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2003 Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt - The Blair Witch Hunt

Submitted by THX 1138 on

Discuss the 2003 Pioneer Press Medallion Here.

Terry

Good! Glad to hear he was hunting. We had lunch together today and then he was heading down there. He had a split shift today.

Wanna hear what really sucks? Too bad, I'm gonna tell yaz all anyways. :->

The auditors never showed today. Didn't call either and tell us they weren't coming out.

If I had known that, I woulda been sleeping in a bit and then heading down to hunt. I'm so bummed!

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 4:11 PM Permalink
Med2k


Just got back from Harriet, Scheffer among others, both have some people wandering around, I need something solid tonight cluewise

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 4:12 PM Permalink
Med2k


Wow, every year. It's NOT at the fair! A) It's Private Property B) It's in Falcon Heights There's many more reasons that I'm too lazy to list, hopefully we cant put this to rest, at least until next year

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 4:17 PM Permalink
Terry

Good Afternoon!

If you go into the fairgrounds to look, you're likely to get politely asked to leave. The fairgrounds are off limits.

On the way home this evening, I saw a few hunters at W. Minnehaha and then drove past Scheffer where there were maybe about 20. Interesting to see Frogtown parks being searched.

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 4:17 PM Permalink
diggorius rex

ok, sorry for the PP styled summary, BWM...
Clue 1 : clue crew err? (anagram reach
seems like an obvious reply towards all the whining that took place
because of how short last years hunt was.
parked among us = st. paul proper

Clue 2 : standing here (cherokee, or nearby) you can see the dome, but if it's treasure you seek, you should peek (down) to harriet, and DT St. Paul, the home of the medallion
pathetic anagram = island mole home (medallions home)

Clue 3 : shelter, pavillion, or overpass, under the bridge, bridge over troubled waters. Even in the dead of winter the homeless, the homeless seem to find shelter? pathatic anagram of wide as triple e = tear slide wipe

Clue 4 : coldest star? .. red, white and blue = hidden in pepsi or similiar can, flags on bridge, flag on harriet, patriotic retired anchor re-dedicated memorial, legions = many, military ref.

Clue 5 : lifer = jail across the river, pathetic anagram of yours to keep = poetry use ok

more later... the library chick is getting suspicious of my use .. or am I just paranoid?

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 4:19 PM Permalink
THX 1138



Spent a few hours today down by the high bridge where you can see the capital.

Got to get the kids out there after school. They weren't interested for very long. They were like "So, this is what you guys do", and gave s a look like we were nuts.

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 4:24 PM Permalink
KT

Every night, I say to myself "tonight's clue will be the one." Everynight the clue is leaving me clueless. I love it, and I'm sticking to the same park I've been to since clue#5.I hope I have more company tonight.

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 4:26 PM Permalink
THX 1138



I'm not sure if I should praise the new clue writer (Larry Millet)

What makes you think it's Larry Millet?

Oh, I just found it. He wrote a "Sherlock Holmes" book.

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 4:29 PM Permalink
THX 1138



I'm beat, bitteryoungperson. I'm outta here to do real world stuff for a bit, then nap, then to the paper if I'm feeling better.

I'm starting to catch a cold.

Woe is me!

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 4:38 PM Permalink
Terry

I know my favorite winter time sport is noodling clues and digging for treasure. If you do a google search, just about all sports are considered the top one.

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 4:38 PM Permalink
Terry

A nap sounds good to me too.

See yaz later!

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 4:39 PM Permalink
THX 1138



I don't care what Scribe says. I still say tiddly winks is the greatest sport!

:-)

Later folks.

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 4:39 PM Permalink
Medallionator88

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 4:54 PM Permalink
Randahl

well if sherlock lived on baker street??

I went to como looking for MASON (as in perry) ave like it says in my street guide and found it to be WHAT STEVE lists it as NASON - never doubt the mape gui-
lol

RR

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 4:57 PM Permalink
pops

Perry Mason was a lawyer not a detective. His buddy Paul Drake (I think) did the PI work. Hey, maybe the "puck" is taped to the ass of a male mallard.

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:08 PM Permalink
green

Howdy, 'Heads!!!

Oh! All you poor sick 'Heads... Gods love'ya all. Workin' and huntin' and noodlin' and getting sick.
:( Try so hard to get better! A 'Head HAS GOT to get The Puck this year!!! The Cooler needs all you pros out there!!! Sending virtual Hunt Noodlin' Soup attcha all.

Stupid Idea #1: *Have* the HI parking lots been scoured?

Otay! Otay! Yust a thought...

Stupid Idea #2 has to wait... I gotta do some searching sos I kind'a know what I'm talking about (if THAT ain't an oxymoron!!!)

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:08 PM Permalink
Map Guy

Beats me, Mike..Donny. I'm not eager to rush out, even now that its warm.

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:09 PM Permalink
Map Guy

That's right, Rust. THG first, Hudson second.

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:11 PM Permalink
Scribe

Pops, I found the head of a duck decoy yesterday at HI...does that count?

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:14 PM Permalink
Scribe

Hey Reg! How long were you and Slim out last night?

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:15 PM Permalink
Map Guy

Hiya Reg.

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:15 PM Permalink
Med2k


I wandered around Harriet for an hour or so today, not even a duck head...

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:16 PM Permalink
pops

Na, ya got to find the other end!

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:19 PM Permalink
Scribe

Me and THX put in about four hours today. I'm definitely day hunting mostly this year. Without snow night time is fruitless....and nutless....and medallionless.

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:19 PM Permalink
Scribe

Still lookin Pops...I found a nice white scarf in a tree.

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:20 PM Permalink
East Side Digger

hi scribe

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:20 PM Permalink
Scribe

Hey East digger! Reg.....ALL of that and then back again for the past three days!

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:22 PM Permalink
Map Guy

Say, what ever happened with the IM theories? Why has that been so quickly dismissed?

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:22 PM Permalink
green

Stupid Idea #2...

There's tons more to Chair-O-Key than what Guy's book shows. It runs all the way to the High Bridge on the east... Ittiz like little strips o'land along the bluff that are bisected by streets that dead-end there and all. There *are* baseball diamonds (there's your sport AND "precious"), in these strips, or at least one... I can see it in my mind, but I don't know the street. In looking at the map, it *could* be Congress Street - and that's pretty damn justicy, wouldn't you say?

Also, from up on the bluff, you can look down and see Raspberry Island and all that other stuff you gotta see.

Enkneeway, with it not being found at HI yet, well... What's like HI as far as seeing things and lining things up, but isn't HI? Well, Chair-O-Key...

Just my noodling. Take it for what ittiz worth.

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:22 PM Permalink
East Side Digger

scribe when are you going to face the facts its in mounds

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:23 PM Permalink
Medallionator88

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:23 PM Permalink
Map Guy

Lets have no more talk about this HI stuff. Lets beat the drum for IM again!

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:23 PM Permalink
Scribe

Mape Gui, whats your IM theory?:)

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:24 PM Permalink
East Side Digger

oh yah map guy

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:24 PM Permalink
Scribe

East Digger, sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.....

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:25 PM Permalink
Map Guy

Bates street...tennis courts...Capitol view..IM!

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:25 PM Permalink
East Side Digger

mounds dont

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:25 PM Permalink
green

Oh... And wasn't there a Smith, that was a justice?

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:26 PM Permalink
Scribe

I'll be at Almond Joy Park. I feel like a nut...specially after all that brush I've been through!

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:27 PM Permalink
pops

You still here? how's this pic? I'm getting serious about my hunting. Got to run, already late.

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:27 PM Permalink
Med2k


After so much time at Harriet today, I'm leaning more towards IM now. The city has grown by leaps and Mounds?

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:28 PM Permalink
Map Guy

No, just kidding. I have no idea. I still think it's on the thin ice under the high bridge. I'm heading to REI to buy a climbing harness and about 400 feet of rope.

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:28 PM Permalink
East Side Digger

who thinks we will be still banging our head after tonights clue

Mon, 01/27/2003 - 5:29 PM Permalink