Hiking Barr Trail up Pikes Peak with a dog

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Re: Hiking Barr Trail up Pikes Peak with a dog

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Find someone to watch your dog at the TH, then drive up, train down, dog up, car down.
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Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty."
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TallGrass wrote:Find someone to watch your dog at the TH, then drive up, train down, dog up, car down.

Complicated, but it'll work. I bet you can solve this one too:

You have a fox, a chicken and a sack of grain. You must cross a river with only one of them at a time. If you leave the fox with the chicken he will eat it; if you leave the chicken with the grain he will eat it. How can you get all three across safely?
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TallGrass wrote:Find someone to watch your dog at the TH, then drive up, train down, dog up, car down.
Find person at the TH who likes dogs, enjoys the outdoors, and is eager to help you just because you have a nice smile. Then forget about the Barr Trail hike since you just found Miss Perfect.
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12ersRule wrote:I bet you can solve this one too:

You have a fox, a chicken and a sack of grain. You must cross a river with only one of them at a time. If you leave the fox with the chicken he will eat it; if you leave the chicken with the grain he will eat it. How can you get all three across safely?
Who has time for such nonsense? Barbecue the chicken, and take them all across at one time!

Savings: 6 boat trips, wear & tear on the boat, and hours saved on crossing time (to be alternatively spent on hiking up the Barr Trail)...
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Re: Hiking Barr Trail up Pikes Peak with a dog

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12ersRule wrote:
TallGrass wrote:Find someone to watch your dog at the TH, then drive up, train down, dog up, car down.

Complicated, but it'll work. I bet you can solve this one too:

You have a fox, a chicken and a sack of grain. You must cross a river with only one of them at a time. If you leave the fox with the chicken he will eat it; if you leave the chicken with the grain he will eat it. How can you get all three across safely?
Take the chicken, back alone, across with fox, back with chicken, across with grain, back alone, across with chicken. Why did you make me do this?

Seriously though, if UBER is an option that's your best bet? Or just bribe someone with beer and/or money ahead of time to pick you up.
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Tejonmax wrote: Apparently the real problem here is reading comprehension.
The real problem is when people impose silly constraints they already know the answer to, then complain when people ridicule this.
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Re: Hiking Barr Trail up Pikes Peak with a dog

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spiderman wrote:Who has time for such nonsense? Barbecue the chicken
=P~ Now you're talking! Mmmm, KC barbeque...

The dogsitter method advantage is the crux is at the start. If you can't find anyone to help, you, your dog, and your car are still together. If you put the crux at the end and can't find anyone around the summit to help, your car is a long ways away as night falls.
"A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures.
Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty."
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