HOLA mi amigo Janiece,
A friend of mine has indeed met with our mutual amigo Blindbowman, and even went hiking into the Superstitions with him; I can assure you he is not a teenager, more like in his 40's. It is a little odd to talk about someone in the third person so I apologize for "stealing his thunder" and by no means am speaking FOR him, he is certainly capable of speaking for himself.
Blindbowman has a little different way of saying things from what I am accustomed to, being very 'absolute' in his statements where personally I would use much more cautious words, like 'probably' or 'I believe' instead of "it is" or "beyond all doubt". It is just his way of speaking, I think.
Of course it is entirely possible the whole thing has been a massive hoax/joke; but if so, it is one that has been 'fun' even for the doubters and skeptics. As our amigo Cactusjumper mentioned, even when BB has said something that sounds outrageous, we find ourselves poring over our books and the internet, doing some fact-checking and historical research so it has been useful and 'productive' even for a total skeptic. It has been interesting to say the least!
I can only guess as to why Blindbowman has now decided it is over, he has 'conquered' - if it were myself, I would absolutely be saving up (even scraping) to make my next trip back to those sites, had I found such things as Blindbowman has said he has found. This makes me doubt his claims, just a little, that he would be so willing to just drop it and not make any return trips to photograph, survey, get samples of the ore for assaying and spectrograph tests, plus trying to get some open-minded archaeologist to accompany him and at least SEE what he has found, but maybe that is just my view. Victory can be measured in many ways, and the most important one is your own personal satisfaction. Perhaps he has accomplished that level, if not the others?
Oroblanco
