Guess the spot: Maps Edition

[Ben]

 

[LarryBoy]

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Saddle Butte Lava Field. You didn't zoom out quite enough

 

[LarryBoy]

A very important place indeed. This shouldn't take long.

 

[LarryBoy]

A very important place indeed. This shouldn't take long. View attachment 43941

Nothing on this? Thought this one would be guessed within an hour!

 

[Artemus]

Nothing on this? Thought this one would be guessed within an hour!

I would have gotten it but there are all those snow patches covering the landmarks....

 

[Ben]

bears ears. good one, it didn't even cross my mind at first.

 

[Ben]

 

[Ben]

People talk about going to this place some times on this site, but I've never seen a report from any one going here.

 

[Kullaberg63]

Book Cliffs?

 

[Ben]

It's not in Utah.

 

[Langdon Greene]

Every few hours, I keep coming back here and staring at that map, with the nagging feeling that I should know this one. (I'm fully expecting to have one of those forehead-smacking "I coulda had a V8!" moments when I find out the answer.)

I love the looks of some of those valleys, especially that curvy one up in the northeast quadrant that skirts into the greener segment. Dangit, that just looks so familiar!! I can't place it.

It is awfully hard to see those contour lines... I don't suppose you could pick an area of this and blow it up a teensy bit?

 

[Ben]

Some one should know this. That's why I haven't given some hint yet that would give it away. I can post an other zoom when I get home. In the mean time I can tell you the high points top out above 11,000'.

 

[Ben]

let's go the other direction and see if zooming out helps any one.

 

[Jackson]

Ahhh Ruby Mountains. Favre Lake, Lamoille Lake, etc. On my list, but don't know when I'll make it.

Have you been?

 

[Ben]

I knew some one would know. Still surprised it took this long.
I haven't been.

 

[LarryBoy]

I knew some one would know. Still surprised it took this long.
I haven't been.

Argh yeah, should have gotten that one.

Planning a hike on the crest trail over the fourth if I can get a shuttle somehow. Hitching would be an interesting experience.

 

[Langdon Greene]

wow, I'm glad I didn't spend much time hunting for it. I would've never got it - that's an area as foreign to me as the Ross Ice Shelf. Who knew Nevada even had a lake anywhere east of Tahoe? ;-)

 

[Jackson]

Hopefully I got everything blanked out. I always feel like I forgot something.

EDIT: I forgot to blank out a few things. They were probably too blurry to read anyway, but oh well.

 

[Langdon Greene]

Oh oh oh - I think I know exactly where that is! Hopefully I can check my map and answer before a certain someone [who I know hikes there!] beats me to it.

 

[Langdon Greene]

Yep, I was right. Blodgett Creek Valley, Blodgett Pass, Lake, etc. Selway Bitterroot Wilderness.

I actually have an ~50-mile horse-shoe-shaped backpacking route pre-planned there, which would enter[/exit] via Blodgett, to Big Sand Lake, north to Frog, Colt Killed, Packbox Pass, to Big Creek Lake and out Big Creek toward Victor.