Game: Name that road!
- Thread starter ColinJ
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Mountains across water aren't same, and neither are rocks on left as in pic.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
Lord Aravis will be our judge!
Have a look at the 2011 view, I'm quietly confident - its hard with a 1971 holiday snap vs current street view. Also if you swing 90% left hand, you can see the upgraded power lines .
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
It is clearly somewhere on that road, even if that might not be the exact spot.
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
I'm wondering how I should take this. Probably shouldn't overthink...
@T4tomo you are correct, and plenty close enough to the exact spot. A little further back and slightly more zoomed and it matches better, but the wall - starting to collapse in the latest image - should be conclusive.
I didn't find it easy to line it up perfectly with Streetview. My pic is from 1976, and there is enough shape visible in the mountains opposite on at least one of the Streetview images to get a positive match. On one of them I think you can see the Three Sisters range above Glencoe, but this isn't visible in the 1976 view.
I agree that it's difficult to match up the rocks on the left. I assume changes in the vegetation are responsible. Good logic @T4tomo on the upgraded power lines - I hadn't noticed that. Over to you now.
And thanks to @Dogtrousers for the technical assistance.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
clearly the same place.
well done @T4tomo
don't understand the clue though... apart from the lock/loch
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
T4tomo
Legendary Member
King-air-loch. I got that and it led me to Loch Uisge (which i assume is a gaelic translation or alternative of same?) which was clearly too small, but the Kingairloch estate office nearby overlooks Loch a'Choire / Loch Linnhie, the water visible in the clue.
Queenbreath loch didn't appear to exist.
Indeed, it was meant as a term of deep reverenceI'm wondering how I should take this. Probably shouldn't overthink...
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Blimey, that's another road we actually rode on during our LEJOG last year. I don't remember it at all but I do remember the Pumping Station nearby...then a blur until the Strawberry Line
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I thought it looked familiar too, and looked at the road that I had ridden a few years ago. I hadn't done that extra loop though - I just followed the A861 round anticlockwise via Strontian. This picture was taken about 20 km NE of Aravis's photo...
PS Which I had forgotten using in post #1!
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Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
Er, @ColinJ, I think @nickyboy was talking about my previous picture which was in deepest Somerset!!!
The Scottish road would only be a logical part of LEJOG if you crossed to or from Mull on the Lochaline - Fishnish route. Perfectly feasible but most people who choose to go via Mull would surely choose to use the other two crossings. I think so anyway.
Those with long memories might remember that I posted a different picture from that road a while back. I have another which I hope to use some time...
The Scottish road would only be a logical part of LEJOG if you crossed to or from Mull on the Lochaline - Fishnish route. Perfectly feasible but most people who choose to go via Mull would surely choose to use the other two crossings. I think so anyway.
Those with long memories might remember that I posted a different picture from that road a while back. I have another which I hope to use some time...
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Oops, yes!
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
So to clear up any confusion... it's this road we're currently looking for...
