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I have the jars & some pics of those, didn't measure, but you get a close approximation with my hand, and my fingers sorta fit into the grooves. IMO, it's the teenage juvie that was doing this, as I have found his prints all around the area, and for many years, I've literally watched his foot grow, all of this IMO of course:) I also included a Babyfoot of this same individual back in 2003, and a recent muddy print of him, and is now about a mans size 10EE now. And the Babyfoot pic with keys for approximate size.

Ok... Knocks, screams, tree structures, tracks and night harassment. I just recently acquired night vision and thermal gear and have been familiarizing myself with them before I roll out new tactics. How far back back do I go? Well, the Apache Sitgreaves, Tonto and Coconino Forests stretch from the NE edge of Phoenix to North of Flagstaff east into New Mexico and is the worlds largest pinyon tree forest. That in itself is a huge food source btw. There are numerous “wilderness” areas that are off limits to motorized vehicles of any kind. There are also massive 1st people reservations. There are few areas that no one has been to, but many, many areas that people do not go because accessibility is outside of the UTV joyriders comfort zone and most people with 4WD, REAL 4WD, do not go because there is nothing interesting there. That is where I go. Often they are only an hour off-road from a heavily used recreation area. The BF don’t seem to care, in fact they seem to investigate the fringes of these massive dispersed camping areas. There are so many elk and deer in these areas that it is like camping in a zoo enclosure. The Apaches do not deny BF and the Res police investigate those reports as they would any other report. Don’t even ask why the Apache do not publicize their official acceptance...as long as the casinos keep the bank accounts full they don’t need the hassle of ecotourism (total conjecture on my part based on only a handful of familiar Apache and Navajo).

If they are vaporizing into thin air, there is no hope for discovery.

More likely as a threat to the timber industry, the weaponizing theory seems far fetched to me.

Looks like I left off with the activity at my Gift Tree......as mentioned a few posts back, they didn't like the mini audio recorder I hid out there, but not good enough as they found and took it. They quit taking the Peanut Butter jars too, and 10 had gone missing to that point. I started finding the lids, a few pictured previously, and a few more since. There are some interesting marks on some of them, but nothing with a WOW factor. What did get a WOW factor is I started finding the empty jars along suspected BF trails, and all about a mile from the Gift Tree in different directions. Maybe that's how long it takes them to eat the contents, and discard the jar? To me, it appears the jars are being grabbed at the top & bottom and twisted in half. A few of us have tried, this feat requires super hand strength I assure you, and nobody came close to even getting movement on the (full) jar. Look at the colored outline on the pics, and you can see where something with a hand grabbed it on the bottom, causing indentations, and what appears to be finger nail marks. There are little critter teeth marks on it, but IMO these came after it was discarded.......not sue if they understand the lid function, but guess if you can rip them in half, why bother:)

I wonder what it would cost to do a thorough search of the fossils that have already been collected but not identified? Would it be worth the effort? With enough money to "grease the wheels" could access be gained to look at university or museum storage. You might be able to enlist grad students with the right incentives. Just wondering

Sasquatches are the masters of many things and one thing in particular is adaptation. In my opinion, they are doing well. The little people will continue to deny their existence and that is just fine by me. It is my hope their discovery never comes to be. The little people have no idea what to do with one of God's magnificent creatures; a gift in every sense of the term. Stay silent and God speed to each and every one of them of which there are many.

The picure is taken in the Himalayan mtns! And the species of cedar grows in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. When a person thinks of Yeti reports, at least in my mind? PacNW topography like that picture doesn't enter my mind. Its always steep barren ground in my mind. And when you see a picture like that? You realize that the same reports of similar animals are happening in similar forested areas worldwide. I mean that picture looks like north Idaho or Alaska or New Zealand. Had no idea that could be SW Asia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedrus_deodara

Weekend outing with an old buddy (we're both over 70) to the Placer Mt/Flat Top Mt area, which is E of Manning Park in BC, and N of the Pasayten Wilderness in Wa. The weather was perfect, frost on the ground in the mornings, but beautiful blue skies all day, and temps about 10-12C, perfect for hiking, without getting all hot and sweaty. Our prime purpose was deer hunting, with a side of grouse hunting and sasquatch seeking . The region's deer went unharmed, the grouse were depleted by 7, and the squatches remained elusive. The photos are on the Trapper Lake trail, about 6200' el., and the view is SW from the trail, looking into the Pasayten watershed.

Still out there, no real danger of extinction. Just way, way above human beings in their own domain.

It's kind of cool. I've heard a total of 4 now. Oh, I was mistaken, the others were all in 2011, not 2012. 2 were in late August less than a minute apart. 1 was in mid September a couple hundred miles north. I've also recorded one knock I'm fairly confident of. That was November 2015. That's a lot of years, a lot of time in the woods. Who knows how many I've overlooked or mistakenly written off as something mundane?

Sept 9 .. wood knock, a good one. I hadn't heard one I had any confidence in since 2012. Unless that knock was "Ghost of Bigfoot", there was at least one still alive that day. MIB

Welllll ... as of September 9th, still existed. How 'bout "know"? It's a good, and fitting, word. MIB

I was up on the north shore of Lake Superior this week to get in 2 last days of hiking. Wednesday started off quite cold (28 degrees and windy) and had about 1” of snow on the trail when we started. The snow melted quickly in areas that got morning sun. Trail condition was generally poor, muddy, icy and slippery in many places. Hiked the last 2 sections approximately 10 miles in around 7 hours including stops. The northern terminus of the trail overlooks the Pigeon River valley (US/Canada border). Thursday was a much nicer day, upper 50s. Hiked from Lutsen Mtn to Caribou Trail about 6.5 miles in 4 hours. I was breaking in new hiking boots (Asolo Flames). Boots worked great with a bit of adjustment. www.superiorhiking.org if anyone’s interested. Trail is 310 miles long, mostly follows the ridgeline above Lake Superior from MN/WI border all the way to US/Canada border. I’ve probably done about 1/3 through the years. Someday would like to do the thru hike but getting the wife to let me take 3-4 weeks to do it has proven difficult. The last pic was a fresh moose track that was not there 45 minutes before when we came through and then “summited” the final overlook at the end of the trail. Also saw some deer, found wolf and bear scat but the pics didn’t turn out...

Maybe this will work better.

I was talking to a County Sheriff one afternoon by Riffe Lake Washington, who was parked in front of a gate on a one lane dirt road that led into a private logging area north of the lake. I was hoping to get into that area and do some call blasting. So I told him that I heard that there was supposed to be a lot of Bigfoot in the area beyond the gate. And as I finished the sentence, a likely Bigfoot sheared off a tree about 3 feet off of the ground, by applying a lateral force to the trunk while in a cloud phase. The tree was about 30 yards away. Whereupon the tree base above the new break, jumped sideways and stabbed into the ground but the upper branches remained caught in the adjacent tree branch above, so the tree remained essentially upright. So gravity did not cause the tree to snap. The Sheriff then said to me, "That tree just fell over (which it didn't actually fall over) while you were standing here. You were lucky to see that." And I said, "A Bigfoot just sheared that tree off. Let's see if he can do it again." Of course, the Bigfoot did not do it again. In the moment that I heard the tree snap, I turned to my left to look in that direction, I saw a black cloud vaporizing into thin air. I estimate that it would have taken about a 15,000 lb force to cause that tree to snap.