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Not the one from the controversial Bigfoot video, but the one in Idaho. It's pretty deep into the woods, and I'm not going for BF research. My grandfather died about 15 years ago while I was living out of state and I couldn't attend his memorial service. I heard that he was cremated and ashes spread, but never knew the details. That side of my family is dysfunctional and bitter. Grandma's ashes were stolen by my aunt and no one knows what happened to them. I was talking to my dad a couple of weeks ago and said I was interested in camping out in the Marble Creek and Marble Mountain area and he casually mentioned that was where my grandfather's ashes were spread. Turns out, Grandpa liked to go elk hunting in a specific area and would go and sit on a specific large rock and invariably shoot an elk. His best friend created a brass plaque to honor my grandpa and attached it to the rock, and his ashes were spread there. I had no idea. I asked my dad where this rock was and he said he doesn't remember and that the friend that spread the ashes is likely dead. I did a Google search and discovered the friend was listed as last living about 15 miles away, so I called him up. Turns out he is indeed alive and in pretty good shape for an 85yr old retired professor. He wouldn't tell me the location of the memorial unless I agreed to take him up there. I agreed and we are meeting Tuesday to drive about 2 hours East into the wilderness to just West of Marble Mountain. He said the rock is about a mile off the nearest logging road in pretty tough terrain. I said I had a UTV and he replied that it was too thick to get a motorized vehicle into. I sad I had horses, and he said he hasn't ridden in 30 years and isn't about to start. So on foot it is. An overweight out of shape 50yr old and an 85yr old grumpy old man, a mile overland, in the dense Idaho wilderness, deep into wolf and Grizzly country, in search of a large boulder with a brass plaque. I'll definitely take lots of photos and be looking for sign. I'll also bring up the subject of Bigfoot and see if an 85 year old man who has been hunting all his life around here has any stories.

I'm very fortunate to get out with Thomas frequently, and love every minute of it. He's an encyclopedia of Sasquatch lore, and a hoot to hang out with.

Well....I'd give it a hell of a shot but not sure we'd make decent time! If I was going in the eastern half of the US, I'd like to go with @gigantor and @WV FOOTER in WV and invite @BlackRockBigfoot.

@norseman on a mule trip. I'd want @Huntster there for the stories, cussing, etc. TV personality wise? Les Stroud.

I have been itching for a nice expedition. My financial situation or lack thereof has been the biggest hinderance, especially during these times of crisis called 2020. I lost the last few specks of respect I had of Moneymaker when I checked into a BFRO expidition and saw his name fit him well. charging people $400+ to walk in the woods... And here I thought nature was free. EDIT: As much as I like Bobo and Barackman, the sheer fact that they are associated with Moneymaker has completely turned me off of them.

Have any of the committees or administrators here on BFF considered during an annual conference, meeting, or get together for BFF members? I think it would a lot of fun. Also, what about a mechanism by which BFF members could do an expedition in different areas of the country but keeping the exact locations secret.

Thomas Steenburg

A worthy expedition, PNW. I wish you luck on your venture.

Gal Gadot for the win!

Norse of course. Huntster for sure. MIB certainly from the here and now. From days gone by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin on a certain day in 1967.

In my neck of the middle western woods, mein herr Redbone.

@Madison5716

Beautiful places, Norseman. Good to see you so active and on the road. The techies that be decided my flip phone was ancient history and last winter "they" thought an Android would be better. The thing about that is I would never remember that it takes fairly good pictures. Welp, this last trip I finally remembered to use the danged thing.

Gig - Posted Sunday at 2;15 AM? You come home from a late night party and decide to get in to BF DNA? Very impressed with your dedication. Thanks for the tip. Soft copy will be delivered to me on 9/4. Look forward to the discussion.

I will stand there with a beer in my hand and point! Put that there, this goes there, dont do that, weigh that!

I use my cameras in 3 shot burst mode. Even with IR flash, a set of batteries and a 32G SD card last about a year in the field unless I do some idiot move like pointing the camera in the direction of a tree that moves a lot. Might be different with video, but doing it as I do it there's no gain to disabling IR. The reason for the 3 shot bursts is with a single picture, sometimes it is hard to figure out why the camera tripped, but with 3 shots you can usually find what was moving to trip the sensor. One day I had a puzzle. I had a camera out in 2nd growth fir forest that had burned away the underbrush but not killed the big trees. It was pretty open. The first picture had the apparent tail of something very large in frame but blurry. It took several looks, and looking at the subsequent pictures, to identify what was happening. The whole forest was moving, not just one thing. There was a very heavy wind, probably a down-burst out of clear sky, bending trees up to 18" in diameter. The "tail" was the end of a piece of fern I'd used to cover the camera waving in front of the lens. That's stage 2 of my approach, more or less: I have 3 PlotWatcher Pro cameras which are daytime only, they don't have a flash nor do they use detection sensors, strictly timed. I set them up to take 1 pic every 5 seconds. It assembles each day's pictures into a daily video. With 8 lithium batteries and a 132G SD card I can go 12-14 weeks. Using Day6's software I can "race" through each file in a matter of minutes. Lot of eye strain looking for brief glimpses of something that wasn't there a frame before, but I can do it. MIB

Up around Cloudcroft NM. Saw lots of Mule deer and Elk! About 1/2 hour from my daughters house in the desert. Kinda crazy! Some of the most beautiful park like country I have seen. IMG_3528.MOV IMG_3529.MOV

What I've heard is you can tell the difference between bear scat and sasquatch scat by the smell. Bear scat will smell fruity or grainy while sasquatch scat stinks like ours does. On the etiquette question, I read one account where a person said after the squatch took a dump it wiped with its fingers and licked its fingers.