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The Great Alpine Road
« on: October 14, 2013, 12:08:40 PM »
Found this on the google machine.
Having never ridden this road...
This makes me want to do it, does anyone know which direction this was heading?

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Re: The Great Alpine Road
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2013, 12:53:17 PM »
Ahh....that would be up the GAR, did that help  :whistle
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Re: The Great Alpine Road
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2013, 01:12:09 PM »
Quote from: ST2UP on October 14, 2013, 12:53:17 PM
Ahh....that would be up the GAR, did that help  :whistle

Sigh haha...

Towards the ocean or away from it
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Re: The Great Alpine Road
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2013, 01:17:58 PM »
This is a few kilometres short of Mount Hotham on the road heading up from Harrietville.   AWSOME ride. :-++  I've ridden this road three times.
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Re: The Great Alpine Road
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2013, 01:18:37 PM »
Quote from: Marcus on October 14, 2013, 12:08:40 PM
Found this on the google machine.
Having never ridden this road...
This makes me want to do it, does anyone know which direction this was heading?




The opposite direction to this:

(I wish I could take photos like the one you posted.)

I reckon it would have been taken from Point A looking towards Point B on this link:
http://goo.gl/maps/5yyd0

Try again:
http://goo.gl/maps/XrWqD
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Re: The Great Alpine Road
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2013, 01:24:37 PM »
Quote from: Williamson on October 14, 2013, 01:18:37 PM
The opposite direction to this:

Who brought this guy

Edit... yeah, link worked, thanks
« Last Edit: October 14, 2013, 01:29:23 PM by Marcus »
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Re: The Great Alpine Road
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2013, 03:55:07 PM »
Quote from: Marcus on October 14, 2013, 01:24:37 PM
Quote from: Williamson on October 14, 2013, 01:18:37 PM
The opposite direction to this:
Who brought this guy

Edit... yeah, link worked, thanks
You're welcome. :clap

I was waiting for you blokes to put a bit more effort and  :think1 into it.  If you had looked at the length of the shadows, relative to the time of day, the moss on the trees (south side and all that, ya know), you could have worked it out.

Well, it would have been easier than working out Sean's cryptic photo puzzle clues ..........
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Re: The Great Alpine Road
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2013, 05:10:39 PM »
You've got me interested, and looking at where I'll be in November, it's not too big a loop to go down to Bairnsdale to pick it up.
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Re: The Great Alpine Road
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2013, 08:46:12 PM »
He is looking south ????
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Re: The Great Alpine Road
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2013, 10:14:13 PM »
Here's my photo, taken of the same valley, but looking in the opposite direction and towards where the bike is in Marcus's photo.  We were riding from Hotham towards Harrietville.
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Re: The Great Alpine Road
« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2013, 06:47:37 AM »
I'm just guessing there was a need for this sign...

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Re: The Great Alpine Road
« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2013, 07:49:29 AM »
Quote from: Marcus on October 15, 2013, 06:47:37 AM
I'm just guessing there was a need for this sign...




I hope no one rotates it by 1800 :law
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Re: The Great Alpine Road
« Reply #12 on: October 15, 2013, 09:52:11 AM »
Quote from: Marcus on October 15, 2013, 06:47:37 AM
I'm just guessing there was a need for this sign...

At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, the poles are for when the road is covered in snow.
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