My Full Solve
Tested it out to no avail BOTG. Probably won’t be back in this area so willing to share since I don’t see this solve fully documented online yet it’s probably one of the most popular/easiest to come by.
Wisdom waits in shadowed sight
- Yes, that Wisdom. Wisdom MT. In literal shadowed sight by the Pioneer mountains
As hope surges clear and bright
- start at Polaris in Spring or Summer
Walk near waters silent flight
- go North along the Pioneer mtns scenic byway, passing Elkhorn Hot Springs
Round the best past the Hole
- Big Hole Valley/River , just more general area context
I wait for you to cast your pole
- cast your pole = use your compass
- for you to = 42 degree bearing
In ursa east his realm awaits
- Grandpa Fitz’s realm as game warden
- ursa east = bear east (bear east for the following clue) + one direction is the key to another
His Bride stands guard at ancient gates
- Our Lady of the Rockies
- Guards the gates of the Rockies
Her foot of three at 20 degree
- NOT related to the bride
- referring to Missouri River confluence/ Three Forks town center
- using a protractor (bearing east) what has Three Forks at 20 degrees to it? .. Crystal Park. 20.08 degrees
Return her face to find the place
- from CP, Return/rotate back towards Our Lady
- the bearing on that? (CP to Our Lady) Forty-fucking-two degrees (41.9)
Double arcs on granite bold
- to me, this HAS to be the checkpoint. To me, Justin has made a marking on a rock. He has criticized the Fenn marking bc it was on a tree, but Justin still wanted a checkpoint/blaze/marker that would signal to the searcher they’re on the right track.
- he’s confirmed the checkpoint is both something that was already there and something that Justin put there. Ex. A marking of some sort on an existing piece of granite
- I tried to find any markings on any of the large granite boulders on my bearing, but had no luck.
- could it have been on a slab of granite that’s on ground level? It could be covered in snow for like 94% of the year. I really hope that’s not the checkpoint. I also would hope you don’t have to turn over any rocks.
That’s as far as I got. Without finding that checkpoint it’s gonna be pretty impossible. Justin mentioned the checkpoint is “pivotal”. It almost certainly points you in a different direction towards the actual treasure. But that’s info you have to be BOTG to get.
Hope this helps someone out there! At this point closure would be the real treasure lol.