HYPO: $5M to race Lewis and Clark to Fort Clatsop on the Pacific in 1804-05
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Date: April 21st, 2021 7:02 PM Author: shivering maniacal messiness lodge
You'll be transported to St. Louis, May 13, 1804. The next day, Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery set out from Camp Dubois, about 20 miles north. If you can get to the site of Fort Clatsop on the Pacific Coast before they do on December 8, 1805, you get $5M and are transported back to the present.
If you don't beat them, you have to serve a sentence in a medium security NY prison upon your return to the present. Your sentence is one day for every mile short of the finish line you were on December 8, 1805.
Injuries, illness or death that befall you on the journey befall you IRL.
You can bring any modern books, maps, and equipment you are able to acquire in the present day, so long as everything you bring fits in a 75L backpack.
You must travel across the continent. You cannot head to New Orleans and sail to the Pacific.
You'll be given a map noting where the Corps of Discovery was each day. You must try to generally stay away from them.
You cannot hire any guides in 1804 or 1805. You can bring up to 10 IRL friends and family members, if you're able to convince them to go. You can't hire a modern hunting guide or the like to bring.
When you arrive in St. Louis, you'll get $1000. You can purchase provisions there or along the way. You can't sell or trade the modern equipment you bring back with you.
Do you accept? What's your strategy? Follow the Lewis and Clark path up the missouri? Head south through Spanish territory, then north up the coast?
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Date: April 22nd, 2021 11:19 AM Author: trip nursing home trump supporter
I would accept. That’s less than 4 miles per day. Figure there are some days you do better and other days, especially in the mountains, you might only get a mile or two, but on average 4 miles per day is doable if you have good maps from the future and know where the right passes are. Remember these fuckers were surveying shit along the way so they weren’t going for speed.
Would take handguns and ammo (hypo suggests everything has to fit in a backpack — if I can also take a hunting rifle great), stuff to purify water, and dress for extremely cold weather in layers. I would also bring 1,000 oxycodone pills to use to barter with natives as I cross their lands.
Edit: I forgot the provision where you can’t sell or barter modern stuff. I guess I’d use the $1,000 for goods that were compact but I could use to barter with the natives then and just use the oxy myself.
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Date: April 22nd, 2021 11:52 AM Author: talking gaping
Not really sure how big that backpack is. You would only need a few things and just outsource carrying it or take turns. Or hire some Indian:
1. Inflatable raft
2. Largest modern propellor motor you can fit
3. Hunting rifle.
You can fly on rivers on the outboard motor. I’d go on the Missouri and you could cut the time basically in half and get through the mountains before winter. Tell local Indians they can split Buffalo with you as you massacre buffalos with your hunting rifle.
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