# Can anyone identify this lake? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 1, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602 "2017-08-01T22:11:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TheSundial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@TheSundial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSundial)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/1 "2017-08-01T22:11:19Z")
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](https://s2.postimg.org/xj51iirbd/Lake_1.jpg) Does anyone know where this is located? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/2 "2017-08-01T22:20:36Z")
I’d say in the West, by trees & Mountains. ---
**Author:** ![TheSundial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@TheSundial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSundial)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/3 "2017-08-01T22:29:34Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/4 "2017-08-01T22:38:48Z")
If you don’t get any positive identification here, you could try looking through [images that Google thinks are similar](https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZitsP5OW10OfQYeoRRiaiyI7Vvtg-5u8iqcC_17BWX58Hp_1EcemfuXLNsJCkIcNLLOgSt9PJQX0vs8rkiQxVXTVon4XJ71BHAhefucvlZVqHvh96FMlcUCPlJzgOi6FNnorTrToqBWL85VlgJTZrlvJztzjuhfES6O1aU7c1M64ygX-ru-XT9vsLlf7mMxOvPIlfEMFjFAQegqjlGIu8rG0uBDFikWYHtpMAnhKurZGd57TAn9EdKUs5I3gY5zMSXPCQWDxDKdlzFcCXM9nudpabMR10K49vCO_14TMKA34p2t6KdCfDM7pq4_1y9jNCu29A-u0lfl29ZNUec9Hpf59whle3crvKw&hl=en&biw=1214&bih=692&site=imghp&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiBpcHTjLfVAhWrg1QKHQkfD_MQ9Q8IIygA) and see if you find any likely matches. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/5 "2017-08-01T23:19:55Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/6 "2017-08-01T23:47:02Z")
Might also be an ocean inlet up the BC coast? Alaska? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/7 "2017-08-01T23:57:00Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/8 "2017-08-02T00:19:02Z")
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. ================= 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/](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](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: > [@Blog post](#): > > Agora respondendo a pergunta do titulo: > Bariloche no verão - degelo… Vale a pena? > Preciso responder, depois dessas fotos?? Siim! Vale MUITO a pena. > E eu quero voltar em breve! > > É isso gente, qualquer duvida deixe seu comentário abaixo e logo respondo. > Fiquem com Deus. and asked Bing what the heck it meant. They said: > [@Bing](#): > > Now answering the question title: > Bariloche in the summer-melt … Is it worth it? > I need answer, after these pictures? Siim! Is very worthwhile. > And I want to go back soon! > > That’s us, any doubts leave your comment below and then answer. > Stay with God. So now we have a hint; it’s probably near something called “Bariloche”. Wiki says “Bariloche” [Bariloche - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bariloche) is a lakeside town in Argentina. Near a lake called Nahuel Huapi [Nahuel Huapi Lake - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuel_Huapi_Lake). Which from various maps and overhead photos certainly seems to have the right configuration and the right vegetation, etc. I think that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/9 "2017-08-02T00:23:06Z")
Just mentioning that the guys from Top Gear visited Bariloche in one of their shows. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/10 "2017-08-02T00:34:59Z")
Here’s a picture from roughtly the same spot, but wider angle: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/4286/34969330033_c072c3dc6c_b.jpg "Lago Mascardi - Bariloche") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/ngrolla/34969330033) 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: https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-41.3065559,-71.5906115&z=17&output=embed&dg=ntvb ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/11 "2017-08-02T00:45:38Z")
You nailed LSL that is a pic from nearly exactly the same spot. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/12 "2017-08-02T00:49:19Z")
@ **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? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/13 "2017-08-02T00:57:24Z")
The Dope is THE Dope, man… ---
**Author:** ![TheSundial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@TheSundial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSundial)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/14 "2017-08-02T01:24:46Z")
Thanks, great work. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/15 "2017-08-02T01:26:27Z")
Impressive, especially given the “for sure in the US” description. ---
**Author:** ![TheSundial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@TheSundial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSundial)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/16 "2017-08-02T01:41:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/17 "2017-08-02T01:49:22Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > Here’s a picture from roughtly the same spot, but wider angle: > > [Lago Mascardi - Bariloche | Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi | Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/ngrolla/34969330033) > > 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: > > [Google Maps](https://goo.gl/maps/E6Q5WHt1qoP2) 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. ---
**Author:** ![TheSundial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@TheSundial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSundial)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/18 "2017-08-02T02:10:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/19 "2017-08-02T02:35:51Z")
Another victory for the SDMB! And TheSundial, why the bitterness? Nothing wrong with international travel =/ ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/20 "2017-08-02T03:06:37Z")
> [@TheSundial](#): > > 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. Yeah but do you have a [secret 1950s-style fusion research lab](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huemul_Project)? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602.md?page=2)