After much anticipation, we have posted the clues and answers to this year's Halloween Treasure Hunt. The Clues are in Bold Orange, the answers in yellow.
Good Luck!
F2 Combined Family Halloween Party
Treasure Hunt Clues
prepared by
Fred W. Finlinson
10.31.08
In the Canadian Rockies, a variety of "Choke Cherry" trees has developed that have cherry red leaves during the summer. Directly Northeast of the most Easterly Canadian Choke Cherry you'll find the next clue behind a piece of vertical conduit.
This clue was found at the bottom of the pipe next to the utility pole where we take our electrical power from Rocky Mountain Power. Tate found the clue.
The Flowering Pear Tree is the community tree of Murray, Utah. In the spring, the blossoms are a delicate white and in the fall, the leaves turn a variety of golden red. At the base of the 2nd most Northern or the 5th most Southern Flowering Pear Tree, you'll find the next clue.
This clue was covered with rocks among the flower pear trees. The kids thought the pear trees were the Canadian Coke Cherry trees because they still had their leaves. Many of the leaves were "red." Tate discovered this clue while looking for the first clue.
This clue will be found under the nose of an object named after a mean dinosaur featured in a film about an island where dinosaurs still roamed. If you have guessed that the dinosaur is a T. Rex, you've got the wrong lizard. Today, this dinosaur's name applies also to a class of birds that prey on other birds. Eagles are part of this class of birds.
Our "toy hauler" trailer is a "Raptor" with the name on the front and back of the trailer. I'm not sure who found this one, but with grand kids looking all around the trailer, it didn't take them long.
There is an old farm joke about the conversation between a tractor and a plow. The question is asked, "What did the plow say to the Tractor?" The answer identifies the location of the next clue. You may have to ask your parents for help on this one. The clue will be under the southern most part of the answer to the Question mentioned above.
I was amazed, nobody knew the old farm joke. The answer to the question, "What did the plow say to the Tractor?" is, "Pull me closer, John Deere." The clue was hid under the front end loader of the John Deere Tractor which was facing south in the little barn.
To find this next clue, you'll have to think like one of the F2 Place wild cats. There are racoons that will fight them for cat food. Little Bryan loves to chase them. We have a pack of coyotes that would love to eat them. One of our neighbors used to bring his lion hunting dogs through our area, and "treeing" one of our cats seemed to be a lot of fun for his hounds. So you need to think, where could the cats be out of the weather and be safe from these predators. Access to this clue will only be available to the older cousins who will have to share the clue with everybody else.
The grand kids came up with the hay barn and the hay stack pretty quick. When we caught up with them they were looking all around the hay stack at their level. The safest place is up on top of the stack. Access to the top, is from the back of the stack where the bales are placed up against a brace. The boards of the brace became the ladder that Hannah used to climb to the top of the stack where she found the clue stuffed in a bale on the very top of the stack.
The next clue will be found on the circumference of a training enclosure in a device utilized to provide H20 for equines.
We use the Round Pen to train horses and there is a blue bucket tied to the side of the round pen that can be used to give a horse a drink. Brittany remembered the blue bucket and Tate knew what a round pen was.
To find the next clue, go to the largest collection of springs on the F2 Place. Elevation at this place will be necessary to spot this clue when you look to the West.
This clue stumped the kids for a while. The trampoline is new this year and the springs are hidden under the pad that goes around the tramp. They finally got a little help from a parent and they were off to the trampoline, but the next clue was not in the trampoline. If you jumped high on the trampoline while looking to the West, you could see the next clue taped to the highest bar on the swing set just west of the trampoline. Tate climbed the swing set and got the clue down for the group.
Grandma Finlinson has a soft spot in her heart for little ones, including all of our Grand Children. The next clue will be found in a spot where little spheres break apart revealing relatively large mouths and little bodies.
This was one of the most difficult clues. "Little ones," include the little song birds that are born each year in our garage, nesting on top of the hoes that hang on the wall. The "little spheres" are the eggs laid that hatch or "break apart" revealing the baby birds, that are mostly "large mouths" with very little bodies. The kids were looking all around the house, it took a little direction to get them into the garage and then they could see the nest on top of the hoe and the rest was easy.
Inside the F2 Gathering Place on the counter, you'll find this year's treasure. We hope you have enjoyed this year's treasure hunt. Grandma Chris and Grandpa Fred.
Actually, Grandma Chris found a better place, the treasure gift bags were in her legislative desk in the dining room. It didn't take this pack of clue hunters long to find the treasurer. The success of the hunt didn't come from the sugar found in the goodies in the bag, it came from the faces of the kids trying to figure out Grandpa's clues. The racing off to the next clue. The attempts of their parents to help them with the clues. It took three generations to pull of this treasurer hunt successfully. We're a good team.
