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2008 St. Paul Winter Carnival Medallion

Submitted by KITCH on

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Clue #1 You've joined the hunt for the regal runt 
To prove searching does pay 
Don't dig a hole or knock down a pole 
And the golf course is out of play 

Last year Jake took home the cake 
With a clue a bit off level 
This year we'll rinse off all our prints 
Lest this hunt go to the devil 

Clue #2 The point of all this is so that you won't miss 
Your big chance to grab all the cash 
Now gather your guys and a gal who is wise 
You'll have to do something quite rash 

Clue #3 We've scanned the county to hide our bounty 
And keep you on your toes 
It may sound risible, but our puck's invisible 
Although it might just stick to your nose. 

Clue #4 How fun is the snow how far will we go 
You really ought to go see 
Get up for the mission and not just the wishin' 
Get into the game-it's all free 

Clue #5 There once was a clue that drove you-know-who 
To threaten a heinous act 
We'd use it again but we're afraid of his pen 
My friend, that's an unfortunate fact 

Clue #6 All ye who look should honor the book 
As one who stood for hope 
Much was built in the name of the kilt 
Look sharp now and never mope 

Clue #7 If you should go look high then low 
One could see it from a bower 
If it's your bent you might seek a tent 
To protect in case of shower 

Take note of the wood and do what you should 
To extract the prize for yourself 
Build a bridge to your dreams as high as they seem 
Leave nothing behind on the shelf 

Clue #8 Look at the buck to acquire good luck 
In finding the grail this year 
Link a jar,a line, a star lawyer divine 
While crying in your beer 

He won, then lost and the nation was tossed 
Into strife that was far from civil 
The point I'm making is yours for the taking 
Believe me - not the message board drivel 

Clue #9 This name brings tears, elation and cheers 
And occasionally even outrages 
It sits on walls and rides the halls 
And fills a dozen pages 

The hills are alive and you'll have arrived 
Refrain from the very injurious 
Be bold and be brave but your skin you must save 
What's off-limits should frankly be obvious 

Clue #10 Look for the sight you hope is just right 
You're doubtful and you're torn 
Make the rounds for what rhymes with grounds 
And part of a rose with a horn 

Through flames and flow this park where you'll go 
Is the site of sacred relics 
Stay away from these and the cliffs if you please 
Or you'll be in a heckuva fix 

Clue #11 Air and river sounds lead all to Mounds 
Far from the graves take your entourage 
Twixt Burns and Thorn, an icy pathway is born 
Across Mounds from a gray house and tan garage 

Hell no fury hath as those on the wrong path 
Mounds and Warner form a woodsy perimeter 
The path not official contains footprints beneficial 
Some 300 trudges in - quest for a quitter 

This trail you must follow goes down a narrow hollow 
Under a fallen tree to an old rusted drum 
From here you must search for a hillside path perch 
Wherein lies the center of fun

 

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green

Or it could mean the Little Pig's Eye sign I saw. There's your runt, too.
Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:02 PM Permalink
Randahl

yes

will have a beer with your name on it :wink:
Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:03 PM Permalink
green

Well, Eags! There is more than one eye around there!
Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:03 PM Permalink
Terry

Eags - you have an egram. I had to call myself to get the number to come up on our caller ID.

Now for dinner.

BBIAB
Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:06 PM Permalink
diggin4it

  • Chime*

    I will be calling in - count the diggin's as one.

    Thank you Leela
  • Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:13 PM Permalink
    leelabell

    I'm off the boards now. If people decide not to go to the park, please call me. A number of people here have my phone number.

    This is another chance for a CC member to get it. The people there tonight will be down given the cold. The conference call should give us a leg up.

    YAY!
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:14 PM Permalink
    Brassmonkey

    I plan to be in the park tonight, so count me in on the conference call.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:17 PM Permalink
    green

    in a pig's eye (American, informal)

    something that you say which means you think there is no chance that something is true or that something will happen. Me, in love with Sandra? In a pig's eye I am.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:23 PM Permalink
    King Boreas aka Ian

    Who's Sandra?

    :goofy:
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:29 PM Permalink
    Terry

    Down to -9. That's real temperature. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:32 PM Permalink
    Terry

    Chicken tacos tonight for dinner - homemade and just perfect.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:33 PM Permalink
    King Boreas aka Ian

    Who's Here?

    Ian

    Diggin'4_it

    Terry

    Marleyking

    ICEMAN

    KITCH

    wolfpac

    Mr. Med Hunter

    Allison Wonderland

    Brassmonkey
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:35 PM Permalink
    Brassmonkey

    im here
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:37 PM Permalink
    Terry

    Ian is invisible! Too flippin' clever!!
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:37 PM Permalink
    Terry

    And it's certainly risible!
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:39 PM Permalink
    CerealKiller

    I will be out in the park tonight!! with my brother! who is takeing what half of the park?? if we are going to do this like we did last year! we all need to get close or all split up!! and get in the spots to do the dash!!
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:39 PM Permalink
    CerealKiller

    and I would like to be next to someone with a cell thats going to be in on the call I don't have a cell this year so I am out of that loop!!
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:40 PM Permalink
    Terry

    How's the new job going Ice?
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:41 PM Permalink
    Allison Wonderland

    I certainly understand how you feel so I'll tell you a secret. I never bought a winter carnival button. I don't even have all the clues. The truth is even though I spent a fair amount of time out there looking, I never really expect to find it. It would be great if I did, but what are the odds really? The treasure I do find every year is in all the fun we have during the hunt. I certainly enjoyed hanging out with you and Kitch and Ian and the others in Kellogg and being at the bar and staying up late and everything else. That kind of reward is a virtual guarantee year in and year out (unless the hunt ends too soon). Am I frustrated about being in the multiple wrong parks? Of course. Am I going to complain about the clues when the explanations come out? Oh you bet I will. But I would never choose to skip the whole thing or even consider myself a loser for the year. I definitely come out ahead every year whether I find it or not.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:42 PM Permalink
    tom

    I just got back from IM. Police are patrolling the park as in St Paul police. If a shoot off a bottle rocket, be sure he's at the other end of the park- even with his lights it will be a lil drive up.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:43 PM Permalink
    Terry

    Well put, Allison.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:44 PM Permalink
    KITCH

    beggin' for an AW hunt :smile:

    around like april
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:44 PM Permalink
    KITCH

    don't want to see any snow...so april would be nice
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:45 PM Permalink
    Terry

    April would be super!
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:45 PM Permalink
    Terry

    Just think.

    11 years ago, people were unsure and shy about meeting others online in a public park.

    Now the numbers of people who know each other and hunt together is mind boggling.

    The internet has changed so many things - and it's changed this hunt. I'm not sure that the hunts that belonged to the early clue writers would stand a chance of going very long with all the new technology.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:48 PM Permalink
    CerealKiller

    well I wasn't on the training roster at the begin of the week so I have took today off and going back eather tomorrow! or the next day I dont have to be in training tell next week I was going to go in today but figerd I wanted to hunt SO BAD!!! that I couldn't!!
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:49 PM Permalink
    tom

    I have a feeling that the final clue is going to require daylight.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:49 PM Permalink
    CerealKiller

    well I all I know is after tonights find I got the blood GOING WAY TO FAST!!!

    I am cruzeing throw the woods with my bro and niece when I look over at a tree that is really funky and there is a pole that Lines up with it! and I go look at the base of the tree and there are 2 brand NEW plates there with a bunch of flowers and candles in some paper cones that are like little teepee's and I yelled to my brother to get his azz over there and start diggin like he has never before just then my niece Says the words I knew I was going to hear!! I'M COLD!! I NEED TO GO!!!

    then she starts CRYING!! HER FEET are froze she says so she wouldn't have to walk but she did and we had to leave!! but I know right were it was!! and the plates had been there for a good 2 weeks or so!! the way they where set up was crazy also!! but I got them and if it says any thing about it I am back there clearing all that hill!!
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:58 PM Permalink
    green

    Shirley I don't know.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 5:58 PM Permalink
    green

    I'm still looking for "Chicken and Rice is veddy veddy nice."
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:00 PM Permalink
    KITCH

    -9

    -40 feels like
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:03 PM Permalink
    New Daddy

    hi diggorius rex. I was out there all day hoping to run into you. hope we can hook up for the mad dash again. or find it befor then
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:04 PM Permalink
    mrmnmikey

    I'll be out in the park at clue time
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:05 PM Permalink
    mrmnmikey

    I thinks its an overlook=Sight
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:06 PM Permalink
    Brassmonkey

    I agree mmm My mom and I were going through the parks when that clue came out trying to fit "wont miss" = overlook. There are actually a few parks that have overlook roads in them. Of course mounds has an physical overlook, that i missed earlier.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:13 PM Permalink
    green

    Much has come and gone since the early days. One, I'm 10 years older. The year they moved it from Phalen to Newell? I was outside, alone in the wee hours o'the AM digging out poetry books to beat the band. Was lovin' it. Hours and hours and hours. Not now.

    One time some people were in an outrage I didn't dig and I got lectured for not doing so. But you know? This is my hunt, too. I have to do it in the way *I* enjoy. Like Allison, I doubt I'll ever find it, but I do what I like and have a great Hunt every year.

    I don't feel I waste my vacation as I sit here day after day after day noodling. Ittiz what I like to do. If/when the spirit moves me, I go out. There is no way I could work during these two weeks even given I don't go out like I used to. My mind is too full of the Clues, where others are, what they're doing, what they're thinking, what they've found... This is my time of year to be here with friends of like mind. And how, when I hunt or if I hunt is beside the point.

    I live my Hunt, my way, and enjoy every second of it. And that's all any one can do.

    Hopefully it won't be quite as cold tomorrow... I was out for a long time yesterday and I've a couple o'ideas where I think the Med could have been plopped. Would like to check them out. But if I don't, that's okay. I've still got the ideas.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:13 PM Permalink
    mrmnmikey

    I just got back too. I wanted to dig till the clue came out, but that snow is just too hard!

    Theres at least 2 different Park security trucks and multiple police cars all over the park.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:14 PM Permalink
    green

    I wonder... You think Ian still works from Mom Press? LOL!!!
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:14 PM Permalink
    excavating stud

    I still don't know anyone after all these years and I'm ashamed. :frown:
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:14 PM Permalink
    Allison Wonderland

    Well I'm caught up now on the posts since last night anyway. I'm staying at home tonight and going to try and get caught up on some stuff. There's no way I could last out there long enough to find anything at all in the dark. I doubt this clue is going to be terribly helpful as they've mostly been so vague as to be taken multiple ways. It would be nice if they could at least clarify whether or not you truly had to dig for it.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:15 PM Permalink
    Wicked Nick

    I think we'll dial into the conference call, from the park too...

    Is there a spot, that people are meeting at?
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:15 PM Permalink
    Allison Wonderland

    One night at the bar people were asking about you. They wanted to know if I could point you out and I said I wasn't sure if I had ever met you. Maybe it's time to change that. I don't know too many who have claimed to regret it.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:18 PM Permalink
    CerealKiller

    Who is starting the Bonfire?? tonight?? I think for good old times we should get one going that way the people out there in the park have a way to warm up!! and it also looks really good that the cooler crew dose stuff like that!!
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:19 PM Permalink
    KITCH

    AW do you even have an winter hat that can handle this temp?
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:20 PM Permalink
    Brassmonkey

    Good call.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:20 PM Permalink
    Allison Wonderland

    Actually I do. I didn't need it the last few days, but it is like a fur lined baseball cap with earmuffs. If I was really motivated, I could layer up enough to be outside for a bit, but when you have to be hit over the head with the right park, there's not a lot of motivation.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:21 PM Permalink
    green

    I got the overlook a couple o'clues back with looking high then low - the one at Upper Afton in BC. Nice view of what I believe we need to see - and see "it" - and what you need to stay away from. I was watching folks over in the Mounds section.

    They all went up as far as the brige that crosses Warner and then truned back. Almost had a heart attack with one group as they started over... But they then turned around and went back. WHEW!
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:22 PM Permalink
    KITCH

    I think that was me...

    I know I had asked about evildoer and somebody like K3C3
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:22 PM Permalink
    excavating stud

    If this goes the distance, I'll be at Ma press tomorrow and be sure to make my presence known.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:22 PM Permalink
    mrmnmikey

    I think everyones just going where ever they want.

    I got a feeling were gonna get an Urban/cherry/plumb clue and everyone will run to the other end of the park.
    Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:23 PM Permalink