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Took a trip theu Wisconsin and up thru the MI UP these past few days. No BF activity but wasn’t really looking for it either. all of these pics are from the UP of MI.

I stand corrected, thank you!

Some more pics. Sorry for the typos above. Posting from my phone. Hopefully this give some perspective on how dense MI forests can be.

They could run their own web site on their own server using apache and save big. I have always had a problem with BRFO charging people to go on their expeditions with out providing meals as host to these expeditions. They have turned bigfooting into a enterprise. Who is to say that some of the things that happen on these expeditions may not be man made to further the income of future expeditions. I do not want to get into say that they might be hoaxing. Since I know by hearing others speak highly about how they teach those who go on these expeditions the fundamentals of bigfooting. As well as I see this as a baby sitting service to those who have maybe never stepped into the woods. Maybe for those who should have no business being out there in the first place. As far as the BFRO as a whole they are a great place who started the this research in the first place. They have one of the biggest data resources available on the internet. Historical data base of known sightings. where we all can go and look up up known sightings in different parts of the states. If MM did create this to be an enterprise then he did a great job and kudo's to him for doing what he did. It must have taken allot of team work to put this together. So to being a pioneer on the internet in setting up such a project as this . We should all be greatfull for being the first in this field. Not just anyone can come up with such an idea as this in that era. A big Kudo's.

Oof. We need to up our game. "Join our professional outings in search of Earth's most mysterious creature! Each guide is a certified member of the worldrenowned BFF! Please make sure to visit our mobile gift shop at the conclusion of your trip!"

That might be me. My plan, next time I get "pushed", if there is a next time, is to just sit down. From sitting, you can neither attack nor flee, so you reduce the appearance of threat and you demonstrate willingness / capacity to manage your fear. Both of those indicate lower risk to the BF. Realistically, you're not going to outrun them if they decide you're prey, you'll just die tired. Seems to me you might as well try to play the cards some other way. MIB

If there are permits that should be secured and aren't, shame on them, but that's a completely different issue. The same goes for a curfew. These are micro-issues which don't detract from the overarching idea that the BFRO provides an opportunity for someone to get out on an actual BF expedition. I'm confident that no promises are made that definitive results will occur on the expedition. People pay exorbitant prices for all sorts of entertainment. SuperBowl tickets, hot air-balloon rides, and many others come to mind. In the hunting world, people incur enormous costs (in the 5-figures?) to go on a guided brown-bear hunt on Kodiak Island. I'm confident no guide service guarantees a brown bear will be had at the end of the hunt yet people spend oodles of dollars for the opportunity to go on such a hunt. A sasquatch expedition is a hunt of another type except it might cost the $500 fee plus some new clothing and equipment (tent). Minuscule by comparison. I think all of this is great. It gets people out in the outdoors, gets them into a new world called sasquatching, and everyone has a good time. As I said before, it's a win-win arrangement that everyone gladly enters into.

Man the amount of times they banned me from there ! lol

Um, those are found in the Paranormal section. Bigfoot whisperers. Or not. YMMV

Let's say someone has developed an interest in sasquatching. They see things on TV and want to participate but, never having led an outdoor life, they ask themselves -- where do I start? None of my friends of family are believers. I think a BFRO expedition would be an awesome way to segue into that world. How is it any different than paying a photographer to teach you how to use a manual camera, a ski instructor showing you how to downhill ski, an artist teaching how to paint, or even an attorney for advice? We all have to begin somewhere and if no one in your life has any experience with sasquatching, you pay for it. I call that a smart thing to do. People have to recognize, and accept, that they don't know what they don't know. If it's a painting, and you do it on your own and fail, you've wasted some materials. If you venture into the woods, trying to be emulate the bigfooting you saw on TV, and fail, you could end up on the ugly side of a SAR rescue. In the end, they may develop friendships which allow them to go sasquatching again and again as a member of BFRO or a local group of similarly-interested people. Friendships develop and flourish. That, to me, is a very small deposit to make for a large payoff in the future.

Everytime there are gun pics on the front page slider, our traffic goes down... here is WV, a stream by Black Water Falls, the water actually looks black but it's the tannic acid from the trees that turns the water dark.

That makes no sense unless they thought that bigfoot research included shooting BF. Just the concept that guns are only for hunting is not constitutional. Someone should have explained to the AST that the constitution supports gun ownership to protect citizens against a stupid overreaching government.

Wow, I'd say you are amply protected. What a great collection. Kudos. I really like the customized coating on the slide of your Glock 29(SF?). Very nice. I find that I can't bring a long gun with me because they don't backpack easily or comfortably. If only I had the Wild West Guns Co-Pilot things might change!! https://www.wildwestguns.com/custom-guns/ak-co-pilot/

I've been in LE for about 14 years now and I've never had any "training" in how to deal with BF reports. My co-workers that know about my interests think I'm crazy and that I might as well be out looking for Spider-man. It's a fictional character, nothing more. There is a retired Alaska State Trooper who was (is?) a BFRO investigator and got into before he retired from AST. I've heard other troopers say "His cheese slipped off his cracker." When referring to his interest in BF. It is NOT taken seriously by LE here.

The San Diego fleet offers incredible 2 day to 3 week fishing expeditions into Mexican waters for $500 to $8K, all inclusive. They run down as far as 1000 miles south. Here's a bargain: Alaska salmon shark fishing charter for $450. http://alaskan4starcharters.com/shark.htm