"The first clue in the poem is begin it where warm waters halt. That's the first clue. If you don't, if you can't figure that clue out you don't have anything."
[New Zealand Radio, April 3, 2013]
"If you don’t know where it is, go back to the first clue.f"
[MW (Jenny Kile, January 6, 2017]
“Many have given serious thought to the clues in the poem but only a few are in tight focus with a word that is key.”
[HoD; The Key Word… sub-header ff quote]
Spent about an hour today reading all the posts of The Key Word… at HoD. I already had what I considered to be the "key" word in mind before I started reading.
Not one of the posters brought up the word I think is "key." A few did mention it, but only in passing while alluding to some other point they were trying to stress.
For me, the word that is 'key' is: Begin.
Compared to today's Begin, tomorrow's Begin is infinitesimally further displaced.
As water — oftentimes halting water, oftentimes warm water, and sometimes halting warm water — keeps doing what water at the beginning of a "canyon down" does, well, you have to find where this specific beginning-point currently is.
Not every 'canyon down' path aligns with the ever-changing beginning of a canyon. But some do.
So look for a canyon where the trail atop the canyon, before it begins its descent at all, essentially leads right up to the beginning-point of the canyon, and hence, where the canyon begins. By this definition, the canyon must be a box canyon. (It cannot be a major river.)
The canyon has to begin with intermittent water, and trail down into the canyon cannot begin from the side of the canyon. (because then you would not be in tight focus with Begin)
Most likely, the beginning of the canyon will be a boring place. But Forrest hid the treasure where the canyon is exciting to view. But to get there, to the exciting section, you begin where things are unexciting. The treasure is probably below a popular scenic overlook where there is no way immediately down, and where there may be a little carve-out mere tens of feet below the flat terrain above, and where the above terrain involves a road that gets you to the scenic overlook.
Those who took-in the view at the scenic overlook unfortunately went right by the "boring" beginning of the canyon, and when they were admiring the view they had no idea how close they actually were to the treasure below them.
Eddie Munster from the "Church of Satan" on Oprah Winfrey....that's right Forrest was on Oprah and she plays the part and he is the parcel.
Doesn't Peggy look good in black?
WHAT?! 
