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Truly, this area is very rich in wildlife, I just found a fresh grizzly trackway with several wolves in pursuit in one of the areas I visited last week. We managed to see several spruce grouse, a snowshoe hare, loads of deer and a moose and her calf in the span of about 3 hours. I will post the photos of the trackway in the near future.

I think police dogs are presented with the subjects footprint location or a visual sighting and the dog follows the fresh scent. That can backfire. A police dog recently went after the wrong subject and took him down. The perp escaped. They tried to retrain the dog but it failed so the dog was taken out of service. I can go on reports. Some dogs cower and want to leave. Others will take off after a BF and sadly some dogs have gotten injured or killed. Think flying dog. It all depends on the dog. Bigtex thinks his wolf likes to go play with the local BF.

This is just my opinion, but I always got the impression that Paulides began Missing 411 with the expectation that there was a possible Bigfoot connection...only to eventually see that the issue was much more complex than he originally thought. I enjoy his interviews because he will sometimes make comments that are absent from his written work. A few years ago, he made a comment on during an interview that stuck with me. I am paraphrasing, but he said something along the lines that he might never officially go on record due to the disturbing nature of what he suspected was taking people. He made a comment about not wanting to put the families through anymore grief than what they had already experienced. Now, he may very well have changed his opinion on the cause since then, but he certainly alluded to some sinister elements as being the culprit. I need to find that interview again. There are just so many to wade through at this point.

Here's a good tip, and always works well for me.....depending on the thickness of the woods you are in, find a memorable feature, a rock, tree, piece of trash, or something, and walk past it a distance to where it can still be seen looking back. Turn around and remember the view, as it looks totally different from the other side. If you are trying to remember landmarks to find your way back, you will most likely get lost at some point because the feature you remember looks totally different from the opposite direction....give it a good study from the direction & view you will heading back on, then it's as easy as following bread crumbs:)

Never heard of this before but it makes me wonder.

I thought I would share a few photos from some of my forays since my relocation, I have done a good deal of exploring the more wild regions of Eastern WA , Northern ID and even Western MT. Since moving I have spent a great deal of time exploring eastern WA, Northern ID and sections of Western Montana, these areas are remote, thick and dangerous. The forest is very diverse and is composed of a wide variety of coniferous trees that range in age, I was very surprised at the density of trees I find over a century old in the valleys, lungwort lichen is very common as well as old mans beard. The lower canopy is thick with blueberry, thimble berry, raspberry, strawberry and even salmon berry along the creeks. The valleys and waterways are coated in moss, fungi and ground lichens as the soil does in fact demonstrate moisture retention. This habitat is just beyond great, prints of animals register very well as the moss is not as dense or springy so tracking is just perfect here, many of the creeks actually have soil or sandbars also. This area has all of the primary species we know of in WA state but also all of the creatures we encounter in the Canadian boreal forest, this area is regarded a unique hybrid environment of temperate rain-forest and northern boreal forest. The species list for large mammals includes cougar, bobcat, lynx, grey wolves, coyote, red fox, forest caribou, black tailed deer, white tailed deer, moose, elk, mountain goat, rocky mountain sheep, black bear, grizzly bear and Sasquatch.

I got back from solo camping off FR#663 in the San Juan National Forest. It’s quite peaceful, nothing BiGFo0Ty i climbed to the top of V rock, and looked for a Sasquatch down below in the boulder field. I didn’t see any thing