Thank you. I totally agree!!
This Forrest Fenn "treasure" smells like a steaming pile of hoax. From what I can tell, he is an old man with relatively few years left and he desperately wants to be remembered. In his decades of ransacking Native American sites and deceiving people into selling rarities to him low so he could hype up the artifacts and sell high, he has made a bundle, but at heart he knows that he is a hack and hustler who would be forgotten soon after death provided he didn't devise this or some similar scheme to keep the gullible chasing the ghost of an idea of an ultimately nonexistent treasure, and thus keep him "alive" long after burial. For those out there who don't believe in an afterlife, and there are millions, the only way to continue living after death is to be remembered. He straight-up said that this is his goal, and for a man who spent years immersed in ancient and antique material remains of cultures or individuals long dead and vanished; leaving behind only the artifacts and stories and legends, this particular approach makes excellent sense.
Even if it is real, it's only a 1,000,000 dollar "treasure", and there is only one. Every single one of you wild-goose-chasers would be way better off hunting for a Rembrandt or Van Gough at a yard sale or junk auction; items worth many times more than the likely-nonexistent Fenn treasure. If you'd be happy with less than 8 figures, go looking for copies of the Declaration of Independence tucked in the pages or binding of an old family bible, or Mafia gold, or forgotten catacombs with ancient biblical texts, or what have you. Hunting for Fenn's fabrication is an asinine waste of time, money, and resources. Nonsense in its quintuple-distilled, most purified form. That man will be laughing in his grave for centuries while generations upon generations of idiots descended from an ancient line of gullible idiots go questing for his fiction. Might as well hunt for the Philosopher's Stone as well while you're at it, as finding the latter is guaranteed to be equally likely!
Granted he did say it took 2 trips to get it all there so he could have carried 20lbs much further. jatNV I have read so many articles and opinions and it seems I was lapse in my memory of distance I got the following bits from Dal's blog " Searchers have been within 500 feet of the chest - Forrest did say this and he was quoted in the Hemispheres story in January of 2013 by Margie Goldsmith. Some people think that this would be a huge clue to any searcher who was told this. Is it in fact a huge clue...? Forrest has said the chest weighs about 42 pounds. The laws of biology pretty much demand that a 79 or 80 year-old man is not likely to haul that kind of weight very far on foot. So my guess is that the chest is probably within striking distance of some kind of road. That being the case, how many people do you think have driven down that road and passed within a reasonable proximity of the treasure, never dreaming it was there? Mr. Fenn is pretty frugal with any new information about where the treasure is hiding. Further, there is no reason to assume that the searchers who were within 500 feet of the chest were ever told by Forrest just how close they actually were. It may have been you. If this is a clue, I don’t see how. Folks have had the first two clues correct - Forrest did write this as a comment on my blog in the story “Stephen Returns to the Blaze”. His exact quote from the comment is as follows: “some folks correctly mentioned the first two clues to me in an email and then they went right past the other seven, not knowing that they had been so close”. My interpretation of this is that a lot of people write Forrest with their ideas for the clues in the poem. I think some hope that Forrest might say something like “By golly, you’re right. You’ve guessed it.” Of course Forrest would never say that but my point is that Forrest hears a lot of ideas that searchers have for the clues in the poem. And at least some of them have gotten the first two clues correct but then went on to incorrectly state the next seven clues. Forrest keeps telling us that we have to start with “Where warm waters halt.” and that trying to find it by finding a blaze first, is the wrong way to go about the search. It may be comforting to know that some have actually deciphered some of the clues correctly...but it’s not exactly a clue." Rumors Abound? | Thrill Of The Chase link to the page Thank you for mentioning the mistake
OK,... I will share the "heavy lodes"...
Side note: I believe I have solved the "accidental unintended clue".
I haven't yet proven it, but it is very fitting !!
after reading re-reading and re-reading notes clues blogs ideas and getting dizzy with FF fever, I have come to the conclusion that if you dont start in the right place you have already lost. The begining is also the end. in that if you start in the correct place the other clues not only validate its the correct place but also point you toward where to look to find the treasure. its within eyes view and you can see it from the start but need to follow the clues inorder to get to the location its in. by walking only, (no watercrafts, cars, ect. to get to the exact spot) once you are at the beginning. Good thing I have all winter to research and narrow down places
