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My son bought a couple of dirt bikes on the coast. We went over on hwy 20 and came back hwy 2. I showed my son his great grandmother and grandfathers house in Gold bar. And then Index where my great grandmother’s father was the first mayor. He was impressed with the mountains. Not so much the humidity.

Yup.....more Sotol discards, it's summer in central Texas for sure now:) You can see in the last pic where the tender new shoots were pulled out.

Two months ago, a friend of mine lost his drone while buzzing it around a pond we were at a spot where we go sasquatching. Four of us returned a few days later to try and find it. No luck. The experience provided three valuable lessons for us related to drones: 1) Make sure the drone has obstacle avoidance technology. His didn't. 2) Make sure it has GPS tracking in the event it gets hung up in a tree, or hits the water, you know its exact GPS location. It makes retrieval possible/easier. 3) Make sure you buy insurance to replace a drone in case it goes down. In my friend's case, the Company would replace the drone once but he needed to send them "the carcass". We couldn't find the drone so the Company wouldn't replace it.

Going back to your roots is very centering and something good to pass onto your kids. The town of Gold Bar has a very interesting history.

Hi all! My name is Doug, I learned about this site through listening to old episodes of the podcast The Bigfoot Show. I’d say I’m a hopeful believer of Bigfoot, like Mulder with UFOs, I want to believe. I’ve never had an encounter myself. I’m 90% sure I think the PGF is real. I’ve always been a lurker on forums and I can’t promise that will change, usually a lot of stuff I would want to say I end up reading a post from someone else who says the exact thing I would say, so it usually feels pointless, but I’m excited to be here and contribute where and how I can and read about what you all have to say!

Some of the twists occur at locations where the tree was already damaged and susceptible to further damage. You have to look pretty close to see how old the components of what seems to be a single twist might be. Some are snow load. Look particularly hard at those where a small tree is in an opening on a sidehill. I had 2 that had me going for a while because there was a sharp twist and break about 5-1/2 to 6 feet above the ground. I realized eventually what I was looking at. The snow there builds up that deep and more. When we get a short warm spell in winter, the top layer of snow will melt during the day and re-freeze to a sheet of ice at night. After a few days that layer of ice over the snow can be a half inch thick or more. Then more snow comes along. These are avalanche conditions, some big, some small. I am pretty sure that the 2 trees I studied were clinched over at the level of the ice layer when the additional snow on the ice broke loose and slid downhill. There was a surprising amount of twisting and tearing of the bark in a twisted pattern. I think the give-away there is that there are big avalanche chutes off to the side, uphill and downhill, so the mechanism occurs in that location. Another culprit is elk. A friend brought pictures of some "twists" and "breaks" he found. When I blew up one of the pictures it was very clear that there were antler gouges near the break point. That big ol' bull elk just pushed 'til something snapped, then moved on to the next tree creating a line of breaks. He swore it couldn't be, no elk in that area, but when I went back up there, I found elk "sign" which clinched it for me. That does not mean that there are no bigfoot twists or tree breaks, it just means I have never found one I couldn't explain otherwise. I'm fairly sure I was not dismissing legitimate evidence, if it were bigfoot I'd be happy to acknowledge it. I suspect it may be like many other bigfoot behaviors, there are strong regional tendencies to do specific things and not do others. I don't think it happens here or if it does, it's really really rare. MIB

We find a lot of breaks, too. Most of the time, we can attribute it to snow load, or weak trees, or even humans. Then there are some that we find that have been twisted around several times. In the case of the one below, the twist / break was then shoved back into the ground. Both of these were older, but very odd indeed.

You mentioned that one of the branches was twisted. How fresh was the damage? Was the sapwood/heartwood light in color indicating a fresh twist? Three years ago, two friends and I went out sasquatching. At night's end, we were back in camp and sitting around a fire. Within 100' we heard a loud tree-branch "noise" causing all of us to jump from our seats. None of us had a flashlight at the ready so it was a half minute before we could get light on the area. We walked over and found an apple-tree branch twisted, not broken, at the 7' level and the sapwood was light in color. I tried to twist the already-twisted branch and couldn't move it at all. We discussed the tree-branch noise and it was not a clean, quick snapping sound. It was definitely a twisting sound where you hear a constant crackling of something getting tighter and tighter. I think there's a lot to be learned from twisted branches. I've never developed an interest in tree formations but a tree toppling over or a branch being twisted is of significant interest to me.

Was camping last week and I tried the Homestyle Chicken & Rice as well as Beef Stroganoff. I'm not typically a fan of Beef Stroganoff but the sauce had a parmesan taste to it that I liked. The beef pieces stayed a little crunchy. The Chicken and Rice wasn't overly salty and it is superior to the Mountain House version. I will buy both again.I still have the Chicken Pesto Pasta and Chicken Teriyaki Rice to try. While I haven't tried a lot of freeze-dried food, I thought that both were decent, and would recommend them.

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.

How true....so....SURVIVE then! And I would just HAFTA see the video

Yes, exactly. Maine is low on sightings but I camp on the easternmost coast not far from the report years ago regarding the Meddybemps Howler http://www.bigfootencounters.com/stories/meddybemps.htm. Where I camp is also located in a state park across a main road from a large wildlife refuge so I ALWAYS go prepared for the unexpected. Starting this Thursday I will be there for two weeks.