Kayak Club

[Hotel26]

More formally known as the Prestigious Association of Kerbin Explorers

Being as, and whereas, a number of us have gathered together and discussed the present matter, that a deplorable number of Kerbals, eager to explore the confines of Space, are yet insufficiently familiar with our own dear habitat.  Kerbin.  And in order to raise consciousness, and preservation, of our own natural environment, we have decided today, to form the Prestigious Association of Kerbin Explorers.  Membership is Strictly Limited and by Invitation Only.  I.e. open to all who qualify according to these, the rules, of our association.

Rules of Kayak Club:

1. Do not talk about Kayak Club.
2. Post herein this topic a screenshot of some pretty location on Kerbin.  Should be panoramic enough for others to identify the location from some angle upon arrival.
3. Explorer (poster) must not reveal coordinates until acknowledgement of visitation of 5 Adventurers.  [Recommend simply Like the post if thought to be correct; else abstain.]
4. Give some clues about how to get there, couched in terms of (e.g.) an initial heading from KSC, followed by flowery description of landmarks along the way.
5. Adventurers will respond with a screenshot of the target location including their own Kerbal or vehicle in such a way as to distinguish that Adventurer from other exploiteers.
6. Adventurers do not give away coordinates (disqualification).
7. First five arrivals will be awarded 5,4,3,2,1 points, as adjudicated by the Supreme Judges (@Castille7 and @purpleivan).
8. Poster of the initial Landmark Screenshot will be awarded 10 points for the post, as soon as the first Adventurer proves visitation.
9. A Leader-board of point scores shall be kept.
10. Do not talk about Kayak Club.

NEW: Some Suggestions for Explorers and Adventurers is recommended reading.

Who says Kerbin is boring!?  Bah.  Let's get out there and show us what we've got!

Standard disclaimer: yeah, praise be to the rules of the forum in ascendancy...  nobody break 'em.

                                                                                      

Kayak Club
Leaderboard
Explorer	Score
Hotel26	229
swjr-swis	124
Pds314	120
purpleivan	88
Klapaucius	56
Castille7	53
TheFlyingKerman	45
Smokey the Bear	34
Sir fulgur	25
Koolkei	20
Paaaad	16
AlienWall	15
SuicidalInsanity	14
oAsAo	14
Akagi	10
Chequers	4
Chryssalid 8492	3
Retro Starship	2

 

Kayak Club
Landmark	Discoverer	Visitors
Kayak River	Castille7	purpleivan	Hotel26	Chryssalid 8492	AlienWall	TheFlyingKerman
Great Wall	purpleivan	Klapaucius	Hotel26
Lost Valley	Klapaucius	Hotel26	SuicidalInsanity
Valhalla	Hotel26	swjr-swis	Paaaad
Lake Dumbell	SuicidalInsanity	purpleivan	Hostel26
Estuary	purpleivan	Hotel26	TheFlyingKerman
Fake Victoria Falls	Hotel26	fulgur	Klapaucius
Lake Klapaucius	fulgur	Klapaucius	Castille7
Lake Excalibur	fulgur	Hotel26	Castille7	Klapaucius	TheFlyingKerman
Grand Rapids	TheFlyingKerman	Klapaucius
Heavenly Valley	Hotel26
Fire Escape Island	Klapaucius	AlienWall
Swiss Cheese Seafronts	AlienWall
Kamp David	Hotel26	swjr-swis	Chequers	purpleivan
Kwitzerland	TheFlyingKerman
Footstep Island	swjr-swis
Lake Omaroo	Hotel26	swjr-swis		Chequers
Mt Keverest[2]	Castille7	swjr-swis
Mt True Keverest	purpleivan	swjr-swis	Smokey the Bear
Jeb Atoll	Klapaucius	swjr-swis	oAsAo	Hotel26
Ben Creag *****	Hotel26	purpleivan	swjr-swis
Point Break	Hotel26	swjr-swis	purpleivan
Target Island	Castille7	swjr-swis	Klapaucius	Hotel26
Venice Beach	Hotel26	swjr-swis
Cape Stinger	swjr-swis	Hotel26
Lake Zamboni	Hotel26	oAsAo
Mhole	Koolkei	Pds314	purpleivan
Summer Lake	Pds314	oAsAo	Hotel26
Mt Brutality	Pds314	Hotel26
The Spine of Dres	Pds314	Smokey the Bear
Mt Pinocchio	Hotel26	Pds314
Mt Imposition	Hotel26	Pds314
Lac Eve	Pds314	Hotel26
Iceland	Hotel26	Castille7
St Andrews	Hotel26	Pds314
Gravity Lake	Hotel26
Standrews	Pds314	Hotel26	purpleivan
Lake Zero	Koolkei	Pds314
Madness Meadow	Pds314	purpleivan
Ice Ridge	Koolkei
Long Drop Mountain	Hotel26
K2	Hotel26	Pds314
Tylos Coliseum	Pds314	Smokey the Bear	Hotel26
The Amphitheatre	Hotel26	Pds314
Peak 6038	Pds314
Hill 303	Smokey the Bear	Hotel26
Ross Bay	Smokey the Bear	Hotel26
Davey Jones (Left) Locker	Smokey the Bear
Null Bay	Paaaad	purpleivan
Great Barrier Reef	Hotel26
The Three Sages	chequers
Airstrip Sandbar	Pds314	Hotel26
Loch Inverness	Hotel26
Safe Harbor	Hotel26
Explodium Sea	Akagi	swjr-swis
Von Kerman Outlook	TheFlyingKerman	swjr-swis
Ginormous Twins	swjr-swis	TheFlyingKerman
Bank of Einstein-Rosen	swjr-swis
The Philadelphia Experi-Truss	swjr-swis
Note 2:	controversy over name
*****	Mt Majestic Trophy holder

 

Please note: the first 15 rows of Landmarks are being painstakingly reconstructed from the journal.  Your patience is appreciated.  Scores are certified correct.  This notice will be removed when work is complete.

[Updated to this point on April 22, 2022.]

 

Edited April 22, 2022 by Hotel26

[Vanamonde]

As this is structured like a challenge, the thread has been moved to the Challenges subforum. Have fun with it. 

[purpleivan]

Ooo... here's a pretty impressive location (probably my favourite on Kerbin), but as it looks like I'll be helping with the judging, this one is just for fun, so I won't get the bonus 10 points.

Flowery description of how to get here from the KSC, hmmm, let me see.

Take off from the runway (either direction), keep flying straight until you get there... can't miss it.

Edited January 25, 2020 by purpleivan

[Hotel26]

18 hours ago, purpleivan said:

his one is just for fun, so I won't get the bonus 10 points.

Nuthin' in the rules say Judges can't participate, and, under the circumstances, your Superbly Pretty location can only stimulate Kerbin Exploration!  Thus, you will enable other Adventurers to score a total of 15 points, so you will have given back to the Association!  I'll open the leaderboard....!!

(Note to self: hurry up and post own screenshots: e.g a place I tantalizingly named "Victoria Falls"; before some danged tail-gating claim-jumper does...  )

                                                                                                  

Be it duly noted, that Prestigious Adventurer,  Horatio Kerman, has visiteth this Landmark (Castille7), and doth Properly claim hith due Bounty, being in the Amount of 4 credits, behind that of Hith Honor PurpleIvan...  bla bla bla

Ye Proofe:

Have an associated recce photo with coords and name, Horatio Kerman, proving not a photo-shop [kind of], to be provided to Ye Adjudicators Upon Request....

[Jest makin' up the rules as We go along: I think the flag on the MiG is Ye Genuine Stampe, yeth?]

Edited December 2, 2019 by Hotel26

[Klapaucius]

@purpleivan

 

I'm pretty sure this is your spot. I confess I Mission Buildered myself to where I thought it was, but I since I have flown around this area a lot, I was pretty sure where I was.

 

And here is my entry:

 

Go the Dessert Airfield. Fly due west.  If you get to water, turn around.  I'll give two picture hints, since this one may be a bit tricky.  This photo is taken looking at 225 degrees.

 

Look for peaks like this. You are just a little bit up and to the left of the caldera.

I was pretty proud of my landing in there.

[purpleivan]

On 12/2/2019 at 9:52 PM, Klapaucius said:

Go the Dessert Airfield. Fly due west.  If you get to water, turn around.  I'll give two picture hints, since this one may be a bit tricky.  This photo is taken looking at 225 degrees.

Your pics It looks like they're not far from where my pic was taken (looks like you identified that location). Looks similar to the terrain that Bob drove through over a couple of days in that area anyway.

Might fire up the Juice Goose (on second thoughts, might take something faster) and head out that way to take a look.

[Klapaucius]

1 hour ago, purpleivan said:

Your pics It looks like they're not far from where my pic was taken (looks like you identified that location). Looks similar to the terrain that Bob drove through over a couple of days in that area anyway.

Might fire up the Juice Goose (on second thoughts, might take something faster) and head out that way to take a look.

I actually made a whole flying racecourse through there ending by flying into and out of the caldera.  @Rocket In My Pocket was the only participant, alas.  I've pasted the old challenge below, but it will be a location spoiler if you open it.  But it was quite fun and might be a diversion for later.

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

[Hotel26]

@Klapaucius, re Your Excellent Location:

I would hypothesize:

  

[Click and arrows for a detailed slideshow]

Can't say I managed the landing upon first try!!

[Hotel26]

[continue the tour]

OK, here's my Landmark entry: [click & arrows]

This is Lemdas Kerman, Mathematical Physicist and eminent B.A.S.E. jumper, just moments before he slipped and slid to his death, R.I.P.

He had gotten overly-excited by his discovery of this Landmark -- and suffered premature, unplanned ejection into the chasm.  [..words to that effect..]

He will be missed.

We truly believe this might be the absolute best B.A.S.E. location on Kerbin, but all we have to go on for the whereabouts is Lemdas' last SMS...

"This place is OUTSTANDING, Dude!

 I can't believe Kerbals periodically see this from a distance as close as 70-100km but NOBODY notices it!  It's PRISTINE!  We have to keep this a SECRET, Dude!!

All I can tell you now is: abs(lon) ~= abs(lat).   Aah!  Waaaaah!  OOP....."

                                                                                 

If you can find this well-kept secret Valhalla, you will know you are there due to the datum the instrument on your left wrist is reporting -- and because you are a B.A.S.E. jumper...  Dude!

[But don't tell anyone!!!  First Rule of Kayak Club...]

Edited December 14, 2019 by Hotel26

[Chryssalid 8492]

Found Hotel's location

Edited December 4, 2019 by Chryssalid 8492

[Hotel26]

2 hours ago, Chryssalid 8492 said:

Found Hotel's location

That is, indeed, Castille7's original Landmark post, with purpleivan and myself having been there (Castille7 and purpleivan both posting in What Did You Do Today In KSP), so you can claim 3 points.

And... you're in the Leaderboard!

[SuicidalInsanity]

@Klapaucius Mountain valley cul-de-sac
Fairly certain this is it:


And I'll throw in a landmark I've always been fond of:

Directions: Head roughly WSW from the Impact Crater.

[purpleivan]

On 12/1/2019 at 11:47 AM, Hotel26 said:

Proposal for Rule Modification, 19-12-04 (directed @Castille7 and @purpleivan for ratification, but user comment welcome):

be it proposed that visitation by 1 other Explorer is sufficient to qualify points for the Landmark poster and for visitors.  A Landmark interesting enough to be visited by someone else is sufficient validation of the Landmark to allow point scoring.  Unanimous "yea" from Judges carries the proposal.

(19-12-07: having heard no objections to this proposal, it is carried and takes effect immediately.)

Yes good sir, I wholly approve of said rule modification.

[Castille7]

2 hours ago, purpleivan said:

Yes good sir, I wholly approve of said rule modification.

I second that notion!!

[purpleivan]

On 12/5/2019 at 3:40 AM, SuicidalInsanity said:

And I'll throw in a landmark I've always been fond of:

Directions: Head roughly WSW from the Impact Crater.

I think this might be the location.

 

I've got another, similar type of location if anyone wants to take a stab at it.

To find this picturesque location, take off from the KSC runway, then head South East and when you get to the South end of that huge bay, that's almost a lake, head East. When you find the watery road North, follow ig.

[SuicidalInsanity]

7 hours ago, purpleivan said:

I think this might be the location.

Yep, that's it.

[Hotel26]

20 hours ago, purpleivan said:

Head roughly WSW from the Impact Crater.

Lovely location.  But I had given up on the directions!  Just needed an existence proof from purpleivan to get there!

Uhm, bit embarrassed about this and hope I don't get accused of cheating:

Because I couldn't resist the mighty fine plane, either!  I was amazed how fast your plane goes, @purpleivan!!  It does Mach 2+ @2km on just normal aspiration: I did not know Panthers could go so fast without afterburners.

Edited December 9, 2019 by Hotel26

[purpleivan]

2 hours ago, Hotel26 said:

Because I couldn't resist the mighty fine plane, either!  I was amazed how fast your plane goes, @purpleivan!!  It does Mach 2+ @2km on just normal aspiration: I did not know Panthers could go so fast without afterburners.

Pure luck on the speed. I basically threw it together (I don't make a lot of planes) and cruised at high altitude to get here, at a much lower speed than Mach 2.

It takes quite a bit of speed to get in the air fully fueled, but landing it so easy as you can come in really slow, so good for landing on bumpy ground.

[Hotel26]

On 12/8/2019 at 10:10 PM, purpleivan said:

To find this picturesque location, take off from the KSC runway, then head South East and when you get to the South end of that huge bay, that's almost a lake, head East. When you find the watery road North, follow ig.

OK!  How about this pretty place?

This reminds me that I have a pseudo-Elcano Challenge attempt underway with a Pacemaker rover that is about 1/3rd of the way around Kerbin, going westward, but planning to take a very southerly dip down into this Lakes Region.

Thanks for this one, @purpleivan!

[purpleivan]

5 hours ago, Hotel26 said:

This reminds me that I have a pseudo-Elcano Challenge attempt underway with a Pacemaker rover that is about 1/3rd of the way around Kerbin, going westward, but planning to take a very southerly dip down into this Lakes Region.

Thanks for this one, @purpleivan!

That would be the place.

On my Kerbin Sorta-Circumnavigation trip, The boat headed up river from the coast to take a look at this location. Bob climbed the the nearest mountain in the rover that went along for the trip and looked wistfully at the further one. No chance that rover was going to make it to the top, but Bob can dream I suppose.

[Castille7]

I went scouting around ENE and arrived at the second Continent and got a nice night view of some mountains. Nothing spectacular but I was able to test my Mini-F14. It's holding up well in 1.8.1 with full warp and full fuel tanks. If you decide to download the craft, I'm not sure how well takeoff will be. I used Vessel Mover to start near the end of the runway.

It looks like it could be another J.U.M.P.E.R.S. location. Night was not planed, I left in the daylight 

This is not an actual Landmark for this challenge but I did find one I am calling "Mount Keverest" in the same area. You can find it here "Mount Keverest"

  

More Views of the Area and the trip there

Spoiler

 

 

Edited January 11, 2020 by Castille7
ENE....ooops! Added Mount Keverest link

[Hotel26]

[continue the tour]

(Fake) Victoria Falls:

So called, because the first time I saw it was at high altitude and some optical illusion made it look like a KSP waterfall, which was an exciting phenomenon at the time, although every one now knows water is flat.  (Which bears the heavy implication also that there are no winds on Kerbin, borne out by the fact that no Kerbalese Pilots Operating Handbook mentions anything about cross-wind landings.)

I'll add a couple more shots so you can identify when you have arrived, but suffice it to say that:

1. it's a part of the longest water feature on Kerbin
2. you can see it's at a fork in the feature
3. there's a convenient little landing strip shown (in case anybody is thinking about opening up a tourist resort at this very picturesque rafting/submarining site.
4. somewhere Northward of Baikerbanur (just to identify the 'water feature', a.k.a. river)

                                                                               

As discussed elsewhere in the topic, this location has become widely known as Fake Victoria Falls, due to an egregious error on the part of Hotel26.

In the interest of Exploration, and just for reference, the True Victoria Falls (90 klicks west of the above), looks more impressively like this:

 

Edited January 1, 2020 by Hotel26

[fulgur]

Well, I was attempting to answer the above challenge, but I failed. I did it like this.

1. Build a mid-range craft with good manoeuvrability.

2. Open up Firefox, search for a challenge related to where I thought it was.

3. Having found some images pointing to what I thought was the longest water feature, I launched my plane.

4. I turned to a heading of about 70 degrees and flew across an ocean.

5. I crossed land and a few minutes later came to a river delta with some islands in. [F5].

6. I followed the course of the river towards some mountains.

I didn't get there but I found some very picturesque mountains. I might come back with a helicopter.

They're my entry because I couldn't walk away with nothing. They look like this:

The very foolhardy can land on the mountains, or alternatively those with downwards-facing engines. Val was feeling pretty foolish as she had gone to the wrong river.

That's my entry. It's pretty easy to find online info if you know your way around the Forums.

 

Edited December 14, 2019 by fulgur

[Hotel26]

10 hours ago, fulgur said:

the above challenge

My directions were pretty flimsy!!  So I added a fourth clue (see above).  Meanwhile, thanks for your entry -- it looks pretty darned enticing!!

[Hotel26]

@fulgur excellent directions and a most beautiful place.

If you deem the following to be the right location, and with everyone's kind approval, I'm gonna post the 5-point claim for my visitation to @Klapaucius, since this is the site of a rather famous challenge -- and I've been fully expecting him to mention such a worthy place sooner or later:

 

Edited December 15, 2019 by Hotel26