Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[Northern_Brewer]

Are we in the Alps?

[oops, dup with IJ]

 

[Airborneguy]

Both very cold.

 

[bracconiere]

tahoe?

 

[bracconiere]

what looks like a vein of iron ore in that mountain should be a dead giveaway....but it isn't....

 

[Airborneguy]

Tahoe is closer but I’d still say cold. A hint, I took the pic and I’ve never skied outside of the US.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

what looks like a vein of iron ore in that mountain should be a dead giveaway....but it isn't....

It's just a dirt track, no?

Are we in the Cascades?

 

[bracconiere]

well, for some reason...everytime i google 'ski valley' it seems obbsed with mt lemmon... but i think they're just targeting me..

i don't think there is a lake up there.

 

[bracconiere]

i just thought, i don't see how this ski resort is accessed? helicopter?

 

[bracconiere]

little cotton wood canyon, utah? / alta

 

[Airborneguy]

i just thought, i don't see how this ski resort is accessed? helicopter?

It’s very isolated but very well known. It can be driven or flown to.

Utah is pretty warm.

 

[bracconiere]

would mt. rushmoore be closer?

 

[Airborneguy]

No

Edit: Actually without measuring both lets say Tahoe and Mt. Rushmore are relatively the same distance away in different directions.

 

[bracconiere]

then we're in wyoming? and pine creek looks close?

 

[Airborneguy]

Not Wyoming.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Telluride, Colorado from the Telluride Gondola on it's way up to Mountain Village?

 

[Airborneguy]

Telluride, Colorado from the Telluride Gondola on it's way up to Mountain Village?

@bruce_the_loon is the winner! I was actually going down towards Telluride though. I took this pic late in 2001.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Only got it because we ran out of states in the area.

Here's mine, double shot.

 

[shetc]

Painted Desert, Arizona?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Ooh, I've seen pictures of that before, it's somewhere like Bolivia?

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Neither location is correct, Bolivia is closer than Arizona.

 

[bracconiere]

for some reason my first thought was the south pole someplace.....

 

[Andres Falconer]

Vinicunca, Peru. Or Rainbow Mountain.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Vinicunca, Peru. Or Rainbow Mountain.

Andres has it. One of many coloured mountain ranges, but the only one included on a tour package that includes Machu Pichu as well.

You're up.

 

[Andres Falconer]

I initially misidentified it as this place (below), but it didn't quite match. So it is now my submission.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Mexico?

 

[bracconiere]

i guess more like red mountains egypt?

 

[govner1]

Argentina

 

[bracconiere]

somewhere in the sonoran desert, judging from the saguaro cactus.....

 

[bracconiere]

Painted Desert, Arizona?

??

 

[beermanpete]

??

Painted Desert (Arizona) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Andres Falconer]

Argentina

Argentina is right. Big country. Where?

 

[Andres Falconer]

somewhere in the sonoran desert, judging from the saguaro cactus.....

We’re seeing the Argentine Saguaro, locally known as Cardón. Apparently a different species…

 

[Northern_Brewer]

We’re seeing the Argentine Saguaro, locally known as Cardón. Apparently a different species…

Hah, I was fooled too, I saw it and that's why I said Mexico to start with.

Presumably we must be somewhere up in NW Argentina, so let's say La Rioja?

Not least because it gives its name to every wine-drinkers favourite dinosaur, Riojasaurus :

Riojasaurus - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Andres Falconer]

Hah, I was fooled too, I saw it and that's why I said Mexico to start with.

Presumably we must be somewhere up in NW Argentina, so let's say La Rioja?

Not least because it gives its name to every wine-drinkers favourite dinosaur, Riojasaurus :

Riojasaurus - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Not La Rioja, and a few hundred miles further north, but I loved learning about the Riojasaurus.

As a beer and wine drinker, the story that intrigues me from Argentina is the disputed hypothesis that lager yeast originated in Patagonia and somehow made it up to Germany in the 1500s.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Not La Rioja, and a few hundred miles further north,

Let's say Salta then?

As a beer and wine drinker, the story that intrigues me from Argentina is the disputed hypothesis that lager yeast originated in Patagonia and somehow made it up to Germany in the 1500s.

It sounds like you got the early version of the story, before they found S. eubayanus, one of the parents that hybridised to make lager yeast, had got everywhere in the world, they just didn't know what to look for previously. Yes the centre of diversity (cautious geneticist-speak for "homeland") of S. eubayanus is in Patagonia, but it's been found all over the place, from North America to Tibet to New Zealand. But not Europe AFAIK. And in fact the ones that are closest to the lager ones are found in Tibet.

Having read some of the papers what seems to have happened is that the proto-eubayanus came from China like all other yeasts 1+ million years ago and quietly adapted to living in tree bark in Patagonia, which among other things meant adapting to cold temperatures. Then probably during one of the Ice Ages between 50-10,000 years ago, it made it back across the equator, maybe floating on a "raft" of vegetation. Then once it had got to Tibet some thousands of years ago - who knows how it made its way to Europe? Maybe in a barrel of sake or Shaoxing wine, maybe on some dried fruit, maybe it hitched a lift in the wood of a cart. But since the other parent seems to be a kolsch-like yeast, it seems that the hybridisation may well have happened in Europe.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Close, but you still fell short. This is a place I visited on my Che Guevara-wannabe trip in the early 90s. Where I likely contracted hepatitis.

I’ve read up a little on the alternative genesis stories of lager yeast and it doesn’t seem we got to the bottom of this just yet. Lots of interesting hypotheses that don’t seem to fully add up or require considerable leaps of faith. Thanks for the more informed update.

Beer in Argentina used to be pretty crap, as far as I can remember. But we didn’t care or know better back then…

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Well falling short leaves only one province to go - Jujuy?

 

[bracconiere]

Hill of the Seven Colors - Kuriositas?

 

[Andres Falconer]

Hill of the Seven Colors - Kuriositas?

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Hill of Seven Colors - in the province of Jujuy, Argentina. Kuriositas seems to be the website where you found the information, not the name of the town, which is called…?

 

[Andres Falconer]

Well falling short leaves only one province to go - Jujuy?

We’re still looking for the name of the town