If the chest is still hidden, would you leave it there?

[elperro]

I think Fenn wanted his treasure searched for, but NEVER found. Let’s just say hypothetically that you are still confident in your solution. You’re planning to go back this summer to check it out. Maybe you’ll be right. If it were clearly communicated to you beforehand, by someone in the know, that your solve was correct, could you be persuaded to leave it there and never go back? I could be. Just a thought. The chase could live on for years.

[Redneck Express]

Define "persuaded". If it includes lotsa 0's, then yeah prolly.

[Suzy]

Define "persuaded". If it includes lotsa 0's, then yeah prolly.

That would be a few O's, accompanied by a few more Oh's!!
Sorry OH! . . . I didn't mean to use your name in vain, I got a little carried away.

[Broken arrow]

I’ve contemplated the same thing just so they can experience the ride and maybe the Blaze will reveal itself again

[Broken arrow]

I can’t wait to meet y’all. I’m not that crazy I seear

[Sal O'mander]

I think Fenn wanted his treasure searched for, but NEVER found. Let’s just say hypothetically that you are still confident in your solution. You’re planning to go back this summer to check it out. Maybe you’ll be right. If it were clearly communicated to you beforehand, by someone in the know, that your solve was correct, could you be persuaded to leave it there and never go back? I could be. Just a thought. The chase could live on for years.

Not a chance!!
But I would place a proxy item in its place redeemable for a second place prize of silver and let the community know what I had done.... Anonymously if possible....

[Quest]

I think Fenn wanted his treasure searched for, but NEVER found. Let’s just say hypothetically that you are still confident in your solution. You’re planning to go back this summer to check it out. Maybe you’ll be right. If it were clearly communicated to you beforehand, by someone in the know, that your solve was correct, could you be persuaded to leave it there and never go back? I could be. Just a thought. The chase could live on for years.

If the chest is still hidden then it is waiting for a specific person. And it will be there "when" they get there.
I should have used a forrest quote.
"But the treasure is there waiting for the right person"

[TimW]

I would leave the chest and the autobiography. I think they would be a liability. I would forgo the small amount of fame and showupmanship of my friends and past acquaintances. The contents would be enough or me. I may also leave some kind of token to indicate who I was if it were ever found in the future.

[Old blue]

I would grab every banana

[Macahol]

What if there is a note proclaiming the chest to be the property of Forrest Fenn, but promising a hefty finders fee (regardless of what the poem says)?

[elperro]

I would grab every banana

I guess that is what FF said.

[ROLL TIDE]

I would take it and agree to say it was in Wyoming.

[Yellerstain]

I would take it and agree to say it was in Wyoming.

Exactly!

[Duster]

I am certain that Forrest would not have left anything to chance. There would most definitely be instructions and words of wisdom.

[Star Shadow]

I would take it and agree to say it was in Wyoming.

You wouldn't necessarily be lying.