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1999 Pioneer Press Medallion Hunt

Submitted by Casey Trauer on

It's time for the Medallion Hunt! The first clue will appear on PioneerPlanet just after midnight Saturday, Jan. 22. Come back here to compare notes with other treasure seekers, but be certain you read the rules on the Planet's Winter Carnival page.

green

I met Walrus and Wee Monster (I *think* ittiz "Monster"!!!! I wrote it on my catalog and that's at the show!) today!!!

A really cute, VERY NICE couple came up to me and was grilling me about the Wee Two. And let me tell you, I got my grilling in on them. And as good possible

'rents, they took it instride, didn't bat an eye, and even appreciated me asking things like, "You both gainfully employed????"

Anyway, noticed their WC Buttons, and - OF COURSE!!! - the conver took a turn to Hunting The Blue Disk Out In The Snow. They were kind'a alluding to being

in The Coolers this and last year... So, I asked them about it, and they said, "Yea. We've been in The Med Hunt Coolers."

And I say, "I'm green!"

You NEVER saw such surprized looks in YOUR LIFE! It was really Way COOLER!!! Running into Diggers *not* out digging!

"YOU'RE GREEN????" They couldn't get over they'd stumbled across me!!! Was loads o'fun!!!

Anyway, about #7 - I'm still TOTALLY stumped (pun? *Wood* bee a good one!!!!) on it!!!! All the udder clues fit BC, but I can't noodle this one!!!

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:09 PM Permalink
Radar

Thanks Mushie... will try and think that way... thanks/...

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:10 PM Permalink
Regalman

Whoa, I'm not sure if I'm with ya, ahead of you, or just totall confused. I know the park. But there is a significant part of clue 3 being used twice which I can't say. If

at the park you wold completely understand my theory once you saw it

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:10 PM Permalink
Terry

Nothing is too crazy!

Then the history center, the technical college...everything was there....it was overwhelming! Tonight's clue should provide something to help narrow stuff down. I

won't be disappointed if we could settle on a park.

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:10 PM Permalink
Gold Digger

I agree with you HUNTJUNKIE every year the explanations sound like a 3rd grader wrote them

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:11 PM Permalink
Gold Digger

I agree with you HUNTJUNKIE every year the explanations sound like a 3rd grader wrote them.

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:11 PM Permalink
Regalman

Mushie you goin out tonight

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:11 PM Permalink
Medallionhound

What was Woodrow Wilson High re-named, or did it close?

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:12 PM Permalink
MushieW

hunt junkie...go over that again in your mind and THINK about it...

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:12 PM Permalink
Regalman

Was that in the midway area med.

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:12 PM Permalink
Terry

Wilson High and Jr. High is now Benjamin Mays....a K-8.

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:12 PM Permalink
MushieW

regalman...only if next clue REALLY helps...there is too MUSH (haha) snow and ice to pick through yet...I want MORE! LOL!!

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:14 PM Permalink
Regalman

No, its Expo II not B-mays or Wilson, junior high for Rhondo School

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:14 PM Permalink
Cougar

CONWAY PARK:

Clue #1: A park in St Paul, no golf course.

Clue #2: A sledding hill on one side of the park.

Clue #3: Possibly sports score. Baseball, football, hockey, basketball, tennis all present.

Clue #4: Medallion never been at Conway before.

Clue #5: Sunray Library

Clue #6: Ruth Street - Babe Ruth. "fit in our game", "a man of fame" "bring the treasure HOME"

Clue #7: WOODROW Wilson - a wood row is a line of trees, Wilson Street is by the park.

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:14 PM Permalink
No user inform…

does anyone think a line of trees could be an Orchard...Orchard playground by Como???

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:15 PM Permalink
green

Ter, if they start talking about *muff*lers on cars, well!!! You're in like Flint!!!

This time, DO NOT TOSS IT AWAY - whatever *ittiz*! - until you've thoroughly TURNED IT INSIDE OUT!!!

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:15 PM Permalink
Gold Digger

I have a new idea this year though! I've had 26 fake medallions made. When everysbodies diggin on that last day and you see people leaving because somebody has

found it I will still be digging until I find the right one.

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:16 PM Permalink
jakeinge

Terry,

Did I hunt with you at Como 97? Do you sell golf stuff? Did I run into you last year in line at the paper at 11:00pm

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:16 PM Permalink
Regalman

Damn Mushie cougar guessed the park!!

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:16 PM Permalink
green

Kipling (BC) fits for BC - name on many tomes...

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:17 PM Permalink
Terry

Jake...that wouldn't be me....but hunting I've done for the past 29 years with hubby.

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:17 PM Permalink
jeep

if the park isn't newell, which park is it

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:18 PM Permalink
MushieW

Cougar...see how other parks can fit the clues too everyone? clue 6 is name found in many a tome...large scholarly book...one of the books of several

volumes....can't go to Babe Ruth with ya on that one...but good luck to ya!

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:18 PM Permalink
OttaMyMind

I drove by BC today, saw a couple of lonely souls, one guy wandering the tennis courts, two people in the fields, it looked pretty dug up.

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:18 PM Permalink
Gold Digger

Is that formerly GREENSLVS or something like that??

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:19 PM Permalink
Regalman

You missed the hint Mushie, that's ok though

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:19 PM Permalink
Cougar

Mushie: he has been in many record books over the years. Are those considered volumes?

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:19 PM Permalink
Regalman

Hey GOLD do you remember Pugs or Pugsley, or whatever I was last year

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:19 PM Permalink
gold coat

couger... im with you on conway, been leaning that way since we caught on to the library thing. have you been looking, whenever we are there we are alone where

you been??

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:20 PM Permalink
OttaMyMind

MushieW, I'd bet a lot of money you can find the Babe in one "tome" ... the Encyclopedia

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:20 PM Permalink
MushieW

very funny regal! Trying to distract them?? ME TOO!! LOL!!

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:20 PM Permalink
Gold Digger

Not sure.

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:21 PM Permalink
green

Gold!!! Yuppers!!! Gettin' lazy in my old age. Decided to lessen the key strokes!!! Plus, nobuddy ever called me nuttin' but "green" anyway. Too, like it better! Yust

fits *me* more.

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:21 PM Permalink
Cougar

gold coat, went skiing last night. My legs cannot take the battering of digging today. Will be there tomorrow after clue #8 though.

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:21 PM Permalink
Regalman

So green, where ya been diggin

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:22 PM Permalink
jakeinge

Has everyone ruled out Phalen? I still think it could be there.

Mrs Jake

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:23 PM Permalink
Austin

stone cold back on did anyone figure out that the medallion is in irvine park

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:23 PM Permalink
Gold Digger

Early on last year I was MEDALLIONMAN until some rotten little,mindless,underachiever of a punk with a foul mouth stole my name.

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:24 PM Permalink
jakeinge

Has anyone heard from Greg Sax this Year?

(Deleted item originally posted by Terry Valentine on 09:29pm Jan 30, 1999 CST)

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:29 PM Permalink
Phillip Diskerud

Jake, been at Phalen a lot the gates have been locked every night at 11 can't get back there unless you go threw the boat launch on the other side of the lake. It is

still a possibility in my mind but you would hope they would open the gates up for everyone.

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:29 PM Permalink
Medallionhound

GD, S... happens.

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:29 PM Permalink
green

Regal...

I dug out under the bleachers at the 4th BB diamond at Phalen. And I've dug out under the bleachers at the 3rd BB diamond at BC... Only reconointered Highland...

No digging there.

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:29 PM Permalink
MushieW

regalman...how did i miss the hint? try again please...thanks back of sign??

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:29 PM Permalink
Terry

Some of my noodling has come up with this one fact. No clue has mentioned water...not water towers, not rivers, not lakes. So for that reason, I've not been hot on

Phalen. The lake is a clue for that park.

But tonight's clue could change all that. We'll have to wait and see.

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:30 PM Permalink
sharkcage

need input on irving

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:30 PM Permalink
OttaMyMind

I have seen that ionoclast could mean many things: it isn't at a park it has been at before some of the clues could have no purpose it could be at the same park again

(Cherokee) it may not be buried under the snow it may be buried under ground

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:31 PM Permalink
Regalman

cougar had wrote about conway, and I typed "Mushie, cougar guessed the park", misleading people, did you check your E-mail??

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:31 PM Permalink
'mom'

I CAN'T WAIT two more hours for the next clue. Talk aobut an addiction! LOL!

Think* Dad and I may have stumbled onto something. Don't want to say *too* much until after the clue, though. Pretty sure we'll be proven wrong and the new

clue will send us somewhere completely different, but we'll wait and see!

Web-crossing down again?

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:32 PM Permalink
Terry

Hey Mom! Nice seeing you back from your noodling. Were you digging or just looking?

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:33 PM Permalink
green

Mom, Web Crossing comes and goes - does the "to and fro" bit every once in awhile. But, on the whole, ittiz better...

Mom, where you and I were noodling???? Huh? Huh??? Inquiring minds, you know! LOL!!!

Sat, 01/30/1999 - 9:34 PM Permalink