2007 St. Paul Winter Carnival Medallion -ACT I

I'm drunk for the second time in a week, for the first time, in a long-ass time....

so this stuff seems absolutely awesome to me.

It would probably be even cooler if I knew what was going on.

sorry. :chagrin:

White Bear on the Button...Hummm a white bear lake park, white bear township, white bear ave, ...

time to noodle white bear ... hope we get snow soon.

wow.. the noodles have started early. White Christmas? Como here we come?

I've got a tradition of looking on the first day in Como. It's gotta be there one of these years afterall.

Como until day seven....then Long Lake Park!

I have a tradition of not looking in Cono until the clues spell it out. :eyeroll:

I guess I enjoy burning myself over and over again. :chagrin:

heh, way I see it, it's like always using the same numbers on the lottery. Since ya never really know what park it's in on the first couple clues, just stick with one park until it shows up there. At least that way I can say I was in the right park on the first day.

There's always some slight hope they'll have a hunt outside of St. Paul. Then the ball will be in my court :sillygrin:

well, since i'm coming, and can't drive well in snow- there will be lots of it. lots and lots and lots and lots of it. Up to your armpits in the stuff. That is my prediction.

or, cause I packed appropriately, it will be 85.

and I want to go look in the frog pond!

If its 85, they might just decide to put the water back into the pond for the winter.... in which case, you might wanna bring a raft with you.

and I want to go look in the frog pond!

that can be arranged

that was the most fun tradition after the bar close on the eve of clue 2. The last 2 years however have just turned into going to any big park and walking around drinking in the woods.

I know we can incorporate both into the nights of clue 2 and 3.

I have no real idea as to why I get a high off of it ...just typing it and thinking of it ....I'm getting warm all over and numbing in my arms.

I like to drink and walk around in parks whenever I have the liquor to do so... :cool:

Perhaps we can do it on clue 5... or so since I don't get in until the early AM of the 25th.

getting drunk in a park... hmmm - That's never happened before... :confused:

I'll have to look to see what gets published.

I have no good stories.

mines a little long

"mines a little long"

whoops...had to double-check the thread topic :sheepish: thought we were going all Crosby suddenly! Yikes....

actually, I was refering to crosby
mrmnmikey, "Favorite Winter Carnival Stories of All Time" #191, 29 Sep 2006 11:04 am

About the only story I can think of was from the 2004 hunt. Being in the right area on the 4th clue in some bitter cold windchills seeing a flannel shirt near the mosh pit which kinda freaked me out. That and finding some scratch offs in a tree on the other side of the lake that seemed to match the clue descriptions...

Then the same hunt on the evening of the final clue, just going out to watch the pandemonium, and ending up staying out until 4 in the morning because noone had found it yet.

folks, just got a note from laura yuen at ma press. she's planning "to write a story demonstrating how technology has dramatically changed the nature of the hunt. Obviously, I thought the Cooler Crew Web site would be a terrific place to start.

"I'm hoping you can put me in touch with folks, including but not liminted to Cooler Crew members, who have made the most of online forums, PDAs, Internet-friendly cell phones, or other devices that have changed the face of medallion hunting. I hope to finish the story by the end of the week, which means I need to start my interviews as soon as possible.

"If you could please call me at 651-228-5498 or email me at lyuen@pioneerpress.com, I'd be forever grateful. I'd like to have an initial conversation with you consider posting a query on the Cooler Crew site."

so, here's the call out to my fellow 'heads to discuss how technology has advanced the art of the hunt. (don't all call at once, she's only one person).

heh, like I'm gonna give away trade secrets so the cluewriters can work their way around me.

I suppose I could be nice and give her some tidbits...

heh.

The last night definatly was a good story. I remeber it all clearly. I remember waiting for payme to call in the clue to OTiS. That was fun!

4am? Why'd ya leave so early? I remember CM yelling out something about midnight.

I remember CM yelling out something about midnight

It was actually 4am and it was the coordinates for the next years location. :wink:

snooze ya lose I guess :smile:

early/late. I'd only gone prepped to take some pictures of the crowd, see the medallion get found (cause I didn't have a cell and someone in line at the paper) and then go home. 4 hours later and I'm kicking snow around with my boots, every 15 minutes or so hearing someone on a cell phone yell out "The Medallion Has NOT been found, keep digging!".

That year at phalen was more of a party, than anything for me....

It was my park, man....

We should have had it, when we left our footprints out there, on clue 2... :coolfrown:

I remember, at one point I met with a number of people on top of the mosh-pit, and somebody asked where Shaggy was... I go "Hold on a second...", and then yelled, at the top of my lungs - "Who's goin chicken huntin?!?!?!?" - we hear from clear accross the 'pit - "We'z goin chicken huntin!!!".....

"He's over there, someplace"...

we found an abandoned wading pool, laying on the hill, by the boat house one night, and took a time-out to use it as a sled....

Never gonna forget, giving intetrviews to every single news channel out there, and finding out the next day that people saw us on every one of them (and yes... we gave shout-outs to the crew, too)...

During channel 4, interviewing us - and I have part of this on tape, someplace....

I'm answering all the questions, and Steve starts hitting me on the arm... I tell him to knock it off a couple of times...

the 3rd or 4th time he hits me, I go "dude, WHAT DO YOU WANT?!?!? We're being interviewed here!!!"....

he turns and points, and goes "What's that guy doing?"....

the guy in question, was bending over, to pick up the medallion....

which he then showed to somebody from Channel 5, trying to ask what it was that he had found....

the guy from channel 5, basically told him to screw off, cause they were busy....

So he went over to Channel 9, which is where the media circus that we all remember, began....

Later on, there were a buncha dudes down on that dirt path, next to the 'pit, that were having a bonfire... they told us, that they'd give us some beer, if we found some more wood to use....

So, we dragged down the log that the medallion was supposedly hidden under/next-to (and I'd like to point out, that the log WAS NOT there, a few hours earlier)....

After crapping their pants, from realization that they were touching a piece of history - I think they gave us all the beer that they had left.

Heh, just got off the phone with that Laura Yuen. She actually asked if I was keeping any secrets. Pleasant lady though, I'd say if anyone else wants to talk about their use of tech on the hunt, send her an email or give her a call (namely Ian, Kitch, Mucluck, Posen, Becksie, all you geocachers in the crew).

Ian, I think she would find those old medallion location caches interesting.

Any word on the Pre Dig Gig this year? I just checked the web and it looks like the Wild have a home game that night which means parking around Patrick McGovern's will be somewhere between insane and non-existent. I suspect we'd lose just as many people to the lack of parking that we'd lose to confusion over a new venue. Just a thought.

Hiya AW!

I assume we'll have it in the same place. None of us have reserved it yet as far as I know. I can if that's the consensus.

might wanna do it soon.

I set it up with Jean tonight and Dianne will confirm tomorrow. 6-close upstairs @ McGoverns on 1/20 Right?

Right!

tytv

You are most welcome CM.

This year would be a good year for us to find the prized medallion. I had some dental work done today for about $1000. Thank goodness insurance pays part of that.

Wish they paid more.

Parking shmarking.... I take the bus.

Thanks for dealing with the bar CM.

Hey, anyone here from Red Ram?

He normaly starts calling me about this time of year.

I guess I was trying to say maybe it would be a good idea to consider going somewhere else since there is a hockey game that night and all the free parking will be taken and the lots will be charging like $10 to park. Either that or talk the Vulcans into running a shuttle bus from somewhere.

"your favorite diggin' stories"

.......CAREFUL!!........ lol :ooh:

well there was the year we ran into her at the fair....

people will pay to park to party with you AW :smile:

I will be there :smile:

The Wild game doesn't start until 8pm. It probably won't be as bad if people get down there early, like at 6pm or before.

go to cherokee, find four medallions, then head over ...

I think I want to wait in line for the 1st clue paper this year. Just for the heck of it, never done so before.

been there. done that. ain't that big a deal :smile:

If I remember right, parking was ridiculous last year without the Wild game so I don't think it matters. Just car pool and understand you might have to part far away. Looking forward to seeing you all there. It is actually on my birthday this year!! If you do attempt to give me a birthday spanking, go for the left cheek, it is my stronger one. The right cheek hasn't been the same since the garden weasel incident of '88.

Any other ideas of changing? McG's called and left a message about confirming.

I guess on second thought I can't really think of anyplace that would work better in the St. Paul area as most places will be pretty busy on a Saturday night anyway. (Hmmm, although there is that private party room at Como Lake, but I don't think too many hunters want to go to Como). Guess we'd better work on that Vulcan firetruck shuttle instead.

I like the basement better, but I'm gonna have to leave early any ways so it don't matter to me.

Thanks for stepping up ClueMaster!