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11-26-2009 11:42 PM |
Nov 27, 2009: Pigeon Express
Let's say you're running a white water adventure business, in the Colorado Rockies. And to make the most of the limited season, you want to sell the adventurer/customers, pictures of themselves in the thick of the river action. So you have the guide/photographers take lots of pictures to sell, but there's a problem... the pictures get to the end at the same time as the customer, and really don't want to wait. They've got to find dry clothes, or catch a plane, or off to the next memory.
:idea: Pigeon Express.
http://cellar.org/2009/carrier.jpg
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The birds are owned and trained by Rocky Mountain Adventures, who fly 19 pigeons five times every day, usually travelling a distance of between 20 and 40 miles. Using the pigeons is quicker than driving down from the river and it solves the problem of producing photographic memories for the white water rafting tourists. It takes them just 20 minutes.
'We began this as an interesting solution to the problem we encountered with the distance from the bottom of La Poudre to our base 30 miles away back in Fort Collins,' says David Costlow, the head pigeon keeper at Rocky Mountain Adventures.
'We have lost some pigeons to hawks and eagles up here in Fort Collins,' he adds. 'We lose five on average every year, but we've only lost seven digital chips in the last 14 years.'
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That's because he hasn't had to contend with hungry Cellarites... lucky for those birds there's a lot of leftovers around today. ;)
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