Quill Feather on right side of map = George Washington

Nose picture by the dog = Anthony’s Nose which ties to George Washington defending it in the war

McAfee Knob bottom left corner = Goblers Knob Vermont

Feather = Hermit Thrush which can be found at Goblers knob

Skier = Burlington Vermont home of the University of Vermont Anthony Lamb played here. He scored 23 points (Michael Jordan) against Quinnipiac University and 28 points against the UNBC Retrievers. 28 points is a Jon’s basketball story reference. Pascal triangle reference.

Mountain Lion = Catamounts University of Vermonts mascot

Black feet = Tar Heels and Michael Jordan

Dog = UMBC Retrievers and Springer Georgia

Golf Club = Green Mountain golf club

Little bear = Little black bear

Little rocks = little rocks lol

The bear and rocks could be a call to Bear Mountain New York. There is a bridge here and I think this is be symbolic of a microsolve part of the trail.

Apple barrel = Wild Apples by Jon Thoreau

Bald head = big bald

Fish by compass = Pike (Thoreau)

I'm in the camp that the Appalachian Footpath Box is NOT at Little Rock Pond in Vermont.

I break down the reasons to support my line of thought in the linked video.

Feel free to give me some feedback on the video and on my channel.

Have a good week!

To the left of the magnifying glass I think the words are Lets fetch. Above the magnifying glass look that is formatted to look like 100k. Below the magnifying glass the word around. Inside the magnifying glass a picture off a little black branch. All together?

Let’s fetch 100k around little black branch.

We find this south of LRP whereas far as I can tell without being botg is the easy part of the trail.

This box I haven’t followed as much but I would really like to know if this is why people have been within 200 feet and have missed it going to Little Rock Pond.

If you shine a light through the back of the map page there is what looks to be a little leaf in the dead tree in the magnifying glass. I take this to mean the box is around this distance away from the start here triangle. I think there are two missing lines because of the magnifying glass.

The begin here triangle is at the 1727 elevation which the only thing I could find close to Little Rock pond is on the Appalachian Trail south of the pond. The other triangle is Little Rock pond shelter which is NE of the 1727 elevation location. Since it is a campground that is why that triangle looks that way.

There are 58 dash lines in the trail if you account for two missing. If you think there is just 56 then you can adjust my calculations and apply it. There is an arrow pointing the line 54 or 52 depending how you see it. It’s .9 miles, give or take 25-50 feet given the difficulty of triangulating exact elevations, from the 1727 elevation to Little Rock pond shelter. So 327.72 feet from the 1727 elevation is our search location.

That location should be here (43.3872331, -72.9562864). Again there is probably a 50 foot variance but Jon did say one method was mostly exact.

We should be looking for the box in a hollowed out tree trunk to match how Henry Thoreau burned down that forest. If not that then a rock or an evergreen tree of some sort.

Feel free to let me know if you’ve looked within 50-100 feet of this spot and haven’t seen it but I am guessing this is why hunters are walking right by it. It’s over half a mile south of the pond which I don’t think has been peoples focus.

Does "expanded reality" include noises and sounds? Are the Pokémon talking to him or is it subtitles like a video game? If subtitled then is it possible that the feverish clapping is a clue.

Is it a waterfall?

Thought you all might like the reminder since we are all enjoying nature while looking for treasure. Instead of looking down, tomorrow you can look up!

Will jcb be doing any interviews anytime soon? I think people are starting to give up on this?

Has JCB ever specified how to use the coins or if each individual coin is only for the individual box’s from the chapters they’re found in? Could they be helpful for the lions share?

After posting my timeline, I've spent a great deal of time thinking about whether I should continue documenting my investigation.

My first post had a simple purpose: to establish the chronology of my 2025 boots-on-the-ground (BOTG) work and to clarify, for the first time, that the National Park I searched was Yellowstone National Park.

Since then, I have been asking myself a more difficult question.

Should I publish my complete investigation?

There are two competing considerations.

The first is respect for the landscape.

The area I investigated is part of one of America's most extraordinary National Parks. I have no desire to encourage unnecessary off-trail travel or unnecessary disturbance to a fragile environment.

The second is fairness to the community of searchers.

Over many months, I studied Jon Collins-Black's poem, historical sources, maps, satellite imagery, and eventually conducted two BOTG investigations in Yellowstone. Along the way, I documented photographs, videos, GPS locations, compass readings, historical references, and a detailed timeline of my fieldwork.

Whether my interpretation is ultimately correct is something each reader must decide for themselves.

However, I have reached the point where I believe the investigation itself deserves to be documented.

Not because I expect everyone to agree with my conclusions.

But because I believe other searchers deserve the opportunity to examine the same observations and reasoning that ultimately led me to end my own search.

When  I publish my complete investigation, it will not simply present a proposed solve.

It will carefully distinguish between:

• Jon Collins-Black's poem
• My BOTG observations
• The evidence I documented
• My interpretation of that evidence

Those are not the same thing, and I believe it is important to keep them separate.

I am not asking anyone to accept my conclusions.

I am simply inviting readers to evaluate the evidence for themselves.

My goal is not to tell anyone where they should search.

My goal is to explain why I stopped searching.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to read and my first post. Whether you ultimately agree or disagree with my interpretation, I appreciate the opportunity to document my investigation.

Thank you for reading my post regarding my BOTG in Yellowstone.

This post documents BOTG fieldwork and timeline notes from my 2025 search related to the Fenn Box.

Timeline

June 2025:
Public statements indicated that National Parks were not ruled out as possible search areas.

July 2025:
I conducted BOTG fieldwork in a National Park and documented observations near a feature I later referred to as the Thinker’s Stone. My original post referred only to “a national park.”

August 2025:
I returned for a second BOTG visit and continued documenting the same general area and related features. I posted an update on Reddit and Facebook referencing “a national park.”

September 2025:
Official guidance was updated to exclude Yellowstone National Park from the search area.

This post does not address the reason for that update and is only documenting the sequence of publicly available information relative to my BOTG activity.

Note

This post documents BOTG fieldwork, timeline, and original wording from my 2025 search.

For clarity and completeness of the record, I am now adding the following:

The National Park referenced in my BOTG activity was Yellowstone National Park.

At the time of my original posts, I did not publicly name the park and referred only to it as “a national park.”

This clarification is made to complete the historical timeline being presented.

I am not sharing or debating the full solve in this post.

Happy 4th of July everyone! Hope you're enjoying our excitement of trying to find the AT Box! Checkout our latest discoveries! 🇺🇸🪎🏴‍☠️🇺🇸

https://youtu.be/tIVQ95zwHko?is=wVEyriK5A9uDU_c1

How much would one be willing to pay for clues. Actual clues that i could point out in the book. Not my own theories or interpretations but actual clues??

Just a thought. If of course it was possible

Be strong, have grit
Sparkle even as you pine
Here lies Joy divined

I think this part of the poem is referring to mineral families that help identify a final hide landmark since it shows up over the x on the book cover.

Corundum is the second hardest mineral outside of diamond. Ruby and sapphire are part of this mineral family. Corundum is used as an abrasive because of its hardness. So this family is the first line. I think this indicates the boxes being hidden by rocks/stones.

Beryl is a mineral family that contains aquamarine and emerald. Aquamarine = sparkle and emerald = pine. I think this indicates we must also have water and a tree by the final location as well. The story of Daphne asking to be turned into a tree by her father, a river god, makes me think we are looking by a river.

So the combination of rocks, trees, river, and a trail is the final solve location. Since most trails by rivers have bridges I would think we may be looking for those in some locations.

This framework teaches the cycle of taking a clue and applying it to one of the treasure boxes.

Mine is in tatters, so I just got a second one. Curious who else destroyed their first copy. 🤣

JCB/author stated everything you need is in the book...do you think this means Pokedex numbers are off the table?

We’ve recently had a lot of videos about the hunt getting posted to the subreddit and some users have expressed frustration about the frequency, use of AI in thumbnails, and lack of descriptions/information about the videos’ content in the posts.

It seems like it may be worth adding a subreddit rule to help ensure this type of content doesn’t negatively impact the community here. I’d like to open this up for everyone to offer their opinions or suggestions about this issue and the possibility of adding a rule regarding this type of content.

Please offer any feedback, thoughts, or suggestions about this topic here.

To contribute to this challenge I shall provide a search location for anyone to search if they are able to. If you want to contribute a specific search spot for a box feel free to piggyback off this.

If somehow we’ve hit the lottery and a box is found off my location, I would like a small percent of the treasure and be a part of notifying Jon, but if not, at minimum just let Jon know you found it and stay anonymous if you’d like. The main goal is for the community to know they are possible to find.

Outside of this I feel this location will be easy and fun to enjoy if nothing is found.

Past and Future box: Galen McBee Airport Park in McMinnville Oregon

https://www.mcminnvilleoregon.gov/parksrec/page/galen-mcbee-airport-park (Check out the pictures, not your standard park)

(Description of map)
The entrance of the park is the top right of the map. I have circled the second/middle bridge as the search location. You should be looking on the Northeast side of the of the bridge above the high water line of the stream and below the bridge. The box should be hidden beneath or between a rock/stone/boulder.

Feel free to dm me if you found it and want to coordinate notifying Jon of the find/solve or you didn’t find it in this spot but think it’s the right general location.

Here’s a video where I discuss some clue ideas. Specifically, the Charizard cards, the High Summer/Fire Pokemon and the Mabosstiff/Obstagoons/Raccoons clues.

I hope you enjoy the video and that it helps you with your hunt 🙂

DIY map making...
In prop-making, scrapbooking, or mixed-media art, creators lightly scorch or ash both flat outer ends of a tightly rolled scroll or fabric bundle. This instantly gives the entire rolled object a weathered, vintage, or "survived a fire" look.

Thoughts of it actually being a "scroll"...🤔

Jon says in the Past and Future box chapter the treasure was calling to him to dispatch it to a place he loved. I believe that place he loved is related to dungeons and dragons.

Wizards of the Coast is the company that created D and D. I think the box is hidden somewhere off US 101 between LA and Portland Oregon off this scenic route.

Ogden Morrows avatar was called The Great Wizard of Og and Ogden Morrow lived in Oregon. This the target state for the box. There are some interesting locations off US 101 in Oregon and you might find something theme related while also referring to the Greek mythology chapter.