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Depending on the time of day and light conditions I might think I was seeing things (or a ghost from another time) if I saw you off from a distance. Cool!

I loved the "Doc Savage" books and Race Bannon reminded me of Doc. Don't recall where I found this picture, may have been here on the forum, but it expresses a timeless principle!

Every kid wanted to be Race Bannon! Shoot guns, fly the jet, jeep and boat!

I have changed my mind as to how easy contact is, since starting research. When I first started field work, I had blundered (with some educated guesses) into a very active area. Thinking as the result that establishing contact would be easy and in a couple of years we would be sitting on a log and sharing peanut butter sandwiches. That did not happen and contacts actually got more and more adversarial. Then that and clear cut logging caused the group to move off someplace. I expanded the search area tremendously but have not found another active area. While once I thought them fairly common, now I know how really rare they are. I think the best indicators of numbers in an area are footprint finds. When my area was hot I would find them every few months. That is no longer happening and other surrounding areas rarely yield a footprint. I am back to square one. Not only are they very rare but I think they might be on the verge of extinction. All it would take is some idiot parent take his measles infected kid into the woods and that might be the end of them. My county in Washington is in the middle of a measles epidemic because novaxer parents are afraid to vaccinate their kids.