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2000 Pioneer Press Medallion Hunt

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Discuss the 2000 Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt Here

Kiwi

yeah

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:45 AM Permalink
Kiwi

I think they have one of these smart 12 year olds that go to college write these things

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:45 AM Permalink
Regalman

snow, back from where?

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:45 AM Permalink
Kiwi

What was clue 5 I don't remember at this point.

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:46 AM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

I think the opposite of foul and cloudy is Fair. A reference to Fairview or the State Fair. Both in close proximity to Newell.

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:47 AM Permalink
Kiwi

clue 5 was one of those makes no sense at all lets laugh at these idiots that are staying up all night trying to figure this out crap

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:47 AM Permalink
Kiwi

where it says lesson and apply maybe they are referring to a school or library?

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:49 AM Permalink
hide-n-seek

LOL Kiwi....u r on th e right track!

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:49 AM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

Or a college or University? (hehe)

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:49 AM Permalink
Birdie15

Hamline?

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:50 AM Permalink
Snow Lifter

Alison....my opinion:

Foul=Fair but cloudy is not = view. You can have a "fair" view even on a cloudy day.

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:50 AM Permalink
hide-n-seek

hmmmm....

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:51 AM Permalink
Kiwi

I guess we have to have some sort of sense of humor to keep doing this every night and day. We are using our mind way to much to not laugh about it. It's something I don't use every day anyways.lol

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:51 AM Permalink
Kiwi

One part I don't understand is the Hunter and Attack theory they are using

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:53 AM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

The opposite of cloudy is also fair. Fair is the word, from which we derive Fairview.

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:53 AM Permalink
Regalman

Birdie hamline is just down the road from newell

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:55 AM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

I just hit that point where I have realized I'm still awake and I relly shouldn't be, so off to bed. Can go to 24 hour mode starting tomorrow.

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:57 AM Permalink
Birdie15

Could foul be the Ramsey County Compost site on Pierce Butler?

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 2:58 AM Permalink
Schlettdog

I need to start diggin' before I go back to school, and these clues aren't allowing me to do that. This crazy Minnesotan skipped a trip to Texas for this hunt. Be this known...When the identity of the park is finally made clear, I'll be shovelin' with the pace of an ace. I have also considered alternative solutions to movin' the snow. Plowing it, wow-ing it, sifting it, de-drifting it, churning it, burning it, boiling it, or outright foiling it are all fine options.

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:01 AM Permalink
Kiwi

lol your good

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:02 AM Permalink
Kiwi

What school do you go to dog?

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:02 AM Permalink
Schlettdog

Saint John's

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:03 AM Permalink
Regalman

Well off to bed dreaming obout colleges or a certain song. Which one is better??

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:04 AM Permalink
Kiwi

how about me?

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:04 AM Permalink
Kiwi

lol

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:05 AM Permalink
Kiwi

DOG what do you think so far?

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:06 AM Permalink
hide-n-seek

kiwi..go figure..just you & me???

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:07 AM Permalink
Jeff Spry

Listen you guys #3 tells us it is northern part of stpaul and when your in the correct park youll see the tower or two. #4 shelter and cooking #5 sunny and fair and whatever the med is in #6 means nothing Tell me what is the park that is in the far north of stpaul. I'm been lurking from day one

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:07 AM Permalink
Birdie15

Me too, sorry to interrupt

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:07 AM Permalink
Kiwi

Yeah tell me about it

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:07 AM Permalink
Kiwi

That's okay no one else is talking

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:08 AM Permalink
Kiwi

I think there is something spelled out in these clues somewhere that says what we need maybe that's what they mean by a well trained eye

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:09 AM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

Phalen would be the farthest north.

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:09 AM Permalink
Birdie15

I agree, I believe that maybe a person with a well-trained eye will see that something is spelled or an anagram is present somewhere

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:09 AM Permalink
hide-n-seek

no..not really..any thoughts on the park? brr it's damn cold outside

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:10 AM Permalink
Kiwi

I am reading through these clues and I find that it says in clue #3 that a tower or two should come into view well it doesn't say it is or will come into view it just says should.

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:11 AM Permalink
Kiwi

I spose depending on where you are you might see one or two but, no guarentees on that.

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:12 AM Permalink
Schlettdog

Here's the kicker...Shortly before this hunt started, the medallion hunt at our school had just ended. They really screwed me on that one. I though for sure it was in the woods by the cross-country ski path and water tower. But alas, it was at the base of the warrior statue right in the middle of campus. They had me diggin' a 40x40 foot trench in the middle of the woods for lack of good clue writing. Perhaps this is why I now have a bias against "tracks" and Highland's water "towers" and an affinity for the anagram statue and the word hunt. Perhaps this is why I'm getting burnt out...back-to-back foul smelling hunts with cloudy minded clue-writers.

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:13 AM Permalink
Kiwi

what type of towers are we exactly looking for anyways? water- doubt it Radio tower? a building that towers, a tree a building with the name tower. It doesn't really give us much to go on there in my opinion

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:13 AM Permalink
Kiwi

or we just stink at figuring these things out to

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:14 AM Permalink
Schlettdog

True that.

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:16 AM Permalink
Kiwi

They aren't being direct in any of these clues as to what park or which parks it could be in. I think that it must be a fairly small one other wise they would of said something by now

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:19 AM Permalink
hide-n-seek

WHEN U R AT NEWELL..WHICH IS JUST ON 'FAIRVEIW' OFF PEIRCE BUTLER THERE ARE TWO TOWERS...BUT TO THE WEST.. AND A RAILROAD SWITCH YARD TO THE NORTH..THE FAIR GROUNDS ARE TO THE NORTH I STILL FEEL ITS NEWELL AT HIS POINT BUT TO COLD TO GO OUT)

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:19 AM Permalink
Schlettdog

Yes, I'm with you on that one.

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:20 AM Permalink
Kiwi

something for us to figure a bigger park anyways. A smaller park makes it easier to find but, harder clues that maybe add to every other park but, if you look at things differently then you can figure how it all fits in with the smaller ones too? Just a thought

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:20 AM Permalink
Kiwi

who's all still here and pondering this medallion deal?

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:21 AM Permalink
Birdie15

Me!

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:22 AM Permalink
Jeff Spry

#6 is alluding to a track and something else don't know what. A friend of mine used to work in the CIA and is up here from Florida for a couple weeks, he used to dig when he lived in stpaul 20 years ago, this guy is a general into didactics. He'll tune in soon.

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:22 AM Permalink
Kiwi

I feel like I am talking to myself

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:22 AM Permalink
Schlettdog

I've been exploring that option. What if it's in a small park which is located very close to a larger, well-known park? That would explain their refusal to release the identity of the park, but the clues could still match the larger park to a large degree.

Fri, 01/28/2000 - 3:23 AM Permalink