Re: Park Pick Pool Update
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10 on Phalen please
10 on Phalen please
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Re: Clue #8 - 2020
No need for suite or rubber boots tells me it’s not by the water parks or any of the water in the park! We are going to need more coordinates, other than between upper and lower to lock in a good spot to dig. I’m thinking by the old ski ruins? Seems to fit the bill but again a large area to scope out without more precise directions
Re: Clue #8 - 2020
That leads me to believe it might be in a small park.
Re: Clue #8 - 2020
I swear the clue writer picked 10 parks and purposely created clues that they all have in common to totally confuse us on which park it is. I have a feeling it will go to the midnight dig which l am not fond of because l am a lone hunter.
Re: Park Pick Pool Update
I don't think they have ever had such a pre-hunt video before, so we will find out!
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Lower landing park
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Re: Clue #8 - 2020
A bower is also either one of the two highest trumps (did I hear (im)peach?) in the card game 'euchre'.
It is also a person who bows (connection to genuflect clue?) to show respect.
It is also a person who bows (connection to genuflect clue?) to show respect.
Re: Clue #8 - 2020
That was at Harriet Island in 1960.
Re: Clue #8 - 2020
I don't know that it is in their nature or that there is any precedent for just naming a street outright.
Re: Clue #8 - 2020
Could also be Pacific Ave that runs near Indian Mounds and turns into Plum street (plum-met from clue 6) at the bluff that overlooks BVNS.
Re: Clue #8 - 2020
I think it is just a visual rhyme. But they do like the word bower.
Re: Clue #8 - 2020
I was also thinking a water tower could be the water above. But why is the water grand? That may be the key to figuring out which water. If I stick with Phalen it could be a reference to Atlantic St. which runs both above and below the park on a map. There is a famous hotel called the Grand Atlantic, though perhaps not famous enough to be in a clue. Or maybe the Atlantic is just grand by itself?
Re: Clue #8 - 2020
They used the word bower two years ago when it was at Harriet Island.
Re: Clue #8 - 2020
I was also thinking Water (Street) is grand (roadway) to Harriet Island Park. Dr Justus Ohage (a surgeon) Blvd is there. Water below is river. Water up above? Not sure.
Re: Clue #8 - 2020
Maybe the three bodies of water need to be in line with Grand Ave? Or “grand” could be a reference to the Mississippi?
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Re: Clue #8 - 2020
where was the medallion the year it was in the heel of a rubber boot??? maybe I'm imagining things, but we seem to have a fair number of potential references to past hunts.....can't be sure since I seem to have lost my hunting reference books.
Re: Clue #8 - 2020
Water is grand= water street any thoughts?
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Re: Clue #8 - 2020
It's weird that lower and bower don't rhyme unless you mispronounce one of them...
Re: Clue #8 - 2020
A water tower up above and the Mississippi River below? Highland park? Or, the cliffs/bluffs up above BVNS (lots of bowers here?) and lower (Lower Landing? Lower meaning below the site, as in the river?) If you take the line from previous clue (line three bodies water), you could infer that the site of the medallion also has water, but since you don't need rubber boots, it would be away from that water. Hidden Falls or Crosby Farm areas?
Re: Clue #8 - 2020
Not quite sure what to make of this one. You could probably take most any park and find something to construe as water "above" and water "below". A bower just means a shady place under some trees which could also be most any park. The word "bower" was used in 2008 when it was at Indian Mounds park. That clue also made a reference to things being high and low. I feel like "grand" might be important in determining which water is being referred to, but I'm not sure how yet.
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