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Re: Iguana rescue

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dude9478 wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:11 pm I might be able to go up Friday. However I have no idea how to handle a 3-4 foot long iguana. Please post more details as they come in. Hopefully someone can get up there before then, I can't imagine an iguana lasting long up there.
I assume its a pet so it might be used to handling? I hope. I'm pondering taking the day off tomorrow and going up there. Which route is it near(er)?
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Re: Iguana rescue

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Jon Frohlich wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:13 pm
dude9478 wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:11 pm I might be able to go up Friday. However I have no idea how to handle a 3-4 foot long iguana. Please post more details as they come in. Hopefully someone can get up there before then, I can't imagine an iguana lasting long up there.
I assume its a pet so it might be used to handling? I hope. I'm pondering taking the day off tomorrow and going up there. Which route is it near(er)?
Indeed, hope so. Weather forecast looks pretty ominous tomorrow fwiw.
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Re: Iguana rescue

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jfm3 wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:05 pm Someone posted about this on the 14ers Facebook page. It looks real, and apparently someone posted in a different Facebook group that their pet iguana was missing from Halfmoon campground. Wild stuff.
Escaped from Halfmoon campground. Spotted at treeline, or "abandoned near the summit". I smell a rat, and also learned a new word: How many of you ever heard of a "chuckwalla" before today?
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I'm trying to get my brain to accept that this is a real post...

I'm unemployed, so available to help during the week and fairly experienced with schlepping pets around mountains, but currently moving kinda slow uphill. I'll keep an eye on this thread and help where I can, or please pm me.
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Paula wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:28 pm I'm trying to get my brain to accept that this is a real post...
My post is real and I believe that that the people posting about the iguana are legit. If it is all a sick joke, several people are in on it.several hikers have reported seeing the iguana.
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Scott P wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:37 pm
Paula wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:28 pm I'm trying to get my brain to accept that this is a real post...
My post is real and I believe that that the people posting about the iguana are legit. If it is all a sick joke, several people are in on it.several hikers have reported seeing the iguana.
Scott, I absolutely believe you, I just can't believe someone let their pet iguana loose on a mountain...
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I think it’s horsesh!t
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Isn't Halfmoon campground by Holy Cross - like 20miles+ from Elbert? One heck of a fast Iguana - could be in New Mexico by now if that info is real...
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daway8 wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:45 pm Isn't Halfmoon campground by Holy Cross - like 20miles+ from Elbert? One heck of a fast Iguana - could be in New Mexico by now if that info is real...
There's a Halfmoon Campground at the base of Mt. Elbert.
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according to the "owner", "he responds to Tony." in my experience, lizards don't respond to much of anything except food.

good luck to anyone looking for him. he's well camouflaged, has plenty of hiding places in those rocks, and will probably run and hide if any people come around, no matter how accustomed he is to people in captivity. his best chance is if he decides to head downhill for food or warmth. or, if global warming continues, he and his kin can eventually replace the mountain goats as CO's official invasive wildlife species.
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I hope some sort of summit-island gigantism and rare gene expression turns this thing into a 25 ft Colorado legend.
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BillMiddlebrook wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:42 pm I think it’s horsesh!t
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If it is, that would be a sick joke since some of us are planning to look for the creature and the weather is looking less than ideal.
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