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2010 - Lilydale Regional Park

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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 

 

 
First Video - The Deed is Done 

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
Clue #1 

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
Clue #2 

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.
Clue #3 

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
Clue #4 

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.
Clue #5 

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.
Clue #6 

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
Clue #7 

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.
Clue #8 

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
Clue #9 

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
Clue #10 

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
Clue #11 

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
 



 

mrmnmikey

is the rusted spur the RR tracks?
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 2:54 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

Spur:

(Transport / Railways) Also called spur track a railway branch line or siding

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) a short or stunted branch of a tree

A lateral ridge projecting from a mountain or mountain range

An oblique reinforcing prop or stay of timber or masonry
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 3:03 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

need sleep.....SCD's

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 3:05 AM Permalink
Wicked Nick

I think I have the park all to myself right now. I'm takin a break, and chillin on the hill, enjoying the view. You should enjoy this post.... I'm posting it from my crappy cell phone....
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 3:13 AM Permalink
Wicked Nick

I can't believe nobody is here! It's clue 10 26 right now!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 3:17 AM Permalink
New Daddy

Nice to see Golf Pro and Parker in the park yesterday. Parker you were right, looks like it is right in front of those 15 grain elevators.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 3:41 AM Permalink
diggorius rex

i'm there in 15 or so..
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 3:41 AM Permalink
diggorius rex

yep, the 3 days before going to the fossil area
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 3:42 AM Permalink
SuesCrew

Good luck all, I'm throwing in the towel
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 3:46 AM Permalink
Posen

I'm heading out there by 8....don't find it before then!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 4:33 AM Permalink
Posen

murder and killin'

Anagram= Unlink Arm riddle
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 4:40 AM Permalink
New Daddy

Wicked,missed ya. Now I am alone in park
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 4:52 AM Permalink
Brassmonkey

B there soon
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 5:09 AM Permalink
Andrea

Now... you are being hard on the CW. #10 gives us more than that! It tells us the medallion is IN the many woods....

 :grin:
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 5:09 AM Permalink
pooh

Mendota Heights evolved from Mendota Township which, on May 4, 1858, was Dakota County's first township to organize. The Village of Mendota had been a city before the township formed, and after a brief return to the township, became a city again in 1887. Until 1950, truck and dairy farms were the business of Mendota Township. Clusters of urban type homes were within walking distance of the St. Paul border, and a few estates, two golf courses, and three cemeteries completed the landscape. The shopping center was Fischerville, which was also home to the volunteer fire department. In 1951 a portion of the township, Lilydale, incorporated as a village. On February 21, 1956, the residents of the remainder of Mendota Township voted to incorporte as the Village of Mendota Heights.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 5:09 AM Permalink
pooh

Lt. Zebulon Pike
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 5:11 AM Permalink
KITCH

I feel the same why...

and so does a bunch of others...it gets old...
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 5:20 AM Permalink
ThoseMedallingKids

I only had a few days to hunt and I'm glad that the clues were able to get me to the park which is huge. I was able to at least narrow down where in the park to look. There was still a fair amount of people though who were not sold on Lilydale, so I think the clues were good to get some people down there but not every one. What disappoints me though is that there have been pretty good hunters down there for three days in an area and we still haven't been able to find it. The area that they've "narrowed" it down to is still pretty large, and when you've hidden it by/under a tree then you need something more to go on to feel like you have a hope of finding it.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 5:24 AM Permalink
KITCH

I am going to put a call out right now to all hard core coolers...

If you got info to share "spill" it... help your own ...think about it this hunt is a mess and its going to get worse...

I'll try to start first....

remember when I talked about "code of morse" and "great escape" I thought it was a posssible spin on morse code using syabals

- if the word was 2 syabls

. if the word was 1...

well in that clue one of the lines spelled out "east"





all i know if if the crew doesn't work togethor now you will all complain later...this includes all members (imho)...

I agree i've gone my own way and pulled myself and others away as well...
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 5:33 AM Permalink
Allison Wonderland

I already posted all of my thoughts. I think the biggest thing is to not bother digging up virgin snow.

I also noticed in the haunted places link that it says lots of murders and rapes have occured in Lilydale park. Maybe by murder and killin they actually meant murder and killin!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 5:51 AM Permalink
Terry

I fell asleep before the clue last night.

Looks like the area has been narrowed down.

Good luck to those out in the daylight. I heard the sun was to make an appearance today so hopefully that will help someone find it.

I am stuck at work.

May Coolerheads Prevail!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 5:52 AM Permalink
ThoseMedallingKids

I've given my take on the clues that led me to Lilydale. When I was in the park I was trying to think of how they would lead us to the treasure using landmarks. I think the clue will start at the big pile of bricks and take you up the small hill west of it. After that it will either take you further down the main trail to the west, or down the trail that led to the river. If it is down the main trail, my best guess was that it would have you turn into the woods near that scorched tree next to the trail. I have a feeling that they may use that tree with the huge hollow on it, and/or the huge tree that was fallen down. If they have you turn down the hill towards the river, I wonder if they hid it along the crest of the bank, and have you turn right or left along the bank at the secondary rock pile. Beyond that I don't know.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 5:54 AM Permalink
Artemis The Huntress

PP line is busy ah sh**. Usually means someone found it. Any news?
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 5:56 AM Permalink
green

Spur is, I think, a railroad term.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 6:02 AM Permalink
Redbear

Website says it's still on...
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 6:03 AM Permalink
Redbear

I'll set up a conf. call for tonight. As kitch said, it'll be coolers only. I need a volunteer to be the moderator/reader. In past years Mucky and Leelabell and D4it have done it. PM me if you'll volunteer, I'll be here till about 11:30 then out at Como.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 6:06 AM Permalink
green

Son of a gun! Smack dab on my burfday!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 6:07 AM Permalink
green

I have always shared. I always will.

I have no more to say as I aced the place days ago and cannot add anything now that the clues are explicet to hiding place.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 6:12 AM Permalink
Artemis The Huntress

ok false alarm, the message hasn't changed but it was busy forever (45 min!)! Must just be that many people calling in before they head out.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 6:30 AM Permalink
sumner

chris digger has decided that all the videos just refer to a "limb" in general.

and agrees w/tmk about the scorched tree and the hollowed tree being a good clue 11 or 12. if it makes it through the day tonight (clue 27) will be crazy. i'll be diggering tree limbs on the ground today again.....see ya there!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 6:33 AM Permalink
green

Or call in sick... :smile:
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 6:33 AM Permalink
Eags

I have always shared too. I'm not sure if that helps because I am often wrong. I just share all my noodles and if they ring true for someone, great.

I do think the 1 of 15 means to line up with 1 of the 15 silo thingies, maybe the first one on the left. Or line up with Bridge 15. Or some location where both line up?

But I have not been on site, so I don't know if that even puts a person in the right county, or makes any sense from what we think may be "line of sight" clues.

Posting this makes me wonder if the silos are actually numbered. I mean, if you went over there, would there be a number 1 on one of the silos? I'm guessing they have such a numbering system, in fact, my first full-time job was keeping track of warehousing info, including grains, I'd be very surprised if they don't.

I have, in the past, been PMed for sharing really good noodles and asked not to share that stuff so publicly. Funny thing is, usually 10 other people get it, and post it, within minutes. If it is that good that *I* get it, it is pretty obvious.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 6:42 AM Permalink
queenmalley

From John Weeks, that Omaha bridge 15 blogger:

"I don't know of a marker relating specifically to a flood. I do know that there is a "geological marker" located on the east side of Shepard Road about a half mile south of the bridge. Also, most bridges have some kind of marking that shows clearances at various water levels. It is like a giant rule painted on the structure. I don't recall if this bridge has that given that it is a swing bridge."

Maybe check-out this geological marker for its numbers or description while roaming around at Lilydale on a mountain lion/cougar hunt.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 6:51 AM Permalink
witchdoctor

"elizabethan airs" - Drake is credited with being the first "privateer" to bury new world treasure.

Extend Drake to lilydale's Ramsey/Dakota county border.

park at the boat ramp lot and hike the trail away from pike (PICKEREL) northeast until the trail begins a sharp left turn to curve north.



I'm stuck in Fargo until at least tomorrow. Good Hunting!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 6:53 AM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

Let's go cooler crew!

Agreed with AW, don't mess with the snow. If it's buried just under the snow somewhere clue 12 it is. Downed trees/branches/anything need to be checked well. It takes a lot of time to do a downed tree but it's worth it, that's where they have been putting the treasure except last year with the stream.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 7:00 AM Permalink
SNAKE88

Hurry up and find it Jake
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 7:05 AM Permalink
wolfpac

In the last video I think the last paragraph wasn't video'd because the last paragraph was a late addition to the clue. Maybe the pp was catching flack from an organization.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 7:14 AM Permalink
queenmalley

This is great!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 7:15 AM Permalink
ThoseMedallingKids

If you go off the main path at the scorched tree you will get to the tree with the huge hollowed out part. If you look back to the east there is a huge tree that is down, and pointing almost at the huge hollowed out tree. I was digging up around some of the downed trees there. My inclination is that it will be under/in either the huge downed tree, or one of those trees in line or around that line.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 7:25 AM Permalink
green

LOL! I never get PMed not to share. Too funny!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 7:25 AM Permalink
queenmalley

These are great! Thanks so much for posting the link....
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 7:28 AM Permalink
queenmalley

Photo from OT's link. Look at all those trees!!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 7:31 AM Permalink
Redbear

Conf. call is scheduled. Need a paper narrator volunteer. Anybody?
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 7:35 AM Permalink
Art Vandelay

I can't stand in line tonight, but could do 8-9 tomorrow night for sure.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 7:49 AM Permalink
lilslim

I said I would do it tonight, Sara will do it tomorrow
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 7:50 AM Permalink
CerealKiller

I have to agree that the only way another cooler is going to find this thing is Share your input enugh with this Secret socity BS!! if someone asks you help them out MORE HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK!!!

if you dont want to hunt with someone or dont want to tell them then say so!! But on the same note if we are here to help out one another lets do THAT!!! other wise I think I will just start a Sub group and say the hell with it!! like The Camo Crew!!

but like them if you ask they WILL Tell and give you Ideas out in the park! I think we could have all been in a park alot sooner digging as a team then off not helping one another get to the right park and Increasing our chances of finding it!!

I have seen that there are alot of people that are not on here that I know have been on the boards and stuff but what ever! I dont care anymore!!

Good luck to all coolers that have dealt with my crap in the past and see you when I see you!!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 7:54 AM Permalink
CerealKiller

what is that foundation in the back there??!!! anyone know??
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 7:57 AM Permalink
diggin4it

I can help
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 7:58 AM Permalink
queenmalley

I believe it's that old brick oven, CK.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:02 AM Permalink