But ropes probably weren’t ,” Blackburn said. “I’ll be the first to say that was resourceful. It took rescuers hours of painstaking work in bitter freezing temperatures to get the man to safety. The man went lower than expected to retrieve a lost backpack, and then couldn’t escape the canyon. “What people have neglected to think is that this is an 80-something-year-old man who hid a treasure that weighed probably 30, 40 pounds, and he hid it to where he could easily walk to,” said Ken Blackburn, a sheriff in Big Horn County Wyoming near Yellowstone National Park.įor Blackburn, one of the more notable Fenn search and rescues happened in January 2020 when an Indiana resident rappelled down Yellowstone Canyon. Throughout the 2010s, mountain search and rescue groups in the Interior West have racked up several missions to lift stranded treasure hunters to safety. “Fenn needed more attention, which is why he said the treasure has been found with ‘no proof.’” “He needed attention and this is how he got it,” Linda Bilyeu told Westword’s Michael Roberts via Facebook Messenger. The scant clues supplied by Fenn earlier this week of the treasure’s whereabouts churned up long-time skepticism that it’s all a hoax, including a comment pointed at Fenn by Bilyeu’s widow, Linda. Over the years, five people have died searching for treasure, including Broomfield resident Randy Bilyeu. They can go get it, but I’m not going to tell them where it is,” Fenn told NPR’s John Burnett in 2016. “No one knows where that treasure chest is but me. The biggest clues supplied by him are a poem in his autobiography, and map. “Right now the conversation on the blog is, ‘When is Forrest going to tell us where it was found?’”įorrest Fenn did not return CPR’s multiple inquiries asking when the public can expect more details.įenn hid the treasure about 10 years ago. “They’ve put their hearts and souls into trying to figure out where this chest is,” Neitzel said. “Look for more information and photos in the coming days.”Īlmost immediately, that blog’s creator Dal Neitzel saw a flood of comments from treasure hunters who spent countless hours searching for a solution. “So the search is over,” wrote Fenn on the popular blog The Thrill Of The Chase. Stuef didn’t return a phone message left Monday by The Associated Press seeking comment on finding the treasure.Santa Fe millionaire Forrest Fenn shocked the world on June 6 when he announced someone had found the treasure he hid worth up to $2 million in the Rocky Mountains. Stuef denied the allegations, saying he never met nor heard of the woman before the lawsuit and the treasure was nowhere near New Mexico, Barbarisi wrote. In the lawsuit, a woman who believed the treasure was hidden in New Mexico claims the finder succeeded by hacking her texts and emails, Barbarisi wrote. And maybe I didn’t want to admit to myself what a hold it had on me.”įenn’s grandson, Old, also cited the lawsuit as a reason for confirming Stuef’s identity. “If I didn’t find it, I would look kind of like an idiot. “I think I got a little embarrassed by how obsessed I was with it,” Barbarisi quoted Stuef as saying. Barbarisi identified Stuef in an article published Monday in Outside Magazine and wrote that Stuef became obsessed with the treasure after learning about its existence in 2018. The poem inspired many to go treasure hunting - sometimes getting into precarious situations in the unforgiving Rocky Mountain backcountry.Ĭolorado man dies during hunt for Forrest Fenn’s treasure in Dinosaur National MonumentĪ court order in a federal lawsuit against the Fenn estate prompted Stuef to identify himself to writer Daniel Barbarisi, who had been in touch with Stuef for a book he has been working on. Air Force fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, left clues to finding the treasure in a poem in a memoir entitled “The Thrill of the Chase.”įenn at the time said he hid the chest filled with coins, gold nuggets and other valuables estimated in value at $1 million to $3 million in the Rocky Mountains north of Santa Fe in either Colorado, Montana, New Mexico or Wyoming. “We wish Jack the best of luck, and we hope that the searching community will treat him with the respect that he deserves,” Old wrote.įenn, who was also a decorated U.S. Jonathan “Jack” Stuef, 32, found the treasure in June, Fenn grandson Shiloh Forrest Old posted Monday on a website dedicated to the treasure. A grandson of Forrest Fenn has confirmed that a medical school student from Michigan found a more than $1 million treasure chest that the retired art and antiquities dealer stashed in the wilds of Wyoming more than a decade ago. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĬHEYENNE, Wyo.
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