

Sarah's one concession is her years-long crush on a fellow race-car driver, Craig Keller. Anything female, from makeup to chick flicks, is an anathema to her. She works as a technician in her father's California automotive speed shop, dresses and acts like a guy, and lives for drag racing. Reviews Sarah Matell isn't a run-of-the-mill romance heroine. Soon she’s torn not only between two men she wants, but between the drag race winner she is and the woman she feels pressured to become. Sarah’s world gets an overhaul when her father hires Gordon. He only has eyes for gorgeous women who are hot in the sack, not grubby tomboys. Winning Craig, the local drag race hero, proves more difficult. And I have actually seen some of the most spectacular scenery because of this that I ever would've seen.Sarah's a whiz at tuning engines and winning races. "You go out, you look, you don't find it, you come back home, you go through your clues again, your solves again and you think, 'Where did I go wrong?'" says Cynthia Meachum, a retired high-tech worker in Albuquerque who says she's been out at least 60 times looking for the treasure. Then they trek through aspen forests, explore riverbanks, and rappel down cliff sides looking for the treasure. The searchers read and re-read the cryptic poem and pore over topographic maps, waiting for the "aha" moment. I'm absolutely sure that he hid that treasure chest."Ī noted New Mexico archaeologist contacted for this story says he, too, saw the treasure and he also believes Fenn is not a trickster. And also knowing Forrest for as long as I have, I can absolutely say with 100 percent confidence that he would never pull off a hoax.

It's not in his house and it's not in his vault. "As far as proof goes there's no proof," Preston says. He says he saw the chest in the walk-in vault in Fenn's house before he hid it, and Preston can attest that it was filled with gold nuggets, gold coins, pre-Columbian gold figures, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and diamonds.

Is the treasure really worth risking your life over?ĭoug Preston is a best-selling author and a longtime friend of Fenn's. Think you're good at cracking codes? Read Forrest Fenn's poem with clues to the treasure:įenn is delighted the quest has motivated so many people to discover the Rocky Mountains, but he cautions: "We don't want to get anybody else lost.
