Complete list of Weekly Words can be found here:
The Weekly Words for April 29th, 2016 are as follows and combines with the following Featured Question:
Mr. Fenn,
Which direction does the Blaze face? North, South, East or West? Curious. Foxy
I didn’t take a radial off of the blaze Foxy. I’m thinking it may not be any of those directions. f
Best of luck with the Thrill of the Chase and all that you seek!
Other links of interest:
Six Questions with Forrest Fenn (2013)
How to Solve The Thrill of the Chase? (Discussing Poe’s Gold Bug Similarities)
Thank you sir.
Very Interesting!
Also, thank you, Forrest, for such fun!!!
So what type of Blaze would direction not apply, maybe?
“What type of blaze” you say. That statement infers a limitation on what could or could not be a blaze. what if it were perfectly round, and that “circle” was NOT on a vertical surface such as a tree, rock or cliff wall.
Just a thought. for any sense of direction for a circle one would have to go through it instead.
LIV42DY
An Arrow pointing DOWN!
You may be right about up or down, but it can’t face down AND point down. So an arrow pointing down must not be the blaze or it must face a direction.
Thank you Jenny, Foxy and Mr. Fenn for this week’s Featured Question/Weekly Words.
Harump…..Radiating out from a central point…..Sounds like the blaze is the sun….Must be a time of day thing……Harump…..
Thank you Forrest, Jenny and Foxy.
Forrest, I’ll call your bluff.
That’s no way to find a clue ?
http://fn.b5z.net/i/u/6147086/i/product_images/Kaleidoscope_Set_C/The-Dunk-Tank.gif
Hmm, seems someone else is not far behind…….
What gives you this impression from this statement?
Friend
Secret codes within The Matrix….
Sounds complicated, I pass for now… 🙂
Friend
tyvm FF and Jenny and Foxy
Thank you Jenny, Foxy and naturally Mr. Fenn, Taken at face value, I’m continuously directed towards the same place, if a bit more focused, I just might finish this one with a rhyme.
Four winds colors perspective
http://static.flickr.com/3159/2626637049_70f71db25a.jpg
Dang nabbit!
Ok, so no direction on the blaze……
Hmmmm…..
Friend
Of course there’s a direction Friend, everything has a direction, wether known or not.
Agreed, I was referring the north south east west comment.
Maybe it’s facing down from above or in all directions at once.
My brain hurts… 😜
Friend
Hi Jenny
I just would like to clarify that the drawing (not a picture) on pg 99 in TTOTC is really unfinished lines that our minds are finishing into a arrow. If you look at the drawing under a magnifying glass you can clfearly see that the lines are not forming an arrow. It’s our minds that are forming an arrow. I too had to study this drawing a lot. It;s just Forest playing another mind twister on us. He gives us the drawings and our minds end up finishing the form to something we want it to.
Thank you Jenny
Love this site
Any direction he blows will be fine…
Love!
So right you can’t be wrong Kim.
I think the man said | If you R standing on top of the blaze then stop horizontal movement and begin vertical descent
What man are you referring to? I have never heard that statement before.
LIV42DY
I think it faces “you”.
I’m just tryin’ ta help. 😉
He could be saying the blaze has a face, like maybe an object with a face. He could be saying ace too ,until he explains what hes saying then we are only guessing. Astree does the blaze have a face?
That’s just it. This doesn’t answer anything.
I think Forest has given out all the clues he’s going to, and this stuff is just a means to keep us all from going w-a-y off track, or keeping us safe from ourselves, or whatever the need may be.
The “blaze” could still be many things, including a trail that winds a bit. It may not have a simple answer on what direction it faces, for this and other possible reasons.
Maybe he’s trying to tell us he drove it with Michelin tires? I’m wondering if Foxy is French curious could mean meddling or prying and wich rhymes with pitch. (Pine pitch) 🙂
We imagine hearing and saying things that were never heard or said…
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
– George Bernard Shaw
Count me amongst the guilty 23kachinas. It’s challenging to keep the right perspective because it’s a natural line of thinking that it’s all about me. Understanding another’s footsteps broadens perspective and can improve communication.
Maybe that’s why Forrest said, “The past will always be contradictory when told by one person at a time.”
Source: https://mysteriouswritings.com/forrest-fenn-treasure-quotes/
I’m thinking it may not be any of those directions. f
These words are true. And may is just around croner.
Seems like he just eliminated the 4 points of the compass. So is it something in between those points? Or maybe all of them? Such as which way does a column face? Maybe it is up or down? Or maybe we are just not to the point of understanding him yet. What a steep, rocky slope.
Forrest was recently “attributed” with being a cunning fox. Now Foxy asks a question. Hum… Well, anyway, I bet Osborne could have found the blaze with his mountain man wisdom.
Oh my gosh, I think I need a break. I’m starting to think Forrest has multiple personalities.
Ramona, What makes you think that foxy is the fox? I might go along with the fox being foxy, however. As far as Osborne, he is a has been. No disrespect meant.
I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying. Osborne is a has been?
Why in my mind always conjures a past tense perspective. We know Osborne was a has been, but did he? I can see the confusion between is and was. If this makes no sense it’s because of my current obtuse disposition.
I think I understand what you’re saying a little better. I can be slow to understand. Thanks for explaining.
Oh I disagree Ramona your anything but slow. Your insight has always been honest and educational. I just tend to see things from a different perspective, perhaps it’s me that is slow to the plate. I’m sure we can both agree on that:)
I’m thinking it may not be any of those directions. f
Why does he say that? Because it faces UP. When you find it, if you find it, you will be looking down at it and it will be facing straight up. The rock will be the ground you are walking on by a creek that you cannot paddle up. Then look quickly down towards the creek, but don’t fall, it’s a 20 foot drop! At the bottom will be the chest. Trees fall and deteriorate and so would the blaze if on a tree. Only rock stays in place for thousands of years. Unfortunately right now the rock is covered in snow. Remember last week, “snow is the enemy of the searcher”.
Celestial glow – I also like this one:
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/12/22/a-beautiful-world-fenn
SL
If the blaze doesn’t face any direction, then maybe it doesn’t have a face.. Ha ha
A church’s bell ringer passed away. So they posted the position and a man came in with no arms wanting the job. The clergy weren’t sure he could do it, but he convinced them to let him try it.
They climbed the bell tower and the guy ran toward the bell and hit it with his head. They gave him the job.
The next day he went to ring the bell, tripped, bounced off the bell and fell to the sidewalk below. Two guys were walking past.
One asked, “Do you know this guy?”
The second guy responded, “No, but his face sure rings a bell.”
Step on a crack break tour mothers back.
That’s funny 😀
Wondering if the Q was sent to Forrest’s email & then sent the Q & A to Jenny?
Perhaps, the blaze is intangible.
Very good Zelda, perhaps that is an interesting notion.
This is a rare occasion where a big answer at this time of year doesn’t make me want to re-think my latest winter-long theory.
I feel like I’m heading into a trap…
I used to think the blaze was the object of the chase. But he said he didn’t and not that he couldn’t so must be something he could have.
O.O …… omg it can’t be! How did I miss it!?!
Yup. Underside of the ledge that the chest is tucked under. Facing down, not in a direction per se. We shoulda known.
Maybe North is really West,
That we should go upon our quest.
Then turn back South , which is East,
humm… now I’m lost, to say the least……….
It must be nice to be lost with eloquence, Focused.
strawshadow…. I stay lost most of the time……lol
The months on an analog watch have December as 12:00 am/pm. 12:00 is North. This means MAY is 25 minutes after. So the blaze sits East to South. Just a thought……
East to south of what?
Now, where does it sit in November?
And then ask, “east and south of what” again.
See, that would mean that the point in question moves. But since the “Home of Brown” isn’t likely to move. Sorry, but I don’t see this one working out.
Nice. A radial survey is needed with the parameters from My War For Me. In my opinion.
Thanks for another goody. This chase has me mad…the crazy kind. Trying to reverse engineer things can be a daunting task…wondering if i have all the components to plug in and just do eeeeeet! In the end though i understand, it is all about the wonderful experience. 😜 follow those damned clues precisely! Ug. Is it cold in here? Come on spring!!!
Interesting… This response actually makes sense with my theoretical solve. More sense than some would see at face value, even.
Strikingly odd trailblazer
The word “radial” can mean so many different things… But then again, Forrest is a master at word play. 🙂
Great… The poor Blaze is lost and doesn’t have any direction in its life… 🙁 🙂
Maybe the blaze “may not be any of those directions” because it’s all of those directions, like it’s round or something. I don’t believe that but it’s another option. All I know is, if it’s that hard to find, I better hit the trail with 2 flashlights, 4 sandwiches, 6 gloves and, of course, a good map to burn.
I’m leaning this “round” direction myself.
I think it is because the cross marks the general location. Once you find the correct cross your very close. Look quickly down, perhaps behind the tree.
I wonder how many notes Jacky Kennedy hammered out on that typewriter. I also wonder what this weeks weekly will be, now that someone knows everything.
Was that an Underwood?
She was a beautiful lady and she probably hammered out notes of a personal nature, i.e., top secret. I used to have an old Underwood, I wish I hadn’t turned it over to Goodwill. I’ve always wondered what happened to it. Now all I can do is search for that Underwood.
I doubt someone knows “everything”. A lot of people know some things. Some people know a lot of things. Who could know everything? Anyway, the Weekly Words are always fun and I look forward to them.
I agree with whoever said the blaze doesn’t face any direction because it doesn’t have a face. The blaze, IMO, isn’t tangible. It’s in the poem, which leads you to the book. Forrest’s book, his memoir.
Hello, Mindy et al. Greetings from Brazil. That’s an interesting idea. The blaze doesn’t have a face? No face to save…or lose.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/fixx/loseface.html
With a white bright light
That shines at night
What have we invented?
http://www.kilroywashere.org/004-Pages/Trinity/Trinity.html
We all breathe in the same air
Yet we all die for the air space
We all lose.
Thanks again for the weekly words, Forrest and Jenny and Foxy.
Then wonder why Forrest said the blaze was winking at me that always thru me for a loop he said that when I was in the mountains without my book
I know why he said that 😛
What would be winking in 1,000 years? My dictionary only has a few meanings for this word.
I think he’s saying tired like a tire is a circle ,, you know radius center, so the blaze is in the middle of your circle then just off center is the treasure. Then again this man says lots of things, I’m not too sure people are listening or even care.
If anyone wants to know a crowbar is where old crows go to drink!
Is the Crow bar where they go to drink crow(n) & coke? Are you sure it’s not where they go to eat their crow after a bad solution? Hahaha, sorry I couldn’t resist. No one thinks I’m funny, least of all my son. So back to the chase.
Hi Ramona this is old crow.
http://graphic-design.tjs-labs.com/pictures/oldcrow-lib-04-11-1936-020.jpg
The bottle reads 3 1/2 years in the wood 93 proof.
A good bourbon for mixing mint juleps on Derby Day.
3 1/2 years in the wood huh? Leave it to Forrest to out do Old Crow (the whiskey), his treasure chest has been in the wood longer than that. My stepfather always drank Old Grand-Dad 100 proof which eventually led to his demise. Seeing how mean he got when he drank that has left me with an aversion to alcohol altogether.
Hi Jeremy, good to see you still hanging out on occasion.
So…
“If you are brave and in the wood”
We have to be brave and pickled to find the treasure?
After a 5th it’s a little hard getting into the jar………
Crowbar signing off……
http://youtu.be/TsKOzo34D9U
Ah, pickled mountain stream fishing and chum buckets.
This is going to go well….
“How do you thank guys like that?” – TTOTC book doesn’t list what *should be… pages 92 and 93.
http://callforphotos.vvmf.org/PhotoEffort/AssociatedImages/Medium
/Sullivan_Robert_Joseph_DOB_1936.jpg
So much *more to an incredible human being. I cannot tell the difference between the two men when I look at the two men.
SL
I love “The Secrets of San Lazaro”, one of the best I’ve read on native populations. It taught me a lot, and actually has been helpful with the chase and at home.
The area I live was INCREDIBLY abundant with some of earliest man, I have so many questions, and honestly it is harder to find info about them than most of the tc research. I don’t think there is/ has been much exploration and/or effort put into the history here. Honestly, I wish forest could come over to tell me what I have on my own land. And EVERY WHERE I walk within 50 miles, I am GUARANTEED to spot an artifact. Truly, no joke. I think I have my very own “San Lazaro” of sorts and I feel so blessed and honored, I believe in fate, and it put me here for this reason. It truly grounds me. If I am sad, I go for a walk, and I am cured almost instantly from the “presence” of our ancestors. Absolutely mind boggling what I’ve discovered on my land the last 3 months. Ansolutely! 🙂
Pure speculation here…but does this mean that someone has told fenn the exact (or almost exact) spot?
Why would fenn or anyone take a directional reading once they’ve arrived at their final location? Once you’re there, the only direction the matters is down or up, correct? i.e. “look quickie down” “below” “can-yon down” “no paddle up” “tired and weak (down)”
Are you at the bottom of something once you’ve arrived?
The Blaze may be a marker and “quickly down” may be down a hill or something of that nature.
In which direction that hill runs would be the question, in that case.
I doubt Forest is going to answer that question though.
Its very interesting. I ask him If I could solve the poem by translating it in my motherlanguage german but didn´t get an answer. In english there are many meanings for the word ´blaze´. It also could mean a star?? I´m thinking about it because he told us to use a flashlight?! so maybe you must wait until you can see the blaze in the nightsky?
Okay look in to the time line of this treasure put in place and research the local place am going to go get it so I have narrowed it down to a place and it all falls into place so wish me luck
Depends on where your standing Could be northwest. Southeast. He just said not north south east or west 🙂 he is tricky ole coot
Which way does a trail face? Which way does a highway face? Which way does a railroad face? Which way does a mountain face? A runway, etc, etc. What may be a simple question has begat a simple answer. The “Blaze” probably faces UP.
i am just finding this post yes i can be slow.
on blaze page we posted we think you travel in the canyon until you spot a mountain top just peaking up and look quickly down. i tested this idea in Palo Dura canyon and it works. think of walking in a downtown are or city with tall building u might not see a building until you curve around or get close enough. if it is a mountain if fits the clue the the blaze is movable but not feasible. unlike trees etc a mountain top will be there thousands of years
It doesn’t have a direction. Up….The first half of poem is solved using Google Earth which is where the blaze is facing (towards the satelite), second half is physical.
Is the blaze one single object? In a “word” yes.
Your post makes parts of me nervous Joshua.
Smh…again…geez!