Most of the guys on that web site have a lot of working knowledge in the field, but they are also caught up in the illusion sequences of the symbols they have found on tree markers. There are a lot of them to sort through. There are Ute carvings (few if any), deer hunters and the rest are mostly Peruvian sheep herder trail sign. Some of the Spanish/Mexican carvings are still out there even so. For the most part like DD, they rely on verbal legends found in books and an occasional diary that surfaces.
They are victims of the code plain and simple. They all know where the markers are, but reading them is another thing. I spent a lot of time speaking with Lost as Lost about some of the pictures as such that he and his wife have recorded over the years and shared a number of my own. We could not come to terms over Carrie Shinn Ob and it is not likely to happen with any of the others either. What has happened to all of them is that they have just been mislead away from the original legend of which no one can settle on for sure. I'm not saying that DD is lost out there as he appears to be true to the information he has available to him. In the desert, there is much less confusion to deal with as in Arizona and therefore the process of false marker identification or Legend sequences is diminished considerably. There is only so many places where the mine is not at, so............
Like I have mentioned over and over again from one angle or another, The markers are laid out on the ground in the same manner at each site. The only variation is that their sets may be reversed or upside down depending on which direction the mountain is turned one to the other. On one mountain, the mine may be up high in the rocks. On another it may be down low near the toes and so fourth. The reason the system works at all it because nature repeats itself on different scales comparing one mountain to the other. The shape of the French curve will play into the approach to the mine. At one site it may be an animal trail. On the next site it may be the shape of a tributary near the mine. At another it may be a ridge line near the tunnel. The shapes run in sequences or sets and specific markers are put into use in the same manner on every site, they are simply adjusted as mechanically necessary. Use the right angle to decide. Read from right to left. Bank shot, 8 ball, corner pocket.
Chad's Map is a Master Map. Place names are reference for alignment ranging from one territory to another and when one cuts the map into it's true dot to dot format, none of that matters any more anyway. That means that once you have simply found one lode and or mine and realized where the markers are, all you have to do from there is think like a prospector and go to where the colours are ,as you jump from one mountain to the next in the chain. You will find one of the markers there, one that you are already familiar with from the previous site visited, and even though the mountain is shaped different, the same marker set is used either backwards or upside down or both; no matter how you turn a tarot card, it is still the same card and carries the same values, although the read may differ some one soul to the next; the card does not change at face value and such is the map and everyone of the maps in the code including the tablets. Once you have realized the basic shape of the lode and have an idea as which direction it runs, one is then able to use that positioning and a few markers to position the paper overlay on top of the basic topo you should have drawn by now as you study your area from on high places or points of view. Otherwise your personal hand drawn topo would consist of what ever you might come up with using simple surveyor's triangulation.
Either way, the coded treasure map is the overlay to it; just figure out how to expand it to fit the marker points around the lode itself or shrink the puzzle set just the same. One map will work anywhere they went using the code and that is everywhere as yet by my experience. Focus on the lode and it's surrounding features. If you see a lot of things on a map that appears to connect with your area, shoot quads across the markers (man made or otherwise) to find where to pencil around the map, and then where to cut across on the maps; the maps being cut into pieces of odd numbers....1 - 3 5 7 8 11...something special about 8 ... reassemble them largest piece first, overlapping each on top of the other by matching marks. I'll give you 90 degrees and 185 degrees now two of five working the infield triangle, mine side. Not unlike a safe combination of the day.
If you have already found one mine, simply back track out away from it and record where the markers are as you go in all trailed directions leaving each portal. You will find them to be consistent, one mountain to the next. Markers and shapes and the colours they run towards.
All of this has been in one thread or another, some in greater detail than another. One last example and I'll leave off a paper favourite. As some toes may seem stepped on, some boots may just get gold dust on them. Clues that match my serach area too.
.... Bwahahahaha... Like I said, a joke.....
