200ft vs 500ft

[Livinlifebig]

I don't see the fit. Forrest said something to the effect that many searchers were within 500ft and a few within 200 ft.
Isn't this the opposite for NMH? The road is 200 feet of the treasure? next to the parking lot. I would think if this location was 200ft there were many searchers. If so where its the 500ft mark?

Do I have this backwards on NMH?

[Livinlifebig]

Hmmmmm…………..
Did he say exactly when those things happened?
There was a time when, if you sat in his home, you were probably 200ft.
If you drove by his property, 500ft., no matter who you were. The Salmon
doesn’t think it was at 9m for all that long. Wasn’t wet enough inside.
The chest would hold water. 9m doesn’t.


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Forrest said this in about every major interview he had with reporters, radio shows and TV.

Many searchers have been within 500ft of the treasure, a few within 200ft.

[Vertigo]

I don't see the fit. Forrest said something to the effect that many searchers were within 500ft and a few within 200 ft.
Isn't this the opposite for NMH? The road is 200 feet of the treasure? next to the parking lot. I would think if this location was 200ft there were many searchers. If so where its the 500ft mark?

Do I have this backwards on NMH?

It fits 9MH perfectly.
Those who drove past on the road were within 500 feet. Those who walked along the north bank of the Madison River were also within 500 feet. There were lots of these.
Those within 200 feet explored the far side of the river, opposite Fenn Rock, or crossed fully and walked along the south bank of the river. There were few of these.

[Hear me all]

Searchers became fixated on the distance and ignored the clues. Similar to how f said everyone was too busy stomping on the ants and missed the elefunt

[FennPoint]

Searchers became fixated on the distance and ignored the clues. Similar to how f said everyone was too busy stomping on the ants and missed the elefunt

Yup, I hear that. We are right to be intentionally suspicious of everything the man said. So often hints are interred. Could be as simple as Roman numerals (another reference to 2 Cs) or a complex anagram hidden in the entire sentence.

FP

[Livinlifebig]

It fits 9MH perfectly.
Those who drove past on the road were within 500 feet. Those who walked along the north bank of the Madison River were also within 500 feet. There were lots of these.
Those within 200 feet explored the far side of the river, opposite Fenn Rock, or crossed fully and walked along the south bank of the river. There were few of these.

I wouldn't say perfectly. I believe Forrest was a little more precise than what you have shown.
The clues dont match IMO. Brown is not a fish. Browns are all over the place in Yellowstone.

I would like to see a solve of NMH and the clues explanation.... Water does not halt at Madison junction, below the home of Brown is not down river. Where is water high? Heavy loads? What are both? The blaze that is impractical to remove?

How was Forrest not seen at that parking lot? So many tourists pass there daily. Even in slow days..

Anyone?

[FennPoint]

I wouldn't say perfectly. I believe Forrest was a little more precise than what you have shown.
The clues dont match IMO. Brown is not a fish. Browns are all over the place in Yellowstone.

I would like to see a solve of NMH and the clues explanation.... Water does not halt at Madison junction, below the home of Brown is not down river. Where is water high? Heavy loads? What are both? The blaze that is impractical to remove?

How was Forrest not seen at that parking lot? So many tourists pass there daily. Even in slow days..

Anyone?

Besides which - hardly a small difference here - Madison River ain’t no creek.

FP

[Livinlifebig]

Besides which - hardly a small difference here - Madison River ain’t no creek.

FP

True, Forrest preferred the smaller creeks.

[Cary_Galloway]

True, Forrest preferred the smaller creeks.

According to his BIO 9mh was his favorite fishing hole.
He even said his spirit would be there.

[Livinlifebig]

According to his BIO 9mh was his favorite fishing hole.
He even said his spirit would be there.

You mean one of his favorites. Dont stretch it.
Forrest preferred smaller creeks.

[Knowledge]

I never recall f saying searchers were within 500 feet, he said people. He said a few searchers were within 200 and more than several he thinks figured out the 1st two clues.
He chose his words carefully.

[trueyeti]

It fits 9MH perfectly.
Those who drove past on the road were within 500 feet. Those who walked along the north bank of the Madison River were also within 500 feet. There were lots of these.
Those within 200 feet explored the far side of the river, opposite Fenn Rock, or crossed fully and walked along the south bank of the river. There were few of these.

It is a lovely thought to have a puzzle piece fit in. It is Simpatico to say "X-gets the square." (Hollywood Squares). It is another thing entirely to force a puzzle piece into place, or to make a square fit into a circle, or a round peg into a square hole, or even a stick, into a box. And while the explanation you suggest does seemingly account for Forrest's words, it is not the smoking gun for a solution that is "straight forward with no subterfuge in sight." That solve.....is the one that can prove location....remember Forrest said to focus on "where the first clue is." Location, precludes the first clue as it comes before the first clue. The first clue is a function of "where the first clue is." Maybe go back to the drawing board with location? IMO, (and according to Forrest) the horse needs to be in front of the cart; location....is the horse.

Regarding the 200/500 foot thingy....I'm not going to show it now, but I have before....and that is the bronze US General Land Office marker that has "250.00 Penalty for Removal" stamped onto it.....just at 200 feet or so - from the excavated hole I found at Bisti, two weeks after the announcement the chest had been recovered. Anyway...there are many ways to arrive at meaning because of that marker....and because of what it says stamped into the bronze. Point is.....that I can provide the same kind of explanation you do. Two trips...there at Bisti to the parking lot is like 2.87 miles too.......what did Forrest say? A few miles....and 2-trips. Anyway.....back to the drawing board, 9MH.....you need location first....it is a requirement as per Forrest.....

[trueyeti]

According to his BIO 9mh was his favorite fishing hole.
He even said his spirit would be there.

Spirit = heart duh.......
Taken from sticky notes....Forrest Quotes:

Some recent you tubers have repeated your quote that “your heart is in yellowstone” can you clarify if your heart has also been in New Mexico? If so, where?

My heart is in Yellowstone in the summertime, my heart is in New Mexico in the wintertime. f

How can your heart be in two places at the same time? In spirit.

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Ahh the 500ft&200ft club, I was at the 500ft twice and didn’t even know it until I figured out the whole poem, and yeah there is a river and a creek and at the rainbows ends a hint at one end of the bow at the other the Blaze and nook where the Chest was. The hint, Blaze and nook are still there and will be for a thousand years but the chest is gone. Clint

[Zapster]

According to his BIO 9mh was his favorite fishing hole.
He even said his spirit would be there.

If you insist on repeating the same lie here, I'll be just as insistent on repeatedly correcting you. Forrest never said or wrote that Nine Mile Hole was his favorite fishing hole or fishing spot. Not in TTOTC, not in TFTW, not in OUAW, not in Ramblings and Rumblings, not in a Scrapbook, not in an interview, and not in any Mysterious Writings Q&A.