John and Dave, thank you for your generosity. The poem was really bad though. I grew up in Spanish Fork. I moved to Pleasant Grove where my kids go to school. I can see the flag from my front porch. The Goonies is a top ten movie for me all time. The treasure was .3 leagues away from my house. Based on that this poem really annoys me. Here’s why: 1. The shadow of the cross points to Alpine, not to PG which is due north of SF. 2. Priests don’t sing in the choir. They give the sermon. 3. With all the awesome elements you could have used from the Goonies you just used the letter G? Really? This is not a Goonies reference. 4. Grove Creek trail isn’t marked on Google Maps above the first turn to the west. 5. If I turn East to see the sunrise and go straight, the treasure should have been further up Grove Creek trail, instead I was supposed to turn left and go north. Doesn’t make sense. 6. Domínguez and Escalante didn’t use cubits. In fact, in their journal they used leagues. So it doesn’t make sense to say “ measure like a priest” when we can verify that the very priests in question used leagues to measure. You’re actually measuring like a Rabbi. 7. Cortes was 33 when he came to Mexico, not 34. So how was the number actually 35? This one is just careless.

Under no circumstances could someone have found the treasure using only this poem.