New Article About the Chase

“I designed the hunt to be difficult, but certainly not impossible,” Fenn insists. “Most searchers don’t put enough emphasis on the first clue, and without it their effort is futile.

“The poem is written in plain English words that mean exactly what they say. No need to figure pounds per square inch, head pressures, acre feet, square roots, or where true north is, to find the solution.”

Those quotes, and more, are in a new article about the Thrill of the Chase on MSN:

On the Trail of Forrest Fenn's Hidden Treasure

Imagination

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
-Albert Einstein

Imagination isn’t a technique, it’s a key. f
-Forrest Fenn

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Imagination
4.
a : a mental image, conception, or notion formed by the action of imagination
b : a creation of the mind; especially : an idealized or poetic creation

Imagination: reverie, daydream, conception, pie in the sky, speculation, fancy, cup of tea, rainbow, castle in the air, art, adroitness, idea, visualization, invention, warmth, fish story, yarn, pot boiler, Einstein, aptitude, charade, disguise, legend, lore, myth, twist, flash, contemplation, reflection

Adjusting to Solve the Poem

The blueprint is challenging so the treasure may be located by the one who can best adjust. To illustrate my point go to YouTube – Smarter Every Day. f

Adjust: 
 to put in order :  reduce to a system :  regulate

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What does “warm” mean to you?
It means being comfortable.

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Comfortable:
:  enjoying or showing comfort and ease:
a :  at ease physically :  in a restful situation :  without urgent unsatisfied wants :  free from pain, irritation, stricture, or other unpleasant feelings :  relaxed

Relaxed:
:  easy of manner :  free from stiffness :  informal, easygoing

Synonyms: calm, unstressed, rested, resting, easy

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For each clue Fenn provides a wide variety of hints to help you adjust and see what he means.  He does that with specific things, and with things that he just implies.  All of the hints direct us to finding the right word, the word he wants us to use, to solve the poem.

So using warm waters halt....how does that work if warm = comfortable

If comfortable is warm, and comfortable is easy-going, and comfortable is calm, then warm waters are waters that are calm and easy going and they're going to halt being calm and easy-going.

Where do calm and easy-going waters halt?  If it's the waters we're thinking about, they halt being calm and easy-going when they change to rough and raging waters.

So where to easy-going and calm waters stop being calm and easy-going to become rough and raging waters?

That would be a place where the topography either becomes rough and rocky causing the water to become raging rapids, or when they go over a waterfall and land at the bottom with force before continuing along the creek, river or other water way.

My Two Sense

The Big Picture

Forrest Fenn has told us that the poem is a "map".

MAP:  appearance, face, globe, layout, blueprint, plan, representation, drawing, approach, scheme, prototype, outline, plan, organization, road map, big picture.

Wait, what?  BIG PICTURE?

If you look at the poem, and start at the bottom line with "I", then go to each letter around the four corners of the poem, you'll spell the word "IDEA".  Is this the "big picture" that Fenn has said we need to look at?

Big picture: Idea, encircling, approach

Decipher

In the above video, there are a few quotes worth reviewing; they begin at 10:34.

"You're not going to find the treasure unless you decipher the nine clues in the poem."

"The poem is a map and it'll take you to the treasure if you can follow its directions."

"You have to read the poem and comprehend what the clues mean."

"If you don't have the first clue, you don't have anything."

Decipher:

• convert into normal language
• convert into intelligent form
• represent by oral description or pictorial art
• unscramble
• find the key
• straighten out
• spell out
• put in plain English
• set right
• get to the bottom of
• throw light upon

Comprehend:

• grasp mentally
• see daylight
• realize
• get the picture
• imagine
• understand
• tell apart
• recognize

Once Upon A While

Here is the cover of Forrest Fenn's third memoir, Once Upon A While:

And here is the inside cover spread: