The hunt

Hunter Lewis was an adventure-lover who spent two years devising an elaborate outdoor quest for his friends and family, only to see it end in tragedy.

Hunter walked over to the side of the house, where he lifted up a canoe that he and Corey had used on some river adventures. But all they had was the map and the key with the Newton and Descartes clue. He began using the code from the book and realized that the numbers spelled out “Pump Four,” a water station in a dried-up creek at a different Frisbee-golf course. One of the second tier of clues was a link to a recording of Hunter playing the Scooby-Doo theme song. Kinsley and Corey had formed an alliance, and they tried to figure out what the numbers meant: a secret code or an important date? “Hunter loved to come here and watch the planes,” Kinsley says. “Hunter wanted people to face their fears and become the person they knew they could be,” his father says. When Hunter was 10, Micki and Corey took the boys to Mexico to meet Corey’s parents at a beach resort. His mother screamed, and Corey dragged his dad out of the water. Corey started reading The Hobbit to Hunter when he was five, his baby brother, Bodie, sleeping nearby in his crib. You, sir, are a descendant of that Lewis and are entitled to the legendary Lost Lewis treasure. Hunter was genetically destined to live like he was the star of his own action film.