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2015 - Snail Lake

Submitted by Clue Master on
2015 Treasure Hunt Discussion Thread



 

Tatergirl

Well secured - had me thinking of prisons/jail also.

Workhouse farm at BC

Old county jail near Kellogg, Upper Landing, and HI

Police substation at Highland

Old workhouse farm at Como.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 5:13 PM Permalink
Terry

It is that time of the hunt when we're all over the place.

I decided as we were traveling through Como and past the golf course, that if I found a golf club wedge, I wouldn't put it back.

:pbpt: :ooh: :goofy: :grin: :smile:
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 5:24 PM Permalink
zephyrus

Thanks :smile:

I get bored and sidetracked easily. I wanted to get out today, but decided to stay home to ensure that I don't miss my conference call for school tonight...

I was just popping ideas around about the well secured and now and again stuff...
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 5:33 PM Permalink
zephyrus

I got sidetracked and wanted to see where this guy was hung... it was in the basement of the old ramsey county jail...
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 5:37 PM Permalink
Terry

So now you have me reading up on that guy...led to Ann Bilanksy and then I realized I needed to quit.

Maybe this will be a repeat of last year' hunt.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 5:59 PM Permalink
Downtown Dave

Mom,kid and I canvassed Phalen tonight. No aha moments, but I was spared watching Handy Manny, so score one for fresh air.

10 cars at beachouse, 6 at lake house. One guy ice fishing. Somebody has already dug the base of every tree in the area around the picnic pavilion. Awesome.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 6:22 PM Permalink
zephyrus

Heh - she was why I was readin up on him...

I just had a conference call for school - and looking at it again, he still seems to fit clue 2, as a Ann Bilansky type clue -

Now and Again - William (&) Williams

Fouled beyond Measure - His rope was measured too long, it stretched 8" his neck stretched 4 1/2 and his feet hit the ground - they had to pull him back up and lift his feet off the ground so he could suffocate for 14-15 minutes...

"Wedged" is our word - Johnny Keller was his lover/victim (and his mom too) and Keller park is wedged between both Keller golf course and Phalen golf course...

At clue 2, I can stretch anything...
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 6:34 PM Permalink
Terry

Stretching is expected. It happens well beyond clue 2.

I always look forward to see what stretches were actually clue solving at the end of each hunt.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 6:46 PM Permalink
zephyrus

no kidding
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 6:49 PM Permalink
MrsMGhunter

That was my daughter and I :smile: we were all over there and by the monument :smile:
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 7:07 PM Permalink
Downtown Dave

Yes you were :grin:
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 7:13 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

Really like this noodle Zeph....I don't think it's that much of a stretch given other Bilansky type clues.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 7:14 PM Permalink
zephyrus

:smile:
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 7:18 PM Permalink
brasscat

back in the mobster days it was right by como....kinda where the old pool use to be...( i think) but i do know by como..
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 7:23 PM Permalink
Terry

That is where the work house was alright. I remember that sitting there when I was little. I remember how odd it looked when it had been taken down.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 7:32 PM Permalink
zephyrus

Yeah, the workhouse was up there were they would smash the rocks...

I was first wondering about the old jail where the gallows was in the basement. Where W.W. was executed. That is now the Ramsey Co. Courthouse/St. Paul City Hall.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 7:41 PM Permalink
Terry

Maybe you're onto something with the Keller connection.

Another half hour and we can start unscrambling another clue.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 7:58 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

defeat arch and no no treasure nature's

an a he laughed sled spy jug he a trail by

away the did near on went such a high

over you're work the fail with kid head
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:30 PM Permalink
Terry

Clue 3 scrambled.

defeat arch and no no treasure nature's

an a he laughed sled spy jug he a trail by

away the did near on went such a high

over you're work the fail with kid head
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:31 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

high/spy

trail/fail
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:32 PM Permalink
Terry

trail/fail

sled/head

These are the rhymers. Any others?
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:33 PM Permalink
GreenTeam

spy

by

high
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:34 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

Phalen -- fail

Gateway trail -- arch

Could also mean Phalen creek with the arch tunnels at Swede
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:35 PM Permalink
Terry

UGH! Too many for 4 lines.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:35 PM Permalink
GreenTeam

went over his head

oops, over your head
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:36 PM Permalink
Terry

There are also arched bridges at Phalen.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:36 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

Jug head --- another wink to the failin Phalen hunt
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:38 PM Permalink
Terry

Good catch Tater.

No 'his' in the scramble.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:40 PM Permalink
Terry

There is a trail that connects Phalen and Keller, right? It's been way too many years and I don't know if there is or not anymore.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:44 PM Permalink
GreenTeam

a kid he did sled

such a jug head

over an arch

ugh!
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:45 PM Permalink
Terry

So this is screaming Phalen. Seems early to be giving away the park with Jughead and Arch-ie.

There is the archery thing somewhere in Phalen - closer to the Maplewood side if I'm remembering correctly.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:48 PM Permalink
zephyrus

the only way I have gone from one to the other is either by crossing traffic in the road, or by walking on the ice under the frost ave bridge
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:49 PM Permalink
zephyrus

archery is in Keller - north side of frost. its rear end abuts the golf course
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:50 PM Permalink
Terry

That makes sense. Thanks Zephy.

One thing I've found over these many hunts, is that you remember things, but don't remember where or what park. It all gets scrambled.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:53 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

I don't know why - but this is screaming Phalen/Keller to me right now which makes me automatically think red herring. :pbpt:
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:54 PM Permalink
Terry

I agree. Phalen is scaring me because this is too early to name a park.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:55 PM Permalink
becksie

It was given in clue 3 in 2004
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:57 PM Permalink
Tatergirl

Since they used the green donut hunt/Archie comic issue for Phalen, maybe there is a different Archie comic issue that will point us somewhere else?
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:57 PM Permalink
zephyrus

yes, this could be no other White Christmas.... Keller is huge

it's not just the little area between round lake and the woods across frost...
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 8:58 PM Permalink
GreenTeam

They opened that newly remodeled clubhouse at Keller recently.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 9:00 PM Permalink
Terry

Yes they did. That is a huge park so it makes sense, but it is early.

Any area off the top of anyone's head that is wedge shaped?
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 9:06 PM Permalink
zephyrus

An arch he did spy (with the treasure near by) --

Nature's work high over a trail

"You're such a jug head," laughed the kid on a sled

Away he went -- no defeat and no fail
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 9:12 PM Permalink
zephyrus

from Tom on FB
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 9:12 PM Permalink
Terry

An arch he did spy (with the treasure nearby) -

NatureÂ’s work high over a trail.

“You’re such a jug head,” laughed the kid on the sled,

Away he went no defeat and no fail.
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 9:13 PM Permalink
GreenTeam

Thanks for the clue!
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 9:14 PM Permalink
zephyrus

the bridge from the creek or whatever it is between phalen lake and keller lake (under frost ave) is like 2 arches, if I remember correctly
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 9:15 PM Permalink
GreenTeam

So does no fail mean no Phalen? :wink:
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 9:15 PM Permalink
zephyrus

I would think so
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 9:17 PM Permalink