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Wagga's waggish post on walking to school uphill both ways inspires the following:
A little known fact about Wagga is that as an undergrad at a great American university to be named later, he carried a double major in both particle physics and astrophysics.
Wagga worked day and night, never a moment off from studying or in the lab. Work work work. He was also a poor starving broke student, broke broke broke, so in order to carry such a heavy academic load, he was on work-study, and had to perform various and sundry jobs in around the various of the University's research facilities. Work work work. In order to spend as little time as possible getting to and fro, Wagga lived as close as he could afford to do, actually in an illegal garage apartment near campus, near enough to ride his bicycle to and from school. Pedal pedal pedal.
One unlikely winter day, Wagga awoke to find several inches of snow on the ground and in the streets, a rare event even in the cold winter months. Leaving the bike home of necessity, he trudged to school and after Wagga spent his usual grueling day, work work work, study study study, as he left campus and trudged homeward through the melting wet snow, a strange thought occurred to him. Hmmm, he thought, how strange!
When he got home, Wagga looked up a couple of bits of data, performed a couple of calculations, and exclaimed "Crikey! I've heard of this, but I never thought I would ever actually do it. After all those years listening to gramps, I actually have walked to school in the snow - uphill both ways.
What was the exact date of this extraordinary achievement? Show your work. 3/27/64, 05:36:14.0 p.m. local time.
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OK: as a reward for a creditable first try, first hint. "Change in elevation" is correct, but perhaps not in the sense you mean. Second hint is that this great American University is not near enough to Prince William Sound to have been affected in that way. And OK you are within 15 years of the correct date.
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Hmmmmm. OK maybe we need another hint. Gramps probably went to a one-room schoolhouse, which a multi-dimensional university is not.
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Still no takers, eh? OK, how's this: one of the pieces to this puzzle was the subject of one of the WITWHH series.
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I'm way too dense, salty.  WHICH one of the WITHH?
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I'm way too dense, salty. WHICH one of the WITHH? Oh, no ya don't that would give it away. Which is a hint: solve the puzzle for the place, and the date is easy. OK, I'll give ya this: how many of the WITWHH entries are at great American universities?
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Actually, you could solve for the date without reaching the real question here: how can Wagga walk between his apartment and campus, uphill both ways? Think of that this way. How could you travel from Inyo NF to Yosemite and back to Inyo, uphill in both directions?
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JMT through hikers do it all the time.
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OK, maybe moving to California has addled my brain: I actually thought this would grab more interest. Vanitas, vanitas, omnia vanitas. The answer to the question is still only a clue to the puzzle so here it is: February 5, 1976. Extra credit for why it is not January 21, 1962. Question remains, why was it uphill both ways?
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Salty, this puzzle makes my head hurt! But the dates you gave are both days when snow fell in San Francisco.
I just can't wrap my brain around the "uphill both ways part.
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Salty, this puzzle makes my head hurt! But the dates you gave are both days when snow fell in San Francisco.
I just can't wrap my brain around the "uphill both ways part. OK: You have the significance of the dates. So if snow fell in San Francisco, what great American University might it (actually did) also have fallen on on those dates? Now, say you are through-hiking the JMT, say you leave your car at the Portal, hitch to Lone Pine, grab CRESTA to Lee Vining, YARTS to Yos Valley. JMT to Whitney, Trail Crest and the Portal. What's the elevation at the Portal? At what elevation did you leave Inyo NF? At what elevation did you enter Yosemite NP? At what elevation did you leave Yosemite NP? At what elevation did you re-enter Inyo? Between Inyo and Yos, isn't that uphill in both directions?
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Or a closer analogy: a couple living in their summer cabin at the Portal decides to take a tour of the southern Sierra. They drive to Yos and enter at Tioga pass, ramble around the park for a few days, exit the park at El Portal, return to the WP by way of beautiful downtown Fresno, Visalia and Bikersfield. WP to Yos and back, uphill both ways.
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Well well, it sounds like lawyer talk  to leave out that walking uphill both ways just might include walking downhill somewhere along the way, too.  So I found pictures of snow at Stanford U on 2-5-76, here and here; a Stanford alum wrote about "snow day" with reference to their snow person here. I can also find a reference to snow there on 1-21-62, as well, so not sure why that would be an excluded date. It's a very good riddle, regardless of the difficulty I've had understanding. I still want to understand why the 1962 date is excluded. Maybe because Wagga wasn't in Cali on that date?? 
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Lawyer talk? Thanks a lot. Its just geometry. The walking (or driving) downhill, between Tioga Pass and El Portal, is all within Yosemite. So the trips between Yosemite and WP are uphill in both directions. Applied to Stanford, there are a bunch of residences (I had in mind Junipero Serra Blvd) at about 200 feet of elevation. So Young Wagga walks to campus to report to work either at the Dish (el 500 ft) or SLAC (el 300 feet, and the subject of the previous WITWHH). Uphill. Then he goes to class at the physics building on Lomita Mall, el. 100 feet or so. After class, he returns home, el. 200 ft. Uphill both ways. The reason the 1/21/62 date is out? Ground was broken on SLAC in April of that year, and the Dish was built in 1966. The key clue was the observation above that Campus, unlike Gramps's school, is an area, not a point. Just geometry.
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On a hot, dusty day a cowboy rode into a small frontier town. After dismounting, he walked behind his horse, lifted it's tail and kissed it where the sun don't shine. An old man rocking by the general store witnessed the whole thing.
"Whudd'ya do that fer?" he asked.
"Got chapped lips," the cowboy replied.
The old man asked, "Does that help?"
The cowboy said, "Nope, but it keeps me from lickin' 'em."
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OMG Wagga, I'm speechless after reading your hot, dusty cowboy silly joke, I did kinda smile and grimace at the same time, lol.
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Happy Thanksgiving EveryoneSome Oldies But Goodies for Turkey Day.
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The science teacher stood in the front of the class and said, "Children, if you could have one raw material in the world, what would it be?"
Little Stevie raised his hand and said "I would want gold, because gold is worth a lot of money and I could buy a Corvette." The teacher nodded, and then she called on little Susie.
Little Susie said, "I would want platinum because platinum is worth more than gold and I could buy a Porsche." The teacher smiled, and then she called on Little Johnny.
Little Tommy stood up and said, "I would want silicone." The teacher said, "Silicone? Why silicone, Little Tommy?" "Because my mom has two bags of the stuff and you should see all the sports cars outside our house!"
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