Posted on 02/27/2013 6:12:31 PM PST by Daffynition
A New Mexico multimillionaire wants you to get off the couch and go searching for hidden treasure.
Forrest Fenn, 82, believes too many Americans spend their free time watching TV or playing video games. He hopes the bounty he hid — a chest filled with millions of dollars in gold coins, diamonds and emeralds, among other gems — will prompt some to explore the outdoors. "Get your kids out in the countryside, take them fishing and get them away from their little hand-held machines," he told TODAY.
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I also saw The Three Stooges (w/Joe DeRita), Joe E. Brown, Jerry Lewis, Jack Benny (also, Rochester!), and Buster Keaton in there.
What a cavalcade of stars!
The wife and I visited Santa Fe last year, and we drove up to Taos and around. Trying to find some box of gold in that landscape would be like trying find the proverbial needle in a haystack. And in this case there’s thousands of haystacks and one needle.
I left a kidney and my spleen in NM....Is there a map?
**What a cavalcade of stars!**
Goodness yes! Such a treat!
Dry arroyos aren't particularly dangerous, unless you're dumb enough to park or camp in one. While flash floods can come up quickly, it's seldom so fast that an alert person can't get out of what is usually called an arroyo.
Now dry slot canyons...
Sounds like a way to tell the folks, especially the young to get off their butts and do something for them selves and even giving them some incentive, but i guess the best incentive is being hungry.
OMG! Was it *that* long ago? What is scary, I recall the *boy* who took me to that movie.....wonder what ever happened to him? Heh.
50 Years! OMG!!!
Yes, that’s true. You ought to ping the person who actually said that.
I bought that issue. heh
Some comments from another site about the challenge: http://mountainwalk.org/2012/09/
...from this guy’s blog... (he grew up in northern NM, southern Colorado... has been looking for a few years now)
For the new folk who have recently learned of the treasure that Forrest Fenn has hidden out there somewhere and are all charged up to begin the search, let me tell you what its been like for those of us who have been at it for a while.
It starts off simple enough. You read Forrest Fenn’s Memoir and pay some extra attention to the poem. You find a few addresses in the text thinking it’s obvious that he put the treasure where he used to put other things. You make assumptions like, “It’s hidden in the cemetery in Truchas, New Mexico” or “It’s in the Red River just before its confluence with the Rio Grande.” You begin a search of Wikipedia to find just where it is that gypsies hang out, or you try to make any and all numbers in his Memoir into geographic coordinates, and then you take out old maps from long ago trips to look for “Brown” as a street name, a park name, a town name, a county, but to no avail. And if you are really into it, you buy new maps but nothing has changed.
You go to REI and dream about all the stuff you will need to wade the freezing Fire Hole River and then you discover that the Fire Hole River is relatively warm. And then you say “Aha!” and look at the map to find that the warm Fire Hole River meets the Gibbon River and say “Aha!” “The warm waters halt!” and then you discover that the Gibbon River also comes through a geyser basin.
You make plans to go “out there,” “up there,” or “in there.” Your plans get more and more specific because your current theory seems to everybody but your spouse to be without fault. And then you find that where you wanted to go April 1 is still covered with 100 inches of snow.
.............he has some insight into Fenn...and is from the same general area... some interesting stuff on his blog.
How cool! Are you inspired to go searching now?
LOL! No, our days of climbing around in gorges and creek beds hunting for arrowheads and deer and stuff are over. We aren’t as old as Forrest but we can see it from here. :)
“Your plans get more and more specific because your current theory seems to everybody but your spouse to be without fault.”
I love it!! I wasted some time last night doing what he mentions and doing word searches, etc. My first idea brought be four steps into it and I thought “this MUST be the place”. Then I looked at things a bit different and three steps later had an almost as promising location. (Not as good as the first one though!)
I imagine that if it is ever found, the clues will be “obvious” in hindsight. But way too many variables (”house of brown” - Clarence T. Brown, brown egret, brown bear, Taninger, etc.)
But just as in life, the point is not about what lies at the end of the journey.
You’re right on every score!
That ”house of brown”....why counted that be a tree stump?...yet OTOH, it is supposed to be buried, not in a hollowed out log.
Someone much younger than me will find it. Good, I hope they are deserving and in need.
I’d rub the belly of that sculpture and head for the hills! :)
Then I could say....I knew you *when.* :)
‘take out old maps from long ago trips to look for “Brown” as a street name, a park name, a town name, a county, but to no avail. And if you are really into it, you buy new maps but nothing has changed.’
That’s interesting. Can’t find anything from a Google search of Brown?
I did a Google search of the phrase: home of Brown
I ended up at this website: ‘http://www.timkellerphotography.com/timkellerarts/WritingNMBrownRanch.html';
I think it is where the story begins.
Well, he may have buried a treasure box in NM, but all of his clues point to a spot on the planet nowhere near NM. They all line up (and there are even more allusions to it in his poem) so I don't think it is a coincidence. Maybe *that* location is where he left a note saying where to find the box in NM. Clever. Totally obscure but fairly obvious if you've been there.
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