dcoombs Posted April 7, 2013 Share #2161 Â Posted April 7, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) Sorry, I don't know that area then. Sure is beautiful, though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted April 7, 2013 Posted April 7, 2013 Hi dcoombs, Take a look here The world from above - Game Thread. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
doubice Posted April 8, 2013 Share #2162 Â Posted April 8, 2013 If Dawson City is too far north and west from your location, we must be in Yukon Territory or possibly, Northwest Territories (Nunavut). Is this the Nahanni range? Â Cheers, Â Jan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woorob Posted April 8, 2013 Share #2163 Â Posted April 8, 2013 Still quite a bit too far north. Here's a hint -- it's within a days' drive of your lovely location. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubice Posted April 8, 2013 Share #2164 Â Posted April 8, 2013 I am looking for a dammed river that may be a day's drive from me..... Am I heading into BC interior or, to Washington State? Â Cheers, Â Jan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woorob Posted April 8, 2013 Share #2165  Posted April 8, 2013 (edited) Hi Jan,  From Stanley Park the drive will take you the better part of a day. You'll head NE on a main road until you intersect a major highway, where you will proceed E as though you were going to a rodeo in a certain major western city located in another province. You'll want to slow down well before hitting the site of the "last spike," perhaps stopping for coffee at an historical Canadian city that even has a hint of the Victorian age in its downtown. There you will need to determine the whereabouts of a ferry crossing a bay named after a locally mined ore, lead sulfide.  But the quest is not over yet!  After locating and then crossing the ferry (at no charge, thanks to the Canadian government), you're heading for a mountain that shares its name with a great railway, founded at the turn of the century before last, by James J. Hill, "The Empire Builder." Mr. Hill, born in Ontario, lived in St. Paul most of his life and was the Bill Gates of his day. I live on the remnant of his farm, north of St. Paul, which was developed in the 1960s. But I digress. The mountain is part of a range named after a Scottish earl who sponsored immigrant settlements in the Canadian portion of the Red River Valley. (The Red River runs along the Minnesota/Dakota border, to the west and north of St. Paul, and is one of the few American rivers that flows north, in this case into Hudson's Bay.)  The photos are taken just below the top of this mountain, looking south-west towards the large area of lakes (over 200 km long) created in the 1960s by damming a mighty river that flows into another country and thence to the sea.  This is a tough one, but a lot of fun!  Bob  PS. In some years this location receives over 800 inches of snow. Edited April 8, 2013 by woorob text corrections Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubice Posted April 9, 2013 Share #2166 Â Posted April 9, 2013 You sent me on quite a trip, Bob - thanks!..... Much more than a day's drive - I assume I may end up in the Selkirk Mountain Range..... Â Jan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubice Posted April 9, 2013 Share #2167 Â Posted April 9, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) .....and on the way there I will enjoy the scenery from a free Galena Bay ferry over Upper Arrow Lake. Maybe I'll just get into a canoe here and float down the Columbia River, hoping to somehow make it through Great Coulee ..... Too bad that Canadian Pacific does not run passenger trains through Craigellachie anymore and Great Northern Railway is too far away..... Â Eventually, I hope to end up in Whitefish to be picked up by the Great Northern Powderguides for a back breaking week of powder at the Great Northern Mountain. Â There - how was my trip? Â Cheers, Â Jan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woorob Posted April 9, 2013 Share #2168 Â Posted April 9, 2013 Your trip was spot on! Â The wilderness powder skiing in this area is some of the finest on Earth, so if you went during the winter you'd be jubilant. They say the fishing's great in the summer . . . Â Great job! Â Over to you now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubice Posted April 9, 2013 Share #2169  Posted April 9, 2013 Here we go - an entirely different corner of the world. From height of probably only 20 meters but, 'from above'......  City and body of water please.  Good luck,  Jan Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/150062-the-world-from-above-game-thread/?do=findComment&comment=2295003'>More sharing options...
FPB Posted April 9, 2013 Share #2170 Â Posted April 9, 2013 Hi Jan, are we in Germany ? Â Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubice Posted April 9, 2013 Share #2171 Â Posted April 9, 2013 Sorry, not in Germany. Â Good luck, Â Jan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted April 9, 2013 Share #2172 Â Posted April 9, 2013 In a Benelux country? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubice Posted April 9, 2013 Share #2173 Â Posted April 9, 2013 In a Benelux country? Â That'll kill off three countries at once and save server space! No, not in a Benelux country. Â Good luck, Â Jan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woorob Posted April 9, 2013 Share #2174 Â Posted April 9, 2013 In the Stockholm area? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubice Posted April 10, 2013 Share #2175 Â Posted April 10, 2013 In the Stockholm area? Â Let's kill off a few more countries in one sweep - not in Scandinavia. Â Cheers, Â Jan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted April 10, 2013 Share #2176 Â Posted April 10, 2013 Let's really narrow it down. Southern hemisphere? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubice Posted April 10, 2013 Share #2177 Â Posted April 10, 2013 Let's really narrow it down. Southern hemisphere? Â Let's really speed it up - we are one of European capital cities..... Â Good luck, Â Jan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubice Posted April 11, 2013 Share #2178 Â Posted April 11, 2013 Time for hints - channel of a river that had a symphonic poem writen about it...... Â Good luck, Â Jan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woorob Posted April 11, 2013 Share #2179 Â Posted April 11, 2013 (edited) Danube? Edited April 11, 2013 by woorob Text correction Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted April 11, 2013 Share #2180 Â Posted April 11, 2013 Which suggests Vienna, though it does go through other capital cities. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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