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Post by zaphod73491 on Jul 25, 2020 23:25:47 GMT -5
Forrest never once mentioned a dictionary as one of the critical resource materials for solving the poem.
Maybe thats why you were in MT instead of WY? Well, I was in Montana because of Gallatin (or more specifically "Gallitan W MT" and "Gal MT" from the poem). It seemed obvious to me that the simplest interpretation of the place where warm waters halt was the totality of Yellowstone and its geysers -- something a child would know. And the Border's/Borders/borderline biddies from "Important Literature" suggested to me that a border was important. My WWWH "answered the mail" on all of these points by using Gallatin as the keyword to reduce a several-hundred mile YNP border down to a single spot. That Gallatin Canyon begins precisely there and heads downward in elevation certainly didn't hurt my case, and it maintained the "contiguousness" of the clues.
To be honest, I had never heard of the Gallatin River or Albert Gallatin prior to the Chase. Nevertheless, that acrostic just jumped out at me in 2016, and so I've been stuck there ever since. That WWWH location is only about 6 miles from Wyoming; it's just that I could never get the clues to work going in that direction.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2020 10:49:46 GMT -5
I know Zap, I am just teasing you (thats why i added the grin). I see nothing wrong with your line of thinking, and at least you were doing your own thing instead of following the others over to quake lake/west yellowstone.
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Post by edgewalker on Jul 26, 2020 10:59:44 GMT -5
I lacked the ability to follow this up, but going with an Indiana Jones theme I wondered if you had to look at the sun (blaze) shining through Eye of the Needle at a particular time. This would have the blaze(sun) shining directly on a spot of ground.
It also references a biblical phrase, it is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven. This could be Forrest divesting his riches just before death. Quite symbolic.
It is near Cache Creek, amphitheater creek siver gate and thunderer cutoff.
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Post by edgewalker on Jul 27, 2020 12:16:37 GMT -5
I lacked the ability to follow this up, but going with an Indiana Jones theme I wondered if you had to look at the sun (blaze) shining through Eye of the Needle at a particular time. This would have the blaze(sun) shining directly on a spot of ground. It also references a biblical phrase, it is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven. This could be Forrest divesting his riches just before death. Quite symbolic. It is near Cache Creek, amphitheater creek siver gate and thunderer cutoff. I should also note that Washakie Needles is interesting to me. Chief Washakie was mentioned in Journal of a Trapper. Wash is what Forrest was doing in the tub in Weat Yellowstone, also how he bathed in the river. When Forrest says there is a word that is key...washaKIE. if you think about the action of a needle, it is ever drawing neigh.
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Post by jdiggins on Jul 28, 2020 21:21:45 GMT -5
I think in forrests day, wise meant sumthin else. Remember the term being a wise guy? Not gangster wise guy, lol, but a joker wise guy. Wise can be like funny, etc...
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Post by goldhunter on Jul 29, 2020 14:59:53 GMT -5
My blaze was in Montana at about 10,100 feet. Funny, huh? Slightly less than the allowed 10,200 feet cap.
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Post by annie on Jul 29, 2020 15:48:25 GMT -5
IF YOU’VE BEEN WISE AND FOUND THE BLAZE, = clue no five = ON FIRE = ABLAZE. A blaze can be a line on a map, say, a red line... denoting the WILDERNESS BOUNDARY / and anagram of if you’ve been wise and found the blaze, (missing RSR), So look quickly down to the next line ( and find RSR). Also been WISE could also mean ‘going round’ as in a PROTECTED AREA or WILDERNESS. Clockwise?
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