I struggle with this. You post several references that do not infer bigfoot in any way...then find one quote and you stretch for it to say that it's some sort of message a BF left behind.
Thanks for the links though! Extremely interesting to say the least.
Have always loved the photo of the "snowman" behind the tree.
I don't know if they found a yeti or not, but based on what it did to them, whoever or whatever they ran into, it doesn't seem much like a "giant forest friend", does it?
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