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
Unless they're chicks. :pbpt:
Schiller wrote the play The Robbers.
Wrote the poem Ode To Joy (Basis for Beethoven's 9th).
Med found in 1980 near his statue. But too close to the frog pond.
Kidding Mrs. Zephy :wink:
- Valley Park is right across the freeway from Williams Hill, or where it used to be. They last several years of it's existance I believe it was ground away to be used for gravel for MnDOT construction projects
- Mappys book says "No good parking whatsoever" which supports that we have to walk to get the medallion.
- The book continues "Long shot, very long shot" and I think we all learned from Crosby that the clue writer likes proving the map book wrong.
So we could potentially be looking for a tunnel that no longer exists...
Fire = ammunition = TCAAP Thee we sing also sounds patriotic
Ice = slang for diamonds, baseball diamonds are hard this time of year
section 5 is Mounds HS - HS cross country and Skiing clubs use the park.
Schmidt is german name
Ramsey County - not in Saint Paul, Regional park that actually eccompasses more.
"Forest of Arden" is where shakespears "as you like it" takes place.
plot of as you like it, fits.
Twins - the famous conjoined twins Abigail and Brittan Hensel go to college at bethel and are currently sophomores
Hi (hills) /low - valentine park floods each year because it's lower than the lake
Picturesque route - many paths to go around wetlands. and so many more being proposed and planned. HUGE planning. Several Running clubs use this area as well, and I have I mentioned how impressed I am with the trails and paths for running? uber jealous. sorry sidebar.
away from gravel - several of the the factors of the new master plan and 2030 revision is going away paving for more 'natural' paths in the area - utilizing lime stone, gravel, bark, for the newly proposed regional trail system,
hot Pursuit - new warming houses installed i think it was 2006 from the plan.
morse code 1) radio station across lake @ college campus 2) new bocce ball golf course in the park. which bocce is played between two long narrow boards (dashes) with very large balls scattered inbetween (dots)
2) not to mention if looking at maps of the park, you can line up the powerlines which are marked by dots with long dashes with the railroad that cuts though the park at a point.
3) all the proposed new trails are dots and dashes on all the maps.
park your car - at the park - but the medallion is actually somewhere down a trail or pathway not necessarily in the park (but public land)
ALSO, proposed trail system becomes an intregal part of the overall transporation network --hence not using your car / eliminate the use of driving - tying back to sir soot and sins (enviornment / mother earth)
speaking of railways etc - the underpass for the railroad was in stalled in 2006 - allowing pedestrians to escape the dangers
and in efforts to get more use out of the park (and justify money) they are looking at more events including things for children such as snowman building contests and other winter festivities.
Sounds like to me, they are just beggin to get people up in the area to come check out the park and get more use out of it, and make a name for itself.
I could prolly go on, but i haven't finished reading the 80 something pages of proposals @ this point.
wait. what? i need to go eat.
have no idea how to link her 2 comments but if you search on Tony Schmidt you can see them. :sheepish:
maybe the get off our duff, or emerge from the den means get out of saint paul and drive out to an area we don't normally think about?
Roller Coaster Year Track Designer
Screaming Dragon 2006 Steel Wisdom Rides
Rides List
  Como Town Swing
  Sky Glider
  Kiddie Grand Prix
  Tea Cups
  Drop Zone
  Como Town Driving School
  Fire Brigade
  Frog Hopper
  Como Town Train
  Hodge Podge Park
  Como Town Dig
Aladdin
  Pony Carts
  Screamin' Dragon
  Bumper Cars
  Classic Cruisers
  Tornado!
http://www.comotown.com/insideComoTown/map/map.html
At the Como Town Driving School kids drive their own cars navigating their way through the streets of the driving school. They steer, brake and accelerate their vehicles and get a real sense of what it feels like to drive a car.
"You and your avatar should park your car"?
Create your own Traffic Jam! Kids and adults can wheel around a 1,200-square-foot track in a custom designed bumper car, including Como Town taxi, police and fire chief vehicles as well as four zoo animals: tiger, snake, zebra and lion.
Sky Glider:
Take a trip back in time as you board these interactive gliders—the faster you pedal the faster you will soar. Enjoy a bird’s eye view of the park as you circle up and down in this innovative ride.
Long dashes that dot the sky?
But tonight's clue will hopefully make things/parks more clear....
Are there places where you remotely drive cars?
it's actually the whole twin aspect that brought me to try to fit the clues. My BF watched the videos (total newbie to this) and after seeing them looks at me and says , are there any conjoined twins there? look at the arms, one (viking) is missing his right, and then the MJ doll one is missing left - two separate personalities sharring one body. we google it and they happen to be @ bethel.
That said, I still think Tony Schmidt is an option.
Hidden Falls - my first thought when seeing clue 4, was morse code - they're in a sense, hidden codes.....
also - long dashes that dot the landscape - power lines?
we know that they've referenced those things before... and they've also done it AT that park too.....
would they do it again?
I gotta agree the Code by Morse reeks of Como.... there are also other loosely based deals that could reference the zoo, or whatever have you....
den?
what about the twins?.... Buzz and Neil, the polar bears?
I dont know....
Off to Cherokee, HF, and Como, before clue-time.
I'm not exactly sure where they are, but I believe they still have work to do, on the polar bear habitat...
I havent been there since like july or august, though... so I could be wrong....
Ernest Hemingway's character Lieutenant Henry in Farewell to Arms talks about taking a vacation to Lake Como
Took me a minute to get the Farewell to ARMS piece! The videos... oh.
Snake - did you change your avatar? Was he squating before and now standing?
I had another thought for Como - coming out of the den could be the pavillion at Como where we know there are dashed lines on the walking/biking path around the lake.
And inside that pavillion is Black Bear Crossing.