Rumors and Rumblings

Posted on August 20, 2021 by waterhigh

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.

A refreshing vacation on water last week. So Blessed!

The Finder Comes Forward

Posted on December 7, 2020 by waterhigh

This may be as close to closure that we searchers will come. For now, anyway.

Click this for story.

I’m happy to hear his story and understand his desire to remain anonymous, but a certain litigant and judge have made that impossible.

FYI. Dal is shutting down his site, The Thrill of the Chase. (A current message from Shiloh today.)

Dal has made Forrest’s Scrapbooks available to anyone who wishes to download them.

And now, let’s let Fenn and his family rest in peace.

2020 Event in West Yellowstone

Posted on September 13, 2020 by waterhigh

Finale = the close or end of something (Merriam Webster.)

Forrest Fenn always had a way with words.

Getting There —

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West Yellowstone —

Searchers (not “finders”) gathered for a weekend of fun.

Going Home —

Not until we were well on our way home, just ahead of the massive snow storm, did we hear the news of Fenn’s passing.

One treasure found. One treasure lost.

About Town

Posted on July 24, 2018 by waterhigh

Little resonances in Santa Fe with stories in Fenn’s books?

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New Mexico Museum of Art

100 Years Ago

Posted on July 15, 2016 by waterhigh

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

Longevity

Posted on July 5, 2016 by waterhigh

Don’t you wonder what secrets to a long and happy life Forrest Fenn might share? (In addition to being extremely fortunate in the outcome of his flying career, I mean.)

100 years ago

So, I asked him. Diet? Exercise? Are you some sort of vegan?

His response:

This old lady was asked that question. She said she drank 4 Dr. Peppers a day since she was 8 years old. She said her doctors promised she would die at an early age if she didn’t stop. She said, “I’m 104 years-old, still drinking 4 Dr. Peppers a day and my doctors are all dead.”

Wiki-link — Dr Pepper Interesting: they sued Coca-Cola back in the fifties.

Once, at the county fair, I tossed rings and won a couple large, glass bottles of Dr Pepper. I had to give them to my brother because I couldn’t stand the flavor; tasted too much like prune juice? Like a lot of other fine things, I acquired a taste for it later in life.

Happy hunting, all!

Happy 85th Birthday, Forrest Fenn!

Posted on August 22, 2015 by waterhigh

The Fisherman

Another year has gone by with no one finding his hidden treasure, but there’s a great tribute to him over on Dal’s site.

Wishing him many, many more years of “not missing his turn.”

Birthday Cake Brownies

A Fresh Interview with Forrest Fenn

Posted on April 29, 2015 by waterhigh

Forrest Fenn’s Treasure Chest

Click on this link for a TV reporter’s interview with the man who hid the treasure.

Mr. Fenn signing my TTOTC.

1884: The great Robbery of Hawaii

Posted on February 21, 2015 by waterhigh

There be pirates . . .1884 Hawaii (reblogged below)

and treasures found with imagination

Intrepid on the Atlantic

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Greetings once again loungers on bar stool of the bar of shame. I have yarn for ya

When one thinks of pirate raids in the pacific, one normally thinks of the great buccaneering days of south America in the 17th century or the brief age of the privateers during the war of south American Independence around 1820 or the few acts of gold fever piracy in the early 1850’s. By the time of 1880 piracy and the great buccaneering raids was well and truly a thing of the past. Or where they?

The peaceful pacific was settling down to a more gentle refined era of neocolonialism and island monarchies. It was the age when the missionaries had tamed the mighty cannibals of the pacific and the reckless beachcomber and pirates were a thing of the past. Hawaii was still a independent kingdom not yet a state of the United States.

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New Clue??? Tune in This Afternoon! Forrest Speaks

Posted on February 4, 2015 by waterhigh

Dude!

New Clue???

February 4th, 2015

News from Dal’s blog. Forrest will be on Huffington Post LIVE via web-cam about 4:45 ET this afternoon. (That would be 3:45 CST; 2:45 pm Santa Fe time; and you west-coasters can figure it out yourselves.)

Here’s a link —

http://live.huffingtonpost.com/

UPDATE

A fun interview with 2 professional treasure hunters and a treasure hider — Forrest Fenn.

Watch it yourself here — Huffington Post LIVE interview

The Sonnets

Posted on October 26, 2014 by waterhigh

Forrest Fenn is writing poetry again. I’d love to watch over his shoulder and see him at work. Is it a messy process with lots of words crossed out? Or does he compose it in his head and only write what works? Does he adhere to form or formula? Or is he a free spirit, free verse wordsmith?

English: Title page of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1609) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Photo credit Wikipedia

Apparently William Shakespeare worried about leaving a legacy. At least the young man narrating the Bard’s first dozen or three sonnets did. He stood gazing marvelously in the mirror, pondering, and concluded that he’d just have to get married and have a son. {Okay. That’s more abbreviated than even a Cliff’s Notes version.} But, it made me think of the last chapter in Forrest Fenn’s Too Far To Walk where he gazes with marvel(?) in his mirror in a closing poem.

Legacy~~~

“Oh very young. What will you leave us this time?” Cat Stevens