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SB, Re-read my prior postings, Norseman, Beg to differ, IMO, he is neither safety conscious nor any form of a leader.

Even the most ardent bigfoot proponent is often very critical of new media and claims related to bigfoot. So what are the things that you consider to be dead giveaways that what you are looking at is a hoax? For me, one of the things that causes me to immediately reject a video is if the subject is looking down at the ground when it walks, as if it can't see where it is putting its feet and has to be careful in doing so. I don't usually look at the ground when I walk around in my natural environment, I can't think of any animals that habitually do so, and I don't see how a bigfoot could effectively live if it has to walk around with its head down. The only time I have really done this as a matter of course is when I have been wearing a chem-bio protective mask and overgarment (MOPP gear). When wearing a gas mask, you have limited peripheral vision, your hearing is impaired, and the boots are prone to get caught on tent pegs and other obstacles. Not to mention the heat load and greater effort to breathe while wearing the outfit. I believe the same would be true for a man in a bigfoot suit. Realistically we are able to walk around with our heads up because our peripheral vision complements our gait, so we have a general sense of the area around us, and because we are naturally accustomed to the coordination, movement and balance of our own bodies. So when I see a video with a bigfoot walking along looking at the ground and stepping carefully, I conclude that the subject is a human in a suit. One unfamiliar with the environment in which it is walking, one whose tactile sense of the ground is inhibited by oversized footwear, or one whose peripheral vision is restricted by a headpiece making it necessary for them to look down to see where they are walking, and one who is unaccustomed to the change in coordination, movement and balance due to the suit. Add to that a level of discomfort due to heat load from the suit and impaired access to fresh air. When a bigfoot moves or walks around it should do so with a natural degree of coordination and apparent comfort to be credible to me.

Hello southernyahoo, Last month four of us went wilderness camping beside a small pond that was three miles in off the access road. We hiked in with about 35 lbs. each and spent three days there. Just before dark I ran a continuous line of thread a bit thinner than button thread about 75 ft. out starting at the pond on one side of the campsite. I tied a cowbell in the end of it and draped it over a branch by the water about 3-4 ft. off the ground. Maintaining the same distance more or less from camp I took off through the woods and ran the thread at the same height from the ground on the outside of trees in a semi-circle until I again reached the edge of the pond on the other side of the camp. There I tied on another cowbell and again just passed the thread over a branch and let it dangle. Presto! the team had a perimeter alarm to alert us to any animal like a deer, Moose, bear, or Sasquatch that wanted to approach our camp. Nothing came through. In the morning I lifted the cowbells off of their branches where they crossed the trail that went along the water through the camp and we could come and go all day unhindered. At night I simply slipped the ends with the bells back on their branches and for three nights we slept well. Of course had the thread been parted and the bells came down I would have another story to tell LOL. Cheap poor man's intruder alert and you heard it here first from ol' hiflier. Hello Norseman, Because Humans have learned not to shoot the money maybe?

I wonder what someone who has actually seen both a sasquatch and a mangy bear might think of the photo.

According to this article the Jacob's photo is not a juvenile sasquatch. "I shared the photos with the bear biologist," said Jerry Feaser of the Game Commission. "There is no question it is a bear with a severe case of mange." http://www.bradfordera.com/news/what-is-it/article_b798b8a8-599a-5b4a-bc49-fcca14441df2.html According to this article mange is a nagging threat to Pennsylvania black bears. http://archive.ldnews.com/outdoors/ci_28383476/outdoors-mange-is-nagging-threat-pa-black-bears So I would have to go with not a juvenile sasquatch.