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Post by capeng 2nd March 2013, 9:54 am

3 years ago, 82-year-old multimillionaire Forrest Fenn hid a 40-pound chest worth millions of dollars in the wild, and published a poem which allegedly leads to the treasure with the offer that whoever finds it can keep it.
Seriously, guys, let's try to puzzle this out!
Here's the poem:
Where the Treasure Lies
By Forrest Fenn

As I have gone alone in there
And with my treasures bold,
I can keep my secret where,
And hint of riches new and old.

Begin it where warm waters halt
And take it in the canyon down,
Not far, but too far to walk,
Put in below the home of Brown.

From there it’s no place for the meek,
The end is ever drawing nigh;
There’ll be no paddle up your creek,
Just heavy loads and water high.

If you’ve been wise and found the blaze,
Look quickly down, your quest to cease,
But tarry scant with marvel gaze,
Just take the chest and go in peace.

So why is it that I must go
And leave my trove for all to seek?
The answers I already know,
I’ve done it tired, and now I’m weak.

So hear me all and listen good,
Your effort will be worth the cold.
If you are brave and in the wood
I give you title to the gold.
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Post by The Old Judge 2nd March 2013, 10:13 am

Okay, "Begin it where warm waters halt, and take it in the canyon down."

That sounds like you'd go into an especially deep and/or overshadowed canyon, where the sunlight would not have much effect, and the water would barely be heated.

The only other option would be a subterranean river in an underground canyon, or cavern.

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Post by capeng 2nd March 2013, 10:24 am




More Clues from Forrest Fenn Create Chaos among the Faithful


June 19, 2012 by saunier




When Forrest Fenn is feeling really, really good—to where his
playfulness outruns his restraint, he will give additional clues about
the location of his hidden treasure. Over the past year or so, I have
become privy to some of these extra bits of information because that’s
what we “sleuthy guys” do. I’ll give you five of them—by which I mean
clues, not sleuthy guys.

1. “It’s not in Nevada.”
This is a response Forrest gave to a woman when she requested that he
come out to Nevada to collect the treasure for her because she couldn’t
manage it alone. It’s a reasonable answer to a somewhat sneaky request
but it’s my belief that this is more than a well timed put down. It’s a
real clue and, who knows, he might continue to name places where the
treasure isn’t hidden and eventually things will get narrowed down to
something manageable. For a long time my guess for the next area cut out
of the running was “Virginia.”

2. “It’s hidden over 300 miles west of Toledo.
Not long after the “It’s not in Nevada” thing, Forrest tossed this one
out. As the crow flies, this clue puts the dividing line between where
his treasure is and is not almost exactly in the middle of the
Mississippi River. That’s good because not only is Virginia now not in
play, it eliminates another dozen or so of those states I didn’t much
want to go to anyway—not that there is anything wrong with them. It’s
just that I would rather go north and west as opposed to north and east
and Ohio obviously doesn’t match up to those places that have elevation
changes of say…more than a hundred and five feet . . . and rivers that
don’t catch fire.

A real-life treasure awaits... Cuyahoga-river-fire2Cuyahoga River fire, November 3, 1952 (Cleveland Press Collection, Cleveland State University Library)

3. “Take a sandwich.
When I first heard this clue I said to myself, “This is really going to
be easy. You get up in the morning, have breakfast, go out looking,
find the treasure, eat your sandwich and you are back by dinner.” Not
the case. “Sir Conan” Dal (lummifilm.wordpress.com) almost always takes a
sandwich and he is still out there looking. Nevertheless, this one
remains a good clue because of what it doesn’t say. For example, it
doesn’t say, “Take a tent, a bedroll, a change of socks and food for
eight days.” It’s a sandwich—just a sandwich although you might want to
consider taking pepper-spray along if your sandwich resembles a freshly
made Egg-McMuffin™ and you are taking it into bear country. Bears love
Egg-McMuffins™ as well as Southern Baptists and Young Republicans.

4. “Take a flashlight.”
I don’t have much to say about this one because, for me, any time a
flashlight is involved things get scary. It’s because I had a couple of
aunts not much older than me who loved to scare the c*** out of little
kids and they did it with flashlights in dark cellars. In any case, this
“clue” could give new meaning to the very first line in Forrest Fenn’s
poem: “As I have gone alone in there” Does that mean a cave? A tunnel? A haunted house? Or it could be that “…in there…”
isn’t a clue at all and the treasure is hidden in a dark recess where a
flashlight would be needed even if you didn’t have to “go into”
anything. But then maybe he just wants us to see where we’re going after
dark even if we have no idea of where it is we’re going.

5. “If you had its coordinates, you would be able to find the treasure.”
This ‘extra’ clue could be a game changer except . . . well, you know .
. . it’s probably not. Still, like all of you who already knew of this
clue, I immediately set off on a search of Forrest’s entire Memoir for numbers (as well as to REI in search of a new GPS.)

And find them I did! REI must carry ninety different kinds of GPS’,
each one more complicated, and pricey, than the other. I immediately
chose a yellow one, and then I went looking for numbers in his Memoir
and found everything from the number 1 on up through 9 and then 0; and
in any order and number of numbers you could imagine. After a month or
so of this, it occurred to me, sadly, that my new GPS may have been an
impulse buy because this clue could have nothing at all to do with the hundreds of numbers found in Forrest Fenn’s Memoir.
As of now, my interpretation of this “clue” is that it is a very polite
swipe at the geocachers who wander the world hiding jellybeans, old
hotel keys from Brazil and embarrassing photographs of their Ex in used
plastic pill bottles for other people to find. After all, Forrest was
right; anybody can find anything if they have its coordinates and
a GPS. Of course, and I am only guessing here, maybe it’s his way of
saying “Geocaching is for sissies, and if you want to find this treasure,
you will have to do it the old-fashioned way.” Certainly I would never
say such a thing myself because I really do love my new GPS.






This is where you can find this article: http://mountainwalk.org/2012/06/19/more-clues-from-forrest-create-chaos-among-the-faithful/
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Post by capeng 2nd March 2013, 10:30 am

@OJ There are also warm-water rivers, so it could be where the river stops, or where a cold-water river meets a warm-water river. It says: "And take it in the canyon down", so I doubt it's underground. (Although it might be.) I think the final resting place of the treasure is in a cave or something, because the first line of the poem is: "As I have gone alone in there"
Again, the extra clues are:
It's not in Nevada.
It's hidden over 300 miles west of Toledo.
Take a sandwich.
Take a flashlight.
If you had it's coordinates, you would be able to find the treasure.
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Post by Thor's Hammer 2nd March 2013, 3:56 pm

The last one is useless. It would take a while to get to it.

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Post by capeng 4th March 2013, 9:16 am

Yea. Besides, if you have the coordinates, you can find ANYTHING!
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