20: Two Tired (Natural Wonders)

[solar fog]

Jake parked his motorbike in the middle of nowhere to take a photo of the beautiful landscape.
He was too tired to continue riding, so he decided to camp for the night.
What is the name of the camping area nearest to this location?

[lone gull]

If needed, hint available 😊

[spring nest]

done it 🙂

[vale lotus]

Had to try like three minor variations ||of the same location name to finally get the right one😭 Each time i thought it was wrong and went to check other spots before getting back to it||

[coarse kettle]

|| It was the second most popular campsite of the area on Google maps so I got it on my second try. Definitely the most fun challenge of the week ||

[lone gull]

I would love to hear how you reached certain conclusions || I researched the creators motorbike treks and paths and used geospy on the image which confirmed the area enough for me to start looking || anybody use different or more efficient methods?

[coarse kettle]

I did something very similar. It was quick. || I googled the creator's name and found an article about a trip of his. The info there matched geospy's results and some of the reverse image search results. Then I just searched for campsites on this highway and tried the most popular ones that also matched the scenery. ||

[vale lotus]

Got the ||article about his rides, re-confirmed the country with geospy, magic erased the motorcycle from the image to get a clearer reverse image result and added the country name to the query to narrow it down, got the exact view from multiple sources who used the viewpoint next to the camp. In retrospect could've just done the final step first lol||

[sick anvil]

I didn't have time to do this one before work so now I have to quit..

[sick anvil]

||Managed to locate the correct road just from the image..||

[low robin]

I'm hopeless at identifying mountains XD

[low robin]

OK Rainbolt 🤣

[sick anvil]

||There are two roads to choose from okej..||

[low robin]

||Geospy worked for you? It put me in the middle of nowhere near-ish some mountains but not super close||

[low robin]

a hint would be great

[coarse kettle]

|| Not exactly. It gave me the general area. I narrowed it down using an article I found about the guy who took the foto. Google the name of the guy ||

[low robin]

||yeah I found that article where it mentions an upcoming trip to Quebec, but Geospy gave me the Yukon/Alaska so the complete other side of Canada lol||

[coarse kettle]

|| The clue that helped me was at the beginning of the article||

[low robin]

||ok so it's the more western part||

[vale lotus]

Hmm ||I got the country hint from the article but I was working under the assumption that the trip in the article was much earlier than the photo so i ignored the sub regions mentioned, since the metadata put the image date at 9th December this year.. then again that can obvs differ from the actual date of image capture if modified or copied||

[solar fog]

looks like I've done the same stuff as everyone else but with the notable difference of ||having no idea how everyone quickly narrowed down these two nondescript mountains amongst a sea of 4,000 campsites :D||

[sick anvil]

It's simple || once you notice the typical Canadian grass and the gravel only found in Yukon it's simple to narrow it down||

[solar fog]

it's a big place

[sick anvil]

What I really did was: || biome is subarctic and the pines in the valley reveal that it's North America. And that far north it's only a few roads so finding one matching wasn't hard. The plan was to just check camp sites along the road but I had to go to work so I just did a Google lens search that showed a picture that was close enough to narrow it down.. ||

[solar fog]

||I swear lens sometimes gives different results because I've done it again and now the answer's just right there||

[sick anvil]

||most suggestions were Norway so it wasn't perfect, but one was close enough||

[coarse kettle]

|| Yeah, I noticed that most of the metadata had been stripped and the date being so close to the actual date while the weather was sunny and all made me think that probably the date had to do with something else so I ignored it ||

[coarse kettle]

|| The article I mentioned combined with geospy helps narrow down the area a lot though. Basically it's down to two trails. ||

[low robin]

I've got the park but not the campground??

[coarse kettle]

|| If you have the correct park, your one google search away ||

[low robin]

it has to be ||the territorial park in Yukon|| right?

[sick anvil]

||has it?||

[low robin]

the view from ||the interpretive centre|| seems to match

[coarse kettle]

|| The complete name of the park has more than one word in it. But I don't think you need the park if you have the name of the road. ||

[sick anvil]

|| no you don't||

[low robin]

||Dempster Highway||?

[low robin]

ok no for some reason I'm still not getting it 💀

[sick anvil]

|| that emoji is a good hint||

[low robin]

I've tried all the variations of ||Tombstone||

Campground etc

[sick anvil]

|| try those two together once more?||

[low robin]

I could have sworn I did

go figure

[sick anvil]

[coarse kettle]

It happens. 😆

[pseudo vault]

Reasonably difficult but not too much || Found the ref to a 2014 moto trek by Jake on an online article. Then the vegetation and mountains meant that it was far north. Checked systematically campsite along roads and trails amongst proper mountainous relief .||

[solemn shoal]

||Advice please. Im sure I’m in the right place (💀⛺️), but can’t get it to accept my solution. I had the same issue with the cat puzzle, it wouldn’t take the answer until finally it did. I loved that puzzle as I was in Kotor in September! ||

[sick anvil]

||answer is ending with campground||

[pseudo vault]

One capital letter only

[vale lotus]

||two words, the word mountain isn't in it (even if the camp area in some websites has mountain)||

[solemn shoal]

I got it, it was my browser! 🙄 (appreciate the quick replies) Happy holidays.

[sly tangle]

thank you, this tip about ||magic eraser|| got me some ||nearly identical photos|| and thus the location, but i was already on the right path via ||an article about the extremely limited possible roads you can take to the arctic circle||

[sly tangle]

Although (exact solution in spoiler) ||I found similar images attached to the tombstone range viewpoint in google maps, I wasn't convinced that was correct, and in fact it was not - with a bit of looking I managed to take almost the same photo from a screenshot of google street view - facing southish from the highway about 64.50900010888964, -138.2177098698464||

[charred plank]

tried a lot of stuff in this thread and mostly just had bad luck I'm guessing? 😕 ||first I used google reverse image search where the vast majority of images were from Colorado, then I tried Geospy which put it squarely in Alaska. tried erasing the bike which made geospy fail completely. then I googled the name, found the article, which didn't mention Colorado and only had Alaska as a bucket list item. no exif data on the img to put it on a timeline before or after the article. article mentions Vietnam but doesn't look Vietnamese to me. ||I guess I should be trying ||Canada and the East Coast on their way to the arctic,|| but it's a pretty big area to cover

[obtuse folio]

||Thanks for magic eraser tip. Got it now but what do you use to add search term along with photo?||

[charred plank]

||finally solved by finding an article that talked about dempster highway and going through the possible campgrounds one by one||

[vale lotus]

Just ||the country name+motorcycle trails+camps||

[sly tangle]

if you're using ||a phone, you can push up from the bottom of the google lens results|| and if you're using ||chrome, you can open the photo in its own tab and then right click > search with google lens, and it will open lens as a sidebar with an 'add to this search' option at the top. But if you go to lens.google.com on chrome or firefox, no such option is given||

[charred plank]

omg thank you @sly tangle

[obtuse folio]

Ya that’s great to know!

[kindred crypt]

This one annoys me. Very early on I'd looked at campgrounds in the || Yukon area and along the Dempster Highway. I'd identified this as the likely area by putting in the photo into Perplexity. But nothing came up that fitted - so came to the chat, and one suggestion was to edit the picture to remove the motorcycle and reverse image search. This again suggested the Dempster Highway and named the Tombstone Mountain Campground - so I put this in, and it was wrong. Tried Tombstone. Wrong. Tombstone Mountain. Wrong! So tried looking elsewhere - still got nowhere. Found a site that gave answers - "Tombstone Campground". || This was really annoying as I'd entered variations of this based on the actual name. || It should be Tombstone, Tombstone Mountain or Tombstone Mountain Campground. Tombstone Campground is not the || correct answer - but hey ho. I just hate it to have found it but not input it correctly so had to look up the answer on another site.

However I did learn something new. Sometimes, you need to || remove bits of an image to get the right answer. In this case I used https://www.aiease.ai/app/remove-object-image which did help to confirm the area I had was likely to be correct. ||

[sick anvil]

||Tombstone campground|| is what you find on google earth.

[solar fog]

20: Two Tired (Natural Wonders)

[blazing slate]

I don't know if it's because I'm doing this last set after everyone else, but Google Lens has been AMAZING on almost every photo in this round. || I cropped this one to the mountains in the background and one of the top results was a Lonely Planet guide with the exact same mountains in the image. ||

[coarse kettle]

Google lens generally works as a spoiler after a while in these kinds of challenges

[honest swallow]

I found the location in GeoSpy but couldn’t find the campsite. All three in the town came up wrong.

[winter musk]

Just wrote a write-up where I break down how I solved this challenge, you can read it here if you'd like: https://medium.com/@dam_coffee/bellingcat-challenge-two-tired-1b66a016a060