Prompted and invigorated by zacal’s great find – “Let’s Hunt for Treasure” – I would like to ask all of our authorities “Where is Flynn’s Folly?
Given reports that it was a mountain only about 300-miles NW of Fairbanks, with an 8000-ft-plus peak, even “on the Geodesic Survey”, it should be rather easy to pinpoint. I, however, have not been able to do so. Anyone know? Or, was this a mountainous exaggeration by Errol and/or Ernst?
If accurately described by Errol and Ernst, I believe it may be in the Brooks Range, in or just outside what is now Gates of the Arctic National Park – perhaps near the Koyukuk River or Nolan Creek, perhaps further west in or near the Noatak National Preserve. There is a range of possibilities.
— Tim
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