Here’s a link to an OUTSIDE article that lays out what is currently known about the finding of Forrest Fenn’s hidden chest.
And there’s this more comprehensive recent article from the UK, The Daily Mail:
click here.
Category Archives: Yellowstone National Park
Rumors and Rumblings
Rumors and rumblings. So much mystery. So many theories.
Wyoming vs New Mexico?
Some searchers will gather this weekend in West Yellowstone. Maybe Amy will host something in Santa Fe next month. Maybe Forrest’s daughter will have something to share after the year of probate is over.
Some think Jack had help. Some think a group are keeping secrets. New books coming out. And just how many NDAs have been signed?
I’ve been taking a back seat for many reasons, but still: I’d love to know the solution to the clues in the poem and the hints in the books!!!
So, I’ll keep hanging around online in case there is news some day. And in the meantime, count my blessings in the gold I have in sunsets and prairie blossoms and the honey in the hives.
Forrest Fenn Finale Event–Labor Day Weekend
Closure?
Maybe, maybe not.
Celebration?
Yes.
Where?
West Yellowstone and Yellowstone Park.
Who?
Cynthia is orchestrating it. Dal is presenting. Toby is streaming it. Fun and games. Picnic. Brunch. And mixing it up at Bullwinkle’s.
Details at this Link.
Fishing Bridge from below
Also, your chance to be in a legacy group photo (socially-distanced, of course) on the Fishing Bridge.
High noon.
Don’t be late.
Forrest Fenn Turns 88 Today
To the man who hid a treasure chest in the Rockies:
Happy Birthday, Forrest!
ΩΩ
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 5 years since a birthday wish for Forrest turned into an invitation to visit his place in Santa Fe. Fascinating man. Astounding collections. I treasure the memory.
Article on Forrest Fenn in Business Insider
Thanks to Ms Cain @ Business Insider for linking my blog to her article on Forrest Fenn and his hidden treasure! [Stats were booming, Forrest.]
Mr. Fenn signing my TTOTC.
Snowed in? In need of a distraction?
Intrepid’s Accommodations in the Boundary Waters near Canadian Border (NOT where warm waters halt)
Try armchair treasure hunting.
Treasure in the Rockies
Latest Interview with Forrest Fenn
Here’s a link to the latest interview with Forrest Fenn.
It’s great to see Forrest and Dal and Cynthia again.
In Case You Couldn’t Be There . . .
Thanks to Toby for this video of the Fenn and Preston chat before the book signing:
The following are my opinions. I have, on more than one occasion, said and written that the event on May 18, 2017 caused a change in Fenn. He was already tired of the “activity” around the effort to find the treasure he hid. May 18, to me, was the straw that broke the burro’s back. […]
via The End Has Drawn Nigh. — A Gypsy’s Kiss
Sharing some interesting graphics on Yellowstone volcano
SCIENCE A new study of ancient ash suggests the “sleeping giant” could develop the conditions needed to blow in a span of mere decades. (Nat Geo News) What is the Yellowstone supervolcano? Use our super resource (including downloadable maps, videos, and photos) to learn more. Discussion Ideas The geologic feature beneath Yellowstone National Park is […]
via Yellowstone Supervolcano May Wake Up Sooner Than We Thought — Nat Geo Education Blog
Safety First… — Thrill Of The Chase
From the man himself (via Dal’s site):
SUBMITTED JUNE, 2017 by Forrest When I said the treasure was not hidden in Utah or Idaho it has been my plan to not narrow the search area further. But in the light of a recent accident, and in the interest of safety, I feel it necessary to alter that plan. The treasure chest is…
100 Years Ago
On Summer Seas (1916)
The National Park Service was created one hundred years ago. Yellowstone preceded that, being designated in 1872. And once upon a time, I dreamed of being a forest ranger. My imagination had me up in a tower in a sea of green trees–a rather narrow view of the current job description.
Glacier National Park
One of the more unique rangers we’ve met was dressed to the hilt as a French voyageur and remained in character, impressing our youngest. I think there was even bread baking involved.
1868 Quetico Superior Route, Passing a Waterfall by Frances Anne Hopkins (Scene showing a large Hudson’s Bay Company freight canoe passing a waterfall, presumably on the French River. The passengers in the canoe may be the artist and her husband, Edward Hopkins, secretary to the Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company.) (public domain)
That national park was the site of the Rainy Lake gold rush in the mid-1890’s. Northern Minnesota is not the first place I’d think of when searching for gold. Better odds, maybe, of finding Forrest Fenn’s treasure chest.
Forrest Fenn’s Treasure Chest
Bears, Oh My!
Summer’s winding down and bears will be getting hungrier. Rethinking my entire Yellowstone area hiking plans. Hmmm. How far south do the grizzlies range?
Bears, oh my!
Cute story by Ryan Gebhart for Middle Grade readers about a boy and his grandpa. FICTION, fortunately!
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A Master of Education
The Ties That Bind —
Iowa City
Cover via Amazon
It’s ironic, isn’t it, that Forrest Fenn has probably taught more children, and adults, than his father, whose life’s work was education?
In spite of any disadvantages to being the son of the school principal, a key bonus was the three month summer recess that the Fenns spent in Yellowstone.
The annual 1,600 mile journey included a 50-mile side trip to a one-room school house on a dirt road in Wyoming to see an inscription:
He Who Teaches a Child Labors with God in His Workshop.
Forrest began his self-education as a youth. After reading Journal of a Trapper by Osborne Russell at age 16, he set out on horseback to retrace/reenact part of the experience. (See “Looking for Lewis and Clark”, p. 59 of The Thrill of the Chase {TTOTC}.)
Yellowstone Lake
He began his teaching career even younger, guiding grown fishermen around the rivers and lakes in Yellowstone country when he was “a young teen.”
College vs experience —
“Who would you rather have working on your car, a man who just graduated from four years of mechanics school or a guy who has been working on broken cars for four years?”
Marvin Fenn, p.7 of The Thrill of the Chase.
Does Forrest still, at almost 84 years of age, regret not having a college degree?
“I still think about education sometimes, especially now that it’s too late to get any.” p. 9 of TTOTC
(Not entirely true. Every June, another septa-, or octa-, or nonagenarian is in the news in cap and gown receiving their long-desired diploma. But I suspect Forrest would {still} be utterly bored sitting in a classroom where he’s smarter than anyone else in there, including the instructor. If you doubt his scholarship, check out his expert knowledge on pottery, pueblos, geology, history . . . .you get the idea.)
After his time as a fighter pilot —
Instead of all of those medals, I wish I could have been given a college degree in survival or at least an honorable mention for just having lasted it out.”
“My War For Me” begins on p. 73 in TTOTC
— he served by teaching others to fly. When he left the Air Force and began an art gallery in Santa Fe, his knowledge sharing continued.
Bronze Moose Why is it cold?
Read about school visits in the chapter “Teachers with Ropes”, p. 109 of TTOTC, and smile.
Imagine signs that say “Please Touch.”
After the Gallery was sold, and he began serious investigation of his San Lazaro pueblo, he continued to share, to teach, giving underprivileged (I’ve forgotten his term) teens archaeological experiences at the site.
A Fechin
On Dal’s blog, Thrill of the Chase, if you click on Forrest Speaks, you can watch a video, How to Be an Artist, his recipe for success for a watercolorist in need of money. Sound knowledge, freely shared.
Another fun video there is Woolly Worm, where he patiently teaches how to tie a fishing fly. (He makes it look easy.)
I doubt that we’ll ever know the full extent of his generosity of time and talents. You know, don’t let your right hand know what your left is doing.
But, Forrest Fenn has gotten more kids and grownups off the couch and out in the woods, searching and researching any and every little bit that could, just maybe, somehow, with imagination, might possibly help solve one of his nine clues.
Cody Rainbow
And not just for the gold in the chest at the end of his rainbow….
The Fenn Diagrams 