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Yesterday, took my wife on a trip over to WV for the fall colors. We do a trip every year as sort of a birthday present for her as her birthday is 1 November. Most of the time we go up Skyline Drive in SNP, but the leaves there are still pretty green up there. Thus the run over to WV. Took RT 33 out of Harrisonbug over to the state line. Really nice scenery along the way, and luckily the leaves were beautiful along way. Made it all the way up to Seneca Rocks. We got there around 20-30 minutes before closing. What I found somewhat surprising in the visitors center was that they had several BF items for sale (currently 20% off since it is the end of the season...). They had a couple of BF stickers for you vehicle, a BF necklace, and the BF Field Guide by Meldrum. As I said, I was pretty surprised that National Forest Service would have these things in their gift shop since they do not officially recognize the existence of said creature. On the way back, we stopped at the general store in Brandywine. Again, I was surprised when I found that they had (among a large selection of other signs as well) three BF signs made to resemble road signs. Each showed a different silhouette of BF, along with a caption. The three captions were, "Do not feed the Sasquatch", "Hide and Seek World Champion", and my favorite, "Don't stop believing". I thought all the BF stuff was pretty interesting since this was not the PNW and WV is not really known (at least like the west coast) as a BF haven. But Pendleton County has the most number of reports as listed on the BFRO, and Randolph County, just next door, has the second most. Never expected to see all the BF stuff in WV. As a bonus, when you travel from Harrisonburg to WV, you go through Rockingham County, which has the most number of reports (BFRO) in VA. We took an unplanned side trip to Switzer Lake which is right before the state line. Unbeknownst to me at the time, there have been a couple of incidents at the lake and the general area has had several others. I do wish I had known that at the time. Oh well.... I am thinking that I might get my son to go with me back there for a weekend camping trip at some point. The area is very remote, heavily wooded, and non populated.

Maybe these are Thunderbird nests? Minus all the feathers.

Hey folks, I had signed up for the site years ago - or was in the early stages of membership and I don't remember what happened but went ahead and re-signed up. Hope this doesn't mess anything up. Pacific NWster here, and have been interested in the subject for many a year although I haven't had any encounter or experiences..at least as far as I can tell. I've been lurking around the forum here for a while, as much as a non-member can, and eventually decided to try signing up again. Hope to see you all around! lj

Unlikely. There is young man on this forum, I forget his alias, a anthropology PhD candidate perhaps? He means well and has sincere interest but anyone attempting to bring BF research into mainstream academics will get slammed. It's a career killer. Even the people in labs have to be careful. The only reason Disotell participated was to shoot everything down. He never had any scientific interest in helping BF research. The fellow from U of Minnesota got a taking to after snelgrove for using lab resources (everything costs money of course). Sykes has some leeway because he is kind of a retiree at Oxford with a long history of making valid contributions. BF is a retirement focus for him. There is only one reason Meldrum has lasted as long as he has. It's because of LDS support within his University. It's not uniform. He has plenty of detractors and has not been a smooth ride for him but he never would have been able to carry on a career in BF study at another University.

Here's some interesting activity on one of the BF trails that I use often, this trail block took a little effort to build.....the green lines are the trail, and the red arrows are pointing to an oak log brought in from nearby, and woven in to the structure, none of it was touching the ground, pics from both sides....it was pretty cool........and a marker on a side-trail nearby pointing towards it.

I vividly recall the 1967 television reporting of the Patterson/Gimlin sighting. I was 13, with my parents at my aunt and uncle's. The adults paid the report no mind, but it fascinated me. I remember photos in a magazine (Life, Look, I don't know) a few years previous, of footprints taken in the Himalayas, said to have been left by the abominable snowman. I'd checked out books written by Ivan T Sanderson from the library. I was ripe for lifelong interest at 13 when Patty burst onto the scene.