Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[duncan.brown]

Snow on Santa Yenz?!

 

[beermanpete]

You went too far west.

 

[InspectorJon]

My. Wilson?

 

[beermanpete]

Not Mt. Wilson. Farther west.

 

[cmac62]

Santiago Peak Cleveland Nation forest?

 

[beermanpete]

Too far south. It is in Los Angeles.

 

[duncan.brown]

OK, so its Transverse Range, but not San Gabriels... You said west of Mt. Wilson, so it's not in the San Bernardino Mountains. It's not definitely not Mt Lee, as there are too many antennae (and snow). The snow probably rules out the Santa Monicas and Verdugo mountains. The rocks in the foreground suggest that it's somewhere in the Santa Susana Mountains. There's snow, so it must be above 2500 ft. The highest peak in the Santa Susanas is Oat Mountain, so I'm going with that.

 

[beermanpete]

Yes, Oat Mountain. The photo is not mine but I remember the snow there in 2008.

@duncan.brown, you're up.

 

[duncan.brown]

I lived in Pasadena from 2004-2007, so remember the big spring 2005 rain that brought snow right down to a couple of thousand feet!

OK, don’t think I’ve posted this one before. I’ll take the name of the lake, or any of the towns on the lake.

 

[pvpeacock]

Queenstown, NZ?

 

[duncan.brown]

Nope, wrong hemisphere.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

One of the Italian/Swiss lakes maybe?

 

[dirkomatic]

Lake Lugano?

 

[cmac62]

Looks German or Swiss to me also.

 

[KyBeer]

This is my choice of Skyline. Great with a good ale!

 

[duncan.brown]

Lake Lugano

Wrong side. @cmac62 is closest so far.

 

[cmac62]

Is it Thun?

 

[InspectorJon]

It looks like we are riding a gondola. So I'm guessing a ski resort near somethingsee in Germany.

 

[cmac62]

I believe I see Vaduz castle on the hill directly center. Lichtenstein?

 

[KyBeer]

This is an easy one! Even I can guess it.

 

[pvpeacock]

KYBeer, not to rain on your parade, but the "rules" are that the person who guesses correctly is the one who gets to post the next picture otherwise it would be a free for all. Good luck to the Bengals on Sunday nevertheless

 

[duncan.brown]

@InspectorJon’s Somethingsee is closest so far. The town that shares the same name as the lake isn’t quite visible in the picture, but has an eponymous brewery that makes some of the best helles I’ve ever had.

 

[michaeltrego]

Spitzingsee

 

[KyBeer]

KYBeer, not to rain on your parade, but the "rules" are that the person who guesses correctly is the one who gets to post the next picture otherwise it would be a free for all. Good luck to the Bengals on Sunday nevertheless

got it.

 

[duncan.brown]

Spitzingsee

Close, but this is a larger lake than Spitzingsee. I was staying in the castle on the hillside, which is owned by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.

 

[Irenjcombs]

Tegernsee?

 

[duncan.brown]

@Irenjcombs has it, it is Tegernsee, Germany. As they say on their web site, "Nothing in Bavaria is as Bavarian as the Tegernsee Valley."

 

[Irenjcombs]

Those big lakes in Bavaria are beautiful.
So, here's mine, the building in the foreground is my very favorite brewery.

 

[D.B.Moody]

I think I'd have a pretzel, a brat, and an Andechser Doppelbock Dunkel at the Andechs Braustuberl.

EDIT: in response to later posts - Andechs, Bavaria, Germany

 

[Irenjcombs]

I'd kill for one of those right now.
Good job

 

[KyBeer]

Is that in Germany?

 

[Irenjcombs]

Yes, a little monastary in Bavaria that's been brewing beer for 500ish years.

 

[Pkrd]

Wait, Bavaria is in Germany? Have you asked a Bavarian about that?

 

[D.B.Moody]

Please realize, @Irenjcombs, that the picture you posted had a URL on it that could be used to get the answer.
This is from 1990; no "Somethingsee" that I know of here:

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Feels like the Alps, we're clearly in a German-speaking part of the world.

I can't remember my continental postboxes well enough, I think it's Austrian rather than German?

So on the basis that we might be being topical, I'll say the only Austrian host of the Winter Olympics - Innsbruck.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Not Innsbruck, Austria; it is not Austrian rather than German; it is Alps and German-speaking, (Only topical in relation to recent skyline postings, Cincinnati aside.)

 

[InspectorJon]

I saw that town in several different places, if you know what I mean. I spent three weeks in the German speaking alps once. We were visiting my daughter when she was being a barista at the Edelweiss Lodge in Garmish. I'll guess Oberammergau, Germany as a winnowing tool. I think most of those towns had a eponymous brewery.

 

[D.B.Moody]

It is Obermmergau and in the Bavarian Alps. You're up @InspectorJon.

 

[Irenjcombs]

Isn't that where they have the summer slides? I remember going there as a kid

 

[D.B.Moody]

Isn't that where they have the summer slides? I remember going there as a kid

I don't know about the slides. It is most famous for the Passion Play they put on every ten years. We just stopped there when traveling from Munich to Innsbruck.
Oberammergau also happens to be on the Ammer River, which starts at Ammersee which is in the background of the picture you posted with Andechs in the foreground. This is why I stuck with the Bavarian Alps and used Oberammergau for my post.