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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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Just called, THE HUNT IS ON KEEP LOOKING....
Nope and nope.
If you go to the overlook in BC, above Warner, et al, right off Upper Afton, you can see a billion things. There's a bower there and you can see the lowest part of the park.
It could be by Obbs, there's parking there, but I don't think that's where it is. You've not "arrived" on the rails there. Nor can you take the Point.
I really think there's going to be something rash come Clue 12. Ittiz going to be a lllloooonnnnnnnggggg run for the Med.
I know I offered to stand in line for clue 12 (an I am confident it will not be found before then) but I have to back out of that offer :frown:
and this is why, I had faith that as a group we could figure out these clue narrow down an area of a park and have a good chance of finding the thing with out "skill" turns out I was wrong to have faith in something so simple as a good hunt. Some lucky Bastard will pick it up in the middle of the night tomorrow, and frankly I am not that lucky. Clue 11 will confirm the park but will not narrow the search area, we are back to stupid hunts ending in with thousands of people thrown into the woods to tear them up, and frankly I'm done wasting my time....
My best wishes to all of you
wooohooo = drinking with the clowns!!!!
see you at matty b's, wildtimes, obb's :wink:
Like, I didn't get "my point you could take" until yesterday and I put it with yesterday's Clue.
I'm gonna miss ya sweetheart.
I do hope you reconsider... I don't mean about standing in line, but just being a part of this with us all.
As for the rest of you - what the deuce do you want, exactly? Either the clues are too easy or too hard. What makes a clue just right, what makes you happy with a clue, one that you figured out? Well neato. But remember 50 other people probably figured it out too. And from Ma Press perspective, the more people interested, the more people buy papers, and buy buttons, and participate, etc.
Bottom line: Stop whining. You want a challenge, don't complain about the difficulty level when you get it.
Personally I think it's great. Lots to chew on and lots to think about, and as it should be, the dilligent like Ian who've been working their way through the park will have a better chance than not.
If you're talking to me, I don't mind the difficulty of the clues it just seems a little over board for such a large park.
I agree with tammy on one regard - the hunt will get stupid and it may just be fun to watch people go crazy, like it was at como and phalen a few years back....but to wait in line and think we (or someone we know) will be led right to it is kind of crazy.....
I don't mind the toughness of clues - hoping the explanation will help us all understand the way of thinking of the CW - but I am sure there will be little told to pacify the mind :smile:
I may just sit in mounds tonight and see where people run to....I for sure will sit in mounds tomorrow night with vid cam in hand :wink:
R
That's one reason I like these clues. I like it when I'm duped because I was thinking inside the box. It's got to be hard for the CW to come up with unique ways of writing the clues that haven't already been done to death. And every time they do come up with something new, it's now in the front of our minds. Look at how things have changed since they first used that anagram from BC. We all know to look for it now so they really can't use it the same way again.
(female half of hnts2mch)
 I have been followed everywhere I go by Cathy Hogan, hunted the other day with 5 previous finders in the same area, 3 yesterday, I officially met the finder of the first hunt of the Cooler Crew Steve Doyle yesterday - and been in the area with him a few times so far, and it is the 54th year since my grandpa found it in '54.
I am bundling up, going out and putting my noodle and hoe to good use.
but I'm not sure if i'm whining or not but for a few of us that claim its not all about the money its about the hunt. I look at it a different way...
I just don't have any pride in picking it up when I didn't figure out the clues at all..(ok maybe a little :wink: )
for that I give Jake and Brass mega props for last year...they figured it out and beat the CW..this year...doesn't seem like he was beat....
their game..their rules...my game...my thoughts...I'm done bkitching
I admit I was officially beat this year but there is still 2 clues left and I am still Looking.
Like I said last night, I have a sliver or hope that we're all just missing something and, in fact, the location was revealed early. But, we'll just have to see.
Off to the park. I hope I see y'all there.
Should we do a conference call?
Conference call website is www.freeconference.com. Doesn't cost anything to do, other than having a long distance number, but it's after 9 so should be free minutes for everybody.
Like in Como, 2003? I was standing on the street not more than 40 ft from the thing (it was just behind me). My clue getters were far back in line at PP. Long before MY phone rang a mad mob of a few hundred hunters starting heading my way. Kindof freaky.
Ah... the hunt. I hope to get to Mounds tonight. Need to find a sitter.
See ya!
I can't move anymore snow, or chop anymore ice.