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It really depends on what source you choose ... Thank you Kc ... Depending on what source I choose I have varying information on climate data ... On wikipedia the average temperature of Barstow (California) and Boulder (Colorado) are even the same; yesterday I found several climate tables bringing up a difference of about 10°F, while your information ends up at nearly 20°F difference ... Sorry for riding this horse beyond death. I just want to have it a zombie as well ...

Grigg: We have no confirmation on if he is dead and where he is moving to. The worst case scenario would be: little one heading towards Boulder; the funniest prediction: he is Skittles; a somewhat 'reasonable' explanation: he may be just freezing to death or roaming around without clue where to go ...

Yep: Michael nailed it: 30mi to Boulder, new game etc.; I just wonder why none did even think about raising kind of "orange alarm" or something ...

Blackhawk: What is the flying range of a Blackhawk; could a Blackhawk really do a 800mi (about the distance between the Chinook crash site and Fort Irwin) ride? And since it is just 30mi away from Boulder, wouldn't it be just the right thing to do: getting some more gas?

Big Ones giving birth to little-ones ... The more I think of it, the more I don't think so. I consider it a different breed and/ or race.

Does the thick skin protect the little ones against the cold weather? I don't think so. The Chinook was about 900mi away from LA, where the little-one grabbed on the chopper. Considering the huge distance it strikes me as odd that the crew did not recognize it earlier; I would have thought that the little one might have tried to get into the chopper way earlier, but it didn't. So it was on the chinook for quite an extended amount of time, while the Chinook flew through winter conditions, over many miles of Rocky Mountains; the chily time of the year and the additional cold from the airflow of the chopper would have freezed it much earlier. Yet it was not frozen, instead it was able to tore apart a Chinook, its electronics and the better part of the crew ... Either it is an endotherm bio-organism, or it is some kind of cold-resistant monster from any Fantasy RPG monster manual, or it just sprang out of some kind of DC- or Marvel-universe, which would explain its weird noises ...

All the best!
Liam