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2010 Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt - Lilydale Regional Park

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
 



 

diggin4it

 Can help if you need me
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:04 AM Permalink
queenmalley

That photo of RR tracks you can see the silos in background.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:09 AM Permalink
lilslim

Sweet! Will talk to others in the park today to get shifts assigned. Also, I will have Sara on call so she can transcribe and text to whoever wants text. Will need peoples numbers for that. text me at 952-334-7120 if you want text of clue.

Kathy- which hour you want tonight?
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:13 AM Permalink
diggin4it

I can take whatever.........
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:20 AM Permalink
SNAKE88

Just talked to Neck not many people at the park
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:24 AM Permalink
Redbear

Good news - we've got a narrator for tonight.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:27 AM Permalink
witchdoctor

There is a finger of land that juts out into the river from the sw corner of lilydale in Ramsey County.



The finger is pointing NW toward the "swing arm bridge" and the silos etc. Drake extended cuts right through it.

The ramsey county bike trails map shows it in section 8.

http://www.co.ramsey.mn.us/parks/docs/BikeTrails.pdf
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:32 AM Permalink
Art Vandelay

So is this area that people are talking about North of Lilydale Road? Not on the south side of the lake, but closer to the river? I am confused. Not that I will find it because I can't get out to look til 4 and I honestly think it will be found by then. I just hope a cooler finds it!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:37 AM Permalink
queenmalley

good find. thanks for posting. that could also be the "Sliver" of land in clue 10...?
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:37 AM Permalink
lilslim

Yes, it's the area between the lake and the river to the west of the bridge.

I don't know if it will be found today, there is so much ground to cover out there. If it's buried in the snow somewhere, there's a good chance this will go to clue 12.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:44 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

Don't forget about the

REHASH BASH ON SUNDAY AT NEWELL PARK 11:30- 2:30

Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:50 AM Permalink
ares

leave the sticky off for me. i don't want any sloppy seconds :wink:
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:52 AM Permalink
mucluck

have to work nothing about this hunt i want to re-hash anyway
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:52 AM Permalink
lilslim

Ok, I have Malley, Mikey, and everyone in my phonebook's number on the text list.

Here's who I have:

Alex

Brad

Jana

Jerilyn

Lil Man

M&M

Reg

Anyone else that wants text, I still need your number.

I am also bringing a list out to the park for sign up for line times, Kath, can you call or text me with your number so we can coordinate?
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:54 AM Permalink
CerealKiller

what Wait theres a hunt going on!?!? WoW Where have I been!!

I thought there was alot of posts in here lately!! lol

know what ya mean :eyeroll:
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:54 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

Art...North of the road from pickeral lake parking lot. Just go straight in from the park lot to the large trees in front of the grain elevators near the river. In my opinion, just upstream a hair from the elevators.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 8:59 AM Permalink
lilslim

I think the lack of posts is for several reasons- one, most people have been out digging for the past 4 days. two- most of us SEE each other on a nightly basis and share noodles in person.

Jeremy, you told me just the other night that you were in a different park altogether but you weren't going to tell anybody. No calling the kettle black! :pbpt:

That's not to say the secrecy doesn't annoy me, because it really, really does. I am just not going to worry about it, it's not going to change people's behavior. Frankly, those folks that haven't shared what they believe to be the holy grail of noodles haven't found the puck yet either, so obviously they don't know anymore than we do :smile:
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:02 AM Permalink
diggin4it

I'll be at Disney World :grin:
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:10 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

I don't know what more people want to know. Everything I know of has been posted along with an exact location. The large trees in fron of the grain elevator, north of the road west of the tracks.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:16 AM Permalink
Eags

I guess I'm out of the loop, as it looks to me like like there is a lot of sharing going on here.

And it seems you can't please everyone. Too much to slog vs. too little to slog is in the eye of the beholder.

For those of us armchair hunting from Up North or even from other states or other countries, we love the opportunity to be involved in this hunt via this board.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:22 AM Permalink
green

You lucky dog! How fun!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:23 AM Permalink
Eags

And like someone said, all these last few clues have told us is only one crumb more than we already knew.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:25 AM Permalink
Mad_Dach5und

HELP!

Can someone call Redbear and tell him I'm still hopelessly stuck at work! It's 11:25 and I am on vacation, dammit - but I guess there's job security when your co-workers have to call you in on your day off because they can't fix the problem. My cellphone signal can't reach outside the building here so I can't call him myself.

I am working THROUGH the problem right now, but there's no way I can get to the park by Noonish without a DeLorean and a Flux Capacitor. I'll be there later today, but I definitely want to be IN on the conference call...
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:28 AM Permalink
green

I liked the clues this year because I could make sense of them/figure'um out.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:30 AM Permalink
CerealKiller

The biggest thing is its not on here so much that I am talking about!!! when I drive in and Sit and talk to a few people and they say well I dont have any ideas then they are standing next to someone else saying well I came up with this!! and that and I got this figerd out!! and as far as me being in another park like I said that night I have said it on here it was Highland and that was One me being a smart azz and 2 I said that if I cant fit it all the way I am not going to try and get people off there park they think it is because I think I am Right like Jake and his Tony Schmit park drag every one up there and run around and tell every one that you would bet them $100 bucks and give them the rest of the COunty GOD I wish I had a $100 I would have bet him in a heart beat but then again he wouldnt pay it He bet someone else and still hasnt paid that one up!! lol

sorry I just have WAY TO MUCH IN MY HEAD RIGHT NOW!! AND WANT SO BAD TO BE OUT HUNTING!!! BUT NOT GOING TO HAPIN this is my tharapy for the year and every thing is getting to me this is 2 years in a row!!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:32 AM Permalink
Artemis The Huntress

With only 60 spots, do we need to sign up for the confrence call or is that more than enough?
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:33 AM Permalink
queenmalley

I hope a Cooler Crew member finds it!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:33 AM Permalink
witchdoctor

Me too. prime joe.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:36 AM Permalink
Redbear

Maddog, you're good, no worries.

60 should be plenty.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:37 AM Permalink
witchdoctor

 :cool:
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:38 AM Permalink
CerealKiller

It started with Bruce Vento’s View a couple weeks ago. We drive by the entrance all the time. It’s at the southern corner of Cherokee Regional Park. It’s a great overlook where you can see all the way to Minneapolis (”look down on Minneapolis,” as I later heard someone say). The overlook itself has some stones set up like theater seating, and appears that the stones were salvaged from old buildings. While we were there we saw a trail that descended the bluff but we didn’t have time to check out.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:38 AM Permalink
Artemis The Huntress

Thanks Bear! And thanks to you and everyone involved in the "production" of the confrence calls for doing it!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:43 AM Permalink
queenmalley

I am pretty much here at home with my son with Down syndrome, I have taken him to many a park hunt, but lilydale is too risky for me to take him with him being uncoordinated and all. Too bad, he has many memories of hunts. I told him i was doing the Treasure Hunt and he said "Lets get the shovels out of the garage." He's had a lot of fun on other hunts. Lilydale I just can't bring him this year. And he is with me full-time, He is 23. Hope a Cooler gets it!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:44 AM Permalink
GreenTeam

That's the thing about the recent years' hunts...They are not very family friendly! When you have to hike a ways into the woods, it's hard for older people and kids and anyone with a disability. I think it started with the Blair Witch hunt, when it was hard not to poke your eye out multiple times trudging through the woods.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:51 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

the area its in is not dangerous, exept if you get too close to the river possibly.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:51 AM Permalink
CerealKiller

see Now I think if he is like me When I was 5 and under Its just getting out and diggin!! that is therapy for ME!! I really didnt care if I was in the right park or not just being out with someone I cared about was great!!

And would be still but now it is about the care part that is keeping me IN! GRRR
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:51 AM Permalink
green

Go to Chair-O-Key or Harriet.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:53 AM Permalink
Artemis The Huntress

Off for the rest of the hunt, will be down at Lilydale in a couple hours. Hope to see you there!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 10:04 AM Permalink
Art Vandelay

I think that it would be ok. The only treacherous terrain is if you get closer to the bluffs. It is a pretty nice park so it wouldn't be too bad for digging. You should bring him out, I think you guys would have fun.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 10:09 AM Permalink
queenmalley

I was reading other posts about cliffs and wearing ice shoes is why I thought it was a hilly area.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 10:10 AM Permalink
Art Vandelay

The area by the bluffs is icy, but if you are in the woods along the road it is fine. Slippery from the snow, but by no means unsafe.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 10:13 AM Permalink
ares

malley, i'd say take him out. plenty of space to hunt in there. of course, as with anything, you have to be smart about the terrain you're hunting in, but the bluffs are a small portion of the land there.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 10:14 AM Permalink
Terry

I was hoping someone would have found it by now.

Dumb work.

I may not be out there shoveling in person, but I'm there in spirit.

Now go get it!!!!!!!!!!!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 10:32 AM Permalink
Mad_Dach5und

The small driveway near the railroad trestle where people park is still ice-covered and a bit slippery - I'd park at the boat landing or the lakeside 'Corral' parking area - they're much cleaner. The woods themselves are not dangerous - providing you walk carefully and attentively like any GOOD hunter would do... the worst 'accident' tonight would be stepping over the medallion's hiding spot!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 10:32 AM Permalink
Terry

And for secrets? I haven't heard any and if there is, like someone said, no one has found it yet so any secrets being kept are not likely helping those who have 'em.

Coolerheads will Prevail!
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 10:34 AM Permalink
Mad_Dach5und

Do we need to think about splitting up the diggers between Riverside and Hillside? I would assume Riverside from the last Clue, but do you think they'll yank our chain in another direction tonight?
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 10:40 AM Permalink
lilslim

Set of keys, GM with house keys found by bridge. Now sitting on electrical box next to steps up rr bridge.

Can someone post this on PP boeard if not a coolers keys? I am on phone and no access
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 10:50 AM Permalink
pooh

Sorry , been cooking all morning:) 651-214-7238. Please text me.
Tue, 01/26/2010 - 10:57 AM Permalink