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I think they just have a warped sense of humor, lol!

I finally got this thing uploaded. Gig feel free to tie this in to your BFF channel. After numerous 2 hour attempts and crashes and a YT upgrade its done. About the video. This is one of my favorite spots up Barnaby creek behind Lake Ellen on the way to White mountain. This is just north of the Colville Indian Reservation. There is a swamp in here that produces skunk cabbage in the spring. You guys have seen pictures of this area before. The flight itself was kind of foggy and drizzling. I had waited a bit before launching because it was slowly burning off. I saw plenty of Moose and Deer sign on the way in but I never saw anything FPV in the flight. Enjoy!

I think they probably have a natural fear of it but I agree that adults would be able to tell the difference between a wild fire and a camp fire just like all animals can . They do live in areas where a lot of people hike that start camp fires all the time. They would be nervous wreaks if it really scared or bothered them. I also think it could make them curious to get close to your camp site to just watch you.

Here is a screen shot of the area from the show. The lay-of-the-land around the cliffs is overall much flatter than around 44.482655, -120.613801 and the tree cover is heavier.

Yah, before I could fly about 1200 ft high. Technically you would only be limited by the radio telemetry or about 1.5 miles

I use my olympus LS 7 audio recorder like game ears, this recorder has a fairly low noise floor and I can lift the gain a bit to amplify sound. The recorder will record and live export the sound to my headphones/earbuds. I put my recorder in my car and mount external omnidirectional microphones on the top of my car with 8 ft of cable, I sleep with my earbuds in so if something happens outside I am 100% going to wake up as well as have it recorded.

I enjoy the journey as well. But what I enjoy the most is being part of the solution. I don't care much for taking a back seat hoping for something to happen. I thrive on the thrill and satisfaction I get from taking action. You and others are in that camp as well. Boots on the ground and knocking on doors is where it's at Why wait for the next generation? They will have their hands FULL in the aftermath of discovery.

Im past that. Frustration. Its the journey I enjoy. If it happens it happens. If not? It’s up to the next generation.

Well Dr Mayor is no dummy either. She took on the project with the possibility that BF in North America is real. If this area has any activity or enough evidence of activity to get her back, she sure does not want it overrun with bigfooters. They may be purposely hiding the location. While she is credited with the discovery of a tiny primate, her discovery of a giant one in North America would be even more significant. Especially when the rest of main stream science has rejected the possibility.

I think the reason a BF goes straight up the mountain is understandable. If you are in good shape and being chased by a short, fat kid, how would you elude him? Put him through the wringer. Take the steepest, most littered path up a mountain. You'll drop him in a second based on the difference in physicality between you and him. No doubt they've observed us and know the difference in strength and speed between them and us. A buddy of mine use to do building races. How fast can go up the stairwell in tall buildings. We backpacked all the time and he was a monster on the mountain. Never met anyone who could keep up with him going vertical. I'm sure a sasquatch knows exactly how to leave us in the dust.

Well, rather than focus on proving, you can focus on understanding, so that when someone does prove existence, you can answer the followup questions like how, why, when, what. MIB

Thanks, Kirafu makes a lot of nice outdoor gear and I looked at their hot-tent combos. I'm a bit of a tent addict and ended choosing a Seek Outside 4-man tipi with a titanium stove and extra-tall' flue for cold weather. My go-to tents when it's above 40F are a Zpacks Duplex (~19oz), TT Rainshadow, or a SMD Lunar Duo. All of these are easily backpacked and the larger ones can be split between two people making them a breeze. I would hope people do a little homework before going out in the woods in a tent. I bring a prescription bottle filled with ammonia and leave it out 10', or so, in front of my tent with the top uncapped. It highly discourages all animals with a strong olfactory sense.

A wall tent is the best way to go, no question about it. You can get dry, stay dry, and live comfortably within. The only problem in my case is I'm the mule and have to haul everything in my backpack. That forces me to make decisions about what is critical and what is comfort. If I'm going to add 24oz to bring the thermal imager, I need to take away 24oz from some place else. And I've already shaved weight bringing ultralight gear. Fortunately where I go, water is plentiful so I carry no more than a liter and filter water along the way as needed. That's a huge savings.

I have no idea how they've become so large. Maybe they're descendants of G. Blacki and they're this big naturally. I'd say the largest we've seen is about 8' and 600 lbs. Although highly intelligent we've not seen any evidence of a higher intelligence of say tool making or anything else similar to give any indication that we're dealing with anything other than a highly intelligent animal.

I hope that Les Stroud does another season of Survivorman Bigfoot. One man who is comfortable in the woods, carrying his own equipment... That's the way to do it.

Well, sure, but the point of these shows isn't really to find Bigfoot. If you want to find Bigfoot, you don't go tramping through the woods at night with a whole camera crew, in field producers and directors, and god know how many other people. If you really want to find Bigfoot, you leave you cameras at home, open your mind, and go alone or with one or two other like minded people. If this show finds anything solid at all it's just plain luck. But, as I said, the point isn't really to find Bigfoot. The point is to garner enough ratings from people watching to sell enough advertising to offset the cost of production and make a profit. Just that and nothing more. I'm still looking forward to it though. Loved the stories and recreations on Finding Bigfoot, so I hope this one has something similar. If not, it should still be a fun 40 minutes each week (I DVR pretty much everything I watch nowadays).

I conclude quite the opposite regarding a campfire. The only time we don't have a fire is during high / extreme fire danger when regulations ban campfires. Campfire is a component of the sasquatch "bait." However, I set my recorders a ways out from camp for the reasons you suggest .. and more. The main addition is snoring. I've had to listen through hours of Bill and I snoring from opposite ends of camp because I set the recorder too close to camp thus I couldn't use software (Audacity) to visually skim looking for individual sounds worth listening to. Car camping there are other sounds .. metallic pops and pings as parts heat or cool, stuff like that. MIB

I wish we had the option to run studded tires here. Not allowed on public roads.