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Fenn drawing has hints to topo map & solution
Lapis Lazuli mentioned in book is found in only 2 US states & only 1 within confines of hunt: Colorado
Matches to poem:
I alone; forest fen in San Isabel National Forest my treasures bold; mi bold tres ceros (sounds like treasure = Spanish tesoro) warm waters halt; Arkansas headwaters in the canyon down; Brown Canyon, not far, but too far to walk (300 mi W Toledo = Iowa) Iowa Gulch - this was a hint by Fenn as per article also, below 10,200' no paddle up your creek; fen is dry riverbed heavy loads; Leadville water high; Lake County if you've been wise; -106. = z0u (reverse) U 0z, the wizard, Oz is the wise man found the blaze; caliche ditch (like the dachshund ear w/ feather in Fenn drawing) look quickly down; just S of blaze - walking W along ridge/curb until blaze in sight, turn S marvel gaze; Arcturus (L eye=double triangle) to Orion (R eye=kite shape) gaze=identical W GPS done it tired; hidden behind sagebrush unless right there, a small tire on short post now I'm weak; look further down fen (directly S of blaze) you are brave; blaze looks like profile of Indian Chief in the wood; bell clappe Clap in Spanish = timbre / Fenn fashioned his bells w/ clappers made from nails given to him by his nephew & said to have come from a Spanish galleon / so, this -- Nailed It I give you title; Catcher in the Rye/ an Ojo on the Ryegrass growing in the fen, pile of stones ~6' across ringed by small Aspens & a thorny rose I suspect may be yellow as in Yellow Rose of Texas (Fenn raised in Temple, TX) Fenn photo standing w/ fighter jet has sticker reads: I (heart) Lubbock
Beginning in March 2018 it was not until summer 2019 that I looked outside of the fen. Then I learned to spot the clues relating to the various stories Fenn wrote of, using visual images observable in the Google Maps and relating the GPS #s to dates that would reveal hit songs or movie releases. Lessons Fenn emphasized in his book and variety of topics from Egyptology, Norse mythology, astronomy, space flight, fish hatchery, & pies, broken pies, and Pi added to understanding. Because the book and the search are heavy with numbers I knew they were the key. Curiously, these link together as a jigsaw puzzle does with features repeated in other areas. Like noting an eye. The center of an eagle eye along the Arkansas leads to the movie, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, & at the eye of a nearby tiger face leads to the song, Eye of the Tiger.
Some hints were in Leadville itself. Temple Israel is across the street from Mile High Pies. Huck Finn park, the famous Harrison Ave, and Cooper Hill all figure into the search.
Some hints are in Spanish. I shared a Google map showing rocks forming a word in a forest clearing. In an empty lot in town Google map shows configuration and rocks to read B=y. In spring 2020, I realized messages in the GPS #s are messages. Fenn used a simple code A=1 for positive #s, Z=-1 for negative #s & which read in reverse. B=2 & Y=-2. Like in English language, exceptions occur: 1 can also be L; 3 can be tilted to m or flipped to be E; #s can be Spanish word & thus similar sounding word. As "tres ceros = 000" sounds like "tesoros = treasures"; and hh can be 2h = to h... like the kid's poem YYUR, YYUB, ICUR, YY4ME. This is how the final clue reads: Begin race. See ace and bel.
The "did it tired" spot next to the blaze turned out to be broken Pi but I had not read anything but the poem at that time. The center of the "blaze" is a vector. It uses home address in Temple, TX + the Yr Fenn won a beloved turquoise cuff playing pool that he put into the treasure chest.
Handmade bells were sculpted by Fenn with messages & frogs and then cast in bronze which he buried for people to discover. The pics show 2 frogs. White frog is S of blaze. Small green frog is S of Omega area w/ knee pointing to it. The clappers were fashioned from antique nails given to him by his nephew which were recovered from a Spanish galleon. Use a magnifying glass to find the tiny spot of the bell clapper. In Spanish, clap = timbre. In the wood and Nailed it!
Note: J.D. Salinger favorite movies said to be Huck Finn and 39 Steps by Alfred Hitchcock. Salinger died the year Fenn hid his treasure. A story, The Golden Key and kids movie Escape to Witch Mountain are hints. A style of Thor's hammer is seen in it in relation to a brain.
Fenn wrote about Borders, where he found the book Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, --that describes the spot. It is a pile of good-sized stones (brain?) ringed by young Aspen trees and has a thorny bush I suspect are yellow roses. Weathered logs cross the middle & reach WSW in a lightning bolt (by Thor's hammer?) and a flat rock just the size to elevate a 10x10 chest that is leveled by pea-sized and a layer of a little larger rocks. It touches the Ryegrass growing in the forest fen, just across the border of the National Forest, but still part of the BLM.
The #s tell what a photo in book shows. Fenn & his fighter jet which he tagged, "I (heart) Lubbock" & bible verse Matt 6:21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also hints at z0u YR i TrX = -106. 291793 = heart of TX, r between TX is "where heart is" & rye / rise in death / Ryegrass growing in fen.
Using #s for dates it reveals Victor Fleming,(hint to victory! & author of oo7 spy books) the director of Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind. Other characters from Oz are seen with hints. Even a tornado is close to lettering that reads: "Oz is the wise man." One particular tin man correlates with a song by Steelheart. The Google Map pin looks like the Oz balloon. Highway 24 leads into Leadville from Wamego, KS where they have the Oz museum and their water tower is painted like the movie balloon.
Back to the pictures. The ASTRA arc has the "did it tired" as its center and touches both the point of the solution as well as the "marvel eye" where seekers told to "tarry scant". In fact, both points share identical W GPS points. The cowboy face in SE corner of blaze has odd eyes. The eye on L is Arcturus, looks like a Texas Ranger badge or double triangle. The eye on R is Orion it is the tail point of the kite shape.
The walkway for NASA astronauts to reach their rocket is called, The Yellow Brick Road, Ad Astra translates to: to the stars, Arcturus is called Alpha Boötis , remember all the moccasins in Fenn collection?
A 1981 film Lifepod , made by Golden Key Entertainment, was a remake of a 1981 movie by Trilogy Entertainment which was an homage of Lifeboat, a film by Alfred Hitchcock.
The 1981 film was the end of several connecting threads pulled while studying lessons on Wikipedia. The plot: " It is revealed that the Arcturus was intended as an interstellar vessel but repurposed for economic reasons by financial-criminal DeMatte. Also, the Main Cerebral is discovered to be the former intended pilot of the interstellar Arcturus, rendered an amnesiac and made cyber-controller of the interplanetary Arcturus by DeMatte; memory restored, he launches the Arcturus on a flight to Sirius, accompanied by Captain Montaine " Certain words jump out: Main Cerebral, amnesia, memory restored, launch to Sirius, by Montaine."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius#/media/File:Hubble_heic0206j.jpg Shows " Sirius) (bottom) and the constellation Orion) (right). The three brightest stars in this image – Sirius, Betelgeuse (top right), and Procyon (top left) – form the Winter Triangle. "
There is more information tied to this location that explains why it is being covered up now by heirs.
In Thrill... Fenn wrote: "Not a day passes that I don’t question myself about what lies just ahead and whether or not I can make it happen like it’s supposed to be. Now, near the end of my seventy-ninth year, each day tests me in a different way and I know that before too long I’ll make my last flight to where even memory itself will never have been. Sooner or later each of us will be nothing but the leftovers of history or an asterisk in a book that was never written. So now I sit here past midnight, beside my juniper fire, reflecting back to the year when my awareness took its first few steps."
I suspect Fenn was adopted. Discovering that explained to me the hair sample in a jar Fenn included in the chest. He reflected in his book on when he 1st became aware. Likely, he longed to know his biological parents and sought to meet them again in heaven--an omega; an ending with each--he constantly dwelled on whether his decision would carry out his desire. Fenn picked his death day 7-9 (7th of Sep). Just like his adoptive father chose his time to die and he admired him for doing so.
There are 2 Omegas because they never married. They were both quite famous individually. A fighter pilot (an ace) who became a movie director & producer, and a debutant (a belle) who was a journalist, translator, & who became a spy. She was born in '79. He died at the age of '79. They worked on a noted documentary together in Africa called Grass. He went on to make another called, The Four Feathers before making King Kong. Years later, he produced these pertinent sounding titles among many more, Flaming Gold, Bed of Roses, Ace of Aces, Long Lost Father, Rio Grande, The Searchers. Also The Quiet Man with John Wayne who is also in True Grit with Glenn Campbell, more hints: name, role, Wichita Lineman.
Fenn's middle name is Burk = 2 21 18 11 or 22 11 8 11. Oddly?? Fenn's birthday is 22-8 (22nd of Aug) + K K, 4 1s, or 2 sets of eyes. The Where's Waldo type face with horn-rimmed glasses in the BOX seen in green-faced witch's hat brim or as bullies refer to as "4-eyes" is a noted object associated with another famous person from Lubbock TX who died in a plane crash in Iowa where a giant set of horn-rimmed glasses mark the site. Arlo Guthrie wrote a tribute song about him, American Pie. Buddy Holly, who wrote a #3 hit song, Peggy Sue, (note Fenn's Ode to Peggy Jean) & a #1 hit song That'll be the Day (that I die) and who was born on the day Fenn died, Sept 7. Fenn's widow died a few days later on Oct 4 or 10-4, the radio code for "understood" and corresponds to code as J. D. as in J.D. Salinger. Coincidence? Perhaps. Or perhaps the plan all along.
Fenn hoped to rise up in death, taking his "last flight" to reunite with parents from his mountain spot; his Ojo in the Aspens. His Catcher in the Rye w/ rose bushes. In the rye that grows in a fen. In the forest. And the numbers create a band, hinted at by his favorite turquoise cuff.
Fenn's desire was to be forever flying high, dancing with the stars.