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Post by jason on Nov 25, 2019 13:44:43 GMT -5
He was also an archaeologist and an art gallery owner with a painter friend whose favorite color was brown. The first two clues are supposed to put you in the right spot without knowing the home of Brown. "Canyon down" can't be specific as far as I can tell unless "where warm waters halt" can be made to specify one place by some means. The best I've seen with those warm water theories related to fish etc. is one solution related to the border of NM and Colorado that narrows it down to six rivers. I'm sure he wanted people to go all over the place but I doubt he built a process of elimination into his hunt, although that's what's going on, I guess, without success.
I haven't seen where anyone has applied a "process of elimination." As for brown being his favorite color, are you saying "house of Brown" means a house painted brown? (Who the hell chooses brown as a favorite color?) If that's the case, why would he capitalize Brown? I've checked into this somewhat and I think it's more likely that he was referring to this George Brown character than the color brown. On one site, someone suggested he was referring to Molly Brown's house in Denver, which doesn't really fit at all in my opinion.
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Post by Isbeau on Dec 6, 2019 18:48:46 GMT -5
The “warm waters” clue is the important clue like, I believe, the temperature clues in the Mystery Location. The temperature clue eliminates all the other pretender locations that look like they could be a match. Similarly, I think it has to be equally accurate and specific. In the treasure hunt, it’s even more important as it’s the starting point in determining the location.
It has to point to one place although there are many of them. It really can’t be where warm waters transition or change temperature, or where the warm water settles. There nothing special about where warm water settles as opposed to hot or cold. It can’t be where non-trout waters hit the NM border and are then designated “warm”. That’s where warm waters start AND stop depending how you look at it.
It has to be where the warm waters of the tropical sea stopped but knowing where that stops isn’t easy because there’s no clear shoreline from prehistory. There would be a change of geology.
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Post by jason on Dec 7, 2019 11:58:18 GMT -5
The “warm waters” clue is the important clue like, I believe, the temperature clues in the Mystery Location. The temperature clue eliminates all the other pretender locations that look like they could be a match. Similarly, I think it has to be equally accurate and specific. In the treasure hunt, it’s even more important as it’s the starting point in determining the location. It has to point to one place although there are many of them. It really can’t be where warm waters transition or change temperature, or where the warm water settles. There nothing special about where warm water settles as opposed to hot or cold. It can’t be where non-trout waters hit the NM border and are then designated “warm”. That’s where warm waters start AND stop depending how you look at it. It has to be where the warm waters of the tropical sea stopped but knowing where that stops isn’t easy because there’s no clear shoreline from prehistory. There would be a change of geology. The temperature clues in the Mystery Locations help define the time of year that an event happened: if it's below freezing, it probably happened in the winter and I don't think any of the clues in the Treasure Hunt refer to the season.
Why can't it be where warm waters transition or change temperature, or where non-trout waters begin? I don't think it has anything to do with the tropical sea, but rather a location frequented by Fenn, somewhere close to where he lived, a place where there's a canyon. Then there's the "blaze" clue that could refer to the spectacular colors on the wall of a canyon, or where the sun shines on the canyon wall causing a blaze of color.
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Post by Isbeau on Dec 9, 2019 16:09:50 GMT -5
I agree 100% with what you're saying about the blaze. It has to be something that will last hundreds of years that isn't a structure. One group did go to the correct starting locations and sent Fenn a picture he identified as the location but they didn't find the treasure because he said they only solved the first two clues which would put them in the right canyon but they only got to within 200 feet and "went right past" the treasure. Anyway, I read he said he smelled pinon trees so that supposedly narrows it down to Colorado and New Mexico. www.pinonnuts.org/regions.htmP.S. I now think the clues are actually non-clues. "Where warm waters halt" could just mean the Rockies in general. The tropical Western Inland Seaway retreated as the Rockies emerged. "Home of Brown" could just be Nature in general. Brown is a symbol of Earth and Nature.
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