For the fourth year, Utah real estate investors David Cline and John Maxim have hidden treasure somewhere in Utah’s backcountry and put out clues online to help hunters find it. This year’s prize was $25-thousand, and an out-of-towner has unearthed it.
While scrolling social media, 38-year-old Chelsea Gotta of Pella, Iowa, learned about the annual treasure hunt. She had a bit of history with treasure hunting having once won radio contest tickets to a local amusement park with her sister by scouring their town on bicycles as a child. She says that early success was in her mind as she searched for the prize in Utah.
On Sunday morning, 51 days into the hunt, on her third trip to the state to search, Gotta deciphered the secret riddle and finally hit paydirt. She located the treasure chest of cash in Mueller Park, northeast of Salt Lake City, just hours before she was set to make the 16-hour drive back home. It was the first time in the hunt’s history that a person from outside of Utah was the winner. Asked whether she has any future treasure-hunting plans, Gotta says she’s going to use most of the money to host a similar hunt in Iowa in the hopes of getting kids out in nature.
Source: Wood TV