I have this unmarked picture that I found taken from a Youtube video with no other details. It’s from a person I used to know that I don’t have contact with anymore. I know for sure that’s it in the US.
https://s2.postimg.org/xj51iirbd/Lake_1.jpg
Does anyone know where this is located?
I’d say in the West, by trees & Mountains.
Yeah I was thinking Colorado, he told me awhile ago he wanted to go there.
Can anyone be more specific of the actual lake name?
If you don’t get any positive identification here, you could try looking through images that Google thinks are similar and see if you find any likely matches.
At least its got one distinction … those mountains are up high.
You know the one city thats like that too. Boulder.
So just to the west… Lake Granby, Grand Lake and its partners.
Have a look around there. I think its Lake Granby
Might also be an ocean inlet up the BC coast? Alaska?
Yep it’s pretty high. Lake itself is probably around 9000’. Note that the trees don’t reach the tops of the peak in the background. Trees as a rule of thumb, stop around 11,000’
I thought maybe Dillon Reservoir in Colorado. I donno though. Doesn’t look quite right.
Lake Granby is a good guess too, but the lake in the pic looks to be higher. Just a gut feeling. Also a gut feeling, I think it’s a reservoir (Granby is actually a reservoir.)
ETA: **enipla **snuck in while I was finishing part 2.
I suspect not at sea level. Mostly because the way the trees drop off the mountain at the right background. That looks more like a treeline due to altitude than it does anything else. Which isn’t going to happen at 1500 feet above sea level.
That’s not for sure, but that’s my impression.
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I think I have it.
I followed markn+'s Google search. Which includes at the bottom some snippets from a blog in a foreign language. Which snippets use a very, very similar photo as their thumbnail.
Visiting the blog here http://estilograzikenupp.blogspot.com/2013/ and scrolling to the bottom of the first post I see the matching pic. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lLvdQjsl17s/Uqx49x1PhrI/AAAAAAAAA1w/cX1AFvlGH2A/s1600/FOTO4.jpg. It’s very obviously the same lake from nearly the same vantage point. But which lake is it?
I recognize the language as Brazilian Portueguese. Not that I speak it, but the largest enclave of Brazilian speakers outside Brazil lives just a couple miles from me. So I’m learning to recognize it. And enjoy their music, cooking, and gazing at their womenfolk :D.
So I grabbed this text below the photo:
and asked Bing what the heck it meant. They said:
So now we have a hint; it’s probably near something called “Bariloche”. Wiki says “Bariloche” Bariloche - Wikipedia is a lakeside town in Argentina. Near a lake called Nahuel Huapi Nahuel Huapi Lake - Wikipedia.
Which from various maps and overhead photos certainly seems to have the right configuration and the right vegetation, etc.
I think that’s it.
Just mentioning that the guys from Top Gear visited Bariloche in one of their shows.
Here’s a picture from roughtly the same spot, but wider angle:
Caption identifies it as Lago Mascardi, which is just a bit south of Nahuel Huapi mentioned in post above.
Looking at Google Maps, pretty sure the angle is from somewhere around here:
You nailed LSL that is a pic from nearly exactly the same spot.
@enipla: I agree the OP’s pic and the brazilian blog pic were taken from within a few feet of each other. Probably at some designated scenic overlook spot. But I think I missed the exact lake. I wasn’t quite able to find the right configuration of islands and peaks in Nahuel Huapi.
But …
I think you’ve nailed it there obfusciatrist. Lake Mascardi it is. Bravo!
2 hours 23 minutes flat. Are we good or are we good? 
The Dope is THE Dope, man…
Thanks, great work.
Impressive, especially given the “for sure in the US” description.
Haha yeah he’s someone that doesn’t have a high paying job and I never thought he’d leave the US for a trip so that’s surprising.
Thanks for those links, it was bothering me why the trees didn’t seem quite right. Their shape and texture seemed wrong for North America.
Honestly he could have saved some money possibly and gone to Banff National Park and Moraine Lake and The Valley of the Ten Peaks where I’ve been with family. It’s very beautiful, we have these places in North America I’m not sure why he went so far away to see something like that. It’s his life though, he can do what he wants.
Another victory for the SDMB!
And TheSundial, why the bitterness? Nothing wrong with international travel =/
Yeah but do you have a secret 1950s-style fusion research lab?
