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From this weekend (Canadian Thanksgiving) I met up with Thomas and Jason (Magni couldn't make it) at Tim Hortons for coffee at 0700, and we headed east on Hwy 1 shortly after. We arrived at our target area by 0800, under partly sunny skies, though the drive up the Fraser Valley had been dark and threatening rain. We parked our 2 trucks off the logging road, at a trailhead, and set off along the bank of the spawning creek that feeds a tributary of the Fraser River. We were met by the odour of rotting fish, and could see the spawners in the water, some dead, others still battling the current to get to the spawning beds. We found dead fish on the trail, dragged up there by bears, gulls, eagles, and other wildlife, but there's so much leaf litter on the ground, that it was impossible to find any distinct tracks. Large groups of gulls were drifting in the shallow eddies near shore, feasting on the carcasses. Our trail took us a couple of km upstream, to a large beaver pond, and by then the sun had disappeared, and the rain started, so we retraced our steps to the trucks, and called it a day, with no sign of Sasquatch, or any other wildlife, other than birds. I was back home in time for a nice lunch of left over turkey with my family. Here's a link to a video interview shot today on the hike by Jason for Thomas' utube channel: https://youtu.be/Q9nOVrj_7RI Pics, left to right, top to bottom: The ex soldiers, still in step ;-) Narrow trail through the trees Bright mushroom - no, I didn't try it!!! Dead spawners on the bank, a couple of tired ones in the water, hidden in the ripples upper right in the pic A little fall colour Raindrops on the beaver pond at our turn around point

I'm way behind in updates here. From the August long weekend: Our group (6 guys) spent July 31 thru Aug 3rd at the upper end of a creek that feeds the east side of Harrison Lake, here in BC. We were up till 12 or 1 AM every night, and I , being an old guy with a weak bladder, got up a few more times each night. The only action we had was nightly visits to within 100 yards of camp by bears, leaving fresh scat daily, and a deer that strolled by my tent at 3AM in the light of the full moon. I heard it coming, as I'd just got back in the sack after a trip out for a pee, and I lay still and watched her pass within 6 feet of my tent. We found no evidence of Sasquatch on this outing, but there was a report (by a 9 year old girl on an ATV trip) within 5 km of that road last week. I visit the trail the sighting was on several times each week, lately, and haven't seen anything myself yet, other than loads of bear crap. How can I tell if it's Sasquatch scat, anyway? That would probably look very similar, if they're eating the same type of food. When most of the group left to check the area out each day, both on foot, and on the logging trails in 4x4s, there was always an armed member in camp, keeping watch that the bears didn't come in and shred the camp. While we were on the east shore, a forest fire broke out across the lake, on the west side, caused by some idiot lighting a camp fire during a posted fire ban, during the driest summer we've had in decades. It burned for over 2 weeks, actually is still smoldering in places as of today's trip out the east side, and has charred a strip of mountainside about 5 miles long by a mile wide. We plan on searching the burnt area for tracks, as soon as the Forestry Services allows public access to the site. Pics Upper left - kitchen area Upper right - start of fire on the west lakeshore Lower left - Martin Mars water bomber doing a drop on the fire Lower right - tents across the creek from the kitchen, for bear safety