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Norse - that is a sweet setup. Just got back this week from the BWCA in northern MN. Fishing was spectacular for the first two day. Between my buddy and I we caught 80+ fish. Last 2 days were slow, 15-20 mph wind with gusts up to 30 out of the SE which really fouls up fishing from a canoe. Saw a family of otters one day. Highlight of the trip was actually seeing what I believe was a wolf. From about 100 yards, it came out of the woods to drink from the lake at dusk. Soon as it saw us it ran back into the woods. Looked too big and dark colored for a coyote. Wasn’t able to snap a pic. I’ve heard them howling many times but first I’ve actually laid eyes on one.

Headed out to the Deep Creek Mountains along the border between UT and NV. Some 12,000' peaks there, it's a remote range with little human presence. Access via the Pony Express trail, a long dusty washboarded affair. With wild horses: And squatchless salt flats: Up into here: Set up camp with much needed shade. Possible cougar scat in the pinyons behind Rover but no sightings: Scrambled up the peak behind for a looksee, tired old mountain top: Cooked up some grub at dusk and went for a stroll down the "trail." Poorwills and nighthawks overhead, crickets and katydids providing soundtrack. Nothing anomalous throughout the night. Following day we made 1300' of bushwhacked gain up through pinyon/sagebrush and 2 steps up, 1 back rottenrock scree to the various peaks S of camp. Saw jackrabbits and a golden eagle who met us at the summit, outside of indeterminate tracks, no other wildlife. Camp down there somewhere: Intended peak but after 1300' up at 8200' we retreated: Down through a slide/tumble scrapefest that often looked like this: Beautiful area with a little water flowing downstream but maybe still too dry...idk

The annual Bigfoot Festival and Conference in Honobia, OK (LeFlore, Co.) will be held on Oct. 4-5. Among the speakers will be M.K. Davis, Igor Bourtsev and R. Scott Nelson who is a retired naval Crypto-Linguist. https://www.honobiabigfoot.com/ Below is a link to a video someone in the media did about Honobia and Bigfoot. The link will bring up a page from Travelok; scroll down until you see the squares of pictures; click on the one at the upper left corner that shows the shoulders and head of a Bigfoot. Then just click on the very small arrow at the bottom left corner. If you're hungry, go to the 2:21 mark of the video and see what the most popular order is at the local cafe. It will almost make you want to attend. https://www.travelok.com/listings/view.profile/id.21807

I resemble that remark. About a half mile up the little "crick" that flowed by our house was a deeper pool. Down in a crack, hard to get around. One day when I was about 8-9 I noticed bubbles coming up from the bottom where two cracks intersected. Not sure why I thought of it but I lit a match and tossed it out on the water. WHOOF ... flames everywhere. I had a busy 5 minutes or so stomping out / splashing burning grass and small bushes that hung over the water. That piqued my interest in geology. Got coal and natural gas in that country, just not accessible enough / good enough quality to make extraction profitable. MIB

I suppose that, at least 'til we KNOW differently rather than just BELIEVE differently, we should allow for the possibility that rather than being non-technological, they are hyper-technological, aliens from somewhere else that have their technology built in rather than needing to carry it externally. Not "robot" or anything so cliche as that, but mechanically enhanced biological. Remembering Clarke's third law here. It certainly would fit some of the reported actions better than anything else we've got so far. No, I don't believe it either, but there is no basis other than personal belief for removing it from the table at this point in time. On that basis, it'd be foolish to entirely discount it. But then, fools about and I'm sure some will. It would be kind of funny/ironic if in the end Patty really was a suit ... just not one of earthly origin. MIB

Late to this, but here's my two cents. 8-9 million years ago, dryopithecines in Africa split into two lines - one that led to gorillas and the other to humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos. At 7 million years ago, another split happened between chimpanzees and bonobos from early ancestral hominins that became humans. I've heard during the Miocene epoch, there were at least 50 types of great apes. I think bigfoot originated somewhere back around there, probably interbred with early humans (it seems we slept around a lot, since we also have Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA), and became a new species. It self-selected to become nocturnal and gigantic size, which is our opposite. They and us are similar, but we share this world by occupying opposite niches - we are tool users, hairless and live our lives in communities, being out and about primarily in the daytime. They don't need tools, rely upon their strength and speed, are hirsute and are primarily nocturnal, living singly or in small family groupings. They are also very intelligent, but in different ways. So, yes, in the great ape family, but similar to how we are great apes, but more.