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[edit] Canada West (Calgary) coin Trail

• Value: $25,000
• This coin was found (when?)

[edit] CLUES

1. Drive all you want, search by car, if you need a passport you've gone too far.

   Go South but don't cross into the US

2. You'll find yourself in the right place getting hotter, if you're in a province where you can't reach the water.

   Alberta or Saskatchewan are the only western provinces that don't touch water

3. Heed this clue, you won't go wrong, seek the place for the free and strong.

   Alberta motto is the free and Strong

4. You need not to higher elevations climb to benefit from elevation's time.

5. This clue is tricky so look at it all, shift one from Vmnlmglm and go down the hall.

   All I could think of was take the M from the letter and put it on hall to turn it to mall possibly West Edmonton Mall?

6. Keep alert, don't get docile, you're too far east if you come across fossils.

   West of Drumheller

7. Cervus elaphus is a great informer, that your trail's gone cold and to head for warmer.

   South of Red Deer

8. Pinch yourself, is it a dream? These 13 buildings in sunlight gleam. Remember not to cast a stone, instead head north and your search you'll hone.

   Pincher Creek

9. Test your mettle and the coin you'll find, go east of a place named for inseparable 79.

10. Known for tracks laid fast and far, the people needed CPR. For you this point is one more test, a clue that points you to the west.

11. On the road to treasure you'll get there when you look along the one found in all ten.

    Along the number 1 highway?

12. In the cold of winter, don't let things freeze, search above 50 degrees.

    Abviously go above the 50th parallel

13. All around you is a rocky view, beneath are foothills to check out too. You'll find you're nearer the end of this race, when you search in a half dozen place.

14. Three circles name a giant rock. From this place northward walk.

    Okotoks

15. To find the coin for which you pine, travel northeast of this national line.

16. This Qimmiq goes by another name, but towers over everything just the same. He marks a new northmost line and so southward should your search be confined.

    I was thinking this is the Calgary tower as it was once known as the Husky Tower

17. Read this clue carefully, it points you toward the coin's home. Don't get mixed up, head north of A Freed Wood Tome.

    Deerfoot Meadow (strip mall type place)

18. El Arco read not quite literally, tells you one point to stay between. The other is its shortened twin. Figure it out and you could just win.

    Elbow River

19. Migrate west and your search will narrow, after you've found the home of Wilson's Warbler and Lincoln's Sparrow.

    West of the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary

20. This clue is millions of years old. Here petrified beasts you can behold. But you must go forward in time, and head south and west to warmer clime.

    Glenbow Museum??? not sure

21. #FF0000 is hint part one add 1.0693km and you are done. Now that you know its name, head south and east in search of fame.

    The Red Mile

22. The balance of this hunt now teeters, on K + 0.3048 meters. Though walking on this path is not wise, know that the coin west of it lies.

    Not sure on this I thought possibly Blackfoot trail

23. Search up again then double back, west of where Charlie Papa leaves his tracks.

    CP Rail yards

24. Though with leaves of three it's not lucky, you should go north to where the coin will be.

25. On two legs he bucks and kicks, but his passenger always sticks, move south from him if you'd discover, where the coin you might recover.

    The bucking bronco statue in fron of the round up centre

26. Southeast of this good luck charm round, is where the coin may well be found.

    Not to sure but was thinking the horseshoe on the Stampede Casino

27. Though this road leads not Castle Dunvegan, but east of it is where you search should begin.

    Macleod Trail

28. This clue is old and the news is grave, you must come together here and try to be brave.

    Union Cemetary

29. If this city were a book, this man designed the cover, and as it so turns out, was a renowned sedimentary lover.

    Reader Rock Gardens

30. Pull up a chair, have a seat, the coin is hidden above four feet.

    I believe it may have been hidden in an electrical access panel on the ceiling of the porch.

(answers supplied by justme)

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