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If you're looking at a newer full size SUV, check out a 2017 or later Nissan Armada. They're now based on what Nissan sells as the Patrol in the rest of the world. If you aren't familiar with the name, it's what you're likely to see, along with Toyota Land Cruisers and Land Rovers when roaming places where a sat-phone is the only method of communication. They seem to be quite popular in Australia, and the photos from there generally show them with snorkels and brush bars. They are the lowest cost of the full size group, starting about 46k new with AWD. Tow rating is 8,500 lbs. We're getting back into trailering to take the grand-kids out and found a 2017 with 21,750 miles in Idaho Falls for $32k. We're pairing it up with one of the back country built trailers from Outdoors RV in Oregon.

No way I could squirm through that cave..... Id jump from planes or wrestle a grizzly bear first. Bbbbrrrrrrrr.

Let me throw out an idea that has been churning in my head for a while. After I make a confession. Confession first: When I decided that some areas were so remote that I needed to camp to not spend half of my life going back and forth to a research area, I researched and found a small hard sided pop up trailer. Alpine Expedition, well equipped, high clearance, intended for back country camping, and 20 + grand. It only weighs 2058 lbs so can be towed by a smaller vehicle. I have camped in it but have not done remote off road camping. I might if I had research partners. After some of my later experiences with BF, the thought of being solo in the remote woods at night with resident BF who might not want me there is terrifying to me. OK I am a chicken! But I have heard an adult BF coming right at me. Just the thought of taking a trailer down some logging roads I use where you have to go miles just to turn the truck around only gets worse when I think of needed to turn around pulling a trailer. These are for the most part one lane roads. You meet a logging truck going the other way and you are the one they expect to get out of the way. I have ended up backing up for a long ways. On the other hand it would be good to have some sort of sleeping arrangement in the back of my truck should I choose to. Camper is too heavy and unstable. Camper shell is better but sleeping in one is a problem due to the 6.5 foot bed and low height. Looking at my pop up camper there has to be a way to get some sort of thing that pops up in the back of the bed of the truck and when under way is folded down flat like my trailer does. Hard sided is heavy and some campers like that exist already. TV commercials tout some latex products that are water proof. How about a coated canvas cover, over a light wood frame, that normally rides flat in the back of the truck allowing visibility out the back window? When you want it up, you fold up a covered wagon type hoop frame that makes a roomy waterproof shelter in the back of the truck. Could even have windows. No ropes, ground cloth, rain flys, or dealing with a wet tent that usually manages to leak. Anyway I doubt I will ever make the thing but some clever and tool handy person might for the fraction of the price of a pop up trailer or in the bed camper. I have seen those Norseman. Think Subaru has one for their vehicles. It is pretty handy for BF. It does not even need to stoop over to mess with you. Can look straight in. That cannot be good for the top of your truck.

In this vid, they said the connective tissues, membranes around joints/bones were intact on death if I read this correctly, 18,000 individuals, that is a lot of crawlers. There was no mention of cannibalistic possibilities in this video such as bone cuts, etc. Sounds like many intact individuals were found, though I did not pick up on the number. Out of 18,000fossils/thousands of individuals it couldn't have been many I wouldn't think. It sounds like there is no possibility those individuals were washed into that system but I know nothing of the geology of South African caves. The quarter million year vs. 1.5 million age was quite the surprise with elements of long legs, curved hands, long thumbs, human like small brained skull, etc. It was on the ground wtih modern humans.

After watching this video on homo naledi and rising star cave, It appears the researchers didn't need forced air or oxygen to access the remains. So asphyxiation is one hypothesis out. The fact that these hominins didn't have lights (assuming no use of fire) would make navigation of the cave and finding their way out a likely cause for some of the remains and the question whether they might have still by accident, died in the cave in an attempt to find lost family members. It's certainly a tragic possibility, but a complex language would have been needed to convey the dangers. There were way more than just a couple specimens in the cave and they say they were deposited over centuries perhaps, so the process of deposition was ongoing and very unique.

Night Walker, you said snow shoes leave an in line gait. I don't know where you got that from, that people walk in line if wearing snow shoes. Norseman posted a photo of a snow shoe track way that looks like other human track ways, staggered. These tracks were followed for 1/2 mile in the snow. From heel to heel they were as much as six feet apart. https://sasquatchchronicles.com/sc-ep303-trackway-near-sunnyslope-washington/ But getting back to Claudia Ackley, has a date been set for a new court hearing?