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Your question has been answered numerous times, you just don't seem to like certain answers as they don't fit in with what you perceive or want the answer to be. If there wasn't reports of them in winter then we could be debating and debating but there are reports and that should lead people, including you, to the conclusion that they're there in winter, in Alaska still. Every State and Province in North America sees winter as its lowest number of sighting reports, every single one bar none. If you're now saying you're only talking about light aircraft that fly at a thousand feet in winter then you're restricting yourself to extremely low elevations and even then, with 169 millions acres of forested land in Alaska and a mean elevation throughout he state of 1,900ft, I'm thinking even more so that the lack of reports of trackways by pilots isn't a big deal in the slightest and I'm quite confused why anyone would put such weight on that in to a reasonable debate with a valid question. These planes can be allowed to fly, for sure, but that doesn't mean their visibility isn't badly restricted even at 1,000ft. SE Alaska in Winter, averaging 22 days per month of rain/snow. SC Alaska in Winter, averaging 15 days per month of rain/snow. SW Alaska in Winter, averaging 18 days per month of rain/snow. https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Alaska/average-alaska-weather.php See below map of elevations in the State and where and what. This is a good thread though and a great subject as winter is a crucial time for most North American animals, but I think I've showed why we don't need to be going down the road of putting too much emphasis on if pilots aren't reporting trackways, the whole thing doesn't make any sense.

^^^^^^ By your logic then? The hobbit should have failed the sniff test as well. They were completely unexpected. And the west had known about the legends as long as we have known about Sasquatch roughly.

^^^^^^^^ I see it the other way. Science got its evidence, but it wasnt the predicted hypothesis. Neanderthals died out 35000 years ago leaving us as sole survivors of hominids. Then the hobbit was discovered because someone evidently took ebu gogo legends seriously. And history had to be rewritten. So what does this discovery do for other hominid myths? Well it makes them more plausible. Albeit evidence is still needed. That Sasquatch bone could still be out there in American or Canadian wilderness I believe. Or it could be in a misidentified box in a basement somewhere. Species are discovered occasionally that way as well.

I understand where you're coming from no doubt but for me, as there are reports from winter, that goes to show that they don't necessarily go nowhere. We have to go back to the old "For a Sighting, you need a person". Admittedly I have no experience of an Alaskan winter but I can't imagine there are too many people out in winter there as there would be in summer or at other times of the year anyway. Flying, yeah ok tracks can be spotted from the air, trackways can, but I wouldn't personally bank on a lack of reports by pilots leading me to believe that Sasquatches aren't there, especially not when we are talking about an Alaska with 129 million forested acres. I tried to look for that map but with no joy, do you know where he posted it or have you got a link please ? It's Batdorf by the way. Hey Bobby,It was during one of the squatchers lounge podcast shows. I don't recall the season and Kelley loves using clickbait for his episode titles so trying to go back is tricky. I think it was season 2 and they were discussing migration and or sasquatch moving ranges seasonally. I'm really into the sound recordings. The audio is just cool. The idea of a giant that hasn't left a trace in say, 50,000 years of residing in, seemingly, all of north america is sorta silly when you look at it logically. It would be very very cool to be completely wrong about that though. In the meantime the audio is great campfire creepy pasta type fodder I dont think its any more silly than the idea of little hobbits running around the jungles of Micronesia. At least until they found bones very recently....no one is laughing anymore. Just read that study in France has confirmed the skulls of the hobbit were healthy and not modern human. The day someone finds a giant primate bone/fossil in a cave somewhere in North America sasquatch will be plausible. Until then it's supposition based special pleading. IMO Special pleading because of all the excuses which have to be made to explain why the things never leave traces, avoid detection by game cameras, etc, etc, etc.... That said, IF someone digs up a fossil....whole new ballgame. Maybe. A couple of thoughts.... were there local legends of little people in the jungle? Yes. When did we find these bones? About five to ten years ago. How old are the bones? 15000 years old. But Science scoffed at this 30 years ago. Nothing was taken seriously. And if you were looking for this creature 20 years ago you were a cryptozoologist. But now? Thats all changed. I said maybe earlier because the question about the hobbit being extinct vs extant is still open to interpretation and searching..... It seems odd to me that whatever archiac homonid the hobbit is? And looking at the distribution of archiac bipedal homonids worldwide? We supposedly are the only ones to make it to the new world? And keep in mind that science says the hobbit had to boat to Flores island. I truly believe we have a lot left to learn about human origins.

They must portal back every now and then to account for the winter sighting reports. That, or people are just making stuff up as usual. You would think a bigfoot would be pretty easy to track in deep snow.

Absolute statements like this always strike me as odd when dealing with the unknown. Saying it's so does not make it so.

Those who pronounce there are no trackways in the winter have not looked from an airplane. I have and they are out there. There are trackways all over the back country in the winter. The real problem is human access on the ground. In the PNW Forest roads are unplowed with gates locked shut in the winter. To get there on the ground requires overland travel on skis or snowshoes. The next good day I will take my airplane out in Skamania Country Washington and show you trackway pictures. Tracks are all over the place, but getting there on the ground would require mounting a expedition of sorts because of road closures. I looked at the famous Skookum Meadows area from the air once in the winter. You probably could not get any closer than 50 miles in a vehicle. But there were large bipedal tracks all over the area. For those that do not know, snowmobiles are only allowed in designated areas in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. They are prohibited everywhere else. For a vehicle to operate on a National Forest road it has to be street legal. Snowmobiles are not street legal in the State of Washington so cannot be run on National Forest Roads. So snowmobiles are not the access solution. Those areas designated as snowmobile play areas are so busy with humans and snowmobiles BF would not be anyplace near. Joint use trails are designated no motor vehicles. So to get in back country in the winter requires skis or snowshoes and starting from the nearest open road which could be dozens of miles away. The forest service intends to keep people out of the back country in the winter. Just to cut down on the vehicle stuck in the snow and lost human problem. I do not blame them for that but the result is severely limited access for those that do want to get in there in the winter.