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You guys are funny! Went the other way with me. I was a pretty normal stick house person until I started bigfooting then just had to have a trailer with wheels on it. Now I got my lucky hiking boots, wear camo, got a sock puppet to go over my Contour camera on my hiking pole, carry a side arm in the field, and talk to big things hiding in the woods. Been thinking about taking up the banjo. Gotta do all that when you are the premier crypto-archeologist to keep up your image.

Lol, see what I mean ?

I've debated all day whether to share this or not. I decided to go ahead because what I'm sharing for the most part is already public. My hesitation was because sharing this in some ways reduces my anonymity, which I treasure. I cannot share everything I have access to. I have good standing with the BFRO and I want to keep it that way. It's not all public. Some very smart BFRO people have been using effective techniques to watch for eye-glow with repeatable success long before Matt's tweet. He didn't need a great leap of faith to believe the NJ LEO. I was part of one such encounter in 2014. I saw the light and yes, there was evidence found in the follow up suggesting that it was Bigfoot we were watching. It was no accident that our expedition was held at a time when the moon would not be visible. I will only share what is already public... http://s2.excoboard.com/BFRO/150505/2437221 If you read all of it you can see we were focused on the eye glow and saw it often, in scattered groups and scattered locations My part is here: I trust the word of the kid that drew this 100%. He is my son. I only wish I'd have been able to see what he saw that night. All the BFRO investigators believed him. This drawing is hanging on my bulletin board about 4 feet from my present location. We were not hoaxed. Only WE knew where we were going to be at this time. Nobody had laser pointers. The moon had set long before we started and no cities, towns, or farms were in line of sight of our location. The ONLY source of light was the stars in the sky and two weak glow sticks. FYI - the next night I was on an op with a guy who had a thermal camera. We asked him to shut it off because It was too bright. Edit to note: After he went up the hill and found the hand print, he stated the trees he drew on each side of the creatures were probably not actually trees, but rock outcroppings. Also - that's my son's hand over the hand print and his fingers are extremely long. I estimate the hand print is about 10 inches from base to finger tip and I wish I had better pictures.

"Not your stereo typical trailer living, gun toting, superstitious, uneducated individual that is often depicted..." Hey, HEY!! Speak for yourself! I was just the other night telling the missus, if'n the lucky bullet I keep in my breast pocket don't help me pass my GED exam this time around we're going to have to jack up the house, put the wheels back on, and go look for greener pastures.

Based upon the above commentary, this project seems long on hot air but short on the other items necessary.

I agree to a degree, and definitely think what you wrote has something to it. The biggest thing for me is arrogance though, a very human trait and one that so many have in abundance. We as a species, especially in the civilised world, are extremely arrogant in general and we think we know it all, we think that anything we don't know is a nonsense etc. You'll see it virtually daily on this forum too if you look hard enough. Every day we, myself included, would dismiss a whole host of things simply because we don't know enough about them. The same happens with this subject. And I wholeheartedly agree about the actual name "Bigfoot" and I actually made a point a few years back to try to always refer to these things as Sasquatch and Sasquatch only..

Yes, I suppose they are for the project managers. I am on the ground team, my job is to collect and record field data in a scientific manner.

Sasfooty, It still makes my head hurt when I think of what goes on at your house lol. The thoughts in my head do not seem logical as I am a logical thinking type person and will consider all when trying to figure this out. Did they have a ladder, did they stand on each other's shoulders, (possible) did they jump that high, (possible) did they do the "unthinkable" lol (remember we discussed most of this)??? Only when you try to test these out does the situation get more and more frustrating because then the next question....why???? Jokesters again? Oi Vay, then there is the trip to my friend's house in MS. Too many weird things, too little time. The morning we left, someone had left a present on the tire which drippled all the way down onto the wheel. I had dogs, big dogs, and none of them could have reached that high on this SUV tire. It started on the top of the tire and gravity took care of the rest. It was extremely obvious to us what was going on. That was in our minds a "joke" or was someone marking the vehicle?? Bipedalist, I've head of them marking places but the bread bag is a new one.

In regards to their actual climbing of trees, one might well imagine a technique similar to the pacific islanders means of ascending coconut palms, only with the added advantages of longer arms, more flexible feet(with"active"toes), bigger hands, and seemingly tremendous upper body strength, all of which would better enable the behavior. An earlier post mentioned the aspect of weight distribution to offset body mass/branch capacity issues, which makes perfect sense, especially in light that these creatures are climbing virtually all of their lives, so they probably have a pretty good idea of how not to break a tree, or at least how to choose the ones least apt to break under their weight. Some have discredited the idea of the big furries using trees for refuge, escape pathways, hunting and such based on the idea that since they are apex predators of great strength, considerable speed, and an overall hugeness, they have no need for such additional behaviors or abilities. Presuming a cognitive intelligence, they would surely recognize the benefits of additional options of recourse within a given environment,contributing to their versitily and capacity to respond to whatever situation may arise. To state that "if they climbed trees we would already have a type specimen" is evidence of limited consideration, for it is those creatures with limited evasion behavior options that prove most predictable, and therefore easier to capture or document, rather than sentiently adaptive creatures with a greater number of options from which to CHOOSE their responses, thus enhancing their ability to function effectively within their environment and evade predations.