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A co-conspirator and I just made our third trip out to Skinwalker Ridge. The first account is in here somewhere, the second was back in January, across a snow blanketed mesa top under foggy sun which added some interest. And zooming in on the above photo afterwards i saw this "critter" peering over the rocks ( i added eyes to illustrate!): And then made our way down to just above the ranch: No anomalies experienced on that snowy trip, just a nice day out on the ridge. Yesterday's venture had the ridge under sun and whipped by wind. Quite a few desert flowers in bloom too. If familiar with the goings on or the "went ons" at the ranch, you'll know the Gorman's experience of the 4.5' tall bulletproof black wolf. With that in mind, we were quite surprised to see this thing staring at us from 120 yards away as we dropped down below the 2nd tier of ridge. I've found size hard to gauge when in canyon country, distance can be deceiving and boulders that seem similar in size to a car have often turned out to be closer to that of a house. This guy looked every bit the 4.5' at the shoulder from where we stood.(This with a 70-200mm at 260mm equivalent with aps-h.) Convinced we were seeing the invincible yee naaldlooshii, we were frozen with sheer terror and did the only rational thing-- unfroze and walked over to investigate. It had disappeared in the interim of getting there. As we stood on the "rim" looking across to the point where it was last seen we debated how to approach. If not a murderous guardian of the in-between worlds then maybe it was a guard dog from the ranch trained to shred interlopers. Regardless, we didn't want to meet it on the rocky slope below us so we whistled for it, surely skinwalkers answer to whistles...at least this one did: As he drew closer we watched him shapeshift down into less formidable size right in front of us! He ambled over, let us pet him and promptly rolled over for a belly rub. He had us fooled and knew it. He stayed with us all afternoon leading us off into the wilds down along the ridge as their kind are wont to do....(most who follow are never heard from again)....finally leading us back to the car, he knew where it was, a mile and a half away, just after sun down. He made a great companion, never uttered a peep. He would take some of our sandwitches but would have no part of water, seemed afraid of it really, probably characteristic of yee naaldlooshii. A beautiful day on the Path of the Skinwalker. And down at the ranch with the heli-pad and the trailer where Tom Gorman's prized bulls were "corralled": One of the 3 watchtowers:

Interesting comment - forested acres by state. I put the number of BFRO listings by state into a spreadsheet with BobbyO's forested acres by state, added state populations (2010 census), and generated a graph showing BFRO listings normalized for forested acres and population. Here are four graphs: 1 Number of BFRO Listings by State 2 Number of Forested Acres by State 3 Residents per Forested Acre by State 4 BFRO Listings by State Normalized for Forested Acres and Population. The last graph, while still being the result of some fairly sloppy data, to me represents a more likely sasquatch population distribution. If data for the Canadian Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, and Alberta (and perhaps Ontario) could be added, I think we could better flesh out what appears to me to be approaching a log-normal population distribution (common in nature). 1 BFRO Listings by State.pdf 2 Forested Acres by State.pdf 3 Residents per Forested Acre by State.pdf 4 BFRO Listings Normalized for People_Forested Acre by State.pdf

Heat. They're built with fat and fur between their muscle and the elements. Like all larger mammals in temperate to sub-arctic environments, they bed down in shade during the daytime, and mostly move around during cooler hours.

I don't consider them nocturnal. I'm confident they are crepuscular, like nearly all other larger mammals in North America.

Great apes have great color vision and just so so night vision. But the eye can be trained to be better. Especially with ambient light like the moon and stars.

I really do not like driving at night anymore because as I age my eyes are starting to develop cataracts. My night vision is getting worse. I have fastidiously worn sunglasses all my life. I would imagine if a BF gets anywhere near my age that it's eyesight, totally unprotected its whole life, would have degraded If they run into a tree branch it can poke their eye out too. Why would we imagine that they prefer to move around at night? I think they only do so to avoid us.

This springs to mind. Squatchermetrics Published by Squatchermetrics Like This Page · 20 February 2018 · #Sasquatch - Let's talk Arizona. 85 Total Reports, with 11/15 Counties responsible for those Reports. What month is most common for Total AZ Reports ? August What AZ County has the most days of precipitation in August ? Coconino (5) What AZ County receives the most annual precipitation ? Coconino (The Northern portion of the Kaibab National Forest receives more than 20 Inches annually, on par with San Francisco) What AZ County makes up 80% of all Summer Reports (20/25) from the turn of the century ? Coconino What AZ County makes up 100% of Non Visual Reports from August in the last 12 years ? Coconino What AZ County makes up 100% of Actual Visual Reports from August in the last 12 Years ? Coconino Where do you think we should go on vacation this Summer ?

Here is a glyph (11 pointed rocks in a circle) on one of my three gift rocks. The gift sites are remote, well off trail, and known only to a friend with whom I hike to endeavor to know Sasquatch. The circle of pointed rocks is a gift from someone else - feral human (I doubt it), Sasquatch (that is my best guess), human messing with me (certainly a strong possibility). The rocks came from a distance of at least 60 yards away, but I consider it a glyph left for me as a gift accompanied by the following activity: over 80 gifts taken, in those 3 years, a few gifts left for me (for example a blue jay feather stuck into the neck of an articulating toy cow that I had left), a pile of poo, various sticks and tops of Aspen trees left for me, pine cones thrown at trees near me (twice), whoops, wood knocks, ground thumps, and a sighting preceded by barks to get my attention (a purposeful sighting at 57 yards). The combination of these occurrences leads me to believe that the circle of stones is a glyph left for me as a vicarious encounter - and that combination of course also leads me to the conclusion that Sasquatch exists.