Where Did You Think The Treasure Was? (Submit Your Solution)

[ironwill]

I felt this was paramount for anyone who was so sure about their solution that upon news of it being found, they thought... "I bet it was at my spot!"  

So, feel free for all those who now do not need to protect their information... Put down your specific solution, and find out if you were close, or way off 


I will start with mine(as I might find was stupid after seeing reveal).....

As I have gone alone in there,
and with my treasures bold
I can keep my secret where, 
and hint of treasures new and old
  
This is a precursor to the 9 clues that isolates the starting location to West Yellowstone, Montana.   The thrill of the chase cover shows the 4 states in reflection and upside down of Montana being the treasure location ( many know this from a facebook post)  If you open up the book and look at pages 46 and 44... you will find the only locations in the book where pictures of Forrest BOTH alone and with his family (treasures) bold(Pictures stand out).  If you look at both of those pages you'll see West Yellowstone typed on both ot the submissions (I can keep my secrets where)

Begin it where warm waters halt, Clue 1-  Start at Frost St.  It is in the upper northern end of West Yellowstone MT.  You have to zoom all the way in on Google maps to see it (Little girl in India cant get closer)  Warm air freezes and turns to frost. Air has water in it.  You see Frosty on page 49 pointing at Forrest with the pie to "FREEZE!" or "HALT RIGHT THERE!"  Frost St. is pronounced   "Frost steeee"

and take in in the canyon down. Clue 2-  Take it in the canyon down.  Cross the street and go down the Madison Addition Walking Path, which resembles and is named after the Madison Canyon.  

Not too far but too far to walk,  Clue 3-  This is both an identifier that you are in the right area, and a distance modifier.  Too Far To Walk 242 paces (605 ft)  Also the book cover Too Far To Walk identifies your area for you.  If you recall, Forrest said in an interview for the book that he had Dal take a picture of a spot on the Madison, then afterwards...he added in the shadow of him with a walking stick.   "Madison Addition Walking..." 

Put in below the Home of Brown.   Clue 4-  Approximately 605 feet from the start of the trail going south is Lamar Ave.  You put in on the street there.  If you have imagination, you'd see that Ranger Danny Brown lived at the Lamar Ranger Station, which is North (above) of the Lamar River (Lamar Ave).


From there its no place for the meek,
The end is ever drawing nigh;There'll be no paddle up your creek
Just heavy loads and water high.      Clue 5-  No place for the timid would be in an Electric Creek. Go out Lamar Ave to its end and turn LEFT (nigh) upstream on Electric Street  (Heavy Loads and High Current)  Consequently, I believe these were the two Omegas in the book... They were actually OHMS symbols for Heavy Loads and Water High.  I put those two lines together to show that the end is ever drawing nighT, which I'll touch on later


If you've been wise and found the blaze,  Clue 6-  Somewhere on Electric Street is the blaze.  Forrest eluded to it with his horse in TTOTC named Lightning "The blaze on Lightning(electricity)"  For the longest time I thought this was the White Driveway at 707 N Electric St.  My reasoning?  
            Reason 1- The Unintended Clue in TFTW:  the chapter about River Bathing Forrest said, "If I had money, I could walk a mile to the Union Pacific Railroad Station..."  1 mile by walking the street from the Railroad station puts you in the driveway of 707 N Electric St.  This is where I believe Forrest and his family first stayed in West Yellowstone in a one room cabin, that is dear to his heart.
            Reason 2-  Well Here's Moses Vignette:  Moses is displayed in a series of photos  Forrest talked about it being too white and it needed dulled to show age.  It came out in 2014.  So looking in Historical imagery on Google Earth... the drive way at 707 was white and solitary.  But in the next time like that was 2015, the neighbor had ALSO made a white driveway and it made 707 E St look "vanilla".  I felt that's why he posted this.  And if you follow the photos in order... one hand is pointing, the other is fisted like Air Force hand and arm signals.  

                    First Picture-  statue (pointing right) posing on tiles of his home with brown showing above the statue (From Below the Home of Brown, go right)
                    Second picture-  close up of Mose's head  (Close, up ahead)
                    Third Picture- Moses is turned around pointing to the left now ( Go Left)
                    Forth picture- Moses pointing right (as Forrest stated, "now sits on the second step of my home leading to my den")  2nd Home on the right.

                        This all leads you right to 707 Electric St property

            Reason 3- The property hasn't been kept up in years, which made me feel it was just sitting there "waiting for something"
            Reason 4- The property used to be listed on Montana Cadastral (property website) as belonging to "Private Banker" in Rancho Sante Fe, CA.  Scrapbook 123, spoke about him going to visit his environmentalist friends ranch near Sante Fe (Rancho--Sante Fe), as he approached the south pasture... Front yard south of the driveway, he saw the ranch foreman in top of a pinyon tree with the 2 predatory boars looking up.  This is an abrupt misspelling I believe.   Boars are not predatory.  But BEARS are.  If you look EXACTLY 200 feet south of the front yard you will see TWO WOODEN BLACK BEARS attached to a pine tree at another residence below the corner of Lamar St.  He said he knew about the 200 feet searcher because he showed him a picture of where he was searching and he knew the location of it.   Well that spot where the bears are is EXACTLY 200 feet (which Forrest says is pretty accurate) from the front yard of 707 N. Electric St.

I've done it tired and now I'm weak  Clue 7-  Clueing in on the roads as the clues to travel by vehicle.  He commented on Jenny's site in a Featured Question about the Blaze, "I didn't take a radial off the blaze"  (because his car was parked on the driveway and his radial tires were on it)



So hear me all and listen good Clue 8-  The chest is hidden by a device that will make a sound to show you its location, but you must wait around to hear it as its on a timer .  My feeling is Forrest is once again using covers of books to display hints.  Once Upon A While (once per period of time), cover has Forrest fishing for a star at night.  

If you are brave and in the wood  Clue 9-  He hints at being brave, courageous as to being related to night.  So I felt you needed to be at the house waiting at night for it to be revealed.

Well there you guys go.  This is what I have been focused on for three years.  I hope it doesn't seem to delusional

Will

[goldhunter]

Lakes Plateau Montana...blaze looks like a black pie with a piece missing.

[van]

Mine was Snow-Shoe, Mountain WY. There is only one road that goes along the rim, the name of the road is Hide Out Road. I literally found the words "take Hide Out road to Trove" hidden in the poem, followed by "Walk to Stone Rim". I believe the Blaze was an Air Vent pipe that is part of an old irrigation system that is on the side of the mountain. The words Snow Shoe are anagrammed at the end of the word "Waters" in the poem. And at the beginning of each line that begins with So..

[ironwill]

I like Snow-Shoe Keep them coming

[seannm]

Brown’s Canyon Colorado. About 3/4 a mile up Railroad Gulch near the base of a large monolith just within the border of the San Isabel National Forest.

Had been in that general area since August 2016.

Seannm

[ironwill]

Jun 7, 2020 9:57:58 GMT -5 seannm said:

Brown’s Canyon Colorado. About 3/4 a mile up Railroad Gulch near the base of a large monolith just within the border of the San Isabel National Forest.

Seannm

I like it Sean... care to show your clues and such? 

[seannm]

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[wahuzakia]

Sinks canyon. Between the sinks and the rise along the cliffs.

[fishbrains]

This theory would have been my second BOTG

Begin it where warm waters halt = Cold Spring Mountain, Colorado

these are opposites: halt/spring; cold/warm and there are multiple springs on this mountain hence the word waters

And take it in the canyon down = Irish Canyon

Not far, but too far to walk - Put in below the home of Brown = Vermillion Falls below Browns Park, there is a place to park a car. This is just a hunch on my part that this is about the distance Forrest had to walk when Skippy left him on the side of the road.

From there its no place for the meek = 1 block North from clue found in book . Sometimes, when it wasn’t too cold, I’d get even with my father for switching me by jumping out of the window by my bed and walking down to the cemetery, which was just a block north of our house. It took guts to go in there when it was dark with no moon.

There be no paddle up your creek = Vermillion creek

The end is ever drawing nigh = Vermillion Falls which would be the waterfall always drawing water

Just heavy loads and water high = Forrest Fenns burden in his heart and tears in his eyes

Now you should be located slighty north of the waterfall following the creek perhaps.

If you've been wise and found the blaze = Need to be in person to see.

All in all I could see Forrest paying homage to this small waterfall.



This waterfall is also located in Big Joe Basin = Clue in book Just as I was about to ask the little girl at the computer about those authors, she raised her coffee cup to take a sip. And I swear

that cup all but covered her whole face.



And other people have been within 200-500 feet of this site including one prominent youtuber
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My other search led me to the other side of Green River near the Diamond Breaks WSA but after much hiking i realized it could never be that location.

This whole area is beautiful and i encourage everyone to visit if you get a chance.

Also i am extremely saddened to learn that James Fariello has passed away. He was a long time treasure hunter.

Here is a link to one of his videos of Browns Park

link

[ontheedge]

Travis Creek Wyoming.

WWWH = the Tri-Basin Divide. Basins hold warm water. But the "s" in waters indicated that the location is one of multiple basins. Milking Stools have three bases and the one in Bessie and Me is located below the cow's teets (tetons). The tri- base, below the tetons. (Also thought of the baseball refernces here, with the three bases of the tri basin, and the home place of the grave below.

At the tri basin divide you have the oregon trail's lander cut-off. For the first section of the poem that trail constitutes "it" (before you go off trail and "it" changes").

Canyon down is directional, and simply points the direction you take the trail.

Not far but too far to walk = "Hobble Creek" aberration in the book is where Peggy is modeling her swimsuit. But she is actually wearing a hobble skirt.

Home of Brown = Estella Brown grave. About a mile down Hobble Creek. (Brown Gravy, star references throughout). I noted that maps in 2010 did not indicate the name of this grave. Only started showing up on later maps (so it didnt deviate from the "rule" that you couldnt start in the middle of the poem, but needed to locate WWWH first).

NPFTM: You depart the lander cut off here. The trail goes up to the right, but you continue on, along hobble creek, but not on the trail. You have to cross the creek here, (no place for biddies helps to confirm, with crossing the street - i.e., the meek stay on one side and dont cross, so no place for the meek is the other side of the street (or stream). "It" has now changed.

Drawing Nigh: nothing original here, just on the left side of the creek is your next destination.

No paddle up your creek / Heavy Loads Water High: Travis creek is on the left and has two forks, one goes up to a rocky location, and other leads up to Travis Lake, just about the only lake in the region. The clues had to get more general (in my view) so you couldtn start the poem in the middle. Given this was the only location with water high within many miles, it seemed like a good fit.

All in, the location about two miles from your car to get there. Travis = "to cross".

Leaving some stuff out, but that was the gist. Went once for about 20 mins, but it was already late in the day. Intended to go back this summer.

[thetruthisoutthere]

I'm still writing up my whole solve, but in brief it starts at Valles Caldera and ends up in Pueblo Canyon below Los Alamos Municipal airport.

[goldilocks]

Jun 7, 2020 9:57:58 GMT -5 seannm said:

Brown’s Canyon Colorado. About 3/4 a mile up Railroad Gulch near the base of a large monolith just within the border of the San Isabel National Forest.

Had been in that general area since August 2016.

Seannm

It will be interesting to get some perspective on poem purism or not...

[minotaurmoreno]

I was everywhere:

2013 - The Discovery Tree - Willow Creek (old Virgina City), just north of Eagle Nest, NM
2014 - Valles Caldera National Preserve
2015 - Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado
______Browns Canyon, Colorado
______Rock Creek Campground (now under water at Earthquake Lake)
______Beaver Creek on Earthquake Lake
______Rainbow Point on Hebgen Lake (lots of native american history there)
2016 - The bridge above Bakers Hole in West Yellowstone
______Rescue Creek, Yellowstone
2017 - Soldiers Trail, Slough Creek, Lamar Valley in Yellowstone (the only place I did a BOTG trip for three days), has a buffalo ford at Buffalo Creek.
______Sunlight Creek, Wyoming
2018/2019/2020 - Firehole River - Ojo Caliente, Purple Mountain (Yellowstone + Purple Mountain = home of Brown), blaze was the spot of the original campfire was made to discuss the creation of the National Parks.
______I now think it was somewhere in Madison Canyon in Yellowstone and the blaze was the sunset on Father's Day/Summer Solstice setting perfectly between the mountains into the canyon

Things I thought I solved:
1. Cody dragging the car into the creek meant "worth the cold" was a Buffalo Ford of some kind.
2. The original book Flywater has a picture of a person fishing at Ojo Caliente on page 107 - I thought this confirmed Ojo Caliente was WWWH.
3. Important Literature - Every book mentions Montana. Since he went to Borders, I thought that pointed to either the West, North, or Northeast entrance of Yellowstone.
4. The first word in the poem is "As." Which could also be A=1 and S=19. Those are the numbers used on the West Yellowstone Airport runway (1 and 19).
5. I thought he wrote Too Far to Walk because he felt he over-engineered the poem, saw no one was really that close, so it gave additional hints to help everyone.
6. I believe the sun plays significantly into the correct solve. Still don't know if that's because it was at Sunshine Creek or the sun is used for the blaze somehow, though.
7. I think WWWH is where a hot spring flows into a river/creek making a warm spot about as big as Olga's bathtub.
8. I also thought f and Donnie may have accidentally caused a forest fire growing up (the blaze) that was later blamed on lightning which he always felt guilty about and kept secret.

[squirejames88]

I always thought cimarron canyon in new mexico.

[lbkgoat]

1 WWWH is Embargo Springs of the Red River
2 HOB is from the trout fishery to the confluence with the Rio Grande
This area is known as the Box, hence, get back in the box
3 Waters High and Heavy loads El Aguaje trail head which translates
To Spring Tide or the highest tide. On the left side you have huge
Basalt boulders
4 The Blaze is a huge marking on the ground that looks like a flame.
It’s made of sage. If you been wise...
5 tarry scant is a small old cemetery, take the chest and go in peace

6 effort work cold is the Kiowa Trail. Kiowa are known as the people of
Cold
7 hear me all and listen good, is a water well. You’re a good listener
But you listen well
8 Brave and in the wood, is a site of a historical Native American
Village. This is page 99.
9 Title to the gold is the constellation cover on OUAW. You take the
Star and align them with all you clues. When you do this it
Points to the 9th clue

The frog from the toothbrush holder is Flag Mountain. Look at the top of the mountain on GE. The cover of the book with the waders is a shape along the old main road to Questa. The entire map comes together to find the last clue. This is the Big Picture.