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As Old ManWinter begins to gentles release his hold, the world outside will come alive once again. I'm already preparing my strategy for getting out into the woods for a variety of activities. I'll spend a lot of time looking for footprints and other signs of movement. The ground will be soft and hopefully allow for a glimpse of what has been passing through and maybe even staying in the area. Doing both overnight and extended stays will be in my schedule in about a month. We've had a lot of time during winter to ponder about Spring and what we'll be doing during some of the best times to go sasquatching. For me, the thermal will get dusted off, the sound equipment readied for recording, and my outdoor gear generally cleaned up and ready to go. There are always things on our wish list and I'm hopeful to get a parabolic dish in Spring and add it to the arsenal. I've identified two places that border my existing sasquatching honey holes. I'll be studying the topo maps and planning routes to those two areas for both day and evening adventures. New areas are exciting especially when they pull you farther off the beaten trail and don't know what to expect. No one around for miles, and difficult travel for humans, but in an area that is teeming with wildlife. One area has had several sightings and a number of tree falling incidents. Too many to be natural. One happened to me last Fall. I'm eager to see what occurs when you push further into what might be an area you are not welcome in. We'll see. I'm ready to get out and have a productive sasquatching Spring planned. What do you have planned for your upcoming Spring adventures?

Hey it’s a free country! Agreed! I’m not beating up the people that quietly go about their business and enjoy the outdoors. Here is the rub. If you start a YouTube channel about a cryptid animal? And you get pissed about people asking for proof? Your gonna be pissed a lot..... If you post up picture after picture of shadows in bushes and claim they are Bigfoot? Your gonna be pissed a lot..... If you post up pictures of stick structures claiming Bigfoot builds them? Your gonna be pissed a lot! The moral of the story is? Don’t make claims you cannot back up. Because other people have the same right to form an opinion as you do. If you do not like dissenting views? Don’t put yourself out there. Simple.

Hello BFF, new member here from Ohio. Long time lover of the outdoors, and from an early age, a strong curiosity and craving of knowledge of what has been called Bigfoot throughout the years. I look forward to reading, sharing, and learning here on the forum.

You're hearing what you want to. I never said their efforts were futile. I said they were not documenting species behavior because no one knows if they do it or not. On the long chance they do...what are you learning about stick teepees in the woods without seeing them being created or a creature reacting to it? No one has come forward saying they've seen either...or at least no one credible. So, like I said...if you enjoy it and the "what if" aspect of maybe being right, go have fun in the woods. But those people are not scientifically documenting the behavior of a species. That's a bridge too far. It's a hobby right now.

I bought a new trail camera and as soon as a little more snow melts I am setting up in a area I have had a lot of animal traffic. I have a alpine trip planned which involves a lengthy jeep trip with about 10 miles of hiking at the end. There is a winter cabin there I could overnight in and has been some reported unusual activity by the locals. It is Grizzly Bear country and as remote as you can get.

Oh, I agree with that. If you expect people to oooh and aaah over your almost-research, you are in it for the wrong reasons too.

Either the beast exists? Or it don’t.... If it exists? At some point? There will be proof. It’s a mathematical certainty. If it doesn’t? Then a lot of people need to go into padded rooms......yes. If you are a Sasquatch researcher? And you do not care about proof? Your not doing research..... your camping! The bedrock principle of western science and our entire civilization!? Is testable repeatable results. It’s given us cell phones, X-ray machines, microwaves, direct tv and about a gazillion other inventions. Being a knower isn’t enough..... you have to be a prover! I’m soooo sick of hearing this cop out. It’s just a circular argument. People ascribe things to Bigfoot all the time without a shred of evidence. Footprints, stick structures, howls, etc. How do they know that Bigfoot is responsible? We need scat, hair, saliva, blood..... or a body. Even a fossil would move the chains.

Documenting piles of sticks in the woods is not documenting Sasquatch behavior to learn more about them. No one knows if they make them or not. If that's your hobby and you like to think maybe you're seeing something special, that's fine too. But you aren't documenting species behavior.

If Elk had wings...