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[Hear me all]

Shiloh knows zilch. Kpro never has been in the know. The chances that anything of substance on this site being share is zero. I would like to be surprised.

[Zapster]

Forrest specifically said there were two ways to get there, I remember it and I will not be convinced others wise...
I will not try to dig it up either....

I can't prove a negative, but I have a pretty good memory and in anything I read, watched or listened to, Forrest never specified there were exactly "two" ways to get to the treasure. I could imagine him admitting there was more than one way to get there, but clearly the poem's clues are specific to one path.

If all the clues were solvable from home (and I'm in the camp that believes they were), then once someone has done so it seems to me they could take whatever route made the most logistic sense. For instance, the "nook" location south of the Madison is quite inaccessible via Madison wading at many times of year -- including June 5th, 2020, when the Madison was running at 900 cfps. That would be the most direct route to the nook, but you *could* cross to the south side at 7 mile bridge and hike 2 miles east from there back to 9MH. Takes a lot longer, but much safer.

[Mr Eyes]

Forrest mentioned more than twice how he could walk right straight to it. In another instance f said the finder would quietly walk right to it while other searchers would be running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

Like this?

[Suzy]

Maybe this will help all:

There are two ways to get wherever you want to go. You can go the right way ["...right straight to it"], or you can go the other way [left to it]. Consider it when you consider the path f put us on. So yes, by saying 'right straight to it', f said there are two ways to get there.

I seem to recall f quoting Yogi by saying whenever he and Peggy came to a fork in the road, they took it.

I hope it was a dirty fork and one you’d have to wash up before using. Putting some work into a find gives a person a sense of pride. Retrieving a knife would also be nice and par for the course. Finding a spoon fed would be the nicest of them all, allowing a person an opportunity to finally eat. That's if the trail you were on allowed you to catch some game. I guess that's where the Chase comes in.

[Knowledge]

I expect the finders to do the right thing, or the solver to tell everything they know. Like I said never put your information on a PC that is connected to the WWW. For every hacker, there is someone who is better at watching. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics) when you think you know it all, someone will always show you how many doors you left open, you never thought about. oops, that is more words than anyone wanted to hear or is it see?

[Gunrunner]

Maybe this will help all:

There are two ways to get wherever you want to go. You can go the right way ["...right straight to it"], or you can go the other way [left to it]. Consider it when you consider the path f put us on. So yes, by saying 'right straight to it', f said there are two ways to get there.

I seem to recall f quoting Yogi by saying whenever he and Peggy came to a fork in the road, they took it.

Go in from one way, you can easily quibble your way right straight to it. But if you go in from the other way, you're going to have to prevaricate some!

[whiskynovember]

I expect more of the same.

[ICV.]

May be another frivolous lawsuit, more pictures of "the log", gossip from someone in the know, something Shiloh said? I think that's less than thirty one.

[Hear me all]

He also said 'they're contiguous. i knew where i wanted to hide the treasure chest. so it was easy for me to put one foot down and then step on it to get to the next foot. thats what i did'. If you step on it, do tell Hear. If not, I understand.

Yes, the clues were contiguous. People were fixated on the blaze which sat about 3' from the beginning which was also the ending. The sign is the blaze. The U is the beginning and end. UU

[Spallies]

Go in from one way, you can easily quibble your way right straight to it. But if you go in from the other way, you're going to have to prevaricate some!

Or come in from the South and Quibbraricate the dither...

[wwwamericana]

Yes, the clues were contiguous. People were fixated on the blaze which sat about 3' from the beginning which was also the ending. The sign is the blaze. The U is the beginning and end. UU

I hope you are right!

[crow]

Yes, the clues were contiguous. People were fixated on the blaze which sat about 3' from the beginning which was also the ending. The sign is the blaze. The U is the beginning and end. UU

So how long do you think it would be before someone would notice a body at your location if Fenn went through with his original plan?

[Hear me all]

So how long do you think it would be before someone would notice a body at your location if Fenn went through with his original plan?

Hello crow - Forrest gave us multiple statements to say he wasn't serious about dying at the spot, that it was just part of the story to hook people. With this hunt, you had to be able to discern what the creator told you. Just like in life when you have to figure out when someone is dead serious or pulling your foot.

Some searchers chose to approach the hunt from a scientific approach and believed every single thing f said as gospel. They forgot that he was human and he said a large amount of imagination was needed. Those searchers wail like it was the first time they found out Santa wasn't what they thought. Others injected semi loads of imagination while refusing to recognize logic. It was a balancing act. It didn't help that f contradicted himself a few times over the course. This hunt is like dealing with other relationships in life. The better you know the other person, the better you can predict their patterns, thoughts, motives, likes, dislikes, motives, and future moves.

Interacting with searchers throughout the Chase is similar. It's easy to pick out the ones who lack imagination, logic, perception, reality, self management, and extremists. You can pose questions and know what the response will before they reply.

The Home reason f was so successful in life was because he was able to read people, meet them where they were and take an interest in them. Relationships propel people forward more than education, degrees, grades, money, ingenuity, etc.. Meeting the right people at the right time and cultivating those relationships will lead to more opportunity than you can imagine.

[crow]

Hello crow - Forrest gave us multiple statements to say he wasn't serious about dying at the spot, that it was just part of the story to hook people.

Would you point out one of those statements please? I've never heard anything about that.

[Gunrunner]

Would you point out one of those statements please? I've never heard anything about that.

Hearmeall has a wealth of Forrest's sayings in his head, that no one ever heard Forrest say except for him.