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Well damn. Not liking fakespot. Is it fake? :) I mean I dont have many stars, but they are almost all great stars. :

The Strange Paths We All Follow (Chance Encounters Trilogy) (Volume 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692996761/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_NFBNBbCRN42J7

Your wife might want to get her one of those coffee cups that say: Please Do Not Confuse Your Google Search With My Medical Degree.

https://www.amazon.com/Please-Confuse-Google-Search-Medical/dp/B019IEJTNM

After poking around thewaybackmacine for a while, it seems that there were not any blog sites, or any sites I can find, covering the chase before 2013.

I did find this curious website about Tresure Hunt clues, https://web.archive.org/web/20130702232945/http://www.treasurehuntclues.net/

mostly an advertisement of the riddleme software

now it is this site: https://www.riddleme.com/treasure-hunt-clues/

Riddleme software on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Riddle-Scavenger-Treasure-Software-Download/dp/B004X0DIBG

or trial version here: https://download.cnet.com/Riddle-Me/3000-2102_4-10512201.html

You could also just buy this book which explains how to train dogs to find specific scents: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0962309915/

This is not a good way to go about finding the correct solve.

https://www.amazon.com/Forrest-Fenns-Treasure-Remote-Viewed/dp/0648568008

1. Moose - run away, climb or hide behind a tree. True for all big herbivores. Bison and cows will fuck your shit up. Leave them alone.
   
2. Grizzly Bears - stand your ground, use your bear spray. You brought bear spray, right?
   
3. Weather - I've seen it snow in the Rockies in every month but August. Lost a friend for over an hour when 6 inches fell in about 30 minutes in a freak storm. In September, about 7500'.
   
4. Giardia - just make sure to check upstream for floating dead things, always gather water where it's running, not where it's stagnant, and use a good filtration system like a Sawyer.
   
5. Fucking Mosquitoes - they have a short window of opportunity - only a few months - so they are very ravenous and evil. Cover yourself with a good bug spray, and get a Thermacell.
   
6. Falling - Be careful out there. Lots of folks get hurt taking unnecessary risks. See all those boulders scattered on the ground? Look up. That's where they came from. Don't be jumping up and down on that ledge like Wile E. Coyote.
   

Can they really blame every bad instance on Fenn though? How many people die visiting Yellowstone every year? How about the Grand Canyon? People go to these places as a source of inspiration, adventure, and fun. By similar measure should we hold the State tourist boards accountable for luring people to their deaths since they spend money and advertising to get people to visit?

The real problem is people are taking too big of risks, and are not prepared to be in the wilderness. People go missing and die every year going to the backcountry, and that's just going hiking and not being prepared. They underestimate the weather, they get lost, they don't know how to survive in those situations.

Word to the wise, if you're from the city and you've never been in a true wilderness before, you should really take a wilderness survival course first. Go camping somewhere local first. Learn how to orient yourself, and avoid dangers like steep areas and how to deal with the wildlife, including snakes, bears, moose, and mountain lions. Learn how to deal with insects, and how to avoid poisonous plants like stinging nettle, poison oak, etc. And learn first aid. And finally, finally, don't travel alone. Go with family or a friend. And if you must go in alone, make sure someone you trust knows where you are going and what your plan is. Aron Ralston, of 127 Hours fame, got lost in Utah, my home state, and no one knew where he went, not his family, not his boss. And he was an experienced hiker and climber. He only survived because he did some crazy stuff I can't even imagine.

If you do nothing else, make this book required reading before going out traipsing in the wilderness: U.S. Army Survival Handbook, Revised https://www.amazon.com/dp/1599214512/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_EdI0BbE2J7P9E and you might just save your own life.

I think people need to take a common sense approach to the hunt. If they get fanatical about it? It's sad but it's also not uncommon. HUNDREDS of people die a year in national parks.

>Between 2007 and 2013, in all 59 parks, there were 1,025 fatalities. On average, approximately 160 visitors per year die while visiting national parks-- out of more 305 million visitors.

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2016/10/21/how-many-people-actually-die-in-national-parks.html

People need to take care and take precautions and not risk their lives for any reason.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009R6HEF2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 is a interesting read

5 people were gored by bison in 2015 in Yellowstone. There has to be a common sense level applied. https://www.yellowstonepark.com/news/teen-gored-bison

While people mentioning Randy as a cautionary tale on why not to hunt (http://www.westword.com/news/forrest-fenn-on-death-of-randy-bilyeu-ongoing-hunt-for-2-million-treasure-8140159) and it ticks me off when they claim to know what happened.... I can not find him faultless. This was not the fault of FF or the hunt. There were mistakes made.

Others have put themselves at risk as well. If we can all not be risky? It can pay out.

One person going "on the hunt" and dying will get more coverage than a slip in fall where there was no railling and they took a selfie in Yosemite. That's the sad truth.