Step 1 towards resolution

[Tornado]

Is there a de facto leader or chosen contact for the Finder given Forrest's stepping down? Otherwise can a moderare and confident brother reach out? This is going to be the most difficult part I believe. PM me please. As a last resort, I would suggest having Forrest's lawyer contact me. He has my email and I'm sure he knows who I am. Let's do this.

[Tornado]

No

[HHHH]

Is there a de facto leader or chosen contact for the Finder given Forrest's stepping down? Otherwise can a moderare and confident brother reach out? This is going to be the most difficult part I believe. PM me please. As a last resort, I would suggest having Forrest's lawyer contact me. He has my email and I'm sure he knows who I am. Let's do this.

What are you trying to do, tornado? What do you mean Forrest's stepping down? Maybe we should all quit pestering him, and just take it all with a grain of salt. It seems no good deed goes unpunished, and that makes me very sad.

[BiggishShoes]

Is there a de facto leader or chosen contact for the Finder given Forrest's stepping down? Otherwise can a moderare and confident brother reach out? This is going to be the most difficult part I believe. PM me please. As a last resort, I would suggest having Forrest's lawyer contact me. He has my email and I'm sure he knows who I am. Let's do this.

What's up? is this the cleansing souls part?

whatever it is, don't rush into it and do anything you might regret.

If f's lawyer knows you then why do you need anyone else?

i thought you'd been doing ok, what's going on?

[June Did Everything Right]

Forrest's attorneys aren't monitoring forums and blogs. That would cost an insane amount of money and 99 percent of what they would read would be pure nonsense. It seems at this point that neither the Finder nor Forrest have much need to communicate anything further. Perhaps in the future this will change, but that is unlikely. My guess is that the state is as close as we will get to knowing any of it. I'm still having fun trying to figure it out though. Turns out my reading of the meadowlarks as a subtle hint may have been correct, as the meadowlark is the state bird of WY. It's also the state bird of MT, so how much of a hint that really is remains subject to confusion on my part.

[GoldenFrog]

I think Forrest is finished with the chase.

It seems obvious to me neither f nor the finder are done with the chase. They are both still paying attention...

[Must Listengood]

The finder is going to get paid a lot of money to reveal the solve. At least enough for him to do so in all likelihood. But it will take a little time. We simply have to wait for a while.

[Old blue]

This question is absolutely none our business, but who has possession of the chest

[Omni]

This question is absolutely none our business, but who has possession of the chest

It's interesting to me that there's been no movement to speak of on that front since the find. Just pictures of FF with the chest. Imagine if the guy just wanted to put it on his shelf, or sell it off piece by piece under the table.

[GoldenFrog]

Imagine if the guy just wanted to put it on his shelf, or sell it off piece by piece under the table.

It's my opinion he's dug himself a hole. Who will spend a million on the chest without full knowledge of where it was found? If you don't share the location, no one will touch it. And, if it was found in Yellowstone, who's going to buy it knowing it was retrieved illegally?

As I've said, the only way forward is to reveal the solve, that's not where the money is, the money's in the chest and the story. The public has moved on...

What about the autobiography? You know home of Brown is in there. So, who should reveal hoB first? Do you want to be seen as proactive or reactive, it matters.

What if the true solve is out here alread, how does that factor into all of this?

There is one thing however I know for sure, the truth always comes out eventually. Choose wisely finder...

[Must Listengood]

[Goldilocks]

Is there a de facto leader or chosen contact for the Finder given Forrest's stepping down? Otherwise can a moderare and confident brother reach out? This is going to be the most difficult part I believe. PM me please. As a last resort, I would suggest having Forrest's lawyer contact me. He has my email and I'm sure he knows who I am. Let's do this.

I have no idea what you just said but it sounds ominous. Translation please?

[Tyke (MySon)]

Is there a de facto leader or chosen contact for the Finder given Forrest's stepping down? Otherwise can a moderare and confident brother reach out? This is going to be the most difficult part I believe. PM me please. As a last resort, I would suggest having Forrest's lawyer contact me. He has my email and I'm sure he knows who I am. Let's do this.

A Moriarty, or J Moriarty? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Moriarty
Dark indeed per Goldi Fox (no hare-ass-meant, fie. i just think she's cute. no crime there, is there?)

and I'm not so sure about PM'ing you; for a hip user whose rolls under the handle TORNADO, I'm thinking more Flunitrazepam ...

[JHSharp]

Forrest's attorneys aren't monitoring forums and blogs. That would cost an insane amount of money and 99 percent of what they would read would be pure nonsense. It seems at this point that neither the Finder nor Forrest have much need to communicate anything further. Perhaps in the future this will change, but that is unlikely. My guess is that the state is as close as we will get to knowing any of it. I'm still having fun trying to figure it out though. Turns out my reading of the meadowlarks as a subtle hint may have been correct, as the meadowlark is the state bird of WY. It's also the state bird of MT, so how much of a hint that really is remains subject to confusion on my part.

meadow meadow meadow lark mattered in my solve. I couldn’t make meadowlark work.

[June Did Everything Right]

meadow meadow meadow lark mattered in my solve. I couldn’t make meadowlark work.

I had meadow lark as playful in a meadow too. The one I liked best, but couldn't make work (I was in MT, West Yellowstone after all) was that he doesn't mention the narrator of Catcher in The Rye by name. When I said it outloud slowly it made me laugh because Holden Caufield sure sounded like Holed in Cow Field. I had a great cowfield and an idea that "found the blaze" meant to "start the fire." As in, the blaze was something you created. I got there through a lot of nonsense about him getting fired and enduring two firings/fire rings. That and that the people in the sketches were only happy around fires. Every other person in those sketches looked pretty miserable to me. And a million fun ideas that yielded nothing but transitioning to other ideas.

For a while, I was pretty sure that the reason you don't paddle up your creek, just heavy loads and water high, was because this clue would take place in the future. After you "found/started" the blaze you'd go "Holy shit! I founded the blaze" and then need to run to the creek to carry water to put it out. Heavy loads would be what you carried from the creek and water high the steam after you threw water on the fire. This worked well for "Brave and in the wood" too because it would be wet firewood and you might get burned.

Alas, no treasure for me. Still working it though. It's gotta be in that book somewhere. I think my problem was always grabbing the wrong things and thinking they were hints. There's not much wood in that book, but "Helping father make fire wood" as a caption on that photo always tripped me out. Because where I live firewood is one word. So when I stared at that I thought, a father making fire is a founding father. Found the blaze?

I just feel dumb even writing that out but maybe it's worth a laugh for someone who needs one.