The Land of the Yankee Fork State Park brings to life Idaho's frontier mining history. Located in part of the larger Land of the Yankee Fork Historic Area in scenic central Idaho, there is something for everyone in this historic area.

The bedrock plated, boulder strewn hills of Rocky Peak northeast of Simi Valley are made of the Chatsworth Formation, a 6000 foot thick sandstone deposit formed at the bottom of the ocean at the time of the dinosaurs.The sand that makes up the rocks of today was washed off mountain slopes 70 to 75 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period. Rivers carried the sediment to the ocean and currents pushed it offshore.

It settled to the sea floor accumulating in delta-like fans in submarine canyons thousands of feet deep and it was these deposits that fused into stone creating the Chatsworth Formation. Shifting climates, sea levels and fault lines would eventually leave the sandstone high and dry and form new mountains.Over the last several million years a bend has developed in the San Andreas fault, which has forced the Pacific Plate and the Continental Plate to collide into each other, in addition to sliding past one another.

The resulting compression has rippled the land south of the fault in Southern California and formed a series of hills and valleys or anticlines and synclines. Simi Valley, for example, is located in a syncline while nearby Big Mountain Ridge is an anticline.The tectonic folding of earth’s crust from the pressure of the bending fault line fractured the Chatsworth Formation and thrust it skyward, where it weathered into the tan- and pink-tinged rocks of today. The busted up formation is riddled with caves, overhangs and tunnels providing hikers with the opportunity for hours of recreation exploring the range.Here I am poking my way through one of the many tunnels in the sandstone. During periods of heavy rain, runoff flows through this channel.

In other areas seasonal runnels appear and disappear falling into underground caves.Along the west end of the Hummingbird Trail, in a section that crosses through a convenient gap in a prominent outcrop, there is a remarkably long cave that is about 100 feet long. Scrambling through the hollow is akin to what an ant must feel like crawling through a deep crack in a sidewalk, where a tree root has split and uplifted the slab. The sequence of photos below shows the cave as I made my way through from one end to the other.Looking back at the entrance.Looking down the throat of the cave from the same spot as the last photo.Looking back at the entrance on the left, as seen from a little further down.Continuing down the cave.A shot of me.The bottom exit hole on the right.What that exit looks like from the outside. The lower opening of the cave seen here as the darkened area at the bottom center of the photo.Looking over the giant crack in the sandstone plate where the cave is located.Bibliography:Patricia Havens, Simi Valley: A Journey Through Time (1997). Clint Elliott in Costa Rica. Archives. (7).

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I just discovered this whole fascinating mystery recently, and I have become pretty convinced that the answer is somewhere very close to the Joe Brown boat launch.You start at Boiling River, the last hot spring feature leaving Yellowstone and particularly one where a hot spring flows into cold river water. Follow the canyon down to the Yellowstone. Now, head downriver. Not far, but too far to walk (about 11 miles) and you reach Joe Brown's Put In.Keep heading downriver and you reach Yankee Jim canyon which Joseph Meek apparently mentions in his diary as being too rough for him to travel through (haven't seen this with my own eyes, but I've seen it mentioned).Now without being there physically, it is hard to conjecture about some of the more detailed clues. However, Sphinx Creek is just beyond Brown's Put In and just before Yankee Jim Canyon which was no place for Meek.

It's a bit small though, so you're not going to be able to paddle up.I know several people have searched around Sphinx Creek, but I've seen no one mention Yankee Jim Lake, a lake about two miles up the creek and a thousand or so feet above the valley in elevation (literally 'water high'?) It's a lake high above a creek just before a canyon where Meek wouldn't go and just after Brown's Put In. It's named after James 'Yankee Jim' George who came to Montana searching for gold. It'd be rather poetic for gold to be hidden near this lake, dontcha think?If I didn't live in Alaska, I'd be planning a trip down to Yankee Jim Canyon (with my kayak of course, because that whitewater looks worth the trip, even if I didn't find any treasure) and I'd be focusing my search on Sphinx Creek and, specifically, I'd be looking for the blaze somewhere right around this path:Not going to make the trip down from Alaska to try for it. But if any of you folks are planning to be hunting any time soon and feel like checking it out, just figured I'd give my 2c.

If you find it, please PM me, and maybe buy me a beer;)Cheers!. This was one of my solves as well. But there are a couple glaring issue with it:.Forrest said he made two trips and walked less than a few miles in total.

This solve is 3 miles one way, or 12 miles for two trips both ways. EDIT - I should edit this to state that i think the safe path to the lake wraps around the mountain side a bit.Forrest said there is no shortcut if you know the final location. You must follow the clues. But in this solve, you can approach from the south, and it may be shorter and easier that way.Would probably be a great day hike, and it would be a beautiful sight, but I wouldn't get my hopes up for the treasure.