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Anyone else think the "multi-quote" feature is getting abused in some of these recent posts? It's tough to read what amounts to a whole page worth of quotes in every post. Just sayin'...

Hello BobbyO, Not saying this is the cause but so far it's what my research has turned up: https://www.firescience.gov/projects/briefs/03-2-2-01_FSBrief11.pdf "Between 1997 and 2002 extensive areas of subalpine forests in northwestern Colorado were affected by an extensive blowdown of trees, bark beetle outbreaks (spruce beetle and mountain pine beetle) and subsequent salvage logging."

I haven't MIB but Colorado, if not Colorado Springs specifically, is very much on the list and i need to spend more time there other than just passing through on the California Zephyr like i done before. Here's some numbers on what i found, a quick knock up. There's a key 5 year spell where sightings were high in both areas, between 1997-2002. This spell coincided with Colorado Springs becoming one of the fastest growing Cities in the US. 80% of all Reports within a 40 mile radius of Colorado Springs (20/25 reports) were prior to 2002, with 65% of those coming within that 1997-2002 time period. The drop off confused me as we went from a steady number of reports from the 70's and 80's in the area, to a boom in the late 90's and very early 00's with over 2 reports per year, then only 5 reports in a 14 year period. So i started to look for other cluster areas in and around Colorado and found an area that i noticed had reports in, and a lot of them since 1997. The area doesn't have a name per se but is in the general vicinity of Leadville. I started looking at what the area had and tried to get an understanding of it (just as i was curious about this, nothing more, no expertise etc) and came across a hunting website that sold migration routes of ungulates in a Google Earth Layer when a button kind of switched. So i purchased the layers, added them on to Google Earth and the layers virtually overlapped this new area perfectly. Numbers from the new area were close to a complete role reversal of Colorado Springs with the same spike in activity in that 5 year period of between 1997-2002. 77% of all Reports within a 40 mile radius of the new area (20/26 reports) were from 1997 to today, with 70% of those coming within that 1997-2002 time period. It's interesting if not conclusive, but another little tidbit that i like is that there is a four report trail in a year period between late 1999 to late 2000 that travels from the Colorado Springs area then along and hugging the South Platte River, that heads west with every report almost directly to the Leadville area. We're left with a tonne of surmising where this is concerned as usual IMO, but at least it's something that people could actually get their teeth in to. It appears to me that there was something up in that 5 year period from 1997-2002, what that was we obviously don't know but to have the amount of reports in that period in both areas that we had, would lead me to allow for the possibility that animals were being displaced. When animals move they invariably get seen/heard and leave sign/tracks. I'm not saying that's for definite in this case but the numbers are what they are and there would be, at least in this case with the spikes, a reason behind the numbers being what they are here and that's a good a reason as any i've personally thought of so far.

My Dad did.....T bones were his favorite. 5 minutes to eat the meat and another half an hour of gnawing and cracking on it.

You still didn't answer or even try to answer my question. You're still just stating what you believe but no facts other than what you believe to be true... BFRO doesn't ever post the mean or bad encounters. That's fact... I don't put much into their reports anyways except for very few. I'm good at gleaming out certain things in reports. It's not hard sometimes to tell if someone is full of it. Since Matt's show started their reports have doubled.. Mostly because someone has never seen or heard anything but they just want to make up a story for whatever reason because they saw the tv show.. I've been doing this since our first encounter in 88. The first two encounters they were mean and pretty sure was trying to hurt us... I stay out of that place now days. Our current area just a few miles from my house we know for sure there are at least two there.. I certainly don't think all Bigfoot are mean by any stretch.. Mostly likely the rogue males or females are the bad ones. A family unit most likely will not unless you come to near to them and their children and depending on how hungry they are for some tasty human organs.. We are respectful but not because it's their land or anything that's got to do with that. They have to respect us at the same time is the way I see it.. Plus you keep referring to them as cousin, people, ect.. I don't think of them that way. They are an large animal with no human anything about them other than they walk on two feet and have two hands. That doesn't make them human in any sort of fashion... An unknown primate is all. No relation to us humans what so ever. If they were they would be down at the local drinking hole having a brewski with us and talking about the costa rica cruise they were taking this spring. Oh, and paying taxes.. Not gonna happen sorry. I don't even entertain the portal Bigfoot, spaceship Bigfoot, and drinking tea and playing the flute with Bigfoot, cloaking Bigfoot, blobsquatches, and Bigfoot throwing orbs at your house.. I believe in lots of stories whether they are good or bad.. Too many old reports to not think they are mean.. Do you just think people back in the 1800's and before and after were just making stuff up? If you believe that I don't see you even believing any story handed down by American Indians. That's a lot of stories to not believe in and only taking one side... But everyone has their own beliefs but none are correct.. Like I said, you can't just pick the stories you want to believe in and throw away the rest.. It doesn't work that way in the Bigfoot world.. Some of the stuff I've seen you post is pretty cool, but stuff like this just makes me shake my head.

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.

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.