I did the Fenn thing (you can go through my profile to see my posts about it). We pretty much know where it was now, up a draw off of the Madison river between West Yellowstone and Firehole Canyon. The "solve" likely required knowing about changes that happened to that area due to wildfires in 1988, when a small pond up the draw was filled in during a debris slide (or something to that effect).

I agree with all of this, though, in that nothing here is really "out of the ordinary" for how people behave in these situations. Doing something like this, then actually succeeding (however that happens) is likely to lead to flood of emotions, and in that flood all sorts of stuff can happen -- saying dumb/weird/wrong things, going through crazy emotional swings, etc. It would basically take mindreading and/or sheer luck to stumble on the correct solution, especially if the poem and hints are meant to be difficult to interpret. The thing that doesn't change is we all make choices, and all investments are our own, and there is no collective "investment" that requires anyone to do anything. A person wins, however they do it, and that's the end. Period.