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guess this road......
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Daniel Kalal
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DanPez said:Series4 said:I haven't checked, on Daniel's site, all the places he visited yet.(Shouldn't have said that)
Sheesh... First Bill cheats, and now (the other) Dan...
No matter; you're on the right track. Hint: the bridge is on the site of what must have been a terrifying landslide several hundred years ago. The Gods were very angry...
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Daniel Kalal said:DanPez said:Series4 said:I haven't checked, on Daniel's site, all the places he visited yet.
Sheesh... First Bill cheats, and now (the other) Dan...
No matter; you're on the right track. Hint: the bridge is on the site of what must have been a terrifying landslide several hundred years ago. The Gods were very angry...
Ha!!!
Bridge of the Gods
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80651083@N00/200543539/
I googled images for bridge truss landslide. Bingo. :laugh:
Bill
Daniel Kalal
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Bill Hagan said:
Correct!
A couple of things about this bridge (well, really just one big thing). It has an open grate roadway. This means if you look down while crossing, you'll see just a blur of steel, but a whole lot of water way, way down there. Related to this is that the grate is quite coarse, which means it feels like you're riding on rollers as both the front and rear tires hunt left and right. Best to look forward and just try to ignore what you feel and what you know is down there!
Now, here's a place that is distinctive and perhaps also someplace that one of you has been(?) It's obviously a mountain pass, so name that pass:
Series4
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Default answer: Stelvio. Without referring to Google I'd judge by the architecture it's probably in the Alto Aldige which could be the Stelvio (I've not been there). Dunno. Gavia? St Bernard?
Peter
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Daniel Kalal
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Series4 said:
(still) not Stelvio. Not Italy either. Both sides of the pass are in the same country. Jean-Claude Killy would know this well.
DanPez
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Daniel Kalal said:
OK can we rephrase that? …..We’ll just say that I am using whatever resources available out there to …..to…..to…..WIN?
Daniel Kalal said:
"Jean-Claude" ....French for France!
And what looks like a "Chappele" .....I think?
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The law views a confession of guilt as the first step toward rehabilitation, thus I find DanPez's request for "rephrasing" his forays into DK's website trip reports as somewhat short of repentance. 
I, OTOH, am completely reconstructed, and have decided not to visit Daniel's website until this game runs its course.
I had no idea where that pic was taken, so, in the interests of full disclosure, reveal the audit trail for my research. :whistle:
Noting the reference to Jean-Claude Killy, I wiki'ed him. That led to ... after some more exploration of the globe via Google, Portillo Pass in Chile.
Bill Hagan
"Fair Mining Only" :laugh:
I, OTOH, am completely reconstructed, and have decided not to visit Daniel's website until this game runs its course.
I had no idea where that pic was taken, so, in the interests of full disclosure, reveal the audit trail for my research. :whistle:
Noting the reference to Jean-Claude Killy, I wiki'ed him. That led to ... after some more exploration of the globe via Google, Portillo Pass in Chile.
Bill Hagan
"Fair Mining Only" :laugh:
Daniel Kalal
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Bill Hagan said:
Oh yes; the young and fearless Jean-Claude growing up in the shadows of the high alpine mountains of...Chile!
Here's the view down the south side--you can just barely see the road at the bottom of the valley. No doubt a young Maria von Trapp is spinning and singing just out of range of the camera. But, then this is not Austria, either.
DanPez
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Vermont .......Daniel Kalal said:
I used to ski there and there ain't no church up on those mountains. :laugh:
Series4
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So, if young Mary is just out of shot and not in Austria she must be in Switzerland near the French border, if reference to J-C Killy is interpreted correctly. And the pass exists solely in one country. That rules out the St Bernard which was an earlier guess. So I reckon (still not Googling) it's probably the Col d'Iseran somewhere around des Lessieres
Daniel Kalal
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Series4 said:
There you go. [45.419419,7.028847]
Series4
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OK, here's one for the Googlers. I've made it easy by including a clear reference but what I want is the exact location, the name of the road and what nationally significant location is nearby.
BTW Dan, this is what an assembled LM3 looks like (OK, sans one side cover that wouldn't fit over the car coil I had to fit)
BTW Dan, this is what an assembled LM3 looks like (OK, sans one side cover that wouldn't fit over the car coil I had to fit)
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Daniel Kalal said:
You mock me, you bully!
But, it was not that far-fectched, especially for those who did not cheat and go to your travel albums. :laugh:
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIS_Alpine_World_Ski_Championships_1966 & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Killy
Compare the vista ... not far off:
And, series4, I won't "compete" for awhile, to see if this thread can get a few more souls drawn into it.
Googler Bill
DanPez
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Series4
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I think I remember seeing that one in which case I think you need to look south. The corner is a sharp left hander on a D road numbered less than 500. You are correctly on the Ardeché though
Contador will know this piece of road
Contador will know this piece of road
Series4
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Maybe you need another hint. 2010 Tour de France used this road
DanPez
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I just saw your additional hint ..... default answer is Le Mans since we both have one?
I was at Le Bez en Archèche where a line crosses.
http://le.bez07.free.fr/
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8...3,,0,-0.22884699999999997&photoid=fr-27829928
Still can't pin pointed the road.
One good thing about this game is ... I getting to know the roads of FRANCE!
(The Google way) :lol:
I was at Le Bez en Archèche where a line crosses.
http://le.bez07.free.fr/
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8...3,,0,-0.22884699999999997&photoid=fr-27829928
Still can't pin pointed the road.
One good thing about this game is ... I getting to know the roads of FRANCE!
(The Google way) :lol:
Series4
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Not bad. You need to go NNE. The TdF was a velo reference. Douze a deux might refer to the stage I mentioned.
Daniel Kalal
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someplace along here?...
On US maps, the continental divide is always shown as if it were just as important as rivers and roads and railroad tracks. But, none of my maps of France seem to care about the divide at all. There are some pretty amazing GoogleEarth tracks out there for the Tour de France that allow you to glide along the entire route. Am I fairly close with this bit?
On US maps, the continental divide is always shown as if it were just as important as rivers and roads and railroad tracks. But, none of my maps of France seem to care about the divide at all. There are some pretty amazing GoogleEarth tracks out there for the Tour de France that allow you to glide along the entire route. Am I fairly close with this bit?