MnGCA

Buzzygirl · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:27 pm Post subject:

Have any MnGCA cachers ever hunted for the WC Medallion in groups? I haven't looked for the Medallion since the early 90's, myself. I would like to try my hand at it again. I would hope that my geocaching experience will have helped at least a *little* when considering what sneaky hiding tricks the WC folks may use to disguise the prize.

BB&D · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:51 pm Post subject:

I have never gone medallion hunting, but my cousin in-law(is that an actual title?), who we've brought caching a couple of times, does so every year. He's talked me into going with this year by comparing the two activities, leaning much more to a puzzle cache. But, if by chance he finds it and I'm with, I better get something out of it.

King Boreas · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 11:09 pm Post subject:

I hunted with towlebooth for about an hour on Raspberry Island. He had some great clue interpretations. And I got a new cache hide out of it.

Kitch became a crazy medallion hunter last year. mucluck and Diggin'_it are medallion hunters, converted to geocaching.

A New York film company (www.notanotherhollywoodfilm.com) has been here the past four years, making a docunmentary of the hunt. The world premiere is at Bell Auditorium in late January.

I take a week vacation to go medallion hunting. You like night 'caching? Try night medallion hunting. Very cool. I'll be out there morning, noon and night.

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King Boreas · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 2:54 am Post subject:

towlebooth · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:30 am Post subject:

Kitch · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:36 am Post subject:

The best part is seeing the weirdo's that are stupid enough to be looking for a hunk of plastic lost in the woods.

ummm...oh.....ummm...ah crap....I'm one of those weirdo's.

sui generis · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:28 pm Post subject:

Anybody ever been mean enough to hide decoys though? Twisted Evil

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Kitch · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:46 pm Post subject:

years ago...it was made out of metal.

People used to toss washers all across a field to "foil" those with the metal detectors.

Yes..people put out fakes...its funny to watch people pick them up and get all excited and sneak off like they found it.

KC0GRN · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 1424

yeah I was wondering this year if some more convincing fakes would pop up because people saw what the medallion looked like last year.

Moe the Sleaze · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:01 pm Post subject:

I was gonna buy a box of donuts at SuperAmerica and throw them around the parks.
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Centris · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:25 pm Post subject:

s4xton · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:33 pm Post subject:

IIRC, all the caches in Phalen were gone around the peak of medallion time last year, including two of KB's (and one of whatsagps's iirc).

Thankfully, after the hunt, King Boreas carpetbombed the entire area with caches, in what's now probably the most concentrated cache area in Saint Paul.

I suppose, if you spend a lot of time hunting the medallion, you end up finding a lot of places to hide caches. I enjoyed finding all of them around Phalen.

-Aaron

KC0GRN · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 1424

I'm guessing a safe bet during the 2 weeks of the hunt might be to temp disable and pull your caches (beats replacing em I suppose). I'll probably do that with mine (it could use the maintennance anyways).

I've got a few new ideas for caches, and if those get out before hand (hoping to get one out soon) I'll probably do the same.