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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 ...

Dave

I just got back after a hellacious five hours! It has NOT been found yet!

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 5:26 AM Permalink
Bailey

I just woke and read the last clue. What's the talk on what it means?

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 5:37 AM Permalink
Madallion man

I looks like it's in CP

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 6:13 AM Permalink
Madallion man

We should look by a handecaped spot or arond it.

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 6:16 AM Permalink
Madallion man

helo

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 6:21 AM Permalink
Axel

Why handicaped? because of chair?

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 6:24 AM Permalink
kollin stevens

Becky is lying

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 6:27 AM Permalink
Madallion man

Yes Axel

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 6:29 AM Permalink
Axel

Why do people come on here and make up stuff about the medallion being found? Like we aren't going to figure out that they are full of shit when the pp monitor doesn't post it here.

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 6:33 AM Permalink
Axel

O.K. i'm bored, time to go back to the war zone it will be getting light soon.

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 6:40 AM Permalink
JB

I've converted now from Mound to CP. Do all these landmarks need to be in view from the site of the medaliion? If so, from the back sledding area at CP you can't see a dome (capitol).

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 6:42 AM Permalink
JB

Looks like somebody called a time out.

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 6:47 AM Permalink
JB

Is Casey out there?

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 6:53 AM Permalink
Itsinmypocket

Hello all, can't stay long, but what is the consensus on today's clue? Does it have anything to do with Becky Montgomerie? Also, Jim Walsh's column is such a crock!!!

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 6:58 AM Permalink
JB

As a future suggestion to Casey- can we rank the (un)credibility of those that misinform the hunters?

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 6:59 AM Permalink
Dad & Kar

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 7:40 AM Permalink
Mr. Know It All

Nathan,

You missed one( #4575). The double division is the border of St. Paul and West St. Paul and the division of Ramsey and Dakota County (Annapolis St, Cherokee park)

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 7:43 AM Permalink
Dad & Kar

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 7:47 AM Permalink
JB

Why did you delete K---?

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 7:51 AM Permalink
Mr. Know It All

Hey "up north george" are you there!!

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 8:16 AM Permalink
Matthew Hill

What ever happened to the "Casey Park" idea?????

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 8:33 AM Permalink
Matthew Hill

is no one here listening?????

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 8:38 AM Permalink
JB

MH- seems that CaseyP went out with the pyramids

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 8:48 AM Permalink
No user inform…

HAS THE MEDALLION BEEN FOUND OR WHAT????

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 8:51 AM Permalink
JB

Front page on the ppwebsite says no-- I don't know the update time

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 8:57 AM Permalink
AllieGo

A friend sent me this poem from CA...thought you all might enjoy it.

Look under the tree.

Look over there under the tree, Cant imagine what you will see.

Are you up for wintry fun, Will you be the lucky one?

Are you looking near water and woods, Will you find the hidden goods?

Will you search in winters gloom, Where the kiddies choose to zoom?

These questions come to mind, When it is the Hunter I try to find.

She is out in the winters cold, Digging in a park I'm told.

No more time for Im's or mail, Obsessed she is she will NOT fail.

So dig and pick and pick and dig, Dont yank out hair, dont want no wig.

You must call and keep up with clues, while trying desparately to keep dry shoes.

Running noses and frozen toeses, Standing there in your thinking poses.

I hope you find this thing you seek, Your thoughts on where you must not leak.

Look here and there and high and low, Look towards the Pyramids, Damn NO NO NO.

Not there either I see, Look over yonder under that tree.

I hope you find it (Allie)

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:14 AM Permalink
tom

when I left here last night around 11:45 we had C.P. all figured out.Where did casey park come from or did you really mean "case the park" WOW

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:19 AM Permalink
Deb Speidel

what about the dough clue, baker park is right by

Annapolis and Dodd road, which is a "double" division line. The only thing i cant find is the 3 pyramids-- which are at cherokee park.

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:20 AM Permalink
SueBee

If you look at past years, the clues aren't really THAT deep. They usually have only one meaning and the rest of the words are filler to help them rhyme. Last night's clue just pinpoints Cherokee, that's all. No golf stuff with the word fore, no deep meaning in traipsing. It just means it's at Cherokee.

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:26 AM Permalink
AllieGo

The only thing is....the ninth clue named Cherokee.

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:28 AM Permalink
Catch 22

Deb--Baker park is not a park it is a playground. An early post stated that they are very clear when they say park that it is in park not a playground, rec area or anywhere else. It has to be at Chair-o-key!

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:28 AM Permalink
New Daddy

Race, Pace, runs-- Is there a jogging path in the 'fore' or north part of CP??

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:29 AM Permalink
tom

ATTENTION ALL!!!!!! NEW INFO NOW REPORTS THAT THE MED. IS MOST DEFINETLY AT COMO OR PHALEN

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:30 AM Permalink
Catch 22

I think "fore" means that you will be in the lead to finding the med if you "unlock the door"--key and "think of the person who runs a committee"--chair.

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:30 AM Permalink
master j p

everyone, look back at around #'s 3600 or before and look for my name. I explained everything about casey. Casey was also the name of a guy who was on the council or committee(whatever you want to call it) in 1974, the year it was also found in casey park.

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:31 AM Permalink
SueBee

Mr. Tomski, boy I bet people are just scurrying right out the door to Como and Phalen on the merit of your message. I know I am... NOT! Those kind of posts are actually getting pretty old...

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:32 AM Permalink
Catch 22

mr.tomski--we've had enough crap with "reports" that the medallion is in another park! It is at Cherokee! Read the damn clues!

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:33 AM Permalink
tom

so are the stupid rationale are keep hearing

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:34 AM Permalink
SueBee

Catch22 - don't get your feathers in a bundle, Tomski is just being silly, we all know he's not serious and it's not worth getting jacked up about. He knows as well as we do that it's a Cherokee. For some reason some people still think it's funny to see people react to them trying to mislead them.. I have a sneaking suspicion that an awful lot of the people on this board are junior high kids.

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:41 AM Permalink
tom

yo!! CATCH 22 i ALREADY MENTIONED THAT WE FIGURED OUT C.P. LAST NIGHT AT 11:45 WHERE WERE YOU?

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:41 AM Permalink
tom

yo!! CATCH 22 i ALREADY MENTIONED THAT WE FIGURED OUT C.P. LAST NIGHT AT 11:45 WHERE WERE YOU? aT LEAST i DIDN'T CLAIM TO HAVE FOUND IT LIKE MR. FEEMAN . LIGHTEN UP ITS ONLY 3-4000 $.

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:41 AM Permalink
Catch 22

Where the medallion can be found in Cherokee--

Clue #3--"Rosebud"--sledding hill

Clue #4--"large object in view"--NSP tower, "demo of the mode"--dome

Clue #6--"plume of smoke"--NSP tower

Clue #8--"no need to wander to and fro"--back and forth like a swing set(not near swing set), "three pyramids"--bathrooms

With these in mind, you have to be near the bathrooms in a place that you can see the NSP tower and the Cathedral dome. There are not to many places at CP that you can see both. The dome is almost always blocked by a tree. My guess is that the "high ground" clue also refers to it being in a tree or off the ground, not in the snow!

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:42 AM Permalink
Catch 22

Sorry all! I was up all night studying for an exam that i then proceeded to fail this morning! So am just a little cranky. Would like to be out hunting but have class all afternoon. Just hope a water-cooler junkie finds it and not some sap that happens to wander upon it with nothing more than dumb-luck.

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:45 AM Permalink
tom

tHATS WHERE i WAS LOKKING YESTERDAY. Are you the guy with the funny hat?

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:46 AM Permalink
New Daddy

The fore of Cherokee - north east of highbridge, is relatively untouched. Is there a jogging path there??? I wounder if race, pace, and runs mean a jagging path.

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:49 AM Permalink
SueBee

Somehow I think you're off track for wanting to be near the bathrooms. Read the pyramid clue again, more carefully. See what it says about where those pyramids are supposed to be... Just a hint.

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:49 AM Permalink
Catch 22

You mean the guy with the jester hat?

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:49 AM Permalink
tom

The claim-jumper who found it last year was indeed one of those last minute SAPS!!

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:50 AM Permalink
tom

ITS YOU

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:51 AM Permalink
SueBee

Sorry about your test, Catch22. All nighters suck. I remember them well. I was half tempted to take the morning off and go hunting, but I came to work.

Mon, 02/02/1998 - 9:51 AM Permalink