Apple
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Post by Apple on Nov 15, 2019 18:08:26 GMT -5
Zaphod, have you ever considered this as one of your many confirmations: Looking for Lewis and Clark, taking place in Gallatin National Forest, can be transposed (a typical Fenn "mistake") to Looking for Clark and Lewis and then abbreviated to Looking for Clew (from either Clark and Lewis or Clark and Lewis), Fenn's disappeared ball of string described in Gold and More? Perhaps you'll discover the chest as you precisely follow the clew hiding out in Gallatin National Forest! Sounds like you are unflappably 100% sure you are metaphorically halfway there (at least). Do you find the clues to get progressively easier from there? I haven't, but I likely haven't spent nearly as much time as you on this particular solve.
Astree, the above rearrangement of Looking for Clark and Lewis is in roughly the same vein as "flutterby" and your suggestion of "...hint of riches..." to Hinrichs.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Nov 15, 2019 19:14:32 GMT -5
Zaphod, have you ever considered this as one of your many confirmations: Looking for Lewis and Clark, taking place in Gallatin National Forest, can be transposed (a typical Fenn "mistake") to Looking for Clark and Lewis and then abbreviated to Looking for Clew (from either Clark and Lewis or Clark and Lewis), Fenn's disappeared ball of string described in Gold and More? Perhaps you'll discover the chest as you precisely follow the clew hiding out in Gallatin National Forest! Sounds like you are unflappably 100% sure you are metaphorically halfway there (at least). Do you find the clues to get progressively easier from there? I haven't, but I likely haven't spent nearly as much time as you on this particular solve.
Astree, the above rearrangement of Looking for Clark and Lewis is in roughly the same vein as "flutterby" and your suggestion of "...hint of riches..." to Hinrichs.
I have a different use for Lewis & Clark, but yours is an interesting possibility to consider. Note that the flutterby anagram/Spoonerism could also be a hint to swap the A and I in "Gallitan" (though I have been using a more compelling case that is itself a true Spoonerism).
Do the clues get easier? I would say not. I consider the 3rd clue to be as hard -- probably harder -- than the first. And that seems to jive with the fact that the first two clues were solved relatively quickly, but then years went by without further progress (at least progress that Forrest was willing to admit). In any event, it's clearly not a case of dominoes falling after you figure out the first two clues, or even (maybe) four.
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Post by sparrow on Nov 15, 2019 21:26:10 GMT -5
I have kind of avoided saying anything but I think you are way off when it comes to what "gait" is referring to. I don't think it has anything to do with the Gallatin River at all. That's just me though. I would mention that there is a matching "BAIT" at the end of the poem. But if you can make Gallatin work all the best to you!
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Post by astree on Nov 20, 2019 14:52:08 GMT -5
It surprses me, zaphod. Are you referring to something that doesnt actually contain the word buffalo, like Cody?
Hi Astree, one of my (several) (yet unfavored) interpretations of the poem does involve a buffalo:
8. Collecting more letters from the beginning of the beginning gives the intersecting acrostics "horn" and "horn," vertically and horizontally (...hint of riches new...).
Of course, buffalo can be found in every search state and, depending on how far you zoom in, in most search areas within the search states.
Just an fyi to you two - if youre willing to zag going backwards, start with Halt, and you should be able to pick up at least 4 more HORNs, two intersect with the vertical one you caught, and two go down into the canyon. |
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