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Took my future son n law Bear hunting today. Saw one smallish one. Huckleberries and salmon berries are ripe! Cool only 55 degrees.

No experience at all. My favorite area requires backpacking in. I've done it as a round trip day hike but it's pretty brutal. Climb 1700 feet in 3.5 miles, then back down 500 feet in a mile. Trail is pretty rough, big loose rocks, some places stairsteps in the rocks, plus it traps runoff so it continually gets carved deeper. There is another way in, not as steep, but a mile farther and more exposure to direct sun .. hotter. There is no chicken out option. If you're not well on your way back to the trailhead 2 hours before dark, you are committed to staying. The trail is bad enough that a twisted or even broken ankle in the dark is a real good possibility. If you buy the ticket, you have to ride the train. I've had two fairly terrifying experiences in there. We had bipedal visitors the very first night I was ever there, at least 3 of them, and I got introduced to infrasound. It sucks. And the last night I spent there, last summer, started pretty cool with an hour or so of light wood knocks coming from 30 feet or so away in the dark while I laid in my sleeping bag and bivy. It stopped being cool when "whatever it was" decided to leave. It was the most chilling, "alien", crazy sound I've heard in over 50 years in the woods. I thought I knew what was knocking, now I'm not sure. 7-1/2 miles back to the trailhead, in the dark, on a barely maintained trail .. nope, the die was cast, we had to stay and ride it out. Fortunately nothing further happened. MIB

Made it safely back to town with no sightings but possible evidence of activity. Found a great spot and the new tent worked out great... My girlfriend said she thought she heard a wood knock at night, but we had the stereo on and I maybe heard something. We were camped next to a large patch of thimbleberry bushes and about 20 yards up the creek, I stumbled across a couple of small trees with the tops obviously twisted at a height of about 8' off the ground. They sure looked like similar trees that people claim are twisted by Bigfoot in order to mark territory. No trail nearby and their only significance was on the edge of the thimbleberry patch.

I've seen videos of the young lady who uses that camper. She's a very interesting person.

I've read upon those and am very impressed. Congratulations, N-Man, and I just know you'll put such a perfect rig to good use. That's one thing about the equipment you have, you actually USE them

Just above that archipelago, those on the island of Kootznoowoo claim to have the largest bears in the world including one, called Grandfather, that is estimated to be 13'+ standing.

Yes. Griz are endangered down here. I don’t anymore. Its best to mix it with pork.

Beautiful country.

My hunting itch sort of went away when I moved West and didn't have the camraderie of hunting with family around Thanksgiving. The show MeatEater has rekindled my desire to get out and hunt...and I can't believe I lived in CO and never did the elk hunt that I've always said was on my bucket list. Anyways...beautiful country. Also, assuming black bear? Do you eat them?

@wiiawiwb I do cherish those sightings, fully aware of what a privilege it is to live in a place where that's possible. Besides hunting, I've spent many, many days in the back country, prospecting, fishing, hiking, mountain biking, and just wandering to explore. It's all a great antidote to the pressures of modern life. A few days in the woods soothes away weeks of stress for me.

I also just got a cheap rail mounted 1000 lumen light that I just got for Veronica, my AR. Mounted it last night. Sheesh, why didn't I do that sooner! Now Veronica has a light, a red dot with a laser, and a 60 round double stack mag not much longer than her standard 30. Also, a barrel clamp light mount should be arriving for Betty, my Winchester 1300 Defender as well (mounts on the mag tube below the barrel). Yes, Betty and Veronica, for those of you old enough to know. And, since I am here, I wanted to let folks know something that I discovered on eBay recently that I like. This is probably common knowledge to most of you, but thought I'd share. When you do a search for an item, you can specify "USA Only" to eliminate all the listings that are from China (and take forever to ship). There is a little checkbox off to the left side you can click. Still too often the stuff you get is made in China, but it helps to trim down your options a bit. I like to buy Amercan if I can.

The proper response in this area of interest would be to try and dig up dirt on the people who came up with the idea that you didn't find believable, write a blog about it, go on a couple of podcasts to really go after them, and then finish by writing lengthy diatribes on social media. You're never going to get an invite to Beachfoot with that attitude, man.

I have run across a few reports over the year of bigfoots fighting each other. Here is what is probably the best report to date: https://bigfootforest.com/deer-hunter-witnesses-two-huge-bigfoot-like-creatures-fighting/

https://tenor.com/view/animal-vs-human-animal-attack-bear-gif-14527012

Uh, depends, Rod Hunter. And welcome to the BFF I am not armed when I go into the field. Well, I should say I don't have a gun. I DO have an old army machete with a good blade. My plan? Oh, maybe something like this:

Wow . I wasn't expecting that answer. It would freak me out also.

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

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.

I just got this beauty in the mail. I bought it before i started taking this whole Coronavirus situation seriously, but I have zero regrets. It's comfortable, rugged and bigger. I love it! Only thing I wish is that it had at least one internal pocket. Not a biggie. Now, if I could only get to the woods to actually USE it! 30L Savotta Jaakari. 👍