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No I didn't consider myself lucky - and to this day - wish I'd never seen it. Wish they'd never stood outside my tent. Wish they'd never slapped it multiple times trying to get a reaction. Wish they've never thrown pebbles at the tent to get a reaction. And it only got worse when soon enough - as we shined our lights down where we'd shot that deer that almost had it's neck broken by something - there were seven pairs of glowing eyes looking back up at us - and slowly blinked out as they moved just a bit to get behind trees. Which told me there were certainly more than two - the one initially growling at me, and the one I saw as he ran at me. That realization of at least seven - didn't do a single thing to help me sleep at night. Wasn't one or two 'passing through,' but at least seven sharing the mountain with us. One's bad enough to be shocked by. Multiplied by seven - nope - no luck for me.

^^^^ Absolutely. Hey, I'm just going for a hike to do some fishing. That doesn't mean I didn't spend a good bit of time with maps and bigfoot reports helping me decide where to fish. MIB

Think a step deeper: look not just at the activity, but what people engaged in that activity do and at what times of day. Those appear more reflective of the times of activity of humans engaged in each activity than they necessarily do bigfoot behaviors, at least based on how people HERE behave when engaging in each of those activities. My take-away is that we need to spend more time out in the woods or on the water doing our recreational activities, ready to take advantage of an encounter, but not specifically looking for one. MIB

In KNOWN primates. If the eyes are as large as FarArcher suggests, the need for extreme specialization for one or the other may not exist. For example, if the eye is so big it has 3x as many rods and 3x as many cones, it does not have to specialize for either, it potentially more than exceeds us at both color vision and night vision at the same time. Simple physics. The only time that dichotomy you look towards is real is if the eyes are the size of our eyes. MIB

I went to the Mt. Adams area in Washington (Gifford Pinchot National Forest) during first week of August to explore a couple of wilderness areas and the GPNF. The first area I visited was the Mt. Adams Wilderness. I took the Short Horn trail out of Morrison Campground (~4,700 ft) up to Round-the-Mountain trail (~6,100 ft). Main reason I visited this location was to explore the panic attack location that a BFF member posted a few years back (see link below with his story). Unfortunately, the area has gone thru 3 forest fires since 2011 and looks completely different than when the original poster had his panic attack in 2003. Below are some of the pictures I took around the GPS coordinates that he provided. There was nothing particular or unusual about that location. http://bigfootforums.com/topic/49276-panic-attack-in-the-woods-is-not-evidence-of-bf-presence/?do=findComment&comment=869860 The second area I visited was the Indian Heaven Wilderness which is well known for bigfoot encounters. I went up the Cultus Creek trail #108, joined the PCT and then looped back via Cultus Creek trail #33. The PCT trail elevation was about 5,100 ft while Cultus TH started at ~4,000 ft. This area was beautiful but full of mosquitos (due probably to the large number of lakes). I ran into 2 PCT hikers and they both complained about the mosquitos. These two young men started on the border with Mexico and were starting the crossing of WA State. I asked them if they ran into any wildlife that scared them, and they said that they had not seen any bears. One said he crossed Oregon in 16 days and was planning to cross WA in 20 days. Below are a couple of pictures of the lakes plus a view of Mt. Adams looking NE of my position. I took a panoramic photo to illustrate the expansiveness of that forest. I did not see or hear any evidence of BF during my 5 days stay in the area (but I still need to go thru my night-time audio recordings).

Even though there is a large DeltaT between a Human's body heat compared to the ambient temperature (not necessarily in Summer) of the surrounding habitat Humans may not register all that bright to a creature that is maybe sensitive to infrared. And that could be much less so in the heat of the day but at night the small temperature difference may be more noticeable as the environment around a Human cools down? It could be why a Sasquatch's night vision seems so good. Because warm bodies at night display relatively better than in the daytime. Even in the daytime Humans and animals hunkered down in shade may actually be giving themselves away more than standing in a sunny clearing or on a sunny trail? And I will bet that that could be fairly easily verified with a thermal device. It all about the physics of temperature differences. Sure, Humans at 98.6 will show up thermally on an 80 degree day even if in the open but in 65 degree shade one would thing they would show up more. The infrared range of Sasquatch's vision, should they have the capability, might not show extreme ends of a temperature range but may see enough of a difference to matter of the temperature range is say 15-20 degrees F to make out a warm-blooded creature like a deer or a Human? Makes me thing a blind made of space blanket material would be a good night time enclosure for infrared invisibility.

I had an Avalanche. It was 4wd and could carry everything secured. It was big though, suburban sized. Now I have a 4d Wrangler and small trailer. I went out yesterday (w/o trailer by myself) and I was able to squeeze between trees that a truck would not have. Lay down the back seats or recline the front seats to sleep. I was was scouting a large area yesterday and I have the soft top and 1/2 doors version so the top half of the doors came off and I could hear everything as if I’m standing outside. It will go anywhere any other 4wd will go and body panels are not super expensive, mods infinite. I will I’ll always have a Wrangler for AZ off-roading.