Discuss the 2010 Medallion Hunt Here
13th Annual Rehash Bash and Other End of the Winter Carnival Festivities
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Newell Park Pavilion
900 N. Fairview Ave.
Saint Paul, MN 55104
11:30am-2:30pm
The 13th Annual Rehash Bash will be held on Sunday, January 31, 2010, at Newell Park, from 11:30am to 2:30pm. As always, its a potluck, and since we\'ve got the building, there will be plenty of power indoors for crock pots. Donations will be accepted to cover the $136 cost for renting the facility. MrMnMikey has some door prizes available. Since this isn\'t Super Bowl Sunday this year, if people want to stick around past the 2:30 closing time, we can start a fire in one of the fire rings.
In addition, many of us long-time Coolerheads are loyal servants of Vulcanus Rex. Join us for the Vulcan Victory Torchlight Parade, followed by the Vulcan Victory Dance. Information on the Parade Route is from the 2006 Vulcan Krewe. The best places for viewing the parade are going to be at the end of the parade route, as His Majesty, Vulcanus Rex LXXIII, the true King of the Winter Carnival, overthrows that other guy on the steps of the St. Paul Central Library, across from Rice Park
Conference Call Info for Clue 11:
There was no conference call scheduled for clue 10.
- Phone Number: 1-517-417-5000
- Pass code: 859597 (clue 12 may be different
- Everyone will be muted initially
- Lines open at 11pm
- lilslim will read the clue twice from start to finish
- After the clue has been read, she will unmute the call
- 60 ports are available for the teleconference
Line Placeholder Schedule
1/26/2010-
5-6 Redbear
6-7 Jake
7-8 Jerilyn
8-9 Kathy
9-10 Mikey
10-Clue Steph
1/27/2010-
12-1 Redbear
1-2 Andrea
2-3 Nimrod
3-4 jengerm
4-5 Barefootguy
5-6 Wicked Nick
6-7 Chris Digger
7-8 Art V
8-9 CM & Me2
9-Clue Sara
When January’s slanting snow,
Makes us dream of Mexico
St. Paul emerges from Wintery sleep
To search for treasure buried deep
Notice to every hunting battalion,
We have hidden the Pioneer Press Medallion
Where? You ask in husky shout,
That’s for us to know, and you to find out
Turn off the tube, leave your hovel
Grab your walking stick and shovel,
Whether you be giant or runt,
The only way is to join the hunt
For to the hunter belongs the spoil,
Hunt by day, or Midnight oil,
Hunt in boot and sturdy glove,
Hunt with pal, or old true love
For you who hunt each and every year,
We raise a lusty St. Paul cheer
“Good Luck”
And now, let us be blunt,
Get off thy duff, and hunt, hunt, hunt
Deed is Done http://tinyurl.com/CwMessage
Clue 1 http://tinyurl.com/Clue1Video
Clue 2 http://tinyurl.com/clue2videonew
Clue 3 http://tinyurl.com/clue3video
Clue 4 http://tinyurl.com/clue4video
Clue 5 http://tinyurl.com/clue5videonew
Clue 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F14Z7enoJmo
Clue 7 http://www.twincities.com/sharedvideo/?bcpid=58071989001&bctid=62974493001
All hail, O Fire King, of thee we sing
Thy blast of winter heat scorches
When ice was like concrete it would\'ve been so sweet
If the Vulcans plowed with their torches
Emerge from the den as we once again
Offer a bodacious bounty
And this tip to the frozen: bring thick lederhosen
To public land in Ramsey County
Clue #1 Video
Hear ye all crews, now come the clues
For this task I am the Czar
With each rhyming gift, this shape I will shift
Listen well to each avatar
Kissed by a Vulcan, she left him sulkin\'
\"Sir Soot, I\'ll not forgive these sins!\"
Her airs Elizabethan, her language, bleepin\' heathen,
Our mother once blessed us with twins.
Look high, look low, wherever you go
Follow a picturesque route
There are ways to travel away from the gravel
That keep you in hot pursuit
Code by Morse should set your course
To long dashes that dot the landscape.
You or your avatar should park your car
On your way to this great escape.
Take a westerly tack up from the stack,
A landmark most uncouth.
Figures grand in scale point to a trail
Of footprints left by our sleuth.
You\'ll want to go shopping where things are hopping
And storeowners once dropped anchor
Go down the main drag, but be sure not to lag,
You\'ll have plenty for which to thank her
Escape your troubles where the water bubbles
Or gurgles like a stream.
You may be chargin\' right up to the margin.
Look for a productive seam.
Down on the delta where there\'s no ice to melta
The purple horde raids a golden legion
Today before kick off the prize you\'ll pick off
If you search in just the right region
To find the seed, energy you need
In search for your clues to glean
What once was planted is taken for granted
Stored in one of fifteen
Not far from stones and ancient bones
Lay clues that are fit for Jim
Lure the egrets to yield all secrets
And you should satisfy him
Get your kicks by hitting the bricks
Admiring the trees and view
Be ever glad hopping pad to pad
Like amphibians in\'52
Stonehenge tumbled down near a crumbled town
Not far from the lights of the city
If you would hike away from the pike
You might stumble on something pretty
Upstream from the landing lay a place in good standing
Where people prayed, God willin\'
Now midst the cocklebur and rusted spur
Is nothing by murder and killin\'
This park is a sliver, from ancient beds to a river
In neither is the prize to be found
Look for the goods among timber and woods
Do not dig in the fossil ground
Go for a lark in Lilydale Park
Between Water Street and the river
The city boundary sign and the old rail line
Define the zone that will deliver
You\'re outside the pale if you\'re close to the rail
It\'s not to be found near the tracks
Be nice and cooperative, respect private property
On public land launch your attacks
Within this area lies medallion hysteria
A tangle near the river - not too close!
About four dozen paces from the waterline to places
Where you should tromp, dig and freeze your nose
I am so sick of that stupid park.
Joe.
enlighten me others thoughts on each clue?
//ya, I got nothin'
Otay. We now know ittiz coNO. Why venture forth until Clue 10, 11, 12? That's no hunt. Ittiz a foot race.
There's hunting and there's hunting. I'm just an old fashioned kind'a gal that lives for the differences, the new year, the new park, the new ideas. Repitition in the same park is boring and I loose my 'foe' that I'm trying to noodle against. There's no compitition.
Thanks for listening and understanding... Or trying to.
James Goodhue began campaigning for telegraph as early as 1849
http://books.google.com/books?id=lVGGlRF5v3wC&lpg=PR21&dq=%22James%20Goodhue%22&lr=&pg=PR21#v=onepage&q=%22James%20Goodhue%22&f=false
I thought I did well with what I posted. It could have been worse. LOL!
There are a lot more hunters than there were in the earlier days of the hunt when the clues were more specific, but with few people hunting the hunt could still last a while. Now with more people using the internet and more interest in the hunt they are kind of forced to make it more difficult and not just put it next to Gates Ajar.
I do agree that clues in the past few years might lead us to think they better describe a different park than it is eventually found in. But that's our own fault sometimes for digging too deep and finding obscure references to a clue or clues. Until the last few clues, every clue could pretty much be matched up to every park and public place in Ramsey County.
That's too much.
Mounds was once and out of the blue. Good job for Joe.
I hate coNO and miss the Chair-O-Keys and Coways.
In the Great Escape they dug 3 tunnels... there are technically 3 tunnels at Swede Hollow. One is north end for foot traffic and 2 railroad tunnels at the south end.
ETA: Sorry green. I was counting parks and missed your last post
Gravel..."According to a conversation with the St. Paul Parks, the hills in this park are actually fill left from the construction of the train yards just to the North." (qoute from a geocaching page)
Newell..had 2 medallions
picturesque route ==fairview and Peirce Butler ROUTE
dases = croscountry ski trail was seen there last weekend
torches/fuel rymes with newell... just saying...devils den fire...fire O ring
I apologise fur nuttin'. I'm just going to put my soap box away as I'm in the minority regarding feelings towards coNO. I've had my say and there is no need to belabor my opinion...
Well, at least not for a couple o'hundred clues... LOL!!!!!
We have to remember not to get too hung up on word order, punctuation, grammar etc in the clues because more often than not- they rarely mean anything and alot of words or order thereof is there to complete the rhyme.
So IMO today clue is telling you one of two things- either they want you to use morse code - if they are giving you one letter it would be G (dashdashdot) If they are giving you two it would be M (dashdash) and E (dot). Or they are using word placement to give us COde of MOrse-como.
I don't think there is anything visual here to look for, why would they bring up the morse code then? I could be wrong here - it's just a hunch.
N.O.W. is on Rice and W Charles - nearest to Valley playground on Jackson street. I wouldn't even bring this park - up it seems such a stretch, but:
-- Valley playground is bordered by E Mt Airy Street & Queen Elizabeth II is the Ovate of the Welsh Gorsedd of Bards tying her to Wales Street nearby (Her airs Elizabethan)
-- Near Como Avenue (Como clues can tie in here)
-- I94/I35E cluster (hot pursuit/get away from gravel)
-- Near regions Hospital (a blessed us with twins stretch)
-- Near Capitol Heights & with "Valley"in the name of the park (look high/low)
I am sure this is stretching, but I have to throw it all out there...
Just tossing out ideas for places that aren't CoNo
http://www.citypages.com/2009-02-18/news/meet-the-vulcans-the-twin-cites-most-controversial-partiers/2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom
So still brewing that Ethiopian coffee? :goofy:
(Hot Pursuit/Away from Gravel) - Tons of Railroad tracks... Nearby is Minneapolis/St Paul Amtrack Office
(picturesque route) - Fairview Avenue/Pierce Butler Route border the park
As someone (I forgot already) has said above, Pierce Butler was a lawyer - soot/law-suit
All I have for this one...
Map symbols:
____ __ ____ = County borders
____ . ____ = Park, Reservation, or Monument.