2018 Northfield Winter Walk Medallion Hunt

This is 100% about going to high school football games at the old Memorial Field. For decades the Raiders played on the field where the pool is. They typically served hot cocoa and pizza-pies by the slice. The kids wear their leather and wool letter-jackets and of course there's the teen flirting and nervous hand holding with your weekly crush.

These clues are about old and new. Early and late. Today's clue puts you in the City's swimming pool. Coming to the pool later in the day will be cooler and if you're wet, you'll get cold and need to cover up. Walking downhill is in reference to the zero emersion pool walk-in. Walking this direction points to the solar panels (current). Entering the pool again because its cold being out of the water. Becoming a player draws upon many sports played on this spot from many high school football games to the volleyball court on the north side. There used to be a softball field, and track and field played here.

The ornament is hung on an evergreen tree branch. There are 4 in a row. To find the perfect spot I circled each tree. You can see my tracks walking in circles around the trees. The skating I speak of is in reference to the public "skate park" for skateboarding. Also to wear a helmet (cover your head). Soldiers or skaters. "Remember", "fallen" and "dead" all point right to Memorial Park. Not the new one at the high school but the "Old Memorial Park" where the city pool is. Also, a clue that there is a fallen tree from the recent tornado's this past fall. Its stump is still sticking out by the volleyball court.

Treading water is all about a swimming pool. "Remember" and "memory" about Old Memorial Park. The parks past includes so much from its various uses over the decades. Putting on a skating helmet and a grabbing your skateboard might help you remember the Skate Park.

The last part of this clue draws directly from the "O Christmas Tree" carol because the ornament is hanging on the branch of a perfectly sized evergreen tree that could be used as a Christmas tree. It's one of the most eastern evergreens in the park, in towards the trunk about chest high. This row of beautiful trees was gilded in a perfect layer of snow when I planted the ornament, many of the branches drooping from the weight.