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Mock Hunts
Mock Hunts have been a part of the Cooler Crew since Allison Wonderland started doing them in 2000. At first, it was a virtual hunt. In 2001, he turned it into a real hunt for a prize. In 2002, after the short hunt at Merriam, the prize grew, from donations from the Cooler Crew to be in excess of $500, and his hunt kicked off an entire season of Mock Hunts throughout the summer. And we've been having them ever since, with the finder of one hunt writing the next one, and so on. These pages chronicle those hunts.
Copyright © 2003- 2008 Cooler Crew
This site is dedicated to the St. Paul Pioneer Press Medallion Hunt,
a main attraction of the annual St. Paul Winter Carnival that takes place every
year in the smaller of the Twin Cities. For more on the Winter Carnival,
try the following:
Cooler Crew Medallion Hunt
Discussions (This link is for Coolerheads who have already registered at ableminds.
The registration link is below
-- If you are not registered on the Discussion board, click here
For a complete list of treasure hunting resources, visit our links page.
The Here and Beyond
All the clues from all the years are now available. They're not currently as perfectly explained as they ought to be, but we're getting there. As time permits, the clue descriptions will be cleaned up and anecdotes will be added to make you laugh and clap. The individual hunt pages through the 1970s are dynamically generated by the web server, and may contain links to the more recent hunts, whose content differs from the static pages; At the moment, we're working on getting all of the supplemental information into the same dynamic page engine as the clues are. As we do, more of the site will be converted to the dynamic pages you currently see, and links may be temporarily broken as a result. If you ever find anything that offends you, don't hesitate to write and complain. No malice or poor taste is ever intended in these family-friendly pages.

One of the more recent representative images of the hunt from the Pioneer Press. For a look at Winter Carnival button designs from past years, see Ron Young's excellent St. Paul Winter Carnival button collection or another keep-it-simple button index reminiscent of the earliest days of the Web.