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Spent the day putting out some trail cams and generally scouting out one of our areas that we have not been to since Covid 19 hit. We were planning on staying out through most of the night, but we were pretty wiped out by 9 PM. Not hiking around with a 40 lb pack every weekend has made us soft. Lol. As we were getting ready to leave out of the area, we thought that we saw something in a small clearing next to us... A turtle must have gotten sick, climbed on top of a stump, and died. Ask we were standing there we noticed another turtle shell a few yards away at the foot of a game trail that we had not yet seen. We found what might have been some old prints along the trail, but only one partisl that was somewhat fresh.

I personally wouldn't get a group of people together to go 2 miles off trail through pretty thick brush up a steep hill, pack in equipment (because that couldn't have been done without mechanical assistance), and hoaxed something that someone would probably never see. But, people are weird and it can't be ruled out. Also, just because we couldn't figure out how it couldn't have occurred naturally doesn't mean that it didn't occur naturally. Right now the only real connection that structure has to Sasquatch is that it was found in a forest where we have found prints in the past. We didn't see who made it or how it occurred, so I am not going to immediately leap to the conclusion that Bigfoot made it. I thought that it was interesting though. First time I have seen a "structure" that honestly didn't look natural. This area is interesting once you get deep in and off the path. The turtle shell could have been picked up by someone else stupid enough to push their way through the holly trees for what seemed like forever to get in there and placed on a stump after looking at it. It was strange finding two like that, one at the beginning of a game trail that we wouldn't have noticed otherwise. Could be a Turtles' Graveyard type of situation.. where old turtles are compelled to travel to when they begin to die. Lol. Strange, but I try not to read too much into this sort of stuff. Nothing that is connected to Bigfoot on the face of it, but pretty neat.

How? Most witnesses are "missing".

I am not usually one to give much credence to tree structures, but we came across one that we couldn't quite explain...

Oops, sorry about the repeat, lol, I don't know what happened! Ah, geez. Well, it is true! 😂 Sorry for the repeat, I don't know what happened!

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

Tree structures are one of those things that I could swear I have seen but cant remember actually seeing. I would love to come across something like that out in the woods. People say they can all be explained by wind and snow load and such but I dont think that is accurate. Its bigfoot or hoaxers and if its hoaxers the bigfoot ones came first anyway. Two miles off trail is a long way to go for a hoax that may never be found and that you would not hear about being found were you the hoaxer. Either way, thanks for sharing the pics.

Interesting pics BRB. Perplexing thing about that tree structure. Doesn't make much sense for humans to do such a thing as I'd have pulled that grounded trunk out of the way if I was stringing a tarp over the rest of the frame to make sleeping quarters. Surely wouldn't be a problem if able to get that dead pine? over the bent hardwood of sorts. No doubt, people ARE weird but given that, still can't see why, but who knows?? Doesn't look too difficult for 2 people to get that up there even without gear? As for the turtle shells, the pics you've posted don't seem to show the plastron or lower shell. I assume you inspected them? If that's the case, I'm inclined to think someone/thing put them there. Were they in proximity to the structure? Thanks for putting up some pics. You gonna make an honest woman out of your lady or what??:)

How far out did you find that? I am wondering about the likelihood of it being man made. What are your thoughts? I have thought that some structures that seem explainable or impossible for humans to do could be pulled of with a set of ratchet straps and come alongs. I guess then you've got to consider how likely it would be for hoaxers to do it in the area you are in.

we were just teasing you!

I had a similar-enough experience back in '88 at Babyfoot Lake in SW Oregon. My now ex and I left our 18 month old daughter with my ex's dad and step mom so we could celebrate our anniversary in the woods. We arrived mid afternoon after a 1.5 mile hike, set up camp, ate, then I took a few minutes to fish a little. The lake sits in a small glacial cirque. We were back near the headwall on a slightly brushy, timbered flat a couple acres in size. We heard rocks rolling far above us to the right. It was intermittent like something picking its way diagonally down and left across the headwall which was out of sight behind trees from us. We started to get weirded out, just felt .. "off", and after a big of discussion we thought we had enough time to get back to the truck before it was dark so we broke camp and hauled butt. The trail out crossed the ridge to our left from the perspective of facing the headwall, in other words, it crossed the ridge "it" seemed to be moving towards. Bit of concern whatever nameless "it" that it was would cut us off crossing the ridge. Now, I was packing a single action .44 and had a double action .357 my then wife was packing, but those didn't create any false confidence. We got to the ridge and it was already dusk-ish and dimming quickly. "It" wasn't waiting, though, so we headed up the trail toward the truck. A short ways up the trail there's a ledge the trail crosses which is a little snotty thing to get up especially in the dark. It's only waist high or so, just .. awkward. Once we were both up, took a couple steps, then the noises began. In those days, before the Silver Fire, the trail was a narrow slice through a sea of rhododendron and saddler's oak 10-15 feet high with douglas fir overhead. Pretty darn dark in there and a lot of cover within arm's reach of the trail so it was ... tense. Whatever it was, it stayed just above and behind us herding us like I've herded cows .. all about angles. At times we could see the rhodys and saddlers oaks being pushed aside and pushed down as something very large plowed through them. The cadence was of two feet. It was going through them like you or I would go through shoulder-tall grass .. seemingly little resistance to "it" though I do not think I could wade through it. Sometimes "it" seemed to stop making sounds. The first time or two, we thought maybe it left, but as soon as we would pass a small, more open spot, it would start up again, so it was leap-frogging ahead of us, then waiting 'til we passed it to begin "pushing" us again. It never got closer than 25-30 feet and was sometimes as much as 50 yards away. Once we got within a few hundred yards of the parking lot and truck, the cover thinned and it apparently stopped following. My ex wife does not "believe in" bigfoot but now and then when that comes up in conversation her eyes get real big. She remembers that night .. well .. and has no explanation for what we experienced. A year or so ago I talked to a local researcher just swapping stories and told him 'bout that hike. All he said was "Oh, you ran into HIM, yeah, he's a GRUMPY bastard." Wish I had it to do over again but with someone else to share camp with, wouldn't wish that on my ex wife. I'd stay and see what happened. Nothin' ventured, nothin' gained. 30-odd years will change your perspective on things. MIB

Filmed a black bear with my drone today. Currently uploading videos onto YouTube. Was surveying our grinding job and was like, what’s that black dot? Got fairly close. Pretty cool tool.

You are not alone. I've always enjoyed audio, it can be therapeutic to listen to wildlife in their natural habitat. I've always felt that it would help locate BF so more effort could be put into certain locations in finding other evidence. I can share this with you. My group has recorded a number of metal banging sounds on various occasions but one stands out to me. It sounded like a pop gun shooting a metal bucket, just like "pop"...…"ding" . Never found the source of it, but we hear thee things long after the recorder is picked up in most cases.