the impossible poem

[agnesdei]

I've searched Ben's special spot twice now but haven't found the Fenn flies. However, my ground game sucks! Is there anyone who wants to partner up who enjoys, and is good at, metal detecting?

Ben included a picture in his most recent scrapbook post which he wrote from his secret spot, expounding on that spot. (https://theimpossiblepoemscrapbooks.com/2023/06/22/a-river-runs-through-it/)

Here's an uncropped picture I took from the same spot:



My thinking was the poem leads to a shallow mine pit located directly below those trees. Pit is a reversed acrostic of the title, so fits "from the poem derived". The mine opening is the approximate dimensions he says the poem leads to, 12x12. The poem starts at "Thee Pitts", satisfying his double omega.

However...

1. You have to cross a creek which is still running extremely fast. Currently, it's pushing four times as much water as when he was there in 2020 and 2022. Usually, it's an easy walk across. Now, it requires experience in swift water crossings. With his regard for safety, I don't believe he would put searcher's lives at risk by hiding it across the creek.

2. Because of my experience, I did cross and search, but came up empty.

It doesn't seem many on MW are searching for this. Apparently, searchers are all on a Discord. Can someone post this link on there?

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By the way, I have seen a number of searchers comment on videos that they think the Fenn flies are in the nook where Ben looked for the Forrest Fenn treasure on the Uncompahgre River. Below is a picture of that nook when he was there in 2020. He buried a few items there. 





Ben's poem doesn't lead you there. But, since I was in the area I wanted to see if the Fenn book, turquoise and other items were still there. I planned to add a couple items of my own. Below is a picture I took of Ben's Fenn nook (sans driftwood) in 2022. The items he buried were gone. That's not surprising as the nook would be completely submerged in fast-running water during the spring runoff.

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In response to a couple of questions...

• The location is in the Silverton/Ouray area.
• I don't think the remaining flies should be split up. Since I'm neither a part of the Fenn community nor collector of things, if I found them solo, I planned to return them to the community. I did that with another hunt which included Fenn items. However, if someone teams up with me who the flies are important to, they can have them all. 

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I didn't receive interest from anyone who wanted to search Ben's Secret Spot for the Fenn Flies. Since I'm not going to search the spot again, here is its location: 37.815853503200344, -107.73273896393951. This is where he camped in 2020 while searching his Fenn spot, and again a few weeks ago when he took the picture of the trees found in his most recent scrapbook post. 

Whether the flies are here and I missed them, or there's some twist in the poem that I didn't discover, is up for someone else to determine.

I imagine most searchers are somewhere along 585 but I have no idea if any found the proper peaks to put in between. Here they are:



This is the shallow mine pit located under the trees in Ben's picture, and within 100' of his campsite (pictured when the creek can safely be crossed):



Here it is with a raging creek from a couple weeks ago:



Would someone be so kind as to put a link to this post in the Discord where all of the impossible poem searchers convene.