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1998 Pioneer Press Medallion Hunt

Submitted by Casey Trauer on

Hunt for the Pioneer Press medallion!

The Pioneer Press medallion has been found. Details are at our Winter Carnival page.

The hunt's over, but the discussion rages on ...

SueBee

Wright Winger, I think the -acks are just for rhyming. They needed to refer to a smoke stack and the rest just rhyme. Although track may mean RR tracks. I guess I have to say I'm on the Mounds bandwagon. I was there last night and everything seems to fit.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 4:46 PM Permalink
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hey mary tell ron i can also talk to you this way . i have no clue as to where the medalion is though!not much help i'm afraid...

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 4:47 PM Permalink
SueBee

Yeah, right, Guy. You found it sitting at your computer. Get real.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 4:47 PM Permalink
guy

Is the madallion plastic?

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 4:50 PM Permalink
guy

SueBee, what color is the medallion?

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 4:51 PM Permalink
JENNY HOULE

I THINK ITS ALL A TWIST AND THERE IS NO REAL CLUE TO LINK TOWARDS ANY

SPECIFIC PARK. SHOOT ALL THE CLUES COULD JUST AS WELL BE IN MY BACK

YARD. NEED ANOTHER CLUE!! 7HOURS 27 MIN, ILL BE WAITING

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:01 PM Permalink
SueBee

Guy, the medallion is about 2" in diameter, round and blue translucent plastic. (like a small hockey puck?) It has imprints with Winter Carnival stuff on it. I've never seen it, but I've heard about it. It used to be metal apparently, but people were then just going out with metal detectors.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:02 PM Permalink
JENNY HOULE

DO YOU THINK IT WOULD BE IN THE ALTOIDS CAN ITS METAL AND DETECTABLE?

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:03 PM Permalink
SueBee

I'll be waiting too, Jenny. I agree. The clue fit a couple of parks. Mounds and Cherokee are the strongest links so far, I believe. Funny, I saw a lot of posts saying there isn't a sliding hill at Mounds. I saw people sliding last night from the beacon down Mounds Blvd. You could see the First Bank 1, the Capitol dome, the beacon "to guide you" etc. I figure it's out there somewhere!!

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:05 PM Permalink
SueBee

Good point, Jenny! I bet they wouldn't put it in an Altoids can for that very reason. Good deduction! Alas, people aren't expecting to have to find metal....

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:06 PM Permalink
JENNY HOULE

SUE BEE in the treasure map from 96 says ok sliding hill west of tower, i was there last night also and there were indeed sled tracks.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:07 PM Permalink
JENNY HOULE

I bet its in the pasta box, I believe that a card board box would

not be destroyed by snow it would take longer than 12 days wouldnt ya

say

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:12 PM Permalink
JENNY HOULE

hello where did everyone go???????????????????????????????????????????

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:21 PM Permalink
Bubba

Mounds Park is dead, just got back...altoids i out becasue of the metal box. Not sold on Mounds but going there again anyway, city streets, streets named after cities maybe...montreal, duluth, atlantic...none by Mounds but just a thought!

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:25 PM Permalink
huntandfind

If y'all are going with the rose theme for the container why not a 'Guns 'n' Roses' cd case?

At this rate it could be in anything!!

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:25 PM Permalink
Bubba

Mounds Park is dead, just got back...altoids i out becasue of the metal box. Not sold on Mounds but going there again anyway, city streets, streets named after cities maybe...montreal, duluth, atlantic...none by Mounds but just a thought!

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:28 PM Permalink
Axel

I hate to confuse the issue but it still could be at Highland. I thought the smoke stack clue eliminated highland until I drove thru there about an hour ago on Montreal and could see the NSP smoke stack very clearly and right there was also a track and field track and kids slidding by the two water tower domes next to the indoor ice rink which is a nice place to play in the winter.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:28 PM Permalink
Bubba

Does anyone have any ideas about the stack other than smoke stacks, it doesn't say smoke, seems to easy

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:29 PM Permalink
JENNY HOULE

BUBBA good point it just maybe to throw all of us off.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:33 PM Permalink
Axel

actually it says look for a plume of smoke in the ski so it is a smoke stack

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:37 PM Permalink
JENNY HOULE

plume also means reward or prize , maybe its off of the ground if you see the smoke it would be at eye level in trees maybe

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:39 PM Permalink
guy

It's at highland I know it.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:40 PM Permalink
guy

It must be at eye level.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:43 PM Permalink
JENNY HOULE

Its a needle in a hay stack still no real clue towards which park, Its

part of there game it would be found if the clues were linked to one specific park. any ones med yet.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:45 PM Permalink
Marleyking

mound was dug up pretty good,not a lot of parking for people?

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:45 PM Permalink
Marleyking

smoke stack,nice view

tracks are there

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:48 PM Permalink
JENNY HOULE

all the usuall spots where did you see one particular spot around any

tree, sign, or anything of that matter, dug out and around at least

11 feet, how often was it found within a foot of anything? still maybe

eye level!

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:50 PM Permalink
Axel

kyle- why don't you think it could be highland?

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:51 PM Permalink
Wes Evans

it seems to me that, the harded the clues for which park, the smaller the park. Last year it was very easy to see it was in Como, since it was such a big park....

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:51 PM Permalink
zipp

You all have nice points but with the clues we've got it is just to hard to pinpoint. It could be Indian Mounds, Highland, Sylvan, Hazal, Phalen, Cherokee, they all fit the clues. I say that clue #7 better say loud and clear what park this thing is in or it will have more people than just me mad!

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:53 PM Permalink
JENNY HOULE

in 96 the second or last clue says grab your shovel and dig. where was it under a picnic table, taped to bottom. if my calculations are right

you didnt need a shovel.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:54 PM Permalink
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There have been a lot of comments about the word Rosebud. Just something to think about but the burial mounds in Mound are believed to belong to the Sioux and there is a Rosebud Sioux tribe. Makes it sound like Mound Park doesn't it.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:55 PM Permalink
JENNY HOULE

WHAT ABOUT IRVINE PARK, VIEW OF CIVIC CENTER(DOME) CATHEDRAL(DOME),

RIVER AND RAIL ROAD TRACKS JUST BLOCKS AWAY. AND VIEW OF THE STACK. JUST ANOTHER PARK NOT TO EXCLUDE!

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 5:58 PM Permalink
zipp

Good point with the views Jenny, but there is little or no place for kids to play, which was mentioned in 1/3 of our existing clues. It also lacks city streets, as do some of mine.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 6:04 PM Permalink
JENNY HOULE

ZIPP good point the rest of it sound so darn good, i over looked that.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 6:06 PM Permalink
Q-BALL

I THNK I KNOW WHERE IT S ,AND YOU DON'T. HA HA HA HA HA HA

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 6:09 PM Permalink
zipp

Don't forget, the Capitol is a dome too. That can be seen in even more parks!

And what do you think about "Rosebud"? Some say it talks about a sled in the last line of an old movie(pointing to a park with a sliding hill). Others say that it is referring to a Indian Reservation in S. Dakota(meaning INDIAN Mounds Park). Still more say it is referring to Andy Van Dyke's middle name(pointing to a park on Van Dyke Street). This "rosebud" thing is what is holding me back.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 6:12 PM Permalink
Beavis

I dont think its at mounds, its too dug up...

was at harriet island just for the fun of it and some on wrapped

checker pieces in a bunch of different objects and scattered them through the

park.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 6:12 PM Permalink
zipp

Q-ball, you don't KNOW where it is, you just think you do. You might spend all your time at the Wrong park. Then again you might find it before we know what park it is at.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 6:14 PM Permalink
zipp

Glad I don't think it is at Harriet, good one!

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 6:15 PM Permalink
zipp

Sorry Q-ball, you didn't say you knew where it was, you thnk you do, HA!

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 6:17 PM Permalink
AllieGo

I'm thinking that possibly "you'll have to crack our code"..that it's possibly in a cracker jack box or a cracker box, etc...Doesn't matter, though. I'd check it all no matter how big or small.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 6:19 PM Permalink
Iwantthattreasure

hi there does anyone know if it has ever been hidden at a rec? Also I was wondering if mounds park is out? For a last thought does any one think that the stack clue is telling you it's not near a stack? It does say DON'T blow your stack. Just wanted ideas

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 6:21 PM Permalink
zipp

I don't even want to know what it is in 'til I know where it is!

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 6:21 PM Permalink
Wanderer

I still think it's at Cherokee. Who agrees?

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 6:22 PM Permalink
zipp

Can't say for sure, Wanderer, it's possible.

Fri, 01/30/1998 - 6:26 PM Permalink