Stars are relevant to the solution.

[Spoon]

Please say how your ideas fit with the theme of a thread without referring always to the same limited set of items that in many minds here are simply wrong. Even if all those are wrong and you are right.

Courageous remarks. Now can we generalize this to all to whom it may apply? That might be a long list....

[jan_v60]

Courageous remarks. Now can we generalize this to all to whom it may apply? That might be a long list....

I think I would be on that list also. But with shorter contributions, and always open for new elements brought here by other posters. And the expression « IMO » also helps to put yourself in a correct but context of relativity.

[trueyeti]

@ trueyeti could you please keep your inteventions a bit shorter please, and not repeating each time about Wetherill, navajo, Bisti, silver bracelet, etc.,, We already know. You are discouraging potential readers of any thread in this way. Please say how your ideas fit with the theme of a thread without referring always to the same limited set of items that in many minds here are simply wrong. Even if all those are wrong and you are right.

Hey jan,
Readers of this forum are adults. If I am discouraging potential readers of any thread, then that says something about the thread and those who cannot defend their claims. Peer review anyone? I replied in this thread because something was implied as "a matter of fact" when they should have said, "IMO." For the interest of not derailing delusional claims that aren't based in fact.....I will start a new thread. Cheers.

[Spoon]

I think I would be on that list also. But with shorter contributions, and always open for new elements brought here by other posters. And the expression « IMO » also helps to put yourself in a correct but context of relativity.

If you're on the list, I haven't noticed. Maybe that's due to a short memory. The ones that have repeated the same thing at least 100 times - those I remember!

[trueyeti]

Hey,
What new elements do you have to contribute jan_v60 and Spoon that nail down a locality? IMO...this is a short comment. Cheers.

[Gunrunner]

The question is, what do we do with that guy on the front cover of OUAW who is doing the fishing? You know, the dude who's wearing that big belt buckle, who's got his line in the water, and who supposedly represents Forrest Fenn?

Well, he's kinda out of the picture now, ain't he? I have a sneaking suspicion you'd better be more concerned with that star on the back cover than with figuring out where Forrest is. He's beyond the stars.

If we're suppose to triangulate Forrest's grave, and if the doodled guy is Forrest, then wouldn't the secret fishing hole be where Forrest is standing? How can we rob (or tom) Forrest's grave if we're fooled into searching elsewhere, and where his body couldn't be located there because he hasn't even fished there?

If you're looking for a missing fisherman instead of a downed pilot I'm not sure triangulation would be the most apt method of locating him. But if you can find a triangle that lands on a fishing hole, more power to you. I was happy enough to just land near a road. The odds were kind of against it up there.

You have to go where he has gone alone. Where do you go in the poem? In Peace. He went alone in Peace.

Shouldn't we follow that fishing line back to its distinguished owner in order to get to the spool or the big knot of balled fishing twine at the end?

A little friendly advice, turtle: I wouldn't touch that line if I were you. Fishermen do horrible things to turtles. The buckle isn't there anymore. Forrest is scattered to the wind. Don't let him snatch you out of there.

Seems to me, if Forrest were yet alive, he would be still hiding out in them woods. You know what? That's it! I'll bet Forrest faked his own death, and, if we look hard enough from GE, we can still see him hiding out fishing, while refuged under the providing arms of God.

You be you, Suzu. I'll be pondering that star on the back.

[Suzy]

Well, he's kinda out of the picture now, ain't he? I have a sneaking suspicion you'd better be more concerned with that star on the back cover than with figuring out where Forrest is. He's beyond the stars.



If you're looking for a missing fisherman instead of a downed pilot I'm not sure triangulation would be the most apt method of locating him. But if you can find a triangle that lands on a fishing hole, more power to you. I was happy enough to just land near a road. The odds were kind of against it up there.

You have to go where he has gone alone. Where do you go in the poem? In Peace. He went alone in Peace.



A little friendly advice, turtle: I wouldn't touch that line if I were you. Fishermen do horrible things to turtles. The buckle isn't there anymore. Forrest is scattered to the wind. Don't let him snatch you out of there.



You be you, Suzu. I'll be pondering that star on the back.

I use a triangle, rather than a shinto for figuring out that elusive "went in there alone" star. It rings a bit more according to the forlorn timbre of seeking some divine place in nature. But regardless of whether multiplying or dividing, that triangle always equates to one.

P.S. Don't you know fishermen are given a special place for picking on them turtles? Yep, they are greatly subtracted their allotted time for fishing. Furthermore, let's just say, you don't want to stoop that low.

[Spoon]

Hey,
What new elements do you have to contribute jan_v60 and Spoon that nail down a locality? IMO...this is a short comment. Cheers.

Who said I was trying to nail down a location on this forum? Frankly, I think that would be silly. Without the author to confirm it, nobody's ever going to believe another's solution. All we can realistically do right now is have a discussion of salient items.

[trueyeti]

Hey Spoon,
No searcher in here has anything to offer without a locality that is proved by the author's words. A Forrest quote written by Zapster on 2/25/2023 follows:

FF: “Well, there’s about 250,000 people that think they have. And, uh, I don’t know that anybody has … has … has told me the clues in the right order. I think that part of the problem is they don’t … they don’t focus on the first clue. If you don’t know where the first clue is, you might as well stay home because you’re not … you’re not going to find the treasure chest. You can’t go out looking for the blaze and expect to find the treasure chest. There’s ten billion blazes out there. So you have to start with the first clue and let it take you to the blaze.”

Sounds like the first clue is at a place...and that place is the "where," of the "where the first clue is to be found".....Sounds like 2-Clues to me.....

If you are in this blog then aren't you interested in nailing down the 9-Clues, or the locality? Read what the author says, "they don't focus on the first clue." He continues, "If you don't know where the first clue is,....... your not going to find the treasure chest." Operative word is "where." The first clue is "where" the blaze is. The first clue is the "where" he hid his chest. Locality.....is differentiated from "the first clue is WWWh."

What are you doing here if not to understand/work/give effort to the winning solve? That is what we're here for. Everyone is making the effort to "nail down" WWWh, but failing to realize that you must focus on the first clue (locality) to get to the WWWh and the blaze. Forrest uses the word "clue" as a chiral..... it does not only mean that "the first clue is WWWh," but means something else entirely.....that when focused on.....will render "where," or "locality." Forrest employs chirality with his use of the word "clue" to hide a clue within a clue within his riddles. It is not difficult to comprehend Forrest's smoke and mirrors and his use of the word "where," unless the person considering it is not apt to employ lateral thinking in their use of their own imagination.

Yeah...the author confirms the "where" with his multi-colored ball of string metaphor to show how the stories "tie-on" in "Gold and More." Those are findings and this community knows the claim, yet searchers can't bring themselves to discuss them at all. The proof is in what he wrote there in "Gold and More." Cheers.

[trueyeti]

short
(shôrt)
1. Having little length; not long.
2. Having little height; not tall.
3. Extending or traveling not far or not far enough: a short toss.

This post is short and poem related for anyone who doesn't know it.

Hey MD,
The word "Brown" is short. What does it mean? The Where, What, and When of "Brown"....please give us the short version of the There, That, and Then. If you can't do That, Then you can stuff your What, When, and Where.....you know....."There." Cheers.

[Gunrunner]

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/3120

https://maps.roadtrippers.com/us/lar...wn-metal-t-rex

Do you know who first discovered T. Rex? And where he was living at the time? This is pretty funny.

[Sirius B]

Does it remind you of anything?

Palo Flechado

[Trailblazer99]

Yeah, I don't quite know what to make of it. I never saw it until Zap posted the photo, and it jumped out at me like a feral housecat. I slapped it together in a couple of minutes, fudging the lines a little to get a tight intersection, but heck, man, I recognize all those places --there's Logan Pass, there's the Mount Brown lookout, the Heavens Peak lookout, Swiftcurrent lookout, Gunsight Mountain and Trout Lake. I've flown over it a thousand times in GE. I didn't use Gunsight Mountain or Trout Lake in my solve because they weren't in the poem but I knew they were there. I've said before that if you aim Gunsight toward Porcupine Ridge you'll pass right over the treasure location. More or less. A little to the right. Close enough for government work.

I remember folks trying to figure out those stars when the book first came out. I looked, too, but didn't see anything that fit my spot so I concluded there wasn't anything to see. I didn't want Forrest giving out any more hints when that book came out. But then. before you could turn around hardly, out came the revised edition with those little changes to the cover. You know, Forrest is almost umbilically attached to the spot. If the butt end of that fishing pole was just a little bit longer...

I did the exact same thing with the Lewis and Clark cipher it tells you how to do it step by step. And it all leads to a “star” in the center of the median. The center of the triangulation. That’s also where the sculpture was found.

[Gunrunner]

I did the exact same thing with the Lewis and Clark cipher it tells you how to do it step by step. And it all leads to a “star” in the center of the median. The center of the triangulation. That’s also where the sculpture was found.

Reminds me of Eric Sloane's map of Roosevelt Field that Knight posted a while back, too.





"JUST A FAIRLY GOOD MAPPE FOR BOYS & GIRLS to FIND THEIR WAYS 'ROUND"

[starwheel]

Hey,
Try Cassiopeia on for size. The constellation has a resemblance to the M/W on the eye of the frog on page 133.

trueyeti To confirm that as Cassiopeia you would need to turn the book cover upside down. The black line denotes the terrestrial and the stars are the celestial realm. Forrest is on Earth fishing in the heavens.
The Triangulum location on my inverted book overlay is how it appears in the Northern hemisphere, I have witnessed it.