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Post by goldhunter on Jun 8, 2020 8:18:19 GMT -5
No paddle up your creek Just heavy loads and water high
This is a complicated section of the poem. The first half of the first line goes with the first half of the second line. The second half of the first line goes with the second half of the second line.
You want more? I got more.
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Post by goldenchild on Jun 8, 2020 8:26:00 GMT -5
One of paddles definitions is “walking in ankle high water”. It’s not quite wading , but it’s definitely not walking. So if something is too far too walk, maybe it’s because you’re paddling, not walking.
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Post by goldhunter on Jun 8, 2020 8:30:23 GMT -5
Hi goldenchild. In my solution, canyon down leaves me at Firehole Canyon almost to the highway. Too far to walk is the distance from that spot to Lamar Ranger Station home of Brown- 30 or so miles, I can't remember. I do remember it's not that far but too far to walk.  |
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Post by secondfiddle on Jun 8, 2020 9:14:21 GMT -5
Not complicated
Waters High is hills in canyon showing water marks
No paddle up your creek = don't follow creek but cross it and continue to the area where the blaze is.
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Post by goldhunter on Jun 8, 2020 9:23:46 GMT -5
Not complicated Waters High is hills in canyon showing water marks No paddle up your creek = don't follow creek but cross it and continue to the area where the blaze is. Believe me...I hope I'm wrong. |
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Post by dalby2020 on Jun 8, 2020 9:28:51 GMT -5
It's all about steam trains.
Heavy loads and water high:
Steam train halts at a stop to take on water, cargo, and passengers.
(A train without cargo and passengers is said to be traveling light)
There'll be no paddle up your creek:
1) A play on the popular saying to indicate you are (or will be) in a difficult situation. The steam train has a difficult journey up out of the canyon.
2) A reinforcement that the theme is steam trains. No paddle is simply wordplay that the theme is not steam paddleboats but is steam trains.
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Post by tootingjo on Jun 8, 2020 10:51:39 GMT -5
I think it's talking about a water highway, a road called Water Street you need to travel down. There's no paddle needed because you're walking and the heavy loads are cars.
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Post by kp on Jun 8, 2020 11:52:23 GMT -5
IMO if you have no paddle, you still have a boat...correct? In our solve, the boat you need to use (without a paddle) is Boat Mountain. Up “your creek” is the tailwater of the Madison just below Hebgen dam. You let Boat Mountain guide you up the Madison until you get to the hidey spot just before the old Spillway. At that small ledge/cliff, Boat Mountain is eclipsed by the cliff (backwards bicycle logic) and you go up to the large pine tree on that ledge). Under it, ff hid the chest amongst the many many small rocks at the base of that pine. I checked them all, but just found rocks  |
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