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Minnesota Wild Flag -Found by Tim the Hunter!
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Mouse 1 -Found by Mucluck and Kitch!
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Mouse 2 STATUS--FOUND BY TIM, JAKE, and CLUEMASTER!!
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Mouse 3 STATUS--FOUND BY CLUEMASTER!!
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Mouse 4-STATUS--FOUND BY PAYME!!
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Mouse 5-STATUS--FOUND BY ME2!!
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tmk and i searched those damn woods but at the break of dawn before work, i don't even know if i would have realized it if i found it. :smile:
so so happy a cooler found it! can you dig it?
This hunting thing is addicting. Great clues. I thought for sure that it was Phalen, even on Day 6. Place for beginners = tot lot at Phalen. There's a big compass set into the ground in Phalen park (heavenly guide). "Consider what he could deliver" = poetry, so I checked out the poetry thing at Phalen and "followed the obvious path," a winding stone trail in the grass, to the Dragon Garden (place with heat). I figured out Clarence but the old Gillete Hospital building was designed by Clarence Johnston and is sort of in line with the Dragon garden when you're at the poetry spot. Also, a plaque in front of the building says it was saved by the neighborhood. Johnson High is also close to the Gillette area.
whatsagps (Sean) has been working on a C.I.T.O. event for Mounds Park. I'll let him know there may be some Cooler Crew interested in assisting.
Way to go!
I've always said you need 3 things to find the medallion (or a flag in this case...)
1. Figure out the clues.
2. Get out to the park and look!
3. Get lucky.
The cooler crew helped with #1 a lot, and everyone knows who they are specifically. And also #2, I don't think I would have stayed out there for the 15 hours by myself so thanks for being out there and making it fun. And #3 I feel a little guilty about, I hope I didn't use up any and all luck that the CC has accrued, if I did... sorry!
Look for the story at a local media outlet near you sometime today or tomorrow.
Thanks for waiting to pick it up till I got back in town, missing a hunt is one thing but missing a coolerhead finding it would have sucked.
Thanks for spending the fun of the day with us.
Thanks for running this thread and getting us the word that it was out. Your addiction to treasure hunting is starting to wear off on me pretty badly.
3 hunts this summer for $$$$$ just awesome
coolers are starting to get this down now....IMHO
I was excited to be around friends in the moment of Tim's victory last night. It was the perfect hunt and the perfect prize for the perfect cooler.
Tim Petrie of Cottage Grove found the flag....
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Totally unrelated:
I'll let you know what comes of it.
This hunt was made for you Timmers and you shined!
I love ya man!
FYI, the PP needs some serious extreme makeover in their press room!
My gawd the employees must be depressed in that atmosphere!
G and I did manage to find 1 real potted plant that was alive though...
nobody that works there, uses it....
2 min ago - 21 Aug 2005 8:30 pm New
From:
The original Redbear[7d4c9531]
To:
KITCH
Subj:
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: here
Yeah, I changed my e-mail because it said that yahoo (what I use) typically blocks verification e-mails.
So anyway, I'm sorry I couldn't make the press conference, I had an 11 am flight to South Carolina, where I am now.
If you wouldn't mind, until I get this f'n thing worked out, is to post that given all of the divisiveness around here over the last year that despite not actually finding it myself, I was entirely happy to see everyone happy for Tim as I was and talking about how it was a great group effort, and it was probably our first group effort in quite some time.
Thanks Kitch.
Practice is making results...
btw...next time we need about 20 more numbers vs. just the 6 :wink:
A president or two will give you a clue
So will a governor of capitol renown
A school of hockey fame will also help your game
As you go jumping all around town
It's been said that candy is really quite dandy
And we're certainly inclined to concur
But then again liquor is alleged to be quicker
That both are true we're quite sure
Ski jump, Indian Mounds 1940 -
Paper: St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
Title: MYSTERY DESIGN HINTS MEMORIAL ITSELF IS FORGOTTEN
Date: July 1, 1991
Gary Kemp of St. Paul got me started. There is this symbol, he said, a large design embossed on the top of a hill near Mounds Park. What does it all mean?
Gary's mysterious call sent me to the southwest corner of Burns Avenue and Highway 61, almost directly across Burns from the Kick-Off saloon. There, among some new bike and pedestrian paths, is a gentle dome of land fringed with weeds and topped with a few mature trees. The crest of the hill is grass, kept mowed by the city's parks department.
The grass is short enough so that the first features you'll see are long, very shallow paths cut into the hill and lined here and there with traces of weathered asphalt. The paths suggest the outline of a very large emblem: a five-pointed star almost 100 feet across.
On closer inspection, I discovered that there are four elm trees within the star pattern, three of them at the outside points and one at one of the five intersections toward the center. Shallow depressions at the other star points indicate there were once 10 trees growing on the hill.
A memorial of sorts, obviously long neglected. But who put it there? Neighborhood historians didn't have a clue, but the St. Paul parks department had this:
The knoll is part of the St. Paul Municipal Forest, a 25-acre tract of donated and purchased land along the bluffs of Mounds Park. The stand of trees was originally called Matron's Grove, and city records show the memorial was created by Gold Star Mothers whose sons or daughters were killed in war. Each of the 10 original trees was planted in memory of a soldier.
There's no record of when the star was dedicated, but it must have been long ago. One other thing about the star: There are flowers still growing here and there along its outline. The flowers are small, delicate, star-shaped... and gold.
Why don't we plant six more trees and revive the memorial?
Another reader wrote about another war memorial - not quite so mysterious, but long neglected, nonetheless. This one lies along both sides of Carter Avenue just east of North Cleveland Avenue on the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota. It's in a stand of mature berry and pine trees, and a plaque on a stone monument on the north side of the street says this is Memorial Grove, dedicated by the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Home Economics in 1925 to 17 men who died in World War I.
The stone monument is matched by one in a similar grove of trees on the south side of Carter, but the commemorative metal plaque is long gone. Did it also say Memorial Grove, and did it also honor the men of World War I? If you know anything about this monument, please call me at 228-5568.
A tribute of another sort will be offered this Saturday during Miner Days at Conway Park, an annual celebration featuring a concert by the Minnesota Orchestra.
Members of nearby St. Pascal's Catholic Church will operate their food-concession booth at the event in memory of Don Sandin, a fellow parishioner whose quiet dignity as he was dying of cancer last summer was an inspiration to the community.
Don Boxmeyer's column appears each Sunday, Monday and Wednesday in the Pioneer Press.
Copyright (c) 1991 St. Paul Pioneer Press
Author: BYLINE: Don Boxmeyer, Staff Columnist
Section: Express
Page: 2B
Copyright (c) 1991 St. Paul Pioneer Press
Paper: St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
Title: MATRON'S GROVE MAY GET NEW STARRING ROLE
Date: July 15, 1991
Earlier this month, I wrote about a mysterious star embossed on the top of a small hill called Matron's Grove near Mounds Park.
Shallow, overgrown trenches outlining the star, and a few trees planted at its points, are all that is left of a memorial created before World War II.
The St. Paul Parks Department, which keeps the hill mowed, told me the star was the work of the Gold Star Mothers, all of whom had sons or daughters killed in war.
That column generated some further clarification. Matron's Grove, according to several sources, is the work of the Order of the Eastern Star, an international fraternal organization for both men and women who are related to Masons.
Al Kramer now lives in Falcon Heights, but he grew up in Mounds Park and can remember when strips of asphalt outlined the star, which measures almost 100 feet across. Al also remembers a plaque at the memorial that said it was the work of the Daughters of the Eastern Star.
Loraine Knapp of St. Paul can remember planting a tree in 1935 at Matron's Grove for her grandmother, Myrtie Gould, who was a past worthy matron of Rainbow Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, on the East Side. Loraine, now the treasurer of Rainbow Chapter, has always wondered if the grove had fallen victim to street and highway construction.
It has fallen victim only to time, and another active Eastern Star officer, Louise Kulvich, thinks it might be fitting to revive the memorial.
Louise is worthy matron of the Queen Esther Chapter in St. Paul Park, and after reading about Matron's Grove, she contacted enough colleagues in other area chapters to determine that there is interest in restoring Matron's Grove.
Author: BYLINE: Don Boxmeyer, Staff Columnist
Section: Express
Page: 2D
Copyright (c) 1991 St. Paul Pioneer Press
Click on Chapters and scroll down to find the one mentioned in the article above.
Hello Mr. Firestone,
Thank you for contacting me concerning the medallion hunt for this years Fire Muster.
Mr. Tom Hanson and Mr. Jim Skelly both with the City of Burnsville are the guru's for this event.
I forwarded your email to Tom this evening and asked that he furnish you with the details of the event and answer the questions you raised. He should promptly respond to you; however, if you wish more info, please feel free to call me.
Burnsville Fire Muster & Community Celebration
Ken Slipka, Treasurer
:cool: Hockey+Medallion Hunting=Timmers :cool:
Congratulations Tim - I personally enjoyed hunting with you the past couple of days - well deserved. you may as well have been named the 'famed pig' out there -rolling around in that dirt!!!! and hanging out with termites!!!!!
Jake (pigs eye jake) - ouch :frown: ---hope your feeling better. :worried:
:smile: Welcome again to everyone new! :smile:
I met quite a handful of new people and saw famous people - hines, pigs eye, boxmeyer, nelson (golden tix), reid!!!
Cooler Crew Dictionary - new word ..... 'posting virgin'
A lady left her man stranded with his boat and no way home because of an argument. -I actually forgot about that, thanks for the reminder...that'll show him eh? but, maybe he was rowing to the middle of the lake to drop a body --DOH!
CM likes it hard in the knee. Don't ask... just kick.
I did not know this about him - thanks
The star /'big w' was the best idea/clue!
NIGHT HUNTING ROCKS!
Wombat and anyone else wondering , bummer you ran into someone not nice. I actually have NEVER met anyone in a park during a hunt that in the least didn't say hello as they passed by. Some of us even stop to talk- most of us in here can't stop talking to people about hunting- it gets us distracted from really looking. I am usually pretty outgoing online, at the bars and out in the parks ---BUT when it comes down to the last 2 days of any given hunt, I understand the determination and focus that keeps my head buried in tree stumps, retaining walls and under bushes. Most of the 'shoot the shit' happens online or at the bar - because of how short this hunt really was ...most of us are 'die hard' - didn't sit for a break until we couldn't see straight or feet hurt. I did however (out of my character) mention to a man in the woods that we would probly NOT be standing this close to eachother, alone in the woods - we were the only 2 there and usually I feel pretty safe. I don't know why I said it :frown:
where oh where - are you with Chris? Chris Rocks! :eyeroll:
anyone wondering- we were not the only ones out there- there were a more than a hundred that last day and night coming through that park. The Cooler Crew is renound for picking up bottles, cans and paper while in the park or even after when we all go back for pictures the next day. Saturday in particular had a huge band, festival and activities going on up on the northern end, at the picnic grounds - No Cooler was up there even looking since Thursday. bars and restaurants durning the hunt- yes. We don't come out here and picnic DURING a hunt. Hope you can make it to other hunts and be involved with gettogethers.
tatergirl - great to meet you out there- red shirts are awesome!!!! - after you left the park last night there were many cars that pulled up to the park. Lots had left cause they knew it was found as the '2nd shift' trickled in ----- I'd say there were more than 100 people.
It sounds like tater has seen the light. Woooohoooo!
I'll have to go out and see that for myself, sounds very intriguing. Wonder if any of it can be seen from aerial shots... (Anyone called Dibs on a geocache hide there? Perhaps undoable, might be too close to others).
On a plus note, my cold is finished.. I got 7 cache finds over the weekend (beat out on 3 FTFs, serves me right for trying), didn't do any hunting, besides a driveby of the area.
To be honest, I didn't keep up with this hunt as well as I could/should have. My 2 best reasons for that are A, I worked some really nasty hours over the week even with this stupid cold, heck I didn't even want to wake up Saturday. And B, I really felt the prize would have been wasted on me, as I'm really not a sports person, and yeah I know it's not all about the prize, but honestly it's the chance at a prize that's true motivation, and I just didn't have that. But I did enjoy noodling the clues, even if I still suck at that aspect of the hunt.
which one?