In 2016, Jon Collins-Black set out in search of treasure hidden by the art dealer Forrest Fenn. He never found Fenn’s fortune, a pirate’s treasure chest of gold coins and jewels buried for a decade. But Collins-Black fell in love with the thrill of the pursuit.
“I had the experience of what it was like to try to solve clues, to go out in nature and get away from the cell phone and the TV and just be out searching for something,” he tells The Independent. “I realized just how enlivening that was.”