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That's exactly why there are no sacred cows in this subject. The mid tarsal thing is disputable, and Giganto is one of the long shots in theory. The chances of a tropical vegetarian making it through Siberia to North America while not freezing, starving or being out competed by or preyed on by creatures better suited to that environment. It's an absurd proposition.

Y’all just jealous you ain’t chosen ones! 😂🤣😂

I spent the weekend up 37 in the Manistee National Forest. There were 4 of us on motorcycles so we only carry what saddlebags and tourpack(s) will handle. Not much of a camera guy myself so I have 0 pics. No talk or mention of sasquatch unless a joke being made at my expense lol. We were just out to sit around a fire in the woods and hang out. A close by owl kept us up as well as coons. In the morning we had a PIleated land in a tree above us and toss an empty squirrel nest out of the tree and pick thru it. Good time had by all.

I am in SE Alaska for the first time in about 25 years. Last time here I was not into BF. Looking at the Geology of Alaska today I think like someone mentioned, it does not point to a vegetarian being able to make the Bearing Bridge transit. Giganto is not a good candidate. .. For anything to make the transit, they had to hug the ice sheet or top it to make the passage. As those who have been here, most of SE Alaska is dozens of islands. Hugging coastal ice sheets would not get you very far unless you had boats to go island to island. Topping the glaciers is a difficult transit because the ice is very rough and goes around all the higher terrain that even to this day is not scarred by the passage of the glaciers. The peaks sticking above the glaciers are very sharp and rugged because the glaciers went around them. What ever made that transit had to eat fish or meat. I question the ability to make the transit without boats. BF is not a boat builder. Humans have for a very long time. Perhaps BF came from South America? Recent discoveries have make it likely that mankind was there long before travelers made the Bearing Bridge crossing. Certainly there is history of apes in SA. Key fossils may not have been discovered yet to give us the BF migration vector. After all the camel originated in NA and migrated the other way.

I also admit that Paranthropus does have the conical saggital crest like a Sasquatch does and it’s also got the characteristically long arms however one of my first anthro professors told me once in a human evolution course that if you saw a Paranthropus you’d probably think you were just looking at an upright walking silverback gorilla. Would an upright walking gorilla have Homo sapien dna with only one base pair deviation?? It’s got to be something more recent and more related to modern man.

It's like this , when your mind is made up that these creatures should be giganto/Paranthropus it is hard to change away from that theory. But when science keeps leading down that same path and does not sway away. Well then it is time to start chasing the rabbit that is leading you away from the real path. That rabbit is just going to get you lost in the woods. Now I remember that sample that they got up in Canada . I cannot talk bad about Dr.disotell since he is a Dr. in his field. Dr. Nelson should have removed himself from the testing since he was a part of the research team. But in a way it worked in the favor of the creature. Again the sample came out to be some what Human and no matter how hard he tried to make the sample to come in favor of Dr. Meldrum he could not do it. It was even proven by Wayne state Unirversity. ( http://alamas.ru/eng/publicat/DNA_of_Bigfoot_e.htm ). They do not want part that these creatures be of Human origin. May it be against what they believe spiritually or may it be heresy. After all we are talking about a creature that does not fit what we have been told to believe. These things do make people un comfortable including myself.

Likely because Standing is riding on Meldrum's and Stroud's reputational coattails.

Well there was a Bigfoot meeting in West Branch ,Michigan so my son and myself went up there to listen. I picked him up right after school and to off from Detroit to Northern Michigan. It took a while to get up there since we ran into a lot of traffic So when we finally made there it was Dark. So we drove up to Mio and went out to Foley Swamp where I had my first couple of sightings and set up our tent. It was raining when we arrived just like the first time back in 2000 when I had my very first sighting and the woods were very silent. We were the only ones camping out there and that made it great. My son enjoyed that as well as I did. We set up camp and the rained stopped and started our fire. We both sat around the fire as I drank my beer which was one M-43 beer and IPA beer which has an abv 6.8% which is brewed in Michigan. Our night was un eventfull even though we were hearing movement around us. We just blew it off as deer and thought nothing of it . We also heard the owls going off and that was cool to hear. every so often the woods would go silent but we were ok with that. Here are the few pictures I took. I am not a big picture dude unless it is related with these creatures. Campsite Here is where we heard the movement : Now this is early in the morning and it looked spectacular: Here is the swamp : Real picture perfect is it not and here is the a creek where it looks very squachy: Very spooky and looks like where Black bears might be. Here is when I wish small game was going on. We spotted this Grouse just staying motionless. Can you spot it. Here is a valley that I would like to hunt: Off course you have to place a picture of the road:

Thaniks, norseman, pdub, and Kiwakwe for the scenic additions to the thread. It's a joy to see where all of the members are getting out to.