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A most excellent initial report, Skinwalker13. Well written and appreciated. Plussed for your worthy contribution.

I got my pics to load this morning. 1 - the 2 lakes 5000' below, 1 at the right edge and 1 at the left edge of the photo. 2 - still snow in the peaks above us 3 - salmonberry blooms 4 - skunk cabbage in the swamp 5 - my pic of CMKnight taking a pic of the lake

She's a preschool teacher so habitually repeats thing in order to get the message through.

We got out yesterday to an area I've spent a good bit of time poking around and camping in. I had seen from sat imagery that it had a clearcut adjacent to the location where I had a rock thrown. Upon arriving I saw the imagery wasn't quite up to date, the cut extended right down to "my" spot and almost down to the stream I'd bushwhack along. This is just about where my truck was parked when i heard the rock go through the trees. It landed at what was once a poplar tree, now the stump visible dead ahead here: IMG_5259 by LIght Pirate, on Flickr And from further back up the old woods road: IMG_5258 by LIght Pirate, on Flickr Which we followed the remains of back to what has become a sizable pond, thanks to Castor Canadensis, finding tons of coyote and possibly cougar scat along with young moose tracks: IMG_5234 by LIght Pirate, on Flickr Passing the last remnants of Winter and some still intact 3rd or 4th growth: IMG_5251 by LIght Pirate, on Flickr At the beaver flowage, old road thoroughly flooded out by the dam: IMG_5237 by LIght Pirate, on Flickr Here we saw a partially submerged adult Bald Eagle, a soaring juvenile, a pair of Mallards, Belted Kingfisher, a troupe of Tree Swallows, a group of unidentified ducks, possibly Golden Eyes and heard Wood frogs, Spring Peepers and a lone Bullfrog: IMG_5238 by LIght Pirate, on Flickr From there down to the Lake where I've Winter camped and accessed the surrounding forest via the ice (which makes an amazing, deep groaning sound when cracking!) Nice old woods here: IMG_5270 by LIght Pirate, on Flickr IMG_5262 by LIght Pirate, on Flickr And further in along a narrow spur to a small pond that is a nice camp spot with decent habitat. With telltale signs of degenerate troglodyte activity in the form of wlmart buckets of human waste and TP tossed around. Man, I find that infuriating when people do that to places like this. walmarts are for shi***ng in, not here. #failed species. Anyway: IMG_5274 by LIght Pirate, on Flickr I hadn't been up there for a couple of years and wanted to check on things. We kept an eye out for tracks, saw a young moose, a porcupine and a muskrat but no signs of our quarry. There is a good sighting report from the mid 90's IIRC not far from any of these places. It's all good habitat and almost no one gets off the logging roads.

This is the area that BC Witness and I were in, yesterday. The altitude was almost 1 mile. Approximately 5000 feet elevation. Of course, I did have to include a picture of the Sasquatch my wife and I encountered. Who knew they drove Mitsubishi's?

Of course none of this will matter to science. What it only matters is to the witness . That what they encountered was not some thing they imagine . That there was proof of what they heard and had encountered and that they do not have to go through time thinking if it was all real. Now they can clear their thoughts and know that what they experience did happen. Is this not what happens to most of us who have encountered these creatures .We want to go look for answers to the things that we experience. We need that proof for our selves. It does not matter to anyone else. It only matters to the person who witnessed the experience. This is why there are people who go out to investigate these sightings. These are the people who vet these sightings out. It is up to science whether they want to investigate these creatures further. If science refuses to investigate these creatures with the evidence at hand . Then science is not science by the mere definition.

Great pictures and writeup, Kiwakwe. I managed to get out today, with another member from this forum. We convoyed in 2 vehicles, to maintain social distancing, but got to share some time in the high country together. Campfire was a failure, as it had bucketed rain just a couple of hours before we got there, and even logs that he split were still too wet to light. He had heard a report from a relative who had recently camped in the target area, of some deep sounding howls, so he felt a recce was in order. The road in was 10 km of good gravel, then 10 km of bone jarring potholes and washboard, followed with another 5km of broken rock on steep grades, that required real concentration to avoid shredding a tire or two. The reward at the end was a high ridge a mile above 2 large lakes that could both be seen from the same spot, one to the east and the other to the west. The rain held off, with some brief sunny periods, and enough breeze to keep the mosquitoes off until it died down about 3:45, then the bugs became a real annoyance, and I chose to head out, while he and his wife finished lunch and cleanup. There were some bear tracks that he spotted in the moss where we lunched, but no other sign of any kind was found. The snow was gone from that height a little early this year, as we had a very warm and dry first 3 weeks of April. The salmon berries were already flowering, as well as the skunk cabbage in the damp hollows. My pics are being stubborn about downloading from the phone again. When I get that sorted, I'll put them up here.

preschool you say, god bless her patients. I see now how she tolerates all the antics here so well!

Great pics guys. Kiwakwe, your area is so beautiful. Thank you for the gorgeous imagery. Good dialogue, too

Oh! Oh no! That’s a giant can of worms! Many bigfooters are not out to prove anything to science,

One thing I've learned from using my phone to video things, is to hold it horizontally for the best picture. Nice research and follow up!

The subject would be taken more seriously by fellow scientists if there were more solid evidence that is measurable. Plaster casts of footprints, credible witnesses, unreliable contaminated DNA, supposed sound and film recordings will not suffice. Neither will a 52 year old film. The film is iconic and absolutely the best I ever saw. Many so called experts have many conclusions. Bill Munns did a super fantastic job with his analysis of the film subject. His book is great and there are several others about the subject. I have read several. Still, I must come back to the fact it is belief and opinion. Without a body to examine ,test and document.