The map locations may not all be found on google. The end of the journey cannot be known unless the quest is taken. You know your starting point, understand the directions to get you to the final destination, but, since you have never been to this place before, you will need to use references in the directions (while on site) to get you where you want to go. One would have analyzed the poem for meaning, understood it, and will move accordingly. This doesn’t mean one doesn’t move confidently or know precisely what he is doing.

Like mentioned in the post about Poe’s story of The Gold Bug, I think it is possible that some clues will need to be discovered and followed on site. In order to follow them, a person must understand what each line means. My thoughts are that the poem acts like someone giving you directions. The complete stanza of the poem is as follows: Is this how we are wise? Which applied to Fenn’s poem line, the blaze would then be the sun. This makes me question, should we apply some ‘mountain man wisdom’, in order to find ‘where’ the chest is, like Forrest found ‘where’ out was when he was lost. The sun comes up in the east and we thought out was south so that made it easy….” In order to discover ‘where’ out was, Forrest writes the following, “So I applied some mountain man wisdom to the situation. The chapter shares how his friend Donnie and he had gotten lost in the wilderness and how Forrest thought they could find their way out. This page is included in the chapter entitled, Looking for Lewis and Clark. Doing this, I found page 61 of The Thrill of the Chase a bit interesting in helping with possibly knowing the wisdom of Mr. We are told this will not happen.Īnother reason is Forrest has said to read his memoir, read his poem, and then read his book again with an eye for subtle clues to help understand the poem.

If there was a blaze marking the exact spot of the treasure, and someone saw it by chance (no matter how rare of a chance it might be), I feel they could ‘accidentally’ find the treasure. One is in Six Questions with Forrest Fenn Forrest said nothing about finding the treasure would be accidental. I know many have suggested the blaze is a mark, possibly etched on a rock or tree, indicating the location of the treasure chest. The line in Forrest Fenn’s poem of ‘ If you’ve been wise and found the blaze’ has I am sure all of us wondering what Forrest means by being wise and what type of blaze.

The end is drawing nigh