Why Wyoming?

[Jenny]

In effort to come to some sort of consensus on a state, if we can, can we list 'reasons' for 'Why Wyoming? What makes it possible, etc.... (I'll be creating a Thread for each State)

[minotaurmoreno]

In the original Flywater book on page 107, there is a picture of a fisherman fishing at Ojo Caliente on the Firehole River. If you remember, scrapbook 107 was also a pretty memorable one.

After also writing about it in Too Far To Walk as his secret bathing spot without its name, that would be pretty misleading to not be the correct WWWH, IMO.

[miracleman]

There would be no way to get that information about his bathing spot from the poem alone so it is no good as a solution.

[rainbowchaser]

Forrest is showing us his rainbow symbolically
Poem based solution is WWH = Wedding of the Waters (warm water and railroad halt). Symbolic for Peggy.
Take it in - go into the canyon and take in the beauty (designated scenic highway) the canyon down. Drive down (elevation and south into the Wind River Canyon - Down ALSO means of the wind (Canyon of the Wind). Symbolic for Eric Sloane and Yellowstone, because it was his route home from Yellowstone every year.
Put in below the home of Brown drive to the boat put in at Boysen Reservoir. Boysen is a fruit. Fruit pies symbolic for grandmas. Home of Brown = Copper Mountain ( Actual home of the metal copper). Symbolic for his bronze castings. Home of Brown also refers to brown trout and is symbolic for his love of fishing.
No place for the meek - Shoshoni where Indians actually live as well as the name of the town.. Symbolic for his love of Indian culture
No paddle (symbolic for June) up your creek - Birdseye (symbolic for him being a pilot). Birdseye Creek also looks over the road where Skippy and Forrest never fought again, (Remember the story of Forrest flying over Philadelphia and covering his eye with his thumb? Philly is the City of Brotherly Love and Forrest was looking down on it from his Birdseye view.) Just heavy loads means large rocks and Homonym of lodes and water high - the creek rises in elevation And the name Birdseye refers to something high. Lode is symbolic for his mother mother lode).
If you’ve been wise (symbolic for his dad) also homonym y’s as in 2 forks in the creek (have already gone through The Owl Creek Mountain range) and found (found also refers to metal as in a foundry) the blaze (the Elizabeth lode which is symbolic for his pet cow, Bessie).
Your quest to cease = 2 C’s = 200 feet and symbolic for his children.
The place is special to him -“almost umbilical”.

Big picture in the book - Initials on the page JF = John Fremont. Fremont County WY. There is the story in the book about John Charles something or another. John Charles Fremont. Fremont, CA has an olive festival (olive jars).
Forrest prayed for D’s in school. If his school had a d instead of an i, it would be Lander, not Lanier.

Wind River valley was known to the Indians as Warm Valley.

Poem at the end of the Flywater chapter refers to Peggy being there somewhere. Copper Mountain is a PEGmatite Mountain.

Wedding of the Waters to the Elizabeth lode is not far but too far to walk (= butt or target) 24.2 miles.

[teaandease]

My conjecture to Wyoming is: I think it's a confirmation hint. Not a clue.  "Wyoming holds the treasure, beret".  Remember, the poem says it all. So Fenn says: As I have (the word:gone) alone in there (the word there) AND (again: words "with my treasures bold"):  So put those words together: GONE, THERE, WITH MY TREASURES BOLD." Anagram it. He said all you need is the poem. All you need are the words! There are nine directives in his words. This is not directive, just confirmation. My conjecture only.

[rainbowchaser]

Tea and ease, my solution is similar, in that my word that is key is the word I, or should I say the letter i. As (the letter) i have gone alone there, i can keep my secret where. This sentence introduces the reader to the word that keeps the secret to where the chest is. So, as the letter i goes alone in “there and with my treasures bold”, it anagrams to -Wind, south, Birdseye, Metal & her. Since the poem says “alone in there, so we must ask where, and the poem says where - warm waters halt. Adding i to warm waters halt results in altar-wise warmth. Add the letter i to the blaze and it becomes Elizabeth ( as in the Elizabeth lode) and symbolic for Bessie. Forrest’s reply regarding the blaze - “In a word, yes.” The letters of “the blaze” are actually IN the word Elizabeth.

Also, So why is it = so WY is it that I must go.

[Indy/phantom]

Jun 10, 2020 18:04:24 GMT -5 Jenny said:

In effort to come to some sort of consensus on a state, if we can, can we list 'reasons' for 'Why Wyoming? What makes it possible, etc.... (I'll be creating a Thread for each State)

The middle Rocky's are in 3 states Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah. Forrest said the treasure was not in Utah or in Idaho. Forrest  was always in the middle.

[shark]

Jun 10, 2020 18:04:24 GMT -5 Jenny said:

In effort to come to some sort of consensus on a state, if we can, can we list 'reasons' for 'Why Wyoming? What makes it possible, etc.... (I'll be creating a Thread for each State)

100% it is in Wyoming. Sorry for posting a link to another site if that is frowned upon (unsure). 

OH! is a genius. I have been privileged to hear his entire solve for the past 12 months. He solved the poem and his revealing most of his solution at the below link.

It is almost nauseating how consistently Forrest points to Wyoming. I will not post his work here, but the amount of proof OH! is in the process of posting here is overwhelming.


www.hintofriches.com/forum/the-hint-of-riches/163606-page-44-of-all-three-books


W is the 23rd alphabet word

There are 23 double-u's in the poem

The first poem line has 23 letters

The 23rd word in the first two stanzas ends with a W.

3 poem lines have a "W" as the 23rd letter

The 23rd chapter of TTOTC has the poem.

The 23rd Large red letter in TTOTC is a W

Count to the 44th poem word, read next letter

One of the Rocky Mountain states has 23 counties

Only one search area state starts with a W

Flip TTOTC over on the Omegas page and you have "double-u"


That is maybe 0.01% of what points to Wyoming. Click the link to read more

[pacman]

The preamble to the poem includes "the end of my rainBOW"...Medicine-Bow Routt National Forest

As/I have gone alone in there...CAR
And/with...CON
my treasures bold...BOUNTY

CARBON COUNTY

hint: of riches new and old=CARBON (diamonds, graphene etc)