# Can anyone identify this lake?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602>\
**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:** 4\
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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/21 "2017-08-02T05:14:56Z")

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The OP’s pic and the one from the blog are so similar, it appears to have been taken at the exact same time of day at the exact same time of year, as every shadow and highlight match. Only the big tree is different. It’s almost like they were standing next to each other when the pics were taken.

Good job on the results, though. Image searching exact locations is a hit-and-miss affair sometimes.

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/22 "2017-08-02T12:45:46Z")

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> [@obfusciatrist](#):
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> Here’s a picture from roughtly the same spot, but wider angle:
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> [Lago Mascardi - Bariloche | Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi | Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/ngrolla/34969330033)
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> Caption identifies it as Lago Mascardi, which is just a bit south of Nahuel Huapi mentioned in post above.
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> Looking at Google Maps, pretty sure the angle is from somewhere around here:
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> [Google Maps](https://goo.gl/maps/E6Q5WHt1qoP2)

Actually most likely from the “mirador” (lookout spot) here: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mirador+Lago+Mascardi/@-41.3057344,-71.5932732,744a,35y,146.51h,38.01t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x2d263b3be0fc250c!8m2!3d-41.309748!4d-71.5903366)

There are lots of photos (including some 360 degree panoramas) on Google Maps at that link.

Nice work on the ID!

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**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/23 "2017-08-02T12:48:52Z")

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> [@Reply](#):
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> Another victory for the SDMB!
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> And TheSundial, why the bitterness? Nothing wrong with international travel =/

Plus, when it’s winter here it’s summer there. Based on the “no snow” I suspect this was taken in the dead of North American winter. (There’s a ski hill in the area). Good time to get away.

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**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, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-lake/792602/24 "2017-08-02T17:52:26Z")

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> [@TheSundial](#):
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> 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.

Why do you have any belief that he actually went there in person?

We’ve collectively demonstrated that pix of that scenic spot are pennies the hundred on the web.

if the guy is a goof as you’ve implied, he may well be a lying goof. Or perhaps it’s just a pic of someplace he hopes to go, not claims to have been. His “spiritual home” as it were.

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