More about WWWH

I'm feeling a little rushed today, so I'm sorry for this hastily thrown together post. Hopefully, it will be interesting to someone.

There's a lot of water in this place. And a lot of waterS.

For those of you who believe any tense of the words "warm waters halt," can be used to interpret the phrase that has stumped most everyone at one time or another, I'll present some more potential meanings. I'm sorry if I blow any "secrets" out of the water, but none or maybe one of these could be my interpretation. Some of these have been discussed so often we think our stomachs will heave up our lunch if we hear it one more time. I hope for your sake, your stomachs can handle this post. Lol.


1. Where warm waters halt is the continental divide. It makes sense, and it could be, but the continental divide is a very big deal, and pretty much runs the entire way through the mountains in all four states. Maybe the exact spot is revealed in the other 8 clues...

Woo whee, that's a long line...

2. Where warm waters halt is the place warm waters furthest north as defined in a fisherman's NM map of warm and cold waters.

3. Where warm waters halt is the Armstrong Limit. I liked this one, because Forrest said that blood will bubble in the body at about 50,000 feet altitude (see My War for Me in TTOTC). What is the Armstrong Limit? Well, it's an imaginary line about 12 miles up, between 62,000 and 63,500 feet altitude. It's the line where the atmospheric pressure is so low that water will boil at normal human body temperature (98.6 F). Maybe Forrest mentions 50,000 feet for a reason. I don't know, but it's interesting to note that 50,000 feet is about 9.5 miles. And 9 is a number many searchers think is important.

I imagine this is an unforgettable experience...

4. Where warm waters halt is a hot spring. I don't think so, but it's one of those stomach churning theories out there.

What's more interesting to me is the white stuff around the spring... :)

5. Where warm waters halt refers to tears. I personally don't think so, but it could be the eye. Forrest said that it'd been a half century since a particular war and no one was crying anymore. Dry eyes--where warm waters halt. I find the half century part interesting, because that's 50 years, and 50 is a number that I think could be important.

6. Where warm waters halt is spring. I like this theory, too. It's when the snowmelt brings cold water down from the mountains.

Snowmelt is like steak to waterfalls...it feeds them...

7. Where warm waters halt is the confluence of two or more rivers. That very well could be. There are a few possible places this could be.

Some people think it's here...

8. Where warm waters halt is birth. I like this too, because it implies more than just the process, it implies an emptiness of leaving the safety of your mother. It implies leaving the warmth of your mother's womb and entering a cold, unforgiving world. For some animals, like sea turtles, it means leaving the safety of the sand to a probability of soon becoming another animal's meal.

He's obviously not happy about this...

9. Where warm waters halt is the mouth. Old Biddies seem to support this theory. Like the Bible says, "out of the mouth proceeds all kinds of evil.." Could be.

If only our words took visible form...maybe the world would be warmer.

10. Where warm waters halt refers to urination. I sorta doubt it. But who knows? Maybe an outhouse is where you start. Forrest said that the treasure wasn't in an outhouse, but he didn't say that it wasn't the place you start.

Those are just ten of the many, many theories out there. I can think of several more, but for the sake of brevity, I'll stop there. I think all of these have been mentioned before, but maybe for someone, it's a new idea.