Where was your Home of Brown?

[dalby2020]

Mine was the Caliente Depot of the old Chili Line Railroad, which is now called Taos Junction.
My solve also had "No Place for the Meek" referring to there as well.

Reasoning was as follows:

Home = Base = Depot
Brown = Cook = Warm = Hot = Caliente
“When they came brown out of the oven, she’d put butter and different kinds of homemade jams on each piece, and serve them hot.”

Meek = Mild
No Place for the Mild = A Place for the opposite of Mild = Hot = Caliente

Scrapbook 219 "But then to the Chili Line"

[edgewalker]

Mine was Charlie Brown,the command module for apollo X. Put in below was Snoopy, the lunar module.

I think the treasure is wonderful, but it is Forrest autobiography that is going to be the story. I think he knew things about the Apollo program that are going to shock people.

Time magazine referred to the launch of Apollo 11, said it "tarried a scant" fraction of a second before lifting off. From an umbilical tower. Some rockets say on a "milk stool, fuelled with a kerosene mix. Project highwater was an early apollo test. To get to the launch site the rocket took the "crawler", not far but too far to walk you might say. The apollo rockets were known as the AS (Apollo Saturn) series, read AS I go alone in there. To get to the launch site you take highway 1 to 520 to 3 - read his one hour surgery turned into 5 and the doctor telling him he had a 20 percent chance of living three years. Warm water halts at the ocean. Cape Canaveral - named after the Indigenous peoples that carried canes (think of the shadow of Forrest with the walking stick). It is between the Banana river and the ocean. The area was called India on old maps. There are wild hogs and rattle snakes in the area. It is the sunshine state. It is by Cocoa and Cocoa beach (going to have a hot chocolate). Going somewhere imagination itself has never been - the moon. The dead dog - Russia sent a dog to space that died. The flipping dive - one of the missions the lunar module spun out of control and nearly crashed. The astronaut swore like crazy when that happened, and he didn't even care who was listening. The Houston space enter is 8.5 miles north of a different Santa Fe. A canyon is an area with space in the middle, a space center. Are you in the right state of mind to decode it - a state of Tranquillity. There is no human trail nearby. A space trail is in New Mexico, named after its contribution to the space race. And on and on it goes. So, my guess is it has to do with the Apollo program and the moon. And the treasure will not be the biggest part of the story.

Other hid it at his favorite fishing spot and I get the award for craziest theory. It could have been crazier. I could have said Forrest swapped places with Armstrong because he was dispensable, and if it they couldn't leave the moon safely they could fake that part and deliver on the promise of safely going to the moon. Like they told the truth, but not the whole truth. It isn't like they could stow someone away in the lunar module on the way to the moon, like it was a life raft, sort of like they did in Apollo 13 for a while. Like Forrest went alone in there, in the AS. That would be no place for the Meek. Like Forrest descended the ladder first while Armstrong said his small step big leap comment for the world to hear. LIke everyone was looking at Forrest even though Armstrong said it, like in the Borders bookshop. That story would have been like a history never written. The powers that be would never authorize that autobiography. It would be an unauthorized autobiography.

Well, there it is. My craziest midnight oil theory. I feel I am floating on the ocean, just waiting for the helicopters now. Someone lock me in the Thor airstream for a couple weeks, I think the chase has contaminated me with moon madness.

Fly Me to the Moon. EdgeWalker, out.

[Deleted]

Below Devils Slide (just west of Gardiner) is the home of Brown for several reasons:
1. It is the actual home of the color brown, because artists paint is made by the mix of manganese/iron oxide that Devils Slide is known for. It was collected there by early artists.
2. There is a boat put-in right there too, the Yankee Jim River Access. This put-in is located below the old cabin of Joe Brown. The remains of it is up in the mountains if we follow Slip and Slide creek (no, not Joe Brown Creek).
3. Brown was the manager of the mining town Electric which was located right by Devils Slide.
4. Across from the river is Laduke Hot Springs, a hot spring which is just feet from the river. Look at it in Google Earth and you will see how vibrant its brown color is.
5. There is good brown trout fishing here.
So we actually have not only one but four or five things to support that this location is home of Brown. And it is EXACTLY 10.5 river miles from the WWWH (see my other post for the complete solve)

[secondfiddle]

The Indian Pueblo's at the Jemez area = Home of Brown
WWWH = Jemez river and Rio Guadalupe above Canon

[gnossos]

Brown's Hole/Park - Brown's Park National Wildlife Refuge.

Edit- added gps coordinates - 40°46'53.3"N 108°55'22.2"W

[kp]

Hebgen Lake IS the home of Brown trout per the park sign along the Madison at Bakers Hole (TFTW) Campground. This sign has been posted on Dals site several times. It explains that all the adult trout live there because the bottom of the lake has the coldest water on the Madison (40 degrees almost year round). Our solve was worth the cold...Madison tailwater below Hebgen dam...but just like Dal we didn’t find it under that big pine tree just before the old spillway. Just Lots of rocks from the earthquake. 😔

[eddiek73]

My "Home of Brown" was a lake on the Madison that is well known for Brown Trout spawning - Ennis Lake I believe. It is on the Madison. That location came as a result if Mr. Fenn saying in an additional clue that there was more in one particular poem line than first seen. I immediately thought of an anagram. Sure enough, trout was one of the few words I could make out of the letters in that line.

[minotaurmoreno]

One of mine that I liked a lot was Purple Mountain Trail in Yellowstone.

Purple + Yellow = Brown (capitalized)

[teaandease]

Mine was somewhat left of the gravesite of Belle Drewry. I decided to use Fenn's words alone as the literal clues. So, "Not far but too far to walk, put in below the home of Brown" meant: to the word "walk", put in the words "below the home of Brown". In my solve, the very first clue said to "Try anagrams. Revealz TC". Therefore, the HOB clue anagrammed to:

"Tomb of whore Belle. Know haw." Ah, well.

[eddiek73]

Sorry - it may have been Hebgen Lake instead of Ennis. I am on the road today and my notes are at home.
I am still convinced, until he states otherwise, that Earthquake Lake - specifically where the Madison first flows into it- was the starting point as many lines in the poem refer to the lake in a clear and straight-forward manner (but I do recognize that many people feel they can also be able to say the same about their starting point). Again going from memory but the line: Just heavy loads and water high - the water high is the new lake created by the earthquake closest to the slide. In reading about the earthquake, the army core of engineers were brought in to help clear a lot of the slide material. The description in the paragraph about the trucks used to move the material literally states the Army Core used trucks to transport HEAVY LOADS out of the valley.
"Nigh" is a word that has "on - left" as one of its definitions. Looking down river, the new drainage area from Earthquake Lake that allows the Madison River to continue is on the left of the slide created by the earthquake.
For me, home is where the kids are - with trout hidden as an extra clue as an anagram in a line Mr. Fenn said contained an extra clue (To far to walk)- the Home of Brown became, for me, one of the main spawning grounds for Brown trout on the Madison. Slide (the slide caused by the earthquake) is another word hidden in an anagram in that line of the poem - the treasure is in a
The blaze, as Mr. Fenn stated, people may not recognize it and people should focus on the starting point, I thought referred to a spit on the Madison where a particular explorer crossed. Remember Mr. Fenn is a self taught archaeologist and student of history - especially the Lewis and Clarke expedition from what I understand. The Oregon Trail was created by people moving West, but many were seeking a safer route to Virginia City than was known at the time. The explorer (again sorry on name) "blazed" a new trail right along the Madison to provide a solution to the need for the new trail. (Mr. Fenn also said that "some clues refer to man-made objects that did exist a long, long time ago, but that natural location did).
"Not for the meek" could refer to one of the many rapid areas on the Madison, but my first "gut" reaction to reading that line was to link it to "The meek shall inherit the earth". Not for the meek may mean "not in or on the earth (dirt/ground), but rather in the water. Mr. Fenn also said the chest is wet.
"A lot harder to get to the chest in Winter" could refer to the fact that the main road by this area of the Madison is closed in Winter.

[huskylover]

Eagles Nest Lake, NM. Home of the brown trout.

[dn01]

Brown , capitalized because it’s a last name

[argonot]

HOB is a bridge. The story behind this is a little arcane so Fenn helped out with the additional hint - "If you can't find WWWH you might as well stay home and play canasta."

Canasta is a form of rummy that plays with paired teams, like bridge.

But the actual HOB is a reference to Brownies, an archaic reference to mischievous and mythical little imps that live under bridges. An example of this folklore can be found in the "Brownies Under The Bridge" story from www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=goblins+and+ghosties as well as other places. The Brownies were more popularized in drawings by Palmer Cox in the late 1800's, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brownies. Another interesting tidbit is that the Girl Scout Brownies were named after these guys, as they did have a good work ethic.

It just so happens that there is a brown building adjacent to the bridge in question, so that just helped if you didn't get this obscure reference

[grapette79or80]

Jun 8, 2020 20:42:26 GMT -5 argonot said:

HOB is a bridge. The story behind this is a little arcane so Fenn helped out with the additional hint - "If you can't find WWWH you might as well stay home and play canasta."

Canasta is a form of rummy that plays with paired teams, like bridge.

But the actual HOB is a reference to Brownies, an archaic reference to mischievous and mythical little imps that live under bridges. An example of this folklore can be found in the "Brownies Under The Bridge" story from www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=goblins+and+ghosties as well as other places. The Brownies were more popularized in drawings by Palmer Cox in the late 1800's, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brownies. Another interesting tidbit is that the Girl Scout Brownies were named after these guys, as they did have a good work ethic.

It just so happens that there is a brown building adjacent to the bridge in question, so that just helped if you didn't get this obscure reference

I think this is spot on

[omarandruby]

The Dubois Fish Hatchery is situated at the base of the Whiskey Mountain Bighorn Sheep winter range on the east slope of the Wind River Mountains.

The hatchery was originally built in 1940.

The station is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily all year and visitors are always welcome. Guided tours are available to school groups, organizations and the general public by making a reservation.

.....What Stocks and Species are Reared?

A wide variety of fish are incubated and/or reared at Dubois Hatchery. This includes: Brook Trout, Brown Trout, Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout, Fall Rainbow Trout, Fire Hole Rainbow Trout, Arctic Grayling and Wyoming’s four native cutthroat trout: the Bear River (Bonneville), Colorado River, Snake River and Yellowstone Cutthroat.

IMPORTANT FACT--------> YOU NEED A CONSISTENT SOURCE OF COOL/ COLD WATER TO RAISE TROUT

wgfd.wyo.gov/About-Us/Offices-and-Facilities/Dubois-Fish-Hatchery