Game: Where-is-it? (international)

[johnw]

Only because I found a coastal view with farms in it - somewhere near Akrafjall, Akranes?

[Last]

Correct John, Along the road near Akranes

[johnw]

Would not have got it without the clues and good work by others.

USA, taken from a moving train on the way to a coastal port:

Moose Pass village on Trail Lake (upper) from Alaska Railroad "Coastal Classic" en route to Seward, Alaska USA

[johnw]

Way up north...

[sandym]

Random guess, aren't they all - Bear Lake on the AK train line.

[johnw]

Random guess, aren't they all - Bear Lake on the AK train line.

Not Bear Lake. Right idea, different animal but not named for the lake/s.
You're in the frame on the correct train route. Go about 35 km north.

[sandym]

I am really literally making wild guesses but Kenai Lake?

[johnw]

I am really literally making wild guesses but Kenai Lake?

Closer, you're about 10 km away. This small settlement is named after a large endemic animal.
The lakes have a different name and are connected to Kenai Lake.

[sandym]

Moose Creek? Trail Lake? The large endemic animal has to be a moose, I think. Although it could be a bison, but moose are much more common.

[johnw]

Moose Creek? Trail Lake? The large endemic animal has to be a moose, I think. Although it could be a bison, but moose are much more common.

Good enough. Moose Pass village on the middle/upper Trail Lake. Over to you.

[johnw]

Sandy seems to have gone missing. It's been a week, anyone can go.

[sandym]

Sorry, just busy.

As it is ski season, I'll post a picture from skiing in the USA. Name of the pass and bonus points for the valley behind the pass. The valley is very well known as is the pass.

[johnw]

Let's start somewhere. No idea of the view because it was a whiteout when I stopped there briefly - Loveland Pass?

[sandym]

Wrong state, go west. John Muir called the range "The Range Of Light."

[Graham51]

The Range of Light is Yosemite so is this Tioga Pass looking to Yosemite Valley?

[sandym]

The right range, wrong pass. You cannot drive to this pass, must walk or ski.

[johnw]

My knowledge is limited to Yosemite Valley. Thinking about "well known" in a different context - Matterhorn Pass?

[sandym]

Here is a close up of the hut at the pass.

[johnw]

So it's actually nowhere near Yosemite ? [/Tosses Yosemite Wilderness map aside]
Albeit I know the trail of the same name connects there because I walked on it briefly -
John Muir Memorial Shelter aka Muir Hut, at Muir Pass, Kings Canyon NP.

[sandym]

Photo is from the summit of Black Giant, looking down on Muir Pass with the Evoloution Valley behind. It is the Sierra Nevada range, from north of Yosemite to south of where we finished this traverse. The only other person we met in 8 days was skiing north to Tioga Pass as we were skiing south towards Mount Whitney.

[johnw]

Let's stay in the USA. Name the river:

[north-north-west]

It looks like a Fred to me.

[johnw]

It looks like a Fred to me.

Ah, I see you took the literal approach NNW .
I was thinking something a bit more earthy. But I have to go now, I've left the kettle on around the corner.

[sandym]

Are you in Colorado?

[Graham51]

Is this Columbia River?

[johnw]

Is this Columbia River?

Not the Columbia River.

Are you in Colorado

Not Colorado but I am in an adjoining state.
Cryptic clues in my previous post are significant.

[johnw]

Repeating photo and clues for page turn.

Gardiner River near Boiling River thermal feature, Yellowstone NP via Mammoth H.S. Wyoming USA

I was thinking something a bit more earthy. But I have to go now, I've left the kettle on around the corner.
Cryptic clues in my previous post are significant.
Not Colorado but I am in an adjoining state.
I'm standing in one state looking at the background in another a few kms to the north.

[sandym]

San Juan River?

[johnw]

San Juan River?

Not the San Juan River. I'm north of all four states that the San Juan runs through.
This is a much smaller affair and contains a thermal feature near my location.
I'm probably standing at or very near the border of two states.

[johnw]

Might appeal to domestic horticulturalists.