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Absolutely, but even though what you're suggesting is completely unrealistic, I'm sure it wouldn't prove that Sasquatches didn't exist but would prove they did.

On Sat., Apr. 4th, our group of (Me, Jason C., Thomas Steenburg, MagniAesir, and his wife) did a run into a FSR that we had checked out a few weeks ago in sleet and snow, to see it in better weather and spend a few hours around a campfire in the evening. Our little convoy consisted of my TB, Jason's 2wheel drive 2dr Explorer, and Magni's Chev 1500 4x4 p/u. The valley we were headed to is a tributary of a larger river, about 1 hour's drive from our homes, and pavement all the way to the FSR turnoff. Every campsite in the main valley was crammed full, as it's a very popular fishing river, but once we started up the forest service road, we had it to ourselves, except for a few ATVs. Once off the main road our route became a rough track, following the deep valley of the creek into the mountains,with some very steep sections, some minor landslides and rockfalls, and a few trees across the track, but the surface was solid, though very rough and washboarded in sections. Fortunately, the 2wd Explorer had enough clearance and suspension travel to handle the roughest sections without help. At 10km in, there was a nice area to park the trucks at an old logging site, so we pulled off the track and set up for the evening cookout. This was pretty much the end of the driveable track for trucks, though the trail continued to be passable for ATVs for several more km., though very overgrown with willow and alder along the sides, and had 1 landslide that would have stopped the trucks about 2 km in. I walked this section in the last hour of daylight, just to check it out. Since this is prime bear country, mostly blacks, but a few recent sightings of grizzly in the main valley, I was carrying my .300 WinMag, just to be on the safe side. I found some old bear scat, but no other signs of wildlife on my hike. A few sections of the overgrown trail opened up to good views of the lower slopes of the nearby peaks, so I could glass the avalanche chutes for animals, but saw nothing moving at all. At about 7:30, I radioed back to the group that I was headed back, and just before dark, I was there. Back at camp, the others had cut some dry wood from logs in the old slash piles, and had a good fire going, which was very nice to sit around, as the warm afternoon quickly changed to sub-freezing as the sun set. We spent the evening around the fire, cooking hotdogs and smokies, hot coffee, chocolate and cider, with brownies and doughnuts for dessert. With the full moon and cloudless sky, it was very bright in the old clearcut opening, so one or the other of us would step away from the firelight, and scan the area for creatures, and we occasionally paused from our talking and laughing to listen for sounds in the area. A few bumps and indistinct noises were heard, one time being loud enough to prompt us to grab the guns and lights and go for a walk along the moonlit trail for a while, but to no avail. I'll even confess to trying a couple of wood knocks, without any response, but the guys threatened to kick me off the "research team" if I tried that again, though in a show of support, Thomas let go with a good Bobo style bellow. At about 0100 we called it a day, packed up our gear, and headed back down the trail in the bright light of the full moon, and home to nice warm beds. It was an interesting trek into the creek valley, with beautiful scenery, and great company, and we plan to do many more trips like it this year. Here's a few shots from the day:

The Solutrean Hypothesis suggests that the first NA settlers were Europeans that followed the ice age ice cap from Europe, 22,000 to 17,000 years ago, beating the Asian land bridge settlers from the West. Solutrean spear points only found in Europe have been found on the East Coast of NA. The sudden appearance of the Clovis culture and their similar spear points could be the result of those migrating in from the West meeting those from the East. The bronze age paradox, that there is not enough copper in all of Europe to explain all of the bronze age artifacts known, could be explained by copper mines in Michigan that the Native Americans say were dug long before their memory. Minoan writings and artifacts have been found in the area in Michigan. The Minoan culture was seafaring and they ran from 2000 to 1500 BC. So the relatively late arrival across the Bearing Sea land bridge late in the last ice age could have been only one of the many migrations. Certainly Western European Solutrean settlers, the later Viking and Celtic influx could explain red haired tribes living in NA. We can say with much certainty that the text book history of NA is pretty much wrong. I just cannot understand why there is so much reluctance, other than dirty dealings by our government with NA peoples, to not correct the history.

See, there's the problem, aside from parachuting into the forest, determining where they might be. You could make a guess by using data to determine what would be a likely spot, but what you are after tends to move a lot. Besides, the jump would scare the living shite out of your dog.

Your right other Apes have a hyoid bone, it's just not like modern humans or Neanderthals. I have found this: http://minnieapolis.newsvine.com/_news/2008/05/14/1487095-the-hyoid-bone-and-the-capacity-for-speech-in-hominids-and-apes ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// This leads to more than speculation about the larger range of sounds possible once one is not limited to hoots and grunts. As Bolles says in his blog, Babel's Dawn: "But what evidence is there that the loss of air sacs might be related to the rise of speech? De Boer has modeled the sounds that follow the addition of an air sac to the vocal system. Air sac result in lower frequency sounds and a smaller acoustic range than humans enjoy. Air sacs shorten the articulatory range and the mouth is less able to shape the sound that comes out from an air sac vocalization. De Boer hypothesized that when what you say becomes more important than how you sound, air sacs give way. So the disappearance of air sacs is likely a good bit of evidence that speech of some sort has appeared (Bolles E.B. 2008)." So at this point it seems safe to conclude that the modern hyoid bone was key to expanding our vocal capabilities, aiding our progression from apes who communicated with hoots, grunts and gestures to the modern electronic sapiens who communicates with email and iPhones.

I didn't know Crow was a girl...... But yanno what the say about a woman's prerogative

You can be wrong, and probably are wrong. Replace your Sasquatch in the survival story of ice age and extinction of the mega fauna and European colonization with: A) Grizzly Bear B )Lynx C) Wolverine D) Woodland Caribou E) Wolf F) Native Salmon stocks G) Bison All currently fighting for survival in the lower 48 states. They made it through everything you mentioned and right now, today they need our help. I'm not going to even discuss the vast amount of species that have already gone extinct within the last thousand years, because of humans. You don't want to shoot one, I can totally understand that. But you can still be a pro kill proponent...........it's the logical choice. US law and a multitude of agencies are working very hard to ensure the species I've listed above do not go extinct...........absolutely nothing is left to chance. Your emotional knee jerk reaction to collecting a type specimen is illogical and unwarranted. Sorry bud.

I just happened to stumble in it and did watch it. I hope my posting did not lead people astray. This was on Discovery channel. The tree falling thing did scare him. He said it did not sound like a normal tree fall to him. Also he put out a camera observing an apple and sandwich. The camera captured a crow getting the apple, but malfunctioned and did not show what got the sandwich. He was not very far out, only a mile from town at one end of the lake from what he said. I wish I could talk to him about tree knocking. He knocked tree times, each time he did it. He was told about knocking by some "expert", probably Todd Standing. From my own experience more than one initial knock is interpreted as a warning by a BF to other BF to stay away. I do not knock or howl when I really do not know what their meaning is. If it is done, I want to hear how BF use it between themselves. When humans do it, it messes up the only communication context we have between them. His two footprint finds in his first solo show are pretty good. I think that is the sum total of all the finds in all of the seasons of FB. He called in John Bindernagel to look at the footprints who said they looked authentic because the big toe was sticking out quite prominently. He also found a nest that he had never seen anything like before. Said it was too large to be a bear. An intact sea lion spine was right at the edge of the nest. The lake has a history of a missing boy. Never found after an extensive search. Some caves were found during the search that supposedly stunk so bad the searchers could not stand to be in them. He said the tree fall sounded more like it was thrown and that he was going to pay more attention to them when he is in the woods. He ended the show with he feels like he is climbing down into the rabbit hole, looking for answers. Welcome to the world of BF research!