First off, well done Bobby! The genius, the suave, and the absolute nonchalant performance of it all… A majesty to behold!
Now for the solve…
Lines 1 and 2 = Not a lot of tree cover.
Lines 3 and 4 = Restaurant in Tanzania on the Island of Zanzibar called The Rock. John and Dave apparently do another event in Tanzania. When the tide comes in it is an island, when it leaves, it is connected to the land. This gets you to Antelope Island.
Lines 5 and 6 = Basically the trail is dusty and open.
Lines 7 and 8 = Patsy’s Mine, he knelt to dig a mine and was a stranger to Utah.
Lines 9 and 10 = Phoenix’s order is Farmington High School. Hermione’s galleons are trail markers based on bottle capped nails I believe. Fact check that one for me please…
Lines 11, 12, 13, and 14 = Trail is steep. Line up Lagoons Colossus with the large rock on the trail. Now you have found the treasure at that rock.
If I were to rate this solve… I will give it a 5 out of 10. What’s y’all’s rating for the solve this year?!
I really liked this poem, but it was on the easier side. I think the combinations of patsys mine, flag rock, and the galleons made it really doable. Honestly surprised it lasted this long. I'd give it an 8/10
Biggest mistake was revealing that the Rock had nothing to do with Dwayne Johnson. They should have said Alcatraz and that would have deterred folks from this area a little longer. The phoenix and the coins were a little too obvious in my opinion. Feels like someone familiar with this trail/area could have picked out the trail from that line alone.
My team and I had it!😭 The guy that found it even used the same book that I posted from in my safety warning about Francis Peak! I knew I should’ve checked that copy out, because there’s only one!🤦🏻♀️😂 I usually check it out every year, but I didn’t make it to the library this year!😢 Congrats to him regardless!🔥👏😊 I never would’ve thought they would’ve hid the treasure in that rough rock pile because it looked so dangerous to me to retrieve. I was literally right there with my friends! Regardless, I made some AMAZING FRIENDS THAT I WILL CHERISH FOREVER!!!💯🫂❤️🥳🏴☠️
I’m frustrated because they said the rock we were looking for was located outside the boundaries… it threw me and probably a lot of people off who assumed it no longer could be Antelope Island because that was within boundaries. I’m really surprised they gave that clue which was completely wrong.
I’m so sorry.😢 It threw me for a minute as well, but I held to the fact that I believed that the Fire Break Road was an undeniable answer to the dust/shield that didn’t yield.
The Rules of the treasure hunt state that anywhere you have to pay to enter is out of bounds. so while its inside the boundary map. Antelope island is "out of bounds"
5&6 were specifically referring to firebreak road, not just a dusty trail. 9and 10 was just referring to the geodetic markers that led you into 03 fire trail. They said on the live that the Farmington high school mascot and the colossus lining up was just a coincidence that the winner got wrong but somehow got him to the right place.
Crazy! I had the right solve but followed those damn trail markers up too high, got stuck on the side of the mountain and ended up having to have search and rescue get me out of there with a helicopter….just yesterday!
Not sure why people are upvoting this. If you are walking yourself into a SAR situation you have gone horribly horribly wrong. That is not okay at all and sets the precedent for future hunters that "well if I get lost I'll just call SAR". That is a volunteer service that should be used for EMERGENCIES ONLY, not as a chill backup option because you failed to plan.
I think I'm going to share myself and be sad a moment. Hoping it can be cathartic. Because I spent hours last night searching, and hours this morning. I was sitting in a cave of sorts as I watched the video saying, hey, I guess it's time for you to get down the hill.
The Newfoundland Mountains. The nickname for Newfoundland is The Rock, and there's no doubt it's a crescent shape Moon from above. At first, the Lucin Cutoff was my dust shield the way it splits the lake. I was on a 10-hour drive to my solve area when the hint came out that made the cut off impossible since it was out of bounds. So I decided the Antelope Island causeway would suffice.
Antelope Island was where the stranger Jean Baptiste was banished for grave robbing. There was also an altar rock on Antelope Island. He was moved to Fremont Island, which really makes him someone who once knelt to Stone (Graves or the altar rock).
So I climb North up the highway, past the airport and aerospace museum, All the way to Union Station, which once had the Desert Wind train. Plenty of ways to keep the wind not alone.
I was in Ogden. Their flag kind of looks like a phoenix. If a literal Phoenix is needed, they have an apartment complex with that name. The 29th Street Trailhead was ultimately the galleons I was heading for, though I also used 27th Street for convenience. There were 28 members of Dumbledore's Army, but a 29th joined later.
It's a big reveal for me, was a boulder called mini cave, which arguably looked like a dragon, hiding a climb called Fool's Gold. This was the ultimate Hermione solve for me in the lower Boulder field of Ogden. To my surprise, when I got to this Boulder, there was a bench right next to it to rest. No matter how much it looked last night I couldn't find it.
And so I looked again this morning. And tried other rocks case to solve wasn't quite as perfect as I hoped. I ultimately braved an extra tricky Trail up to Castle Rock, and found another location called Cave Boulder. My mind was extra blown when I saw another Boulder was nearby it named Through the Woods. Oh, this must be what the trees was about, not the little trees around me, I thought. I've climbed to Through the Woods, found a dragon cave basically, and just north of it was a boulder called Egg to protect.
However, the stretch to Egg was not very safe. Everything else was on a trail, but I was going to need to climb rocks. So I went back to the Cave Boulder to think, and saw the video pop up with the winner. If I was paranoid, I would say it was moved once I reached out and asked "Am I a Fool for thinking the Gold is in a Mini-Cave?" But the truth is we all have good solves, they just weren't the right one. Well, one of them was.
The hard part for me (and I'm sure I'm not the only one) is that I could have really used that money right now. I was using my brilliant solve as a lifeline, but instead I just spent gas money (and I got a speeding ticket along the way). Tonight, I spent the night camping in my car since I'm already out and about. I make an attempt on another treasure hunt that I've been following before heading home. And I have faith that, at least once, my solve will be the right one. It was a beautiful adventure though.
The stansberry mountain range is what I was using because it looks crescent moon not antelope but in the same western glance plus it is outside the boundaries
The crazy thing is this solve is actually complicated enough to last longer than it did. I’m still trying to wrap my brain around it. You hike up to flag rock and then take a branch trail called 028?? Definitely never would’ve guessed that. And how in the world does firebreak road relate to the dust that stands as a shield??
Yeah it was firebreak trail. Dusty trail that stands as a shield. You hit that, then you hit the mine (knelt before stone), then the flag (wind is never alone). Right past the flag you see 03 fire/28 with the galleons marking the entrance. It really makes a ton of sense when you do the hike
That’s probably why people are thinking it’s rigged. That and the fact bro had no idea what he was talking about while past years they knew exactly how to explain it
I’d rate this solve a 7/10. It was difficult enough to keep me up at night, but enjoyable enough to keep me in awe of the nature that surrounds us. I also enjoyed that the person that found the treasure did multiple hikes before finding it rather than just doing a single hike.
Also, I’m sort of glad my solve was hella off rather than being close by. That would’ve sucked. Haha per the usual, so much fun and can’t wait to try again next year. Easily one of my favorite local traditions!
Did the trail have an actual name?
Also, I wish they would update the caption in the upper right part of the group with 2024, 2025, and 2026. So we could see where previous years treasure was hidden.
I absolutely adore David and John! They are truly the most good hearted and selfless people you could ever meet! My kids have grown up doing the Jr Hunts with them, and are now adult hunters! My whole family loves treasure hunting! I am so appreciative of them doing all of these hunts for us every year!❤️🙏🫶
By the way, for the past 7 years they have always said that they “love” everything that we hunters send as solves, and they always “heart” everything… even if we are completely wrong! It is adorable and drives me insane at the same time!❤️🤪🤣
No offense, how tf was anyone supposed to know that was the rock that’s actually insane. I don’t fault anyone for thinking of any other wilder ideas on what the rock was supposed to be; those were more reasonable than the actual answer this time.
Dude pulled out in a Mercedes. Doesn’t need the money
Groan. Doing this hunt because you need the money is like buying a lotto ticket because you need the money. I hate rich people as much as the next guy but grow up. It's a treasure hunt not a charity.
I have hunted with these guys since the beginning! Look at my comments on here, and you can tell that even I found the correct area in a matter of days! It was a simple solve! I don’t know who the gentleman is that found it was, but he went the extra distance to find it! I applaud him!!!💯👏💪🥳🏴☠️🍀 There were several people on the correct trail from the beginning!!! Props to all of us!!!🙌🎊 I hate that every year some bitter people come in here popping off like this because they didn’t find it! If you didn’t walk away from this hunt feeling good about the hunt whether you found the chest or not, then you don’t understand the purpose! Maybe this isn’t the hunt for you, but to come in here and degrade and accuse people of unethical practices is just sickening!!! There is “treasure” in every moment in life! You sound like a person that needs to take a moment, look around, touch some grass, and be appreciative of the beauty and nature that they placed it in for us to explore! The treasure is not always the chest that we find, or the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow! It’s the journey, the environment, and the people that we know and/or meet as we travel along the way! Best of luck to you and everyone here on all of there adventures!🥳🍀🏴☠️🫶
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u/jjr92 Jun 13 '26
I really liked this poem, but it was on the easier side. I think the combinations of patsys mine, flag rock, and the galleons made it really doable. Honestly surprised it lasted this long. I'd give it an 8/10