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.
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.
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?
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.
Clue #8
Water is grand in our hunt's land
Up above our site and lower.
You won't need suit nor rubber boot
If you walk amongst the bower.
Clue #7
If you’re in town, swing on down
To a park lit up some nights
Before it gets hotter, line three bodies water
And you’ll have it in your sites
Clue #6
Once at the summit, it did quite plummet
Before it got to the bluff
Starting and stopping, winding and hopping
It will eventually lead to the stuff
Clue #5
We will protect each clue from the GRU
Nyet hackers! Have you no shame?
They may fix our elections, but we'll spark insurrection,
If they try to interfere with our game
Clue #4
One patterned neat and trim, one salvaged life and limb
Did the two cutters who lived down the way.
Herringbones or sawbones?
You decide which will play.
Clue #3
This hunt’s guarantor settles that forevermore
Noodlers treasure noggins; keep that in mind.
So doff your warm cap, study dog-eared map
And genuflect in the presence of the find.
Clue #2
Though the times be quite peachy, we do so beseech ye,
To venture out of doors for a romp
As you traipse through the snow, your medallions aglow,
Careful of what flora you stomp
Clue #1
There’s just enough snow and temperatures low
To rouse us from our snoozing
And hide the MacGuffin, no we ain’t bluffin,
In a park of our very own choosing.
The Vikings are done, the Twins yet begun
What excuse do you have to dawdle?
Gather your kin, prepare for the win
And be sure to bring a hot bottle
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