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Unlike the Hawiian volcanoes Mt St Helens spews mostly ash. It is layers and layers of ash. The 1980 eruption was not even the biggest. As you can see below it is a frequent eruptor and is actually younger than the pyramids. Many of he eruptions likely suffocated BF and other animals living in the area. My trips to the mountain often include walking the streams and creeks seeing what is eroding out of the ash. For a volcano that spews basalt, anything that survives the 2000 degree temperatures would be encased in solid basalt. But the ash is soft and carved away every spring. No digging required but an incredible amount of luck to happen to be there when something erodes out. Areas now with BF populations are likely to have been that in the past and got some suffocated by the ash from some eruption. If BF buries their dead in some safe and stable place, it takes a natural calamity to kill and cover them to allow them to be found. Volcanoes, land slides, avalanches, are all such events. I think this protocol is more likely to succeed in a skeletal discovery than most anything other than shooting one. https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/103/

Thx! I also want to note that this straight line trackway is what we see in north America as well. Skeptics will say its a hopping animal like a Rabbit or Deer or Coyote. And I have certainly witnessed those trackways as well. But the animal sooner or later will break out of its hopping gait and reveal its true identity. Plus usually each hop isnt a perfect copy of the last. And in some cases 5 toe indentations are found. If people are hoaxing tracks in soft or deep snow? I would sure like to know how. And at 180000 ft in the Himalayas? Sure.

I’d buy a LARGE patch of woods in northern Michigan at put several hundred Reconyx cams throughout the acreage. Better yet would be live cams littered everywhere that I could monitor from the warmth of the cabin.

ape canyon is due east.

Hold My Beer... I'll have that for you shortly Edit to add image... It's not a perfect alignment but pretty close for something that got minimal effort.

Mogollon Rim (Only the first photo is mine) Yup...central Arizona. My research area is in the upper right quadrant of the above photo. Most people think this: Which is why I get a lot of eye rolls in the BF community when I talk about the Mogollon Monster. Lol