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2008 St. Paul Winter Carnival Medallion

Submitted by KITCH on

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Clue #1 You've joined the hunt for the regal runt 
To prove searching does pay 
Don't dig a hole or knock down a pole 
And the golf course is out of play 

Last year Jake took home the cake 
With a clue a bit off level 
This year we'll rinse off all our prints 
Lest this hunt go to the devil 

Clue #2 The point of all this is so that you won't miss 
Your big chance to grab all the cash 
Now gather your guys and a gal who is wise 
You'll have to do something quite rash 

Clue #3 We've scanned the county to hide our bounty 
And keep you on your toes 
It may sound risible, but our puck's invisible 
Although it might just stick to your nose. 

Clue #4 How fun is the snow how far will we go 
You really ought to go see 
Get up for the mission and not just the wishin' 
Get into the game-it's all free 

Clue #5 There once was a clue that drove you-know-who 
To threaten a heinous act 
We'd use it again but we're afraid of his pen 
My friend, that's an unfortunate fact 

Clue #6 All ye who look should honor the book 
As one who stood for hope 
Much was built in the name of the kilt 
Look sharp now and never mope 

Clue #7 If you should go look high then low 
One could see it from a bower 
If it's your bent you might seek a tent 
To protect in case of shower 

Take note of the wood and do what you should 
To extract the prize for yourself 
Build a bridge to your dreams as high as they seem 
Leave nothing behind on the shelf 

Clue #8 Look at the buck to acquire good luck 
In finding the grail this year 
Link a jar,a line, a star lawyer divine 
While crying in your beer 

He won, then lost and the nation was tossed 
Into strife that was far from civil 
The point I'm making is yours for the taking 
Believe me - not the message board drivel 

Clue #9 This name brings tears, elation and cheers 
And occasionally even outrages 
It sits on walls and rides the halls 
And fills a dozen pages 

The hills are alive and you'll have arrived 
Refrain from the very injurious 
Be bold and be brave but your skin you must save 
What's off-limits should frankly be obvious 

Clue #10 Look for the sight you hope is just right 
You're doubtful and you're torn 
Make the rounds for what rhymes with grounds 
And part of a rose with a horn 

Through flames and flow this park where you'll go 
Is the site of sacred relics 
Stay away from these and the cliffs if you please 
Or you'll be in a heckuva fix 

Clue #11 Air and river sounds lead all to Mounds 
Far from the graves take your entourage 
Twixt Burns and Thorn, an icy pathway is born 
Across Mounds from a gray house and tan garage 

Hell no fury hath as those on the wrong path 
Mounds and Warner form a woodsy perimeter 
The path not official contains footprints beneficial 
Some 300 trudges in - quest for a quitter 

This trail you must follow goes down a narrow hollow 
Under a fallen tree to an old rusted drum 
From here you must search for a hillside path perch 
Wherein lies the center of fun

 

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green

Has anyone heard from Kitch? Allison sent him off this AM with good luck and thinking Kitch was on the right idea and maybe rite.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:36 PM Permalink
zephyrus

You must not have gone here...
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:36 PM Permalink
tim_the_hunter

his daughter was sick (strep throat) but he will be out tonight.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:37 PM Permalink
green

There's a difference between having wisdom and intelligence and being liberated.

Any dumb broad can burn her bra and let her boobs flop.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:38 PM Permalink
green

Thank you. What a shame for his little girl, poor thing.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:39 PM Permalink
green

That was me searching for the Clue Writer...
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:41 PM Permalink
zephyrus

Maybe it is not a lodge you are looking for... How many symbols are there that a non-Mason would think were Masonic symbols?

3. An 'all-seeing-eye', a 'scale' possible the scales of justice, and a 'key'.

Now to figure out what that means in whatever park you are looking in.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:42 PM Permalink
zephyrus

true...

Hey... I am a man, what do I know?
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:46 PM Permalink
green

Don't play coy with me, Mr. Zephy. I know you're smarter'un you pretend to be. :sillygrin: :sillygrin: :sillygrin:
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:47 PM Permalink
Conrad

I'm not taking credit for this bit of trivia (I didn't check myself) but did you all read this

According to this mason's website http://www.tusler-summit.org/ Robert Burns was a mason and the poet laureate of Scotland.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:47 PM Permalink
Mad_Dach5und

I'm taking a much needed break. Me and Mrs. are going to the movies to See National Treasure: Book Of Secrets.

I gotta get out of this treasure-hunting mindset....
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:48 PM Permalink
zephyrus

Don't play coy with me, Mr. Zephy. I know you're smarter'un you pretend to be.

Nawww... I's onlee dun got edjumakated tu th' aith graid.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:48 PM Permalink
green

Knew he was the poet laureate, suspected him being a Mason.

Raymond Burns?

While he was a Mason, I can't get from looking at a buck to thinking Burns.

UNLESS it was he in Clue #6 and now the Mason part is connecting to him again. He could be the kit-and-kaboodle of 6 if he wrote a book, which I never found a few nites ago. Maybe I need to revisit that.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:53 PM Permalink
CerealKiller

I am about ready to give up on this hunt all together!! I got my noddles rocked out!! my head is spinning!! after tonight I cant hunt other then in the day I will be down to the paper tonight!! and thats it!!
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:54 PM Permalink
mrmnmikey

I'm gonna take a nap. I may not wake up for a while.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:55 PM Permalink
green

I'm still on the toofer'one. Yuppers.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:56 PM Permalink
wolfpac

Went and got some vicodin for my ailment, feeling much, much better now!
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:57 PM Permalink
green

You are SUCH a nut!!! You always make me laugh.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:00 PM Permalink
green

Sleep tight and SCDs.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:01 PM Permalink
ThoseMedallingKids

I'm looking at Burns as the Scottish author for clue 6, and I found an interesting fact. Robert Burns was born on January 25th, and that is the day that the clue came out.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:02 PM Permalink
green

That's good to hear! YEAH!!! How's your daughter's elbow?
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:03 PM Permalink
Brassmonkey

Back in Chaska, staying downtown for the weekend was fun. We were hoping to know the correct park for the weekend hunting but that obviously didn't happen. Moved a lot of snow in three parks. I haven't decided if I am going to the paper tonight, is anybody posting the clue?
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:03 PM Permalink
green

Beskie or L&A's Mom or Dursky or some young lady noted that "risible" was the word for the day at some word meaning place the day THAT Clue came out...
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:05 PM Permalink
wolfpac

She'll be in a cast for 4 months and might need surgery. Got to find the puck now, her deadbeat soon to be ex-husband doesn't have her covered by his health care plan anymore
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:07 PM Permalink
me2

me2

there are only parks with pyramids that stand out for me
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:09 PM Permalink
Posen

Look at the buck...isn't Rice Park on Washington? must be at least one book to be honored in that library...
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:09 PM Permalink
zephyrus

Got to find the puck now, her deadbeat soon to be ex-husband doesn't have her covered by his health care plan anymore,

Jerk... I would have worded it "her exbeat soon to be dead-husband...
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:10 PM Permalink
wolfpac

Looking for a part time job?
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:12 PM Permalink
zephyrus

We could trade favors...

I know one of those types too...

 :angry:
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:15 PM Permalink
Brassmonkey

We saw a bald eagle flying above battle creek this afternoon, we figure since an eagle is on the back of the dollar then the CW must have planted that eagle there. We have the right park after all!! :cool: :wink:
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:18 PM Permalink
40below

mystical_muzik, that musta been you & your cutie we saw at BC off Point Douglas.. my wife mentioned how we did the same thing with our little one at Crosby :grin:

Searched BC for an hour or so, really just checking out the scenery... lot of shelf-like rock formations, but I really don't think it's in that part of the park (if it's even in BC)... Couldn't believe the nutjobs we saw at the edge of the cliffs on the rocks searching around up there like it's actually going to be there!

Then we went to Phalen, where we saw 3 people searching the golf course, LOL

Saw about a dozen still searching Phalen... I had a thought that you might be able to see the 3M watertower from one of the hills, but was unsuccessful in finding it

Cherokee intrigues me more and more, especially with the "scanning the county" and the things Conrad mentioned, alot of small things that fit when added up but there's still at least 3 clues that I cannot make fit at all...

Also checked out my sleeper park from a few days ago, Harvest in Maplewood... ALOT of things fit over there but I'm really stretchin it tryin to get clue 8 to fit at all..

This year we'll rinse off all our prints - A store / factory called Imprinted of Minnesota is right at the edge of the park, also "off all" can be "of FALL" (fall harvest)
Lest this hunt go to the devil - Halloween in fall, also "Demont Ave" a couple blocks away

How fun is the snow how far will we go

You really ought to go see


Tells me they left St. Paul and "go see" County Rd C to the north of the park

Clue 5, talking about the star of the north - Polaris dealership right behind the park on 36



All ye who look should honor the book

As one who stood for hope

Much was built in the name of the kilt

Look sharp now and never mope


Robert Barclay fits this to a certain extent:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barclay

Look sharp now tells me look to Maplewood. Maple (acer) - The word Acer is derived from a Latin word meaning "sharp"

never mope - in order to never mope, you need to Cope... Cope Ave leads right to a pedestrian bridge that leads to the park...

Take note of the wood and do what you should

To extract the prize for yourself

Build a bridge to your dreams as high as they seem

Leave nothing behind on the shelf


Convinces me it's in Maplewood... Need to "Build a bridge"? The MnDot Office of Materials is literally there at the park, right across the street... "to your dreams" the Original Mattress Factory is a block or two away... Another connection with "bridge" as in cards - Baron Barclay is the world's leading supplier of publications and materials related to the game of Bridge:

http://www.baronbarclay.com/

Barclay St. borders the park....



... and that's where I got stuck. Sooo... if anybody can fit clue 8 into Harvest we may have something, otherwise I'm back to the drawing board with my top two being Phalen and Battle Creek....
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:21 PM Permalink
mystical_muzik

That was me! Nice to finally be able to put a face with a screen name! LOL I just wasn't feeling that part of the park so we walked in a little ways and then turned around and came out and that's when we ran into you guys :smile: If it's at BC, I'm thinking it's on the McKnight side by the pavillion... I'm still feeling Como.. lol I'm going every which way.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:24 PM Permalink
green

Good stuff!!! That's some noodling! Very nice!

I'm thinking ittiz gonna be in the east side o'Mounds. And that they'll tell us Mounds is a part o'BC. My toofer'one idea.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:25 PM Permalink
Posen

I may not be the first to notice that there's an eagle on the buck, and an eagle viewing location at the south end of Spoon lake near Keller....I'm sure it's a different eagle and isn't important, but what a coincidence...
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:28 PM Permalink
Conrad

Ya know, I just thoughta something...there is a walk bridge over Warner by Burns the overlook I spoke of.

From it you should be able to see everything I mentioned. And it connects Battle Creek and Mounds, But on the bridge over the road, you really wouldn't be in a park, would you...
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:29 PM Permalink
Posen

And as long as we're working te long shots...Go to the Devil could get you DEMONt avenue, which goes into Spoon....
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:29 PM Permalink
Conrad

If it is there, I will regret just doing that...
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:30 PM Permalink
zephyrus

After I left there last week, I kicked myself for not stopping and waiting for the eagles to fly by... But I would have had to park where a cop just was, and I didn't want to take his hiding spot...
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:31 PM Permalink
Posen

and to the East of Spoon is Sextant avenue, which isn't really a Mason's Compass....but may be significant...may not...
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:33 PM Permalink
green

Posen, you go! You are so funny putting it that way. How do you then tie in the Mason part?
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:33 PM Permalink
wolfpac

Welcome Conrad!
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:33 PM Permalink
Posen

Wondering ....Hamilton Burger was Mason's foe...and he would be crying in his beer...Hamilton is in the $5...not the buck...must gather more data...quick, everyone, send me your ones and fives...and perhaps a few 20s...research!
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:35 PM Permalink
green

But it connects the two portions of the park, BC & Mounds, doesn't it? Do you go from high to low (or vice versa) in taking the bridge. Or izzit on the level? Is that bridge near Burns, Pt. Douglas, 61, Mt. Etna? In that area?

I need to see that bridge.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:37 PM Permalink
Conrad

Thank you wolfpac, and hello everyone! Wish I had more to bring to the table right now, I don't have any aces up my sleeve.

I do have an old sleepingbag...
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:38 PM Permalink
green

I'll research Tom and Ben! Ben was a Mason, I'm pretty dog-gone sure and I *think* Tom was.

Those two guys REALLY need to have their bills checked out.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:40 PM Permalink
l and a mommy

I still can't believe that we are all still so spread out, and it isn't like we are just arguing between 2 parks everyone is still out looking everywhere....It's nuts if clue number 9 doesn't reviel something I don't know what we are going to do...
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:47 PM Permalink
'mom'

Scouted at Mounds, and another *really* obscure park - I won't even mention -- didn't feel SO crazy for checking it out, when we saw a small group, maybe 3 or 4 diggin in a corner.

Wound up at Harriet Island, which didn't look good to me last night, but lined up the flag pole (to not knock down), the plaque of Harriet, the ramp/bridge monument looking thighy and the pyriamid-ish pavillion structure. Dug for quite awhile, till it was too dark to see without lights....which of course are still in the closet.

Thinking about going down to Wild Tymes....what time will people start showing....it is a school night for us -- we'll be down fairly early, like 8:15-8:30...
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:52 PM Permalink
Andrea

I'll call you if you give me your number
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:54 PM Permalink
me2

chrisdigger wants to know if your a size 8 - :wink:
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 5:58 PM Permalink
Downtown Dave

prediction--after tonight's clue, everybody will be in como.
Sun, 01/27/2008 - 6:00 PM Permalink