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haha ! Pretty cool !

Wasn't quite sure where to drop this, but if you read the article & check out the pics that go along with it you'll see apes standing completely upright and the story behind it. Certainly not BF proof, but maybe interesting to see something uncommon. An upright bipedal gorilla, who would of "thunkit"? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/gorillas-picture-pose-for-photos-virunga-national-park-anti-poaching-rangers-a8879026.html

My main 3-seasons tent is the Cabela's Alaska Guide model 6-man tent (6'3" tall in the center). I've also used the Timberline 6-man tent, and I really like it because it sets up lots easier (the Cabela's tent is nearly impossible to do alone in wind), but it can't stand up to wind after erected. The Timberline collapsed on me in stiff winds twice. Once set up, the Cabela's tent is almost bomb proof. I set up a full sixe cot with pad and huge sleeping bag rated to -5 degrees. Before stripping down for bed in the evening or getting out of the bag in the morning, I warm the inside of the tent with a propane lantern for a few minutes.

When I can't go up into the hills (like when rain has the rivers too swollen to cross), I'll hunt off the side of a certain highway. This is quite comfortable! The bears are still around, though. Right near this spot I saw two grizzlies within a week cross the road. One was a very mature boar. While a cabover camper is not much more than a glorified tent in terms of size, it's perfect for one guy or an intimate couple. It even has a potty for the lady. I commonly drag that enclosed trailer on my trips. It allows me to haul the Argo, motorcycle, or small boat, and it serves as a shop, storage area, and windbreak at the site. This particular site is windy, but I can sit inside the trailer and glass for game through the door in perfect comfort.

33-23 million years ago? We have no evidence of great Apes existing then, anywhere on planet Earth. Let alone a fully evolved bipedal ape ready to make the trip to North America. While all of our theories are stretches? I think yours is a pretty good leap. It took 100,000 years for the hobbit to shrink to its size we find it to be 50,000 years ago. That’s not a lot of time.

I'm either in a Marmot Limelight, rarely in a Henessy hammock, as the human burrito, out on a cot if no bugs or the back of the Rover, which is preferred to the hammock if only for the insect free view. It's a deathtrap as far as accidents on a roadway but all the glass sure makes it nice to see out of. That said, I still like the tent for getting to those sweet spots, not to mention the sounds are much easier to hear. I'm never going to have the experience of something waking me up by sticking its muzzle into my back through 4 mils of nylon in the truck. I'll never know what that was... Later, with the carpeted sleeping platform installed:

Good stuff! Thanks for posting it. You have to wonder how many people out there have a story they have never told anyone. Am I the only one who thinks that guy looks just like Jeremy Wade?