The weather is supposed to stay overcast and rainy for the next few days, but Im hoping to make the most of it. Katahdin is still just over 800 miles away, but the thrill of the chase is certainly still present. The pictures in Fenn’s book keep to that style. 1,368 miles into the Appalachian Trail has hiked me through 8 full states, leaving me now in my 9th with only 5 left. Forrest Fenn is an artist: highly intelligent and detail oriented. He then uses the pictures and stories in Fenn’s book to detail each of the nine clues, and place the treasure in an area where the Madison river flows through Bear Trap Canyon in Montana. Porowski’s book, Picture Clues of Forrest Fenn in The Thrill of the Chase, carefully takes the reader through all nine clues of Forrest Fenn’s poem. They pointed to specific places on the map, and led to the general location where Fenn’s treasure should be found. In his studies, which included six cross country trips to Montana, he found that the pictures throughout Fenn’s book and their intricate arrangement were not random. He carefully read and reread Forrest Fenn’s book, and found it to be a work of art: creative, profoundly sincere, and funny. So when a friend introduced him to The Thrill of the Chase, he was hooked. Estimates on the value of the chest range from one to three million dollars.James Porowski is a psychologist with specialties in personality development, creativity, and intelligence. Forrest Fenn hid a treasure chest several years ago – filling it with gold and jewels, and placed it somewhere in the Rocky Mountains North of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Thrill of the chase a rocky riverbed