Here is an exercise I go through every now and again to gain insight. How many clues do you think I have solved in this reveal. Maybe none will be your answer and that may be helpful as you can eliminate my ideas or add new ones.
“Begin it where warm waters halt.” Warm waters are the huge numbers of hot water features found in the Yellowstone National Park. Most of these warm waters run down the Firehole and the Gibbon rivers or the Yellowstone and the Gardner rivers. Of these I pick Madison Junction the place were Firehole and Gibbon meet to form the Madison. Why because the Yellowstone is the only place my inner child says geothermal and Gardiner Montana is no longer on my list. I grew up in New Mexico where we are lucky to have any water at all. If asked, a child in New Mexico knows about the Yellowstone but does a child in West Yellowstone know what warm waters are in New Mexico? Forrest said to ask a child to solve the poem my child knows where warm waters starts is in the Yellowstone National Park. Ask your own inner child and hear the answer then decide for yourself.
Not convinced then think about this. Why did Forrest say the last clue I’ll leave is my car parked at the Denver Natural History Museum? Well, For awhile there where few ways to get to the Madison River which runs nearby West Yellowstone Airport. The first airfield in West Yellowstone was built, as was the newer one, in the middle of a large forest. The first real effort to get people to fly into West Yellowstone was a venture between the government and Trans World Airlines (TWA). TWA started a series of flights into the National Parks called (are you ready for this) Wise Owl Airline. Yea if you been wise you may have flown to the West Yellowstone Airport on a Wise Owl Flight. That would land you on top of “the home of Brown”. What does this have to do with Denver you may ask well for a time there where only two places to fly to West Yellowstone from Salt Lake City and you guessed it Denver. For a time Salt Lake was off that short list. So how do you leave your car without giving anything away, park and fly. And yes, I have added some others clues to support where warm waters halt but that info is saved for a trip I hope to have for fellows Dogs.
“And take it down not far but too far to walk” about ten miles down the Madison River from Madison Junction by crows flight is Baker’s Hole also known as Browns hole the place Fenn loved to fish. But if one Brown is not enough down from warm waters halt how about three. The airport is there and it was built on a dump famous for drawing lots and lots of bears. Tourist came often to watch the bears. That’s two and here is the third in the same immediate area Camp Brown built in 1905. That’s as brownish as anyone will ever get. Three Browns in that one place.
“Water high and heavy loads” refer to one fishing and one flying term. Water high on you waders is a way of saying deep. He threw a bike into water high he said. All fly fishers know if water fills your waders it could result in drowning. Water high on your waiters should give you some cause for caution “not for the meek.” Loads refer to fluid and gas dynamics it would mean a heavy current which is why you can’t paddle up it. The wings of an aircraft experience heavy loads also but that is not a hint. “The end is ever drawing neigh” is the end of your creek and that creek is coming in on the left.
Ok how many clues do you think I have gotten. I do this to help both those in the chase and my followers find the treasure. No not all I think is here I do have more as from here I am still a long ways from solving his Poem. I am also setting up a few trips were I would take a small number of searchers to places they think would be the best of five good possibilities. Remember if it was easy it would be gone by now.
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P.S. Can the blaze be man made? The treasure is not in a place related to any man made thing but how about the Blaze. What do you think. I got lots more but it is the readers turn. Comment!
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