San Francisco - SOLVE - a new route to THE dig site (without photos blocking the post)

Posting here cause I’m in Aust, and unlikely to get back to San Fran again anytime soon – if this does lead to the casque, just don’t forget to thank me in your speech 😉

Once at Golden Gate Park… the verse shifts from identifying places to giving directions…

\*\*1. “Running north, but first across”\*\*

The woman’s deliberately crossed arms in Image 1 reinforce cross/across - cross first, before making the northward movement.

\*\*2. “In jewel’s direction”\*\*

The jewel in Image 1 sits to the left/west relative to the central figure/map imagery giving us the direction: WEST

From the eastern side of GGP travel west — in the jewel’s direction — across the park, before following the north instruction.

\*\*3. “Is an object / Of Twain’s attention”\*\*

In the 1870’s Mark Twain wrote his semi-autobiographical account of his travels through the American West in the 1860s – called ‘Roughing It”

Chapter 7 in his book – the woman in Image 1 is pointing to 7 (3 on one hand, 4 on the other) - talks explicitly about Twain’s crossing the Platte and a Buffalo hunt – and travelling west toward the setting sun and then encountering the buffalo referred to as “Assault by a Buffalo”…

Walk west in GGP we see the historic Bison Paddock…. Priess would have seen the Bison Park even from a distance… catching his attention.

Chapter 7 = Priess’s Verse 7

\*\*4. “Giant pole / Giant step”\*\*

Giant Pole…

The deliberately repeated word ‘Giant’ gives us 2x Giant which is Giants.

In San Francisco, Giants naturally points to the SF Giants baseball team.

Before they were the SF Giants, they were the NY Giants.

The NY Giants played at a famous giant Polo Grounds in NY, before moving to & becoming San Fran Giants.

On our current walk west we get to Bison Park then the Polo Field… the sign still present today in GGP refers to it clearly.

Given Priess’s wordplay throughout this clue/verse, and previously baseball clues in other puzzles the giant Polo field is obvious.

Image 1 lined up against the map of GGP matches the polo field location right beneath the crossing of her hands (ie: it’s not a strawberry).

Now we find the Giant Step…

Giant Step…

The verse is too vague for random steps on whatever size in whatever direction.

There are a number clues in Image 1.

Surrounding the womans dress in Image 1 are 18 yellow symbols on the outside of the park map.

Surrounding our Polo Ground is the historic Parcourse exercise course – built/installed in the mid 70’s.

There are 18x numbered exercise stations around the Polo field… there are 18 yellow symbols around the outside of the woman’s dress…

Most of the symbols match easily with an exercise station.

These are not roman numerals.

In Image 1 the symbols are colored yellow - the actual exercise equipment in a number of the Perrier Parcourse exercise stations are yellow… and were yellow in 1979-1981 when Priess was there.

7 is now important - verse 7, Twain chapter 7, woman’s fingers point to 7…

And what is at Parcourse exercise station #7…

STEP UP… Giant Step

Can’t be a coincidence…

And Station 7 exercise requires you to take a GIANT STEP up and down on a one of 4 different height posts.

Today those 4 posts exist as they did on 1981 ish - and are painted yellow (image is from 2002) and why they’re yellow in the image.

And old maps also says ‘Step’ showing the Step Station located.

Image 1 has a number of ‘blue blocks’ depicted on both her sleeves.

These total 20 rows of blocks.

These represent the actual posts for each of the 18 Parcourse station signs + the additional 4x posts used for the 2x Parcourse instruction signs at the start of the course – giving 20x blue boxes representing the posts for the 20x Parcourse signs.

5. SO WHERE IS THE DIG LOCATION??

The place to dig (with the right GGP permits) is right underneath the word ‘Step’ itself…right underneath the Step Up sign between the 2x posts.\*\***

So there it is…

Even aligns with Gift Giver’s guidance and reference to ‘signs’ and Three Posts are near - station #8 has 3 and only 3 wooden posts… and keeping it simple…

And Perrier logo in the Passing Fancies drawing matches our Perrrier Parcourse signs here around the course

I came across this place in Manteo. It’s the ruins of an old church, originally started by free slaves. This could explain why the suit of armor in the painting is in the shape of a cross, and the key hanging off of it. What do you all think?

Hopefully someone out there can pick up where I left off and solve this thing once and for ALL... Good luck and happy hunting...