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Thank you all, my heart goes out to all those who have lost those so unbelievably dedicated creatures. He brings my slippers........for a goodie of course. Sorry for my disposition. But here's the way it shakes out for me. Once I say this I'll let things go. Sasquatch is a real creature. Of that I have no doubt. There is a cover up of that fact. I am in no doubt of that either. And greed runs the whole show. Again, no doubt. It pisses me off. Breaking through that somehow is my goal, and seriously has been for the last two years. All I do is figure out ways and ideas for accomplishing the task. Period. Those things are behind every serious post I submit. I am 100% "Solve For Bigfoot". And I'm convinced that it has to happen and soon. Okay, I'm done. Said what I needed to say.

Apparently humans can’t hunt or effectively find BF so they have that going for them! I’m all for proper classification and study of the animal.

Hiflier, so sorry to hear about your furry family member, which they are. We lost one of our rescues back in early October. Gut wrenching is all I can say about it. We only had her for about 6 1/2 years. All you can do is try to make them as comfortable as possible and cherish every moment you have left with them.

@hiflier knows what I think about some of his ideas and how he presents them. I've also read part of his novel. I think he's a good guy with some good ideas who gets frustrated for good reasons (most of the time). Let's not get off on a tangent with my use of the word squatchy. I meant I camped in national forests and areas that have had a history of sightings. I guess I also have the family sighting...but that's it.

I don't know if I've even done that despite camping in tents and RVs all over Alaska, western Canada, and the western U.S. I don't know which places are squatchy and which ones are not.

@hiflier What's your drink of choice tonight? I can tell you're in one of your "moods"!

Earlier in my research, when I clicked on the Chippewa National Park website there was a story about the CNF having the oldest known bear in the world. Bear Number 56. It was a Black Bear (obviously) sow who was 39 years old and had beaten all the odds of being killed by hunters or a road collision. A few days later I went back and typed in "Bear 56" to refresh some details on her and saw an article saying she had passed away from natural causes back in August of 2013. She was 39 1/2 years old. When she was alive the Wildlife and Forestry had put out a request to hunters not to shoot her. She had been collared and tagged most of her life and a lot of hunters knew her so even when she visited bait piles they held their fire. She was never a nuisance bear and didn't even raid bird feeders, had 28 cubs in her lifetime, and quite simply did all the right things to stay alive when most females bears don't make it past the age of 18. They can tell a bear's age just like a tree because there are rings of growth in their teeth. Officials had tranquilized her and tagged her in 1981 and puld a tooth to check her age. That's how they knew she was born in 1974. Even though the National Park Service needs to update their information on her I thought it was a pretty cool story. Had I done the math I could have figured out that she was already gone. Bear 56 was a keeper

This is the most saddest part to me. When you want to move on and getting dozen new questions on the road, people around you are watching movies about yeti in Himalayan 50 years ago, or news about new tracks somewhere... and over and over. Nobody care about your question - what is bigfoot? How does it do what it does, and why. Thank you BFF!

I have mentioned my interest in sasquatch to all of my friends and family. Two friends (out of ~30) don't believe and don't talk about it. One other friend laughed when I brought it up but I calmly walked him through why, the experiences I have had, and the general areas things have occurred. He knows those general areas and now is always asking me if I've seen or heard anything. My family all are interested and buy me BF teeshirts, mugs, air fresheners, and other items. My sister treated me to a visit to a sasquatch museum in northwest Georgia when I visited her two years ago. I've never felt any ridicule and have found that people are almost always interested once I explain what I, and other people they know, have seen or heard. I'll walk them through a specific incident, such as a wood knock incident I had. I'll describe what happened and what I did to eliminate all possible explanations. Then I ask them what I missed an welcome an open dialogue with them. I find that inviting their input and engaging them in the discussion really helps to stimulate their curiosity and open their minds to the subject.

Nor do I. Lots of places LOOK Squatchy, whatever THAT means. My decision to stick to trails is part of me now. Bushwhacked up until about three years ago. 30 lb. pack and all. Got a 16' ft trailer in the Summer of 2017 so things are different now. Using my brain better and more electronics now. But I also know that places I go coincide with reports. I took a route through Tulsa to have 2 hr. lunch with a BF friend. I'm sad and kind of anxious these days because my dog of 12 1/2 years, a true friend, is dying. Melanoma. He's may got a month. He's posted here in the thermal image thread I started. My spouse an I have camped with him and then traveled with him since he was a pup. Needless to say he won't be with us on our next trip. We have a friend in Port Angeles and we're going this Summer.....without him. So I'm a little out of sorts these days. Anything else anyone wants to know?

I've always said I want things to stay exactly as they are. I do NOT want a formal recognition of sasquatch. It will spell doom for them. Humans can't protect elephants, rhinoceros, male lions, bengal tigers, silverbacks, and more. The list goes on and on. I hope the body never arrives for science to finally recognize.

I have often in my past struggled to achieve my goals in opposition to authority only to find that authority was right and I was selfishly blind. Like my own father, I am growing to understand that sasquatches are better left alone. The only desirable "discovery" for them are personal ones for the Homo sapiens. "Discovery" by the world is the force feeding to sasquatches of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Maybe it is The Creator Himself who has kept them innocent from us, not government?