Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[pvpeacock]

Portillo, Chile?

 

[bracconiere]

wrong hemisphere....

 

[pvpeacock]

Malam Jabba, Pakistan. In zooming in on the clothes of the people in the picture, I figured it was Iran, India or Pakistan A quick Google of ski resorts in each country turned up Malam Jabba.

 

[bracconiere]

you've got it @pvpeacock . i never knew they had ski resorts is why i posted it.....

 

[pvpeacock]

Sticking with the same theme. Here you go.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Andes?

 

[pvpeacock]

Wrong side of the Equator.

 

[bracconiere]

i want to say australia, and a wild guess would be fallscreek.....

that'd be the wrong side of the equator too though.....

 

[pvpeacock]

This ski resort is in the Northern Hemisphere.

 

[bracconiere]

alaska, around anchorage? i see the contributary to either a big lake or the ocean...

 

[pvpeacock]

Good guess. It is near Anchorage and that is the Knik Arm of Cook Inlet and the Alaska Range of mountains in the background. Can you name the ski resort?

 

[bracconiere]

well i was looking for one with no trees, and arctic valley looked promising?

 

[pvpeacock]

Arctic Valley (formerly known as Alpenglow) it is! You're up Bracconiere.

 

[bracconiere]

this is from their website, i think this is the same lift....

https://arcticvalley.org/summer-2/chair-2-public-use-cabin/
this is going to be easy, but brings back memories....

 

[pvpeacock]

Looks like somewhere in Southern California based on the hills. Sweetwater Dam, San Diego, CA?

 

[pvpeacock]

After further research, it appears to be Barrett Dam in San Diego County.

 

[bracconiere]

very close! san diego is right, wrong reservoir....

 

[pvpeacock]

https://groksurf.com/tag/barrett-reservoir/Looks like the same place.

 

[bracconiere]

https://groksurf.com/tag/barrett-reservoir/Looks like the same place.

yep east san diego....very similar, but this is what it is..it's been 30 years since i've been there so this is just a stock photo...used to go there every couple months on my dad's bayliner fishing and got up close to that damn a few times.....

 

[pvpeacock]

Lake Morena?

 

[bracconiere]

Lake Morena?

yep, you're up @pvpeacock (and to tell you the truth, i even went through my mom's photo book, trying to find a picture of my own instead of stock ones....)

edit: i wonder if the rat lineage my dad made me release around there still have prodigeny.....there were about 30 of them, i was alway impressed then female rat could have a litter of 12 babies every 1-2 months, and not be around the original 'dad'....

 

[tracer bullet]

Hmm, we're all friends, right?

Pretty sure that 1st picture is indeed Barett Lake, and not Lake Morena. Do some aerial viewing and I think you'll see that Morena has a dam on one end, but not that one. Barett certainly seems to have the dam in the picture.

 

[bracconiere]

Hmm, we're all friends, right?

i hope so.. and damn, pun completly embarising....it is barett, but i swear i remember the little pilar thing when i was 8 or 9 years old..

if i don't get shamed out of the game for this, and win again. i'm so going to put a photo of mine on the scanner to post!

edit: i was looking for pics of morena though....you're going to have to scold me accordingly and decide which pro google-fu'r takes it....

 

[bruce_the_loon]

In bracc's defense, that Groksurf page has the exact photo of Barrett Dam directly below a line about Morena reservoir and is returned on a google image search. Both dams do have the pillar-like intake towers and to an 8 year old obsessed with rats, they probably look alike.

 

[pvpeacock]

No worries. This is a game after all.
Hint: This is an airport terminal.

 

[Konadog]

I remember that airport, we flew in almost every weekend one summer. Use to freak people out when we would only gain 10 feet altitude and dive off the end of the runway! Good times.

Catalina Island airport in the sky!

 

[pvpeacock]

Exactly. I once took off from here in a Grumman Goose seaplane because there was a big storm and the seaplane could not take off or land on the water off Avalon. Scary take-off given the configuration of the runway and taking off from the top of a mountain.
Konadog, you're up.

 

[Konadog]

I always liked how half the runway would disappear just before you touched down. Always freaked me out.
Good Buffalo burgers for lunch.

Keeping with the last few ideas:

Not my picture.

 

[bracconiere]

i'm just going to say if you blow this up and use this as a clue....you're cheating, so i'm not even going to search for it!

 

[tracer bullet]

I'm going to start the guesses with Alaska. Clearly it's snowy and mountainous, but that could be anywhere. And that runway looks a bit nutty, and that sounds like something you'd find in Alaska as well.

(next guess will be Russia)