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Post by efstathios on Apr 7, 2018 9:43:31 GMT -5
Not sure if this has been suggested yet, but could “heavy loads” be a reference to the 2 trips that forrest’s took from his car to the hiding location? The heavy load being the chest and contents, pluralized because he made two trips. I would love thoughts/feedback.
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Post by heidini on Apr 7, 2018 9:53:17 GMT -5
Not sure if this has been suggested yet, but could “heavy loads” be a reference to the 2 trips that forrest’s took from his car to the hiding location? The heavy load being the chest and contents, pluralized because he made two trips. I would love thoughts/feedback. Could be... |
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Post by heidini on Apr 7, 2018 9:53:39 GMT -5
But I don’t thing it is.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Jul 9, 2018 20:03:13 GMT -5
The trouble with this interpretation of "heavy loads" is that starting with the second stanza, Forrest is describing the procedure for getting to the treasure chest's location. Since the clues are consecutive, and heavy loads precedes the blaze (for which there is almost universal agreement that it's a clue), we don't yet have the chest at this point in the poem. That would put the clue out of order (though I suppose it might not be a clue at all).
But... in the poem he has paired the heavy loads with "water high," and water high doesn't seem to have anything to do with the treasure chest itself, so I'm inclined to believe "heavy loads" isn't a reference to later carrying the chest and it's contents.
I believe some have suggested a couple flyfishing-related possibilities: that it has something to do with weighting on the fly rod (perhaps in deep or swift water?), or alternatively a section of a stream or river that experiences heavy loads of silt. But I can't say I like these two options much since neither is really common knowledge, and we all know what Fenn has said about "specialized knowledge."
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Post by guyfromdenver on Jul 15, 2018 17:17:13 GMT -5
I have been told that clues are places and hints are suggestions. Are heavy loads and water high clues or hints if they are places where Fenn is saying that we do not need to go? Since there is no paddle because all there is up the creek is heavy loads and water high but no treasure, can they still be clues even though we don't go there?
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Post by zaphod73491 on Jul 17, 2018 22:52:56 GMT -5
Guyfromdenver: another possibility is that in this context "just" means "instead":
There'll be no paddle up your creek, (but instead) heavy loads and water high. In other words, don't go up your creek -- go where there are heavy loads and water high. Just another way of looking at it...
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Post by robjohnson on Feb 22, 2019 8:28:41 GMT -5
You may think heavy loads and water high gets you from one point to another point.
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Post by Jenny on Apr 8, 2020 13:18:29 GMT -5
Do 'heavy loads' and 'water high' refer to the same thing....or are they two different things?
I think those who like the idea of a waterfall feel both those clues refer to it... lots of water coming down (heavy loads)...and it's high.....
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Post by simpleson on Apr 9, 2020 11:22:27 GMT -5
First time poster here. I saw on Facebook an invite to join discussions, and after reading through some threads and seeing good stuff, thought I would. I keep seeing Chasers thinking Heavy Loads is electrical wires. The spot is described as isolated so I don't get that and think rather Heavy Loads are natural. Boulders or the like.
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Post by goldilocks on Apr 9, 2020 11:49:08 GMT -5
First time poster here. I saw on Facebook an invite to join discussions, and after reading through some threads and seeing good stuff, thought I would. I keep seeing Chasers thinking Heavy Loads is electrical wires. The spot is described as isolated so I don't get that and think rather Heavy Loads are natural. Boulders or the like. Welcome simpleson! |
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Post by Jenny on Apr 9, 2020 12:20:01 GMT -5
Glad you are here! Welcome....
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Post by simpleson on Apr 9, 2020 12:52:26 GMT -5
Thank you. It's good to have a happy place to discuss the chase.
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Post by van on Apr 9, 2020 12:57:33 GMT -5
Just heavy loads and water high = heavy load sand water high = sandbag for flooding.
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Post by goldilocks on Apr 9, 2020 13:20:06 GMT -5
Could simply be dodging puddles while carrying a heavy backpack on Canyon St. in West Yellowstone. It may also mean the burden of being up to your neck in debt. One other thought I had after watching "A Christmas Story" the movie was when they referred to the department store window as "the high water mark of the Christmas season". The heavy loads could be gifts.
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Post by lbkgoat on Apr 10, 2020 10:18:03 GMT -5
Not sure if this has been suggested yet, but could “heavy loads” be a reference to the 2 trips that forrest’s took from his car to the hiding location? The heavy load being the chest and contents, pluralized because he made two trips. I would love thoughts/feedback. In my solve, you take the canyon down after the WWWH clue. Naturally the water current picks up as decline in altitude, thus, increasing the load of the river. In the river box, I come to boulders on the left and a river high clue on the right, then proceed left to the blaze. IMO, theses are two separate clues that instruct you when to end nigh. |
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