Marc Leclerc on the first winter solo ascent of Cerro Torre.

I am sure dozens of people on this forum have been up this mountain as there is a track all the way to the top. Hint number three in case anyone is counting.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Sat 17 May, 2025 10:33 am

Mount Murray?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby sandym » Sat 17 May, 2025 4:38 pm

Yes.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Sun 18 May, 2025 3:51 pm

I'll go with another summit, NSW:
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On South Rams Head, Kosciuskzo NP via Dead Horse Gap NSW
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Tyreless » Sun 18 May, 2025 5:29 pm

Mt Tate?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Mon 19 May, 2025 11:08 am

Tyreless wrote:Mt Tate?

Not Tate. Similar looking trig but I'm quite a distance from there.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby north-north-west » Mon 19 May, 2025 5:18 pm

Isn't there a marker like that on the Granite Peaks, or am I getting mixed up? All I can say for sure is that I've been to this one, but that doesn't narrow it down a lot.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Tue 20 May, 2025 12:16 am

north-north-west wrote:Isn't there a marker like that on the Granite Peaks, or am I getting mixed up? All I can say for sure is that I've been to this one, but that doesn't narrow it down a lot.

I believe you have been here NNW, but it's not the Granite Peaks. You're getting further away.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby snowygreybeard » Tue 20 May, 2025 9:44 pm

Is that the Pilot on the left?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Tue 20 May, 2025 11:42 pm

snowygreybeard wrote:Is that the Pilot on the left?

I believe so.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby snowygreybeard » Wed 21 May, 2025 9:02 am

To keep the ball rolling I'll guess South Ramshead (not Southerly Ramshead), but it doesn't look right - and I can't remember what that trig looks like.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Wed 21 May, 2025 9:55 am

snowygreybeard wrote:To keep the ball rolling I'll guess South Ramshead (not Southerly Ramshead), but it doesn't look right - and I can't remember what that trig looks like.

South Rams Head is correct, I walked down here via Southerly. This trig and Tate (see my avatar) are much the same.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby snowygreybeard » Wed 21 May, 2025 10:08 am

I'm outa here for a while - someone else go.
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