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I'm sure a lot of you already know about Lazy Cowboy's Bigfoot YouTube videos.       If not, they are a MUST SEE.   Lazy Cowboy does an excellent job taking the data from the PGF and creating a CGI recreations  better than anything I have ever seen.     Specifically, I recommend:   1) Bigfoot- Recreating Bluff Creek   2) Bigfoot- Recreating Bluff Creek Part 2  The Patteson Gimlin Film Route.   <--- This is the best one.  Outstanding.   We can see points of view from any angle, through Roger's camera, through Patty's POV and so on.  The terrain comes to life.     For some already aware of the Lazy Cowboy videos, this is not news.  Still, I would like to hear your thoughts on it and anywhere you might think Lazy Cowboy might get it wrong here or there.     If you haven't seen these, don't walk, RUN to your computer and watch these Especially .  Bigfoot- Recreating Bluff Creek Part 2  The Patteson Gimlin Film Route.  They are amazing.   The PGF site makes sense so much more sense to me now.     One area I am uncertain about is his use of the shadows indicating the PGF was filmed at 3pm timeline not the 1 or 1:30pm.      Give these a view.       

^^^ MIB, I think you and I are reading from the same book.  My closing comment wasn't directed at you specifically, just at scofftics broadly.

I appreciate your thoughts there.  I get what you're saying.    Not exactly the same thing, but whether it makes it harder or easier I'm not sure.    S&R is looking for a specific missing person.    When it comes to bigfoot bodies, we're not absolutely sure where to start looking nor whether there is one to be found.      So far as how things die .. what they do at the end?   I grew up in a bear preserve.   We also had a fair number of bobcat and cougar but not so many as bears.    I never found a bear carcass or skull in the woods that was not human-killed.   The ones who got old, sick, and got to choose their time seemed to hole up in deep brush, stuff so bad even I wouldn't go into it voluntarily.    On the other hand, though they were fewer in numbers, we found quite a number of cat skulls / skeletons.   The locations suggested they were finding places with a bit of cover, not necessarily brush, sometimes small depressions in the ground, but having good views where they could see anything approaching.   My instincts about other things suggest I'd probably do it bear-style and try to get into deep cover.

The "why don't we find a body?" argument is deeply illogical, I believe, on two accords.   1) I was extremely fortunate to join with a wilderness S&R team for several years.  In that time, I was on several searches that involved one missing human with limiting factors on their mobility (age, under the influence) whose last known point was well defined (e.g., a bar, an abandoned car in the woods, a small regional park).  Even though most of our searches (in downstate New York) don't involve "wilderness," I was on two searches where people weren't recovered until months after they had disappeared despite extensive previous searches.  The remains of a drunk teenager weren't recovered until months after he had disappeared in a search area less than 1 square mile, 75% of which was dense suburbs.  In another case the remains of a man were recovered less than a quarter-mile from the State Park parking lot.  In both cases, terrain and weather (snowfall) hid the body for months.  Prior to my joining the team, they were involved in searches - again, in a relatively limited area - where remains have never been recovered.  It's just not as easy to find what is at best a full human body in the woods.    2) What do wounded animals (including humans) do?  My understanding of wildlife behavior is that wounded animals find the most secluded spot they can and attempt to burrow in.  It took four days to find and rescue a man w/medical issues who had burrowed in (or just gotten weak and couldn't go any further) in a search that was covering less than 2 square miles in a suburban area of lower New York. I see no reason why Bigfoot would react any differently.  Unless one is hit head on by a truck or a train, its going to limp as deep into the woods as it can.     I agree that the lack of a body is a problem, I don't know if it rises to the level of suspicious.