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1998 Pioneer Press Medallion Hunt

Submitted by Casey Trauer on

Hunt for the Pioneer Press medallion!

The Pioneer Press medallion has been found. Details are at our Winter Carnival page.

The hunt's over, but the discussion rages on ...

tom

Meeting other cooler crew is as cool as finding big bad medallion.Hard to find after Joe Medallion blew up park though!

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:47 PM Permalink
Terry

12:15 to pick up the prize - be there.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:48 PM Permalink
Matt

So, what are the fables about the containers floating around? I've only deemed the coolwhip one worthy of acknowledgement

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:48 PM Permalink
wallflower

i'll pitch the icon...sorry guys i forgot

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:48 PM Permalink
Nimrod

LAST CALL FOR ALCOHOL ! ! ! ! COUNT ME IN. LATER.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:49 PM Permalink
Sunshine

I'm ordering in PIZZA anyone in?

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:50 PM Permalink
Q-BALL

Hey everyone I'm hot on the trail, and I can taste the gold now!!!!!

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:50 PM Permalink
Paula

Wall Flower - where are you getting all the cool graphics???

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:50 PM Permalink
huntandfind

Where are you Q-BAll!

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:51 PM Permalink
Searching

I'd join for the alcohol but. . . . . . too young

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:51 PM Permalink
tom

We all need more SUNSHINE

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:51 PM Permalink
huntandfind

Just out of curiosity, what is the age range here?

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:52 PM Permalink
wrightwinger

It could get violent if someone would find it and run off, but i dont that will happen.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:52 PM Permalink
Searching

I am 17 and am going to be in big trouble when I'm sleeping through classes

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:53 PM Permalink
Nimrod

29, THE LAST 17 SPENT LOOKING FOR MEDALLION.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:54 PM Permalink
Q-BALL

Q-BALL IS IN I.G.H. THOUGH I AM A 22 YEAR OLD EAST SIDER

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:54 PM Permalink
wallflower

they're stuff i've collected from surfing.....hope this one's better. no action ;-)

29

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:54 PM Permalink
Terry

Thoughts about the object. Clue 2 could mean a snow globe. Clue 3 could be a rose something. Clue 5 something to measure with Who knows. Maybe the worthwhile tip could be the item we're hunting for. Anything you dig up will be torn apart. Being the snow has been so compacted all over the park, a cool-whip container seems a bit large.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:54 PM Permalink
Matt

Anyone else notice that the clues this year are lame to be wasting so many of them to simply show us that it's at CP?

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:54 PM Permalink
tom

34 Been diggin since I was 13 when me daddy took me for first time.This cooler adds way cool twist.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:54 PM Permalink
Searching

Well, time to go watch the news, see you guys at about 10:45 in here

or 12:00 at CP

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:55 PM Permalink
shooting star

Hi guys just read the past couple hours of posts

SUNSHINE how did you come up with Winona & Morton? P.S. count me in for being out there again tonight. Got ahold of a cell phone tonight.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:55 PM Permalink
huntandfind

SEARCHING- that's ok I'll be asleep in class too. Only I really should know better, I'm 27 and starting graduate school.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:56 PM Permalink
Sunshine

Someone wanted Sunshine... I'm here (joke.. HAHA) I really want to know what is the draw to Mounds. I mean come on if clue 8 didn't nail it on the head (is that BB or what) then #9 was a gimme.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:56 PM Permalink
wallflower

hiya star...your hubby was in here braggin on ya earlier ;-)

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:56 PM Permalink
Matt

I be a seventeen year old first-time exploring for the medallion solo this year. I'll find it, too! I'll show ya. >eg<

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:56 PM Permalink
groundhog

poop

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:57 PM Permalink
Terry

45 - been hunting for 28 years.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:57 PM Permalink
No user inform…

I hate to give away my ideas but i feel you may need some help.

It is my belief that todays clue was referring to what the medallion is hidden in. I believe it's hidden in a cool whip container.

whip + hip(cool) = coolwhip.

and the reference to cape. well i'm listening if anyone has any ideas.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:58 PM Permalink
Nimrod

I guess I better head out, got to be at 345 Cedar by 10:45 to hear the latest gossip on the street. Hope to run into some PP*M*CC!

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 9:58 PM Permalink
wrightwinger

As can tell by my jacket im in high school and 17. Ive been hunting since 92 seriously and 89 casually.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:00 PM Permalink
Nimrod

matt, are you interested in some hot coco after you find the medallion, you can fill me in on the details of your hunt.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:01 PM Permalink
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What do all you Cooler people think of the rumor that some guy found it on Sunday?

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:01 PM Permalink
Q-BALL

ALL C.P. HUNTERS ARE PONTING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION!

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:01 PM Permalink
Matt

Hmm, perhaps meeting in a group come clue time might be a viable plan, if one in that group would have a cell phone... Sure would save me the trouble of driving to the Press doors. :P

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:02 PM Permalink
Sunshine

Old enough to drink and young enough to know I'm going to hate coming to work hung over yet deep down really enjoy the feeling. Hunting all my life I think, memories of Mom yelling "Put on your big boots you can always warm up in the car!'' No joke.

Morton from Motherlode and "Win no" from clue 7. Try reading the clues backwards. Clue 5 lead me to belive he or she was really letting more clues out if you looked for them. Devious I know since everyone is really only looking for one key thing out of each clue.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:02 PM Permalink
wallflower

thanks einstein. Shovel suggested that last night after we saw the clue. It was nice of you, though!

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:03 PM Permalink
shooting star

Ya, he told me. That was another reason I had to reread all the posts. Had to make sure he didn't embarrase me. By the way I'm 31, and started looking for the treasure when I was about 4 with my dad. As for my hubby, I talked him into coming with me tonight. I'll wear a white Whinny the Pooh hat. Damn!!! someone keeps calling me and bumping me off the internet.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:03 PM Permalink
huntandfind

If there are people at CP who are just digging to be digging, how did they know to go there?

I've talked to people who aren't really into the whole hunt thing and they think its at Mounds- go figure.

Are these people that desperate that they will just dig anywhere? Do they even know what they are looking for?

How sad.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:04 PM Permalink
Me Dal Leon Hunter

Gray Beard,

When you get on here, read message #6298.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:04 PM Permalink
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Why do you say that? Q-Ball

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:04 PM Permalink
Huntress

does anybody know anything about "Crosby Park"...is it a 'St. Paul park'????

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:06 PM Permalink
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Hey!!! I say, what do you guys think of that rumor?

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:06 PM Permalink
Q-BALL

I'M HUNGRY .....GOT THE MUNCHIES TALK TO YOU ALL @ 10:45

LATER.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:07 PM Permalink
Sunshine

What time can we get the clue on line?

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:07 PM Permalink
greensIvs2

Nimrod: Am home and in my "Beanie Baby" suit (one piece flannel deal!!!) and getting ready to get some (very little) sleep before the next clue. Think the Crew will have to have fortitude and dig on w/o moi. Nim, I GOTTA get some sleep!!!

But, then SOMEONE has to man the 'puter while the rest of The Crew is flailing away in the snow!!! Hint: It ain't Chippewa. Read the next line: "We don't whatever...." They're saying *not* Chippewa. Think Cherokee and far from where it was found the last time.

Gotta slog a bit more, then will be here. Guess I WON'T be getting any sleep after all!!! LOL!!!!

Well, such is life!!!

Ta-Ta for a few.

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:07 PM Permalink
jean loevy

did anyone see the girls with the garden tools

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:07 PM Permalink
No user inform…

How in the world do you expect to find the medallion hunting from Denver? Don't worry, Jay and I will have it all under control by midnight tonight/morning!

Tue, 02/03/1998 - 10:07 PM Permalink