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Agreed. My biggest fear in shooting a bf would be walking up& finding a zipper on its hide with some moron inside. Second thing would be the unwanted attention you'd get, good or bad. privacy is a valuable thing,so yeah the payoff better be great to help insure my self administered vanishing act.

I feel like that part of the forum doesn't get a ton of traffic and we are missing out on some great sightings to break down/discuss. Just my humble opinion. This is a perfect example. Up close sightings with interesting behavior and then the witnessing of a hunt. Pretty incredible if true.

It is quite uncanny how folks lose perspective on what it means to value life. I don't hear all that much outrage if a hunter shoots another hunter. But Moose? Watch out. And it really kinda gets me that when Bigfoot is the target, how many detractors lift a finger to prove the creature even exists? O organize in a way that will do the Bigfoot any good? In other words? Don't want it shot? Then stop griping about the attempts at hunting them and use the time and energy to lobby science to prove it's existence. Then the no-kill proponents can succeed in their wishes for no harm to come to those BF populations that they love so much. Yep. perspective, it's all about that. Go after a hunter? Nope. Go after the ones responsible for hiding the truth from the public. Time and energy better spent if you ask me.

Another aspect of today's tech and BF to consider... Cruise through almost any social media hunting based posts/vids etc and see the angry people from all over bashing the hunters for pursuing game animals. That reveals a lot of folks that value deer, wolves, coyotes,elk etc over human life. Then imagine the backlash at least from that peanuts gallery if an ape man(or man ape?) was killed. A potential downside would be every nutjob trying to get even with you, but if the payoff was enough I suppose you could disappear.

It was almost a four hour run to Lolo hot springs from Libby. Not many pictures. Sorry. We soaked in the dark and watched fireworks. We left about ten and took first FS road outta town. We camped next to kids partying all night. :/ Today we went over Lolo pass. Lots of campers on the Lochsa river. Getting fuel at Kamiah, Id and gonna head back into the woods! Two pics. Cabinet mtns- Bull river MT. Outside Lolo hot springs (party hardy camp) Its Bear. Not sure which kind.

Beautiful Norse and thanks for sharing. For years, I flirted with the idea of relocating to the Kalispell area or maybe even Missoula. They seem large enough of a city to make a living yet access to so much from an outdoor activity perspective. Coeur d'Alene, ID also looks like it could offer the same.

With a few years hindsight, I'm not seeing gold digging as Ketchum's goal in bigfootery. If anyone is to blame it is Erickson. It was his money. He should have hired correctly and run his operation as well as he has his businesses that made millions.

Thanks, Norseman. Just stunning terrain. May lightening never strike those forests. Those trees have to be 80 ft. if their an inch. Um....nice pile of um.....stuff ya got there. Whaddya think? Moose? Elk? Certainly small enough to be elk. Doesn't have the shapeless mass of a bear.

I really like that part of the PNW. My wife and I hunted the headwaters of the Yaak for almost a decade, with pretty good success. One 10 day trip we took a mulie each, a whitetail each, and a nice 6x6 elk. On another outing there, we watched a big cougar chase a couple of bleating whitetails down a creekbed, and our friends in a nearby camp had a grizzly charge into the camp as they were lighting the evening fire; George dropped it in the firepit, right next to where Dave had been standing seconds before! Rivers here are very high too, we're on flood watch on the Fraser right now, which has normally crested at the end of May.

Coonbo was a trip.

He was one of the foremost researchers in Russia and participated in some of the early tech platforms such as email lists, bulletin boards etc. A changing of the guard is about to occur in this field so some of the young guns are going to have to keep up the charge. May he rest in peace.

I said good day sir.

I'm a bit biased, but I thought it was excellent.

agreed. I actually think the ratio is likely higher than that, especially on the Reservations.