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Last night we stayed in Blanco canyon just south of Pagosa Springs.

Nice rig!

Oh, just making the point that despite the fact we know a lot about how bigfoot look and behave, it is only DNA work that will tell us where it is between a walking orangutan and a big hair covered non-tool making near human.

Yep. http://iris.nyit.edu/~apetro01/old-postings-Fall-2011/Week-12/W12-C2/What-Makes-Us-Human-Sci-Amer-2009.pdf

If I were going out investigating a recent BF sighting, I wouldn't hesitate to have Paulides on my team. He was a career police investigator turned missing-person investigator. The first person to see a pattern, voice his concern, and call attention to people going missing in certain hotspots including experienced hikers and hunters. I think he has a nose for investigating in the same way a bloodhound has one for scent. He has undoubtedly saved lives with his warnings to people of preparation for the backcountry echoed throughout his 411 Missing series.

Sorry Hunster - I have not been monitoring posts of late (competing hobbies have distracted me). I read with interest your quoted description of Zana. I had read it a couple of years ago, but as I learn more about the issue my perspective changes. Zana was special - her body (size/strength/speed) was outside the range of humans - not in the 99.9 percentile of humans , but beyond that - unlike anything ever known in terms of strength and speed. I think you are on the right track regarding Denisovans. Species is the only designation that can be objectively described (and really only among living populations). Designation as to genus and higher classifications are purely subjective and exist only in the opinion of the "experts" (if anyone wants amplification of this I will try to provide it). Given the specific vs. generic distinctions, I have long felt that anthropologists tend to be splitters, that is that they emphasize morphologic differences at too high a classification level (like genus or family). I have felt that Denisovans and Neanderthals might really be found to be Homo sapiens (or a subspecies) if they were still extant and we could test that. I feel the same regarding Sasquatch/Bigfoot. In answer to Sykes and others comparing a genotype to Ketchum's genotype I am relatively certain it hasn't been done (and if I am correct in that thinking then I am sure it won't be). A reasonable approach would be to add tentative Bigfoot genotypes to the GeneBank as X1078000, X1078001, or X1078002 for example, and then to compare future DNA samples against that genotype. If consistent matches were found, that would represent incontrovertible evidence for Sasquatch (or some other unknown primate - choose your name). That also will not be done (at least officially by Sykes or some other "respected" geneticist, but it could be done unofficially by NABS, Ketchum, or some other "unofficial' geneticist or group - but the results, even if earth shaking, would be ignored or criticized by academia).

Huntster, what makes you think they are dying out? Just curious.

Yesterday we did a 30 mile run over Bolum pass. Roughest USFS road I have ever seen. Much of the road up top was just jagged boulders. The Chev on 35’s was too low in spots and scraped. Weird but pretty rock down here. Some gray like home but a lot of red. And some of it erodes like blocks. Which gives the road a step like appearance. Saw a red fox and mule deer. Lots of aspen trees. Lots of grass. Lots of old mines. Wyatt fished in a small lake. But it was full of what he called salamanders? No idea. Saw a Ford with MO plates on the Durango side. Plate said FOOTN!

First night Alpine Wy. Second night Ouray Co.

Nice looking set up! Congratulations on the new grandbaby!

The yahoos told me they needed two hoops to make they tent mount up.... I gave them three. Nada. I came home with one end unsupported. Went back to fab shop and popped tent up and they welded another hoop to bolt other end on. Brought it home and set it up and wet it down per instructions. Suppose to “cure” seams and activate water proofing. We shall see. It’s not a wall tent. But sets up super easy.