funny, the past year or three I have been debating about making a hunt using 100% recycled clues... Because they wouldn't necessarily have to mean what they did at the time when individual lines were pulled out of their four line stanzas...
Thanks, I got it. I was just referring to the 30 tries it took to remember the whole " img src=... " coding so you didn't have to click a link to a picture not native to my computer.
I am thinking this rail/trolley clue could certainly be the Union Depot. I want it to be Como, but I have doubts. I don't want doubts, but they are there.
So the search grid is south of Horton between Hamline and Lexington Pkwy. The medallion has been hidden in that area twice, both times in the wooded part vs. in the baseball/soccer fields. That's still a large area to cover with this snow. Simply for the fact it was hidden in the grid South of Horton between Beaulah and the baseball field, I wonder if a good search area is between Hamline and Beaulah lane south of Horton. That little wooded section is my guess where it's at. I've been searching North of Horton between Lexington and the Baseball fields since the Rainbow clue, but think I might move down a bit and test my luck there.
I suppose one could sift through the clues from previous hunts at coolercrew.com. But with different clue writers through the years, the style might vary.
Well, my copy is older than yours...1996, LOL! Mine has the zones numbered. Zone 4 has Midway curving around the top and down to the right. Hamline on the lefthand edge. Horton along the bottom. And in the middle is the picnic area. It includes the yellow trolley, and the Stonebridge gates.
the one thing i've been unable to grasp with these clues is that, particularly the last couple of nights, if the clues really are como, its like brewer is recycling old ideas for landmarks. streetcar station, fireplace, wide as triple e.
Someone might have brought this up already and I missed it, but this is from the Wikipedia for the name "Beulah." A vision causing soul to soar?
"Beulah" has also been used in literature as the name of a mystical place, somewhere between Earth and Heaven. It was so used in The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan and in the works of William Blake, for example several times in The Four Zoas.[1]
Haven't had much time to noodle this year, but I've finally begun to catch up and dig in. Maybe it's been mentioned, but here's an example of the animals of como zoo being referred to as 'stars'.
Got a request from CC FB site to ck activation status on Cooler whose membership expired today; she re-signed but has heard nothing. No answer to this morning's email. Can someone check? Still not activated.
I was at the Trolley Car Station today just walking around. There were a lot of folks out there, but still ample parking. I couldn't help but think the two arch bridges that you walk under on the north side could be rainbows? The clue writer never said anything about colors, just rainbows (arches). Talked to a few people and they wondered the same thing. Just a thought.
I have reset my PW on the PP boards about 20 times and each time the new PW is accepted, I still can't get on. Bummer. Not much over there. Some poster keeps saying it has been found. sigh.
Union Depot could be part of it. We've been assembling another park theory over the last couple of days based on the idea that "beckoning from afar" could mean the masses are at the wrong park and the fact that most of clues being tied to Como so far are things that are found relatively easily with a simple Google search. Looking back at past clues, there's too many Googleable clues this time around. So far we think Mounds has potential here.
First thing is the star to star clue. State capitals are starred on a map and the Miss runs through the capital cities of Minnesota and Louisiana - it's northern most and southern most states. In this way it moves from start to star Boreas blew winds from the north and LA did receive it's share of bad weather from the Polar Vortex. The oddly worded suburbs and neighborhoods and throughout St. Paul could mean a trail (Vento).
That's are pretty slim, but the most recent couple of clues support Mounds pretty well. Saints souls soar and Mounds overlooks the site of the new Saints stadium. Union Depot is there too and Mounds also is most certainly historic. A park like Como has nothing on Mounds is terms of being historic. Placing the medallion there would also keep with the quasi-tradition of placing it in a park near the site of sort of significant event (Vikes stadium, Ford plant closure etc).
Someone at the park this afternoon said that Hwy 61 used to be called old sandy, but we haven't looked into that at all yet, so that could be wrong.
A couple of problems so far are that the star to star thing is far from something we're considering solid and the fact that we're stumped on the splendid mansion's door clue. I know people are talking about doors from a mansion, but the clue is possessive and an actual mansion can't own anything. I open my car door, not my car's door and the butler opens the mansion door, not the mansion's door.
Splendid mansion here has to be something other than the kind of mansion we are thinking of.
Well, if we're whipping out the Mounds card, here's for beaming euphorically
"So it was probably just a coincidence that George and Robert Earl were surgeons at the Mounds Park Sanitarium, built in 1906 at 200 Earl St. near Indian Mounds Park. It later became Mounds Park Hospital and was replaced by a new Mounds Park Hospital just to the east of the old one in the 1960s. The site of the old one became a parking lot for the new one. The new Mounds Park Hospital was closed in the late 1980s or early 1990s and has since become the Marian Center of Saint Paul."
If we are slipping out the Mounds card as others are saying, in the 1940s while street cars were common, there were already abandoned streetcar tracks there.
funny, the past year or three I have been debating about making a hunt using 100% recycled clues... Because they wouldn't necessarily have to mean what they did at the time when individual lines were pulled out of their four line stanzas...
Didn't realize that - it does not run off my page when I view it.
Okay, I see the URL thing now.
Is that for all URL's or just the longer ones? :confused:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=8cd7aaa9-3573-48ce-841f-289cacb03135
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=7837991d-7544-4b37-9539-a16bc3cc34e2
I think it's the Union Depot.
This is so dang frustrating.
"Beulah" has also been used in literature as the name of a mystical place, somewhere between Earth and Heaven. It was so used in The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan and in the works of William Blake, for example several times in The Four Zoas.[1]
Physician to the stars...of como zoo
Matt
Or Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary? Lots of old rails there....
Screen name: izzyardo
"One time Fletcher said, 'There's this moose at a mansion in Duluth and we can have it.'
some times they run off the page and other times it makes them a pargraph. willy nilly...
Then to hot link edit your post again and type [img src="URL of the pic" alt="Name for pic"]
Replace the brackets at begining and end with a > and a > at the end
paste the copied url between the quote marks.
First thing is the star to star clue. State capitals are starred on a map and the Miss runs through the capital cities of Minnesota and Louisiana - it's northern most and southern most states. In this way it moves from start to star Boreas blew winds from the north and LA did receive it's share of bad weather from the Polar Vortex. The oddly worded suburbs and neighborhoods and throughout St. Paul could mean a trail (Vento).
That's are pretty slim, but the most recent couple of clues support Mounds pretty well. Saints souls soar and Mounds overlooks the site of the new Saints stadium. Union Depot is there too and Mounds also is most certainly historic. A park like Como has nothing on Mounds is terms of being historic. Placing the medallion there would also keep with the quasi-tradition of placing it in a park near the site of sort of significant event (Vikes stadium, Ford plant closure etc).
Someone at the park this afternoon said that Hwy 61 used to be called old sandy, but we haven't looked into that at all yet, so that could be wrong.
A couple of problems so far are that the star to star thing is far from something we're considering solid and the fact that we're stumped on the splendid mansion's door clue. I know people are talking about doors from a mansion, but the clue is possessive and an actual mansion can't own anything. I open my car door, not my car's door and the butler opens the mansion door, not the mansion's door.
Splendid mansion here has to be something other than the kind of mansion we are thinking of.
"So it was probably just a coincidence that George and Robert Earl were surgeons at the Mounds Park Sanitarium, built in 1906 at 200 Earl St. near Indian Mounds Park. It later became Mounds Park Hospital and was replaced by a new Mounds Park Hospital just to the east of the old one in the 1960s. The site of the old one became a parking lot for the new one. The new Mounds Park Hospital was closed in the late 1980s or early 1990s and has since become the Marian Center of Saint Paul."
After almost 12 hours of radio silence....I've done some more thinking and Como still just feels wrong to me.
Maybe it's at the depot, taped under a bench in the waiting room :goofy: