Forest Fenn and his treasure start on Canyon road near art gallery.

[BeenThereDoneThat2]

Hay There theMarkd

Hay theMarkd. The thread you STARTED on Fenn's Thrill appears to have no posts since Oct 05, 2014.
Why don't you mosey on over there and post something and I will start a new thread of my own, and both of us can stop abusing AppleCrack's thread. That would work for me.

 

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[themarkd]

Hay theMarkd. The thread you STARTED on Fenn's Thrill appears to have no posts since Oct 05, 2014. Why don't you mosey on over there and post something and I will start a new thread of my own, and both of us can stop abusing AppleCrack's thread. That would work for me.

Id like to stay here and discuss Forrest's treasure, if that's ok.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Hay theMarkd. The thread you STARTED on Fenn's Thrill appears to have no posts since Oct 05, 2014.
Why don't you mosey on over there and post something and I will start a new thread of my own, and both of us can stop abusing AppleCrack's thread. That would work for me.

How about members just post by our rules...

 

[themarkd]

I went to my solve location last week. Was epic......I derived some clues from the web that fit Forrest's talk about a woman being close, and in the same online posts the user WildlifeLady was basically talking about a forrest fire recently there, so when I went to the most random area of the corner of the state.....50 miles from the nearest store and gas.......someone showed up there 15 minutes after me.......looking around the area I am saying to my self....good thing I didnt post my second location ......cause I couldn't make it this time to the other spot, and time ran out $$$ on my journey......so If nobody tags the chest.... I am going out there first chance to the second area I spotted that holds this 'Blaze' Trail..... and the chest.!!! <img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1072173"/> This is an open invite to share in the discovery.....will give 20% to whoever will fund my trip there and back.........more pics too

When you got there were you overwhelmed at the absolute vastness of the area?

 

[Eldo]

Not just that, but how frickin dry the air was even though there was water everywhere,......here's a few pics

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Clocked in something like 30 miles by bike on roads, and 10 offroad

skinny tires not recommended as you can see from the wobbly trails I left.....LOL but couldnt afford the extra weight....

when I got back to the town, I downed a full bottle of water,

then projectile vomited the whole thing right up......it was definitely refreshing to say the least.......LOL

 

[themarkd]

Not just that, but how frickin dry the air was even though there was water everywhere,......here's a few pics <img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073118"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073119"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073120"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073121"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073122"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073123"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073124"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073125"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073126"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073127"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073128"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073129"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073130"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073131"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073132"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073133"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1073134"/> Clocked in something like 30 miles by bike on roads, and 10 offroad skinny tires not recommended as you can see from the wobbly trails I left.....LOL but couldnt afford the extra weight.... when I got back to the town, I downed a full bottle of water, then projectile vomited the whole thing right up......it was definitely refreshing to say the least.......LOL

One of the neatest places I've ever been.

 

[signal_line]

How strange the idea about Fenn possibly being a Federal Informant. You know I heard about someone who was solicited by someone in the Chase to examine some artifacts. I don't know what for but an intelligent plan is to not accept any offers.

No, I do not think Fenn is an informant but I hope everyone is smart enough to know there are "many dangers, toils, and snares". Don't let greed control you.

 

[themarkd]

How strange the idea about Fenn possibly being a Federal Informant. You know I heard about someone who was solicited by someone in the Chase to examine some artifacts. I don't know what for but an intelligent plan is to not accept any offers. No, I do not think Fenn is an informant but I hope everyone is smart enough to know there are "many dangers, toils, and snares". Don't let greed control you.

Trouble presents itself as a pretty maiden.

 

[BeenThereDoneThat2]

Rewind

I may be "one toke over the line" but I am giving this post a whirl and see I can "come in thru the bathroom window".

In the section of his memoir titled,"My War and Me". Fenn appears to be giving thought to his life, thus far at the time of the writing of the thoughts on his blog (2006). The All the world's a stage speech in the Shakespearean comedy play, As You Like It, appears to strike a chord with Fenn. It might be better to say that Fenn is selling the reader the possibility that it stikes a chord with him. Fenn even mentions the stages of his (Fenn's) life in a interview with the Canadian journalist in 2013. Fenn also says in another interview that he is going out at the "top of his game". To my mind, these are key observation. It is well to note that a peson generally likes or dislikes something someone says or writes because the subject person already sees things in life that way prior to reading or hearing the observation from the other person. And in this case, Fenn liked the speech written for the actor playing the character Jaques in Shakespeare's comedy play, As You Like It.

So then, let's look at Jaques, the fictional character in the play Shakespeare wrote the delivered lines for.

Jaques
Character Analysis:

Jaques is one attendant of the character Duke Senior in the play. Jaques has a well-deserved reputation for being "melancholy." You could say that Jaques enjoys being sad and mopey because he purposefully seeks out experiences that are depressing.
And just about everything depresses this man. "I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs," he brags in scene (2.5.2) of the play.

Yet that doesn't stop Jaques from seeing himself as a moody philosopher with brilliant insight into humanity. In fact, he says he wants to be a licensed fool like another character in the play, Touchstone. Basically, a "licensed fool" is a court jester with an actual license to say whatever he wants. Is Jaques as smart or insightful as he thinks he is? I think not.
So then, so much for the All The World's A Stage bit.

 

[Eldo]

One of the neatest places I've ever been.

Where did you think this place was located??

 

[themarkd]

Where did you think this place was located??

was referring to the mountains in the southwest in general, sorry. No idea where that spot is.

 

[BeenThereDoneThat2]

Omar Khayyam

Ouote Fenn from his, My War And Me writing:

So, in my mind the lines have converged to tell a story that satisfies me in my heart, where only there it really counts. I justify expressing my thoughts here because they have been pounding at me for so long. I certainly can’t identify all of the strings as they spin the web that forms the latent beliefs that brought me here, but these are some:

I borrow now from Omar Khayyam, who died in the first quarter of the twelfth century. His words are some of those that tell the insidious stories the best, stories that have made me think:

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.

Alike for those who for To-day prepare,
And those that after some To-MORROW stare,
A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries,
“Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There.

There was the Door to which I found no Key;
There was the Veil through which I may not see:
Some little talk a while of Me and Thee
There was – and then no more of Thee and Me.

Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who
Before us pass’d the Door of Darkness through.
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to discover we must travel too.
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I love that thought because it says so much to me.

End of quoting Fenn.
********


Khayyam was much more than a poet and writer of popular folk sayings of his time.
(18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131) Khayyam was a Persian polymath, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. The man had to have been a true genius.


In the introduction to his Treatise on, Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, Khayyam himself described the difficulties for men of learning during his life time.


"I was unable to devote myself to the learning pf this algebra and the continued concentration upon it, because of obstacles in the vagaries of time which hindered me, for we have been deprived of all the people of knowledge save for a group, small in number, with many troubles, whose concern in life is to snatch the opportunity, when time is asleep,to devote themselves meanwhile to the investigation and perfection of a science; for the majority of people who imitate philosophers, confuse the true with the false, and they do nothing but deceive and pretend knowledge, and they do not use what of the sciences except for base and material purposes; and if they see certain person seeking for the right and preferring the truth doing his best to refute the false and untrue and leaving aside hypocrisy and deceit, the make a fool of him and mock him."

Outside the world of mathematics, Khayyam is best known as a result of Edward Fitzgerald's popular translation in 1859 of nearly 600 short four line poems the Rubaiyat.
Care to guess which one of nearly 600 short four linw poems is the most popular?

 

[Eldo]

was referring to the mountains in the southwest in general, sorry. No idea where that spot is.

She is so beautiful

A real Saqsay Waman !

 

[BeenThereDoneThat2]

INSCRUTABLE

Of all the myths that have grown up around Alan Greenspan, the most powerful is the idea that he's

willfully inscrutable. —James Surowiecki, New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2001

SUROWIECKI is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the popular business column, 'The

Financial Page.' His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including the New York

Times, the Wall Street Journal, Artforum, Wired, and Slate. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

My PERSONAL observation of Fenn is that Fenn IS WILLFULLY INSCRUTABLE.

 

[themarkd]

Of all the myths that have grown up around Alan Greenspan, the most powerful is the idea that he's willfully inscrutable. &#151;James Surowiecki, New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2001 SUROWIECKI is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the popular business column, 'The Financial Page.' His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Artforum, Wired, and Slate. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. My PERSONAL observation of Fenn is that Fenn IS WILLFULLY INSCRUTABLE.

Why? Because of a poem that's difficult to map to a treasure?

 

[BeenThereDoneThat2]

Water Wings

I borrow now from Omar Khayyam

Some in deep thought spirit seek
Some lost in awe, of doubt reek
I hear the voice, hidden but weak
Cry out "awake"! Both ways are oblique."

To theMarkd: If can't swim in deep water, water wings might be a wise investment.

 

[boogeyman]

Going along without a hint of reality cost you TIME and that is a limited commodity even if you don't realize it at a young age. But then wasting time is popular with the young generation. Frank View attachment 1067771
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Ahhh my friend, on the other hand how much TIME are you / we going to lose in the years to come every time you / we sit & think "Dang I should've gone after that one!" When or if it plays out to be a good one?

 

[themarkd]

I borrow now from Omar Khayyam Some in deep thought spirit seek Some lost in awe, of doubt reek I hear the voice, hidden but weak Cry out "awake"! Both ways are oblique." To theMarkd: If can't swim in deep water, water wings might be a wise investment.

I don't typically swim in water that's polluted.

 

[BeenThereDoneThat2]

I don't typically swim in water that's polluted.

Likely a wise decision on your part theMarkd, in that the choices you make largely determine your
destiny. And If you should think it makes feel sad, Seeing you so tense, lacking confidence, you
would be wrong again. Can you hear the distant drums
And sounds of bugle calls were coming from afar?

 

[DFX DAVE in M.D.]

I smell a movie coming up, quick get Harrison Ford on the phone. Indiana Jones , The Hunt For Forest Fenns Treasure. By the way, I find it funny that Forest was a poet with books and art for sale, what a great publicity stunt he pulled off. I think in most treasue legends there is a motive by claiming a treasure is lost to draw attention for a profit.