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Just got back from 6 days of exploring a small portion of the Six Rivers National Forest and the Siskiyou Wilderness in Northern California. Spent 2 nights car camping in the SRNF and 3 nights backpacking into the wilderness. The best part of the trip was the backpacking part, since I went deeper into the wilderness and I saw plenty of wildlife. Below are some pictures of the wilderness area and the lake where I camped the first night. Also showing a picture of my thermal imager setup. This was the first time that I backpacked with a large lithium battery (the Jackery 240 Wh portable power bank). I had backpacked before with my full size tripod, since the image quality is better when stable. I wanted to test the ability to run the thermal imager and video record all night (8 hours) for 3 nights (without having to monitor and replace the 4 AA lithium batteries every 7 to 8 hours). First night, I heard noises coming from the brush, got out of the tent ~9:38 PM, started recording on the thermal, and saw the buck in the photo. The unit recorded as the buck came out of the bush and walked in front of thermal imager. The time stamp and date on this FLIR unit is not correct and cannot be fixed (apparently the battery that runs the clock is internal to the unit and cannot be replaced unless I ship the unit to manufacturer; this is a design flaw). The 2nd FLIR photo was the 2nd night and occurred down 600 ft in the valley. Again, I left the unit running all night for 8 hours and it captured this bear walking towards the creek. While the photo is not clear (because the bear is far), the video shows its bear shape and motions more clearly. BTW, the buck moved on to the other side of the lake and disturbed the only other backpacker there from 1 to 4 AM. I saw the guy in the morning and he was so scared that he did not sleep and started a fire. He never saw what was making all the noises and stumping the ground. I told him it was the buck, since it did the same in my campground earlier that night. Not sure what was the problem with this buck, but I also captured a doe in the imager that came later, so maybe the buck wanted to clear the area? I was happy to have a thermal imager and see what was making the noises.

It's a good theory that should be looked at. BF research needs a Wikipedia where researchers can refer to. What do I look for if I find a possible BF nest? Identify the materials used. Catalog the types of materials so other researchers can cross reference. If such a reference exists now, it's not widely known.

Dear Lord.... these nests are being made by HIPPIES! 😉

I'm 6'5" tall and wear a size 16 shoe. My foot is 14" long. According to Fahrenbach's foot/height conversion formula I would be a 7 1/2' tall Sasquatch. Since his computations were based on known footprint sizes, together with corresponding eyewitness height estimates, there are two conclusions I immediately drew: 1) either humans have a larger foot to height ratio than even 'bigfoot', which seems unlikely or, 2) eyewitness height estimates were exaggerated, which seems more likely. There are other possible explanations, but these were the first ones that popped into my head.

No doubt that is true for certain individuals. I especially think when it comes to Native Americans and other sects ,religion and spiritualism are prevalent. Then there are misidentifications,hoaxed videos,controversial tracks. One outstanding film, lots of reports and stories. What is left is more questions than answers and of course there is the possibility that there is in fact Man apes do in fact exist in the here and now

Welcome, Warren. I don't generally suggest hunting or catching them, and neither did the advisor in the anecdote. He said to the younger man something like "you WILL disappear". Perhaps he spoke from experiencing a scary incident in his time, hard to say. Just thought I'd throw it out there. As others note, humans and apes are continuous breeders. BFs probably are, too. Maybe spring gatherings are more of a cultural phenomenon, I recall Sasfooty saying so. She also said that they change the noises they make with the seasons.

Yesterday, I went on a hiking adventure rather than a sasquatching one. I hiked with a buddy and we went up and over three mountains on a peninsula. The interior forest was a bit hazy as we started up the first one. Then, as you proceed from the first mountain to the second one to the third, you walk some of the way along a ridgeline, where you are treated to a view of both sides. The area is well known for its population of timber rattlers and if bitten there is no fast or easy way back to your car. That doesn't bode well. I've been hiking and backpacking many years and this hike was the most difficult one I've ever done. That includes Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Desolation Valley, and the Grand Canyon. Steep climbs, then sliding down nearly-vertical terrain on your backside as you proceed down the mountain. The descents, with their rock ledges and narrow pathways, were more rigorous than the ascents. One missed step, which becomes easier when you begin to get tired, and you're tumbling down nearly vertical cliffs in some areas. All-in-all it was a great day hiking and the continuous views along the way inspired us to continue forward. Edited: To add the last picture. At the summit of the first mountain there was a deer. Didn't expect that. The reason I am including it is to show why "blobsquatches" are prevalent in pictures today. I had to hurry to get a picture of the deer as it began to move away. The camera focused on the vegetation rather than the deer.

We heard samurai chatter, but it was higher pitched than what you hear on the Sierra Sounds. @MIB, I didn't make that association at the time, but 'giggly' is a pretty good description of the tone. This was up near Caesar's Head, where we found the small bare footprints way off trail near some caves on the side of the mountain. @JJW Where were you at when you heard these sounds?

Yep. Not "child" voices as depicted on the show exactly. I've heard the little mumbly / giggly voices once in 2013. I had a clear daylight sighting about 45 minutes later. Another time I was walking up a somewhat seldom used USFS trail approaching a bend. I heard what I thought was a teen girl "shush" ing a dog, assumed she knew I was approaching, and was commanding it to sit. Couldn't make out the words, that was just the tone. Turned the corner ... nobody. I could see 100 yards or more ahead, behind, up the ridge above the trail, and quite a bit farther on a open timbered flat by the creek. There was nobody there. Beats me.

May I toss my two rocks into the camp here? There is nothing that I've read so far that says any of the experiences anyone has had are Bigfoot. It may be something else, but If Patty is Patty then the Bigfoot is flesh and blood, period. But I'm no expert. There may BE entities that people see and hear, or don't see but hear, or don't see but still see some type of physical response in their surroundings that indicate their presence like grass moving or parting. I think what I'm saying is Bigfoot, as a creature, is a real physical creature, as in bears are real physical creatures. The invisible stuff I honesty think is something else altogether, and perhaps shouldn't be attributed to the Sasquatch? There are simply too many reports that describe real physicality and evidence of a creature that , according to the last few posts, shouldn't be visible and performing actions that witness describe......or take a bullet and howl, moan, or scream as they run off. Punching out glass, killing dogs, throwing objects of all sizes and compositions and so much else that says not invisible?

Some, but not always, not even in the extreme cases. A friend reports a habituation setting at her father's house. They saw a bigfoot duck slightly to go under a branch on a tree by the shop. Might have hit, might not have, but very close. She says they measured that branch from the ground and it is very very near 14 feet. The first one I saw was .. well, I spent a lot of years and a lot of brain sweat trying to make it more acceptably short, but with water 4-1/2 to 5 feet deep .. hits me under the chin and I'm 5'9" .. hitting the bigfoot at crotch level, and their leg length is proportionally less than ours, I can't see any way to conveniently turn what I saw into a more acceptable 9-1/2 feet, it had to be 10-1/2 feet or a little taller. So part of the question of estimating height is "do you have a reliable yardstick of some sort you can compare the bigfoot to, then measure later." And in both cases, hers and mine, there were indeed things for reliable comparison. So you can either accept my report of what I saw, and the size, or you can call me a liar. There is no third option. What you could do, if you want an educated understanding of height, is take a look at Henner Fahrenbach's data. Real biological critters' physical attributes will generally follow a bell curve distribution. Delusions and attention getting attempts do not. So look at the data and decide. One caution ... the big ones start small and grow. Also, we are more likely to see adolescent males out misbehaving as our own adolescent males do than mature adults who are more cautious. Taken together, that skews the data slightly downward regarding average size. While you're looking at his height data, take a look at the height vs foot size comparisons. 3/4ths of a mile from where I saw the very large dude walking down the river, I found a line of tracks that were 24-1/2 inches long with 6-1/2 feet between consecutive steps, left and right. It was in thin mud over a layer of hard rock so any tracks of a hoaxer within 15-20 feet would have been glaringly obvious. If it was a hoax, someone managed to step, walking, not running, 6-1/2 feet in 24-1/2 inch long "shoes" carrying upwards of 800 pounds on their back. To me .. not feasible. Those tracks were what they appeared to be, nothing more, nothing less. MIB

Robert Wadlow, at 8 ft 11 inches, tallest man known to have ever lived: How big basketball players really are: https://www.viralhoops.com/15-pictures-of-tall-nba-players-making-regular-people-look-tiny/ Shaq (7 ft 1) next to a life-sized cutout of Wadlow: Personally I don't think a sasq of 10+ feet is at all plausible.