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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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OK, maybe?
Prolly scenic enough...
Prolly rough enough...
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BruceHildenbrand
Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
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Here's a quiz to test your global geography knowledge. I am just back from a trip and here are a couple of photos. Name where they were taken. Hint: politically the area is classified as belonging to one continent when geographically it is much closer to another continent.
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BruceHildenbrand
Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
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Dingus,
yes, I will reveal the location down the road(so to speak!) One more hint, this time of year it is a great place to ride bikes though most people come here to ride on the paved roads. I am the only person I know who has ridden this road (and a road bike no less). Of the four maps I had this road only showed up on one of them.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Given the hints I’m going with La Guajira, Colombia.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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well wherever it was, it should have been the seychelles
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tbailey
Trad climber
canoga park
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[photo[photoid=522812]id=522811]
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2018 - 10:49am PT
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Dutch Antilles, Bruce?
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BruceHildenbrand
Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
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Actually, it is the Canary Islands and the southern end of Gran Canaria to be exact. The islands are volcanic which makes for some interesting terrain.
The area is very popular with road cyclists as there are some big, paved climbs up to 6500'(top of the island). I explored some of the dirt roads as well which were pretty sketchy and not just because they weren't very well documented on any maps. When you slice a tire and are miles from nowhere that when the fun really begins!
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2018 - 02:17pm PT
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6500', wow! it looks to be thorny and dry and it's a fine addition of slightly more exotic dust in the joints of the thread. tfpu!
Christmas eve '17
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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thanks bruce, that was fun and educationalotherside of africa ... aldabra atoll, home to 160,000 giant tortoises, don't need no stinkin' dirt roads
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2018 - 09:25pm PT
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BruceHildenbrand
Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
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Here's a couple of photos of a grape vine and a vineyard from the island of Lanzarote. This island is the northernmost and is closest to Africa. It is pretty winding on this island, some say it is the windiest of all the islands.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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TBailey, they are both to good to waste
edit,On the "Dogs Life" thread, I, too, have left the same explanation, then after waiting, my curiosity got the better of me
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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thanks gnome ... TBailey, key to the issue is: the first picture always loads up properly after clicking "done" but the built in flaw is that the blinking cursor appears right in the middle of the "square brackets" containing the photoid=xxxxxx string. one must click outside the brackets to move the cursor to the right or any subsequent image tags will be nested ... they should appear in serial order like: [photoid=xxxxxx][photoid=yyyyyy]
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Yes, there is pavement there, but not much.
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jonnyrig
climber
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Feb 11, 2018 - 07:29pm PT
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