I've seen this topic on another forum, and thought it might be fun to get started here. The rules are simple: identify the spot of the posted photo. If you get it right, you are next up to post a photo of a beloved place you've visited.

This is a great way for all of us to see cool photos of wonderful places, and learn a bit more about the great destinations there are in our wilderness.

And here's a photo to start--I don't think this one will be too hard:




If you think you know where this is, give it a shot! And no fair following the link!

Decided I was wrong.

I think I could take a pretty good stab at that, but if I got it right I would be forced to figure out how to post photos here

Hoo boy. Put this in front of the photo url: [img]

Put this after the photo url [/img]

And the URl is the full text that shows us when you right click for "properties" on the photo. make sure that you get the whole line of text, and it is usually more than one line.

Looks like the Matterhorn to me.

Flip-flopping between Unicorn Peak and Cathedral Peak, but the viewpoint isn't familiar so I could be all wet.

Ah well,

Rick D is in the right area....but wrong mountains

My guess was going to be Tuolomne and way too vague. I thought the unicorn wasn't leaning enough.

oh the heck with it, I'll take a stab...thinking the Cathedral Range, but not Unicorn or Cathedral..what about Cockscomb? And I guess from around Elizabeth Lake, unless its over the pass towards Nelson Lake...can't really remember which side you see it from

Still close, still not the right mountain...or lake in the foreground. I didn't think this would be this hard. But kudos to bobito for effort!

Well I'm totally out of this one then. I barely recall the outlines of Maggie and Moses mountains and I spent a lot of time beneath them.

I am sorry. I didn't mean this to be so difficult. Would it help to know that the peak and the lake share the same name? same name? same name?

well, I'm still fixated on the Cathedral Range, which isn't really that big, so I'm left with Matthes Crest and Matthes Lake

This is Matthes Lake and Crest:



My original post is just the other side of the crest...crest....crest...crest..

I think Cathedral already got guessed. What's left around there? Tenaya?...not that I am able to recognize it at all as being any particular peak, only that it is Cathedral-range like

OK Bobito. You have made a valiant effort--so you get to post the next photo. The photo is posted is of Echo Peaks in the reflection of Echo Lake....lake...lake....

In the Cathedral Range in Yosemite. You were close.

close may count in horseshoes and hand grenades, but will get you badly lost in wilderness travel...and I am heading off for a camping trip right this moment, head hung in shame and nursing my sorrow...Actually, I think I went by Echo Lake once, on a x-country jaunt from the Nelson Lakes area to Cathedral Lakes. Nice area.

Here's something to play with until Bobito returns...

this feature also lends its name to a wilderness area in the Sierra:

Does it rhyme with planet beef?

Cheers,

It does not rhyme with planet beef!

Nor does it look like Granite Chief!

It is another place instead

If you can find it in your head.

But that's a nice bit of iambic....grin.

Dr. Seuss, we love you!

The Iceberg in the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness.

I don't know where this place is, but evidently our resident poet laureate does!

Ndsol nailed it. You're up!

Let's move out of the Sierras and head east to the Rockies:

Looks like the Neversummer Range in Colorado!