GC346H0 {CC} Yukon Cornelius (Traditional Cache) in Michigan, United States created by Cold Cache Crew

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Hidden : 12/13/2011

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Yukon Cornelius is a protagonistic character from the 1964 Rankin/Bass television special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Voiced by Larry D. Mann, Yukon Cornelius is an arctic prospector who leads the audience to believe that he's searching for either gold or silver, but is actually seeking peppermint as revealed at the end of the original version of the special. His greedy behavior inspires the song "Silver And Gold", sung by Burl Ives as his character of Sam the Snowman.

Yukon is a blustery but benign character and ends up helping not only Rudolph and Hermey, but the Abominable Snowmonster, or "Bumble" as he refers to him as well. Yukon Cornelius can be seen throughout the special tossing his pick ax into the air, sniffing, then licking the end that contacts the snow or ice. The removal of the scene near the end of the special (for subsequent telecasts) in which Yukon Cornelius discovers a "peppermint mine" by that method near Santa's workshop left audiences assuming that he was attempting to find either silver or gold by taste alone. The scene was returned to the film in 1998 and the DVD in 2004 as well.

The winter series theme this year involves characters from the classic Rankin/Bass Stop-Motion animation TV Specials that first aired in the 60's, 70's, and early 80's.

2012 Winter Series - "Cold Characters" caches

Yukon Cornelius	Winterbolt	The Great Quarter Past Five
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Rudolph	One Million B.C.	Jangle Bells
King Moonracer	Jack Frost	Hermey
Heat Miser	Happy (Baby New Year)	General Ticker
Frosty	Father Time	Vixen
Donner	Lady Boreal	Clarice
Misfit Toys	Burgermeister Meisterburger	Bumble
Big Ben	Aeon	Sam the Snowman