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The one I found would not be a good candidate for GPR because it was in an area of rocks, softball or larger in size. I just discovered an interesting fact. When my computer was hacked the pictures of the grave were some that were lost. I have an aerial photo of the area taken a year later and so much of it had washed out, it was difficult to tell where it was. There was a log about 3 feet in diameter that was very near the "grave". That was gone. South of the Lahar on the flanks of Mt St Helens I found rock stacks typical of others I have found in the area. Near those were large fresh BF footprints. There have been recent reports of people at the Ape Canyon parking lot late in the day hearing vocalizations. That is just East of the "grave" location in the lahar. Something about that area seems to attract BF which is strange because the 1980 eruption has taken out most of the trees. They have little cover other than what was behind a protective ridge that saved a good size patch of trees in the Ape Canyon area. That tells me if that lahar is a common burial location all one needs to do is be there in the spring and hope bodies or bones wash out with the spring runoff. I have not made it there in several years because I was having lung issues in that time frame. I just would not feel comfortable disinterring a body. Might be something that would get you killed. Those who cannot get out in the field or who do could use Google Earth and look for odd rectangular patches in talus fields. The one I found was certainly large enough to have shown up on Goggle Earth.

Around here fathers would get the bovine testicle crimpers out..... I would rather be shot.

He used to be in Los Angeles recently transplanted to Pacific City OR. I was at his 90th birthday celebration there several years back. He has an International Wildlife Conservation Society nonprofit whose website seems under construction or redevelopment https://www.kptv.com/news/pacific-city-man-spent-more-than-years-hoping-to-catch/article_f02f9266-adad-11e9-b8d1-b3bdd6f20935.html

The bigfoot nests seem to be like gorilla nests; more built like ground cover than overhead cover. They tend to use trees and overhangs for their overhead protection.

Orphan Annie Bigfoot

I made a day trip to a quiet valley on the S side of the Fraser River, between Chillwack and Hope, where I had seen lots of deer and bear sign on a visit earlier this summer. I found the steep creek valley almost as quiet this visit, only encountering 1 couple on a side by side ATV, but there were numerous logging slash piles burning, leaving a blue haze in the air, and sometimes bits of ash falling around me. Only 1 pile of bear scat was seen, and no tracks of anything else in evidence. I stopped and glassed several areas, with nothing of interest except for the smouldering brush piles. The logging companies do these burns after several weeks of fall rains, so there's no danger of the fires spreading, but it is annoying to see. Looking N towards the Fraser Valley East view. Fire haze from below, and a clear cut at top centre that I reached 3 yrs ago via a road that is now washed out. Looking S towards the US border, with an unburned slash pile at the bottom left, and several burning on the horizon.

I made an afternoon trip out to the location of the sighting from 2007, reported to me by Mike, which I mentioned in my post of Sep.22, on the previous page. He had said that the creature seen by himself and a companion that day in Oct of 2007 had crossed in front of their vehicle in daylight just at the Km 4 marker on the Harrison East FSR. It was seen to cross the road from the forested downhill side, and proceeded uphill through a recent clearcut, then cross the Slollicum FSR above the cut, and disappear into the old second growth timber above that road, a distance of about 250m (280yds). The Slollicum FSR had been gated for the last 3 years, but I was fortunate to find that the gate was now removed, as logging operations further uphill had been completed. This allowed access to that road, but with the challenge of newly cut drainage channels every few hundred meters, as the road was now considered "decommissioned" until needed for logging in the future. My newly lifted Outlander, with larger tires installed earlier this week, could just barely crawl through the trenches, and I did manage to scuff both the front and rear bumper skins in doing so. Oh well, it's 18 months old now, and over 80,000km, so not a new car to cry over a few scratches any more. I got a few shots of the sighting location, and a few of the fall colours for fun. Looking down the now 12 year old clearcut to HarrisonE FSR from Slollicum Rd The second growth timber above Slollicum FSR Parked on Slollicum Fall colours higher up the Slollicum road