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JDL: Your example is exactly what I meant, and you nailed the key words; hot, dry summers. Here in the south/southeast it is only during those periods that the home territory of BF families can be reasonably predicted if their larger hunting and foraging area is known. Of course, one must must know where the fresh water spring are located within their general foraging area. During the hot, dry summers, not many folks are in those areas. As for myself, I lucked out, because I hunted, prowled and prospected in the Ouachita Mountains for many years before I found out there were Boogers up there. Back then, I prowled up there a lot during hot weather and finding a cold water spring in an unexpected location was like finding a lead/silver vein. During other parts of the year it's a crap shoot to try to get close enough to them on their hunting/foraging routes to even hear them vocalize at night. I learned a long time ago that it is much easier to just camp in their area, and let THEM find ME. So many folks ask me to take them out at night so they MIGHT hear them vocalize among themselves or respond to calls, I still try to "head'em off at the pass" a lot. It's still a lot of fun, especially when we get lucky. (It's more fun when that happens if their are newspaper editors/writers tagging along. Surprisingly, they are always a hoot to have along.)

Bennett's Seafood is a great place for fish and such. Alec's by the Sea is great also. I live in Ocean Shores, so I have been to all the restaurants. There is also a great Irish Pub in town. If we manage to make contact, we will find a great place to have a chat for sure.

Unless, of course, sasquatches are aliens. ... and we've now come full circle. MIB

I like you Vafooter so I am averse to posting this one up. This supermoon crap has been going on in various invectives for 3 or more years, each more fantastical than the next. The reality is the human eye even in low horizon is not going to tell much difference. I wil say this, any hype that gets people outdoors and looking at the stars accomplishes something, so all is not lost. The rest of the hype is tripe. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/what-is-a-supermoon/ And BobbyO, some of the more compelling WNC sightings and trackings have been the night of huge snows or the morning after, meaning they use the weather to move, move and move more. This is why it is not idiotic to be recording in the rain, when you hear the wheat from the chaff in those conditions, you have arrived!

Lake and MIB: Don't discount the probability that they fall back on human resources and/or refuse for food as needed, especially in areas where the climate may result in hardship with regard to standard prey, etc. Also keep in mind that prey animals often live in fringe habitat such as tree lines and intermittent wooded areas in suburbs and industrial areas, usually for the same reasons - they are living off of habitat we create and things we leave out or throw away. Branco: In Lemmon Valley, Nevada it is arid high desert with limited water sources. Even so, the valley was apparently a migration route from the area around Lake Tahoe, traveling North by Northeast, skirting the Northwestern edge of Pyramid Lake (a living salt lake with fish and other wildlife), and passing through the Pah-Rum Mountain Cluster, then on up to Southern Idaho. Our community had a water tower tucked back between two fingers on the large Eastern ridge of the Valley. There was a large pool, much like that of a spring at the base of the water tower, along with some succulent vegetation. It was the only source of clean, fresh water within a couple of miles. As a result, at least one family group would stop in our area for a while each summer. The water brought them into contact with us.

I'll post photos of the hair imprints and give a short story about them this week sometime. No, we didn't see what made the imprints, but the slide marks were so fresh that grains of soil were still falling from them. At first we attributed them to bear, but the running steps at the base of the slide had no claw marks in them and were human shaped with the m. break evident. Basically what happened was we were on a hair pin turn high in the Clackamas. There is a huckleberry field at the apex of the turn. We scared something out of the field. It jumped over the side and made a huge butt print with hair marks. Then it skidded down a steep slope leaving two skid marks, no evidence of four superimposed. At the bottom of the slope it turned left, ran across soft dirt. entered the logging road and amazingly, seems to have dived into tall fir trees in the very steep ravine on the other side of the logging road indicating to us, that it was comfortable using trees. A4-422__Granite_Peak_start_of_skid_left.TIF The hair marks are faintly visible in the bottom part of this photo. When it jumped off the ledge the heels impacted, it started skidding, then sat down hard {see edge of butt imprint next to the upper part of the skid}, shoved itself up {two hand marks were indistinct, but obvious in the dirt on each side of the two skids, and then as noted above, skidded down the very steep slope where it turned and ran. We had a guest from France with us. He became extremely excited because it was obvious to him he was within seconds of seeing what he had studied for years. We looked on it with colder eyes as bears and elk do strange things with frightened; and are so much more common. But I keep forgetting. You need to look carefully at photos of the Skookum Cast to see similar hair prints.