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Ironically, I was just visiting a friend of mine at work in his building and we were talking about weekend plans. This guy lives a couple of blocks away from me in a tiny town and I've known him for a few years, but we've never really hung out outside of work. So we were in his cubicle and his wife and a co-worker stopped by. The co-worker is also a friend of mine and she starts telling us how she and her husband reserved a cabin up at the Lochsa Lodge, which is just a few miles from where I had my only personal encounter, and are headed up there tomorrow. I've known this woman for about the same amount of time and am friends with relatives of hers. I joked that I had a Bigfoot encounter near there, she laughs, and my buddy Mike gets wide-eyed and said so did he. What? He looks around to make sure no one else can hear us, then says he was up there a couple of years ago in the summer camping in a roadside camping area next to the river just a couple of miles away from my "sighting". He said he and his wife were in their RV and just about to go to sleep. They had a window open and he said he heard something on two feet walk slowly by the RV and it blotted out the moonlight in the upper window as it passed by. This was in an empty camping area. He said there were no other campers there and the next morning went out and figured that in order for the figure to blot out the light, it had to have been at least a foot taller than him, and he's 6'5". He said it made no noise or smell, other than the sound of footsteps on the loose dirt/gravel outside the camper. Then he said he had another experience just last year, but over on the Western side of Washington while on a hike to the lookout near Pilchuck State Park. That story was pretty creepy. He said he and his wife had hiked up to the lookout and were on their way back and it had gotten dark. He said he heard an owl hooting, so he stopped and tried to make a hooting sound. He said what he got in response was a God-awful scream/whoop sound that made the hair on the back of his neck stand up. He said the woods went dead quiet. He and his wife tried to make their way back down the mountain, but it was dark and they had to go slow. They heard the sound a few more times, getting closer, then something threw a rock near them from the other direction. He said he foolishly didn't bring a flashlight with him, or a gun, or even a phone. After a couple of rock throws, it was quiet. Then about 15 minutes later, another couple came down the mountain behind them with flashlights. He said they were an older super nice couple that insisted on guiding them back to their camp. This guy does quite a bit of hiking and says he's had other experiences and found tracks and is definitely a believer in Bigfoot. He said he's never seen one, but he's seen their tracks, heard them, and saw the shadow of the one outside his camper. So thankful I brought it up since now I have someone else to discuss it with and to possibly go on a search with. He's apparently a magnet for them, lol.

Yes, it was, but it is based upon a fair amount of knowledge of the subject—myself— of which you have none. I downvoted that snarky shite.

Received my copy today and having limited understanding of the field, I hope I can keep up...

Steps 3. to 7. above are simplified by returning to the rCRS human mitochondrial genome in 1. and noting the position of the affected AA in the overall protein sequence. This is in the far right hand column. . Remember to convert T in the DNA gene sequence to U in the RNA Codon in my Table A1. Attached is a file of results for the above through step 7 in a table. Left as an exercise for the student to reproduce/verify this table. Unusual Extra Mutations.docx

@hiflier And @PNWexplorer Very sorry to hear about your best friends. They are not easy to deal with when they are gone. I have lost many dogs that were very special to me. But non were special as my Pitbull Jacob who would never be submissive to me. Yet, he was always there when i needed him in the woods. I felt safe around him. I was never lost in the woods when him and I were out together in the woods. He would always lead the way. He passed away I would say about six years ago.. If only he could talk he be able to support what we encountered in Northern Michigan. My wife and my kids back me up what I have encountered. But my parents and my friends do not. Only one friend supports what i have encountered. but he will not speak up on what he has encountered while hunting with me on his own. I feel like I am a joke to others when i start to mention Bigfoot. The people i know in business I would never mention a word of what i encountered. It would not be good at all. So I keep tight lip as far as the out side world goes or out side of this forum.

Was reading through the StrangeOutdoors site and came across this one. Anybody know if it was covered in any of the 411 books (it seems like a candidate)? https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/2017/11/1/richard-r-lee-strange-disappearances-from-us-forests Interesting article on missing people, and yes, BF is mentioned. Also, this case is discussed on StrangeOutdoors. https://nypost.com/2020/07/04/why-hundreds-of-people-vanish-into-the-american-wilderness/

Bit of variety, but generally a blurry ring ... the, uh, "predator effect". One or two mentioned the center of the ring being clear and what was seen there not jibing with the background outside the ring. Not sure what to think about that. The best info I've gotten was from my old research partner. She said that in the presence of a bigfoot, her vision has never not been sort of wonky. She described what I imagine a person with macular degeneration perceives .. the peripheral vision is fine, the center is blurred to the point that nothing there is visible. She said that on two occasions, she was able to turn her focus to the side and see a tall, heavy bipedal figure, but if she tried to look AT it, all she had was a big blurry spot in the center of her vision. My theory ... some people might remember my account of a small group of bigfoots, at least 3, entering my camp in mid late August of 2011. I'm going to say in the 18th - 22nd range. I was in my sleeping bag and awoke in great distress, thought I was dying. The relevant part of that to this discussion is it felt like pressure waves moving in the fluid in my eyes. Based on that and other things, I think I was experiencing infrasound from a young, inexperience, and not very skilled bigfoot. It was pitch black out, and I was in a tent, but I would bet dollars to donut holes that if it were daylight, I couldn't have seen what was happening around me, I think what was happening was overloading the optic nerves along with the nerves managing motor control of my facial muscles. I do not, however, consider this paranormal. I think there is a very logical explanation from physics and medicine .. which I just layed out. I hope this is a satisfactory answer. I can't answer that without sharing the theory. MIB

Close enough to get a good shot.

I like the train scenario. I want to be a knower in my truck at 78.3 yards from the subject for 3.5 minutes.

Well, I made it up there and back today. My girlfriend asked how long I was going to be gone and I said I figured since we were leaving at 10 am, it was 2 hours up there, 2 hours to find the site, then 2 hours back. So, around 4pm? She giggled. We got back at 8:30pm... The trip was a success. But it wasn't looking like it was going to be. About half way up to the site, our guide remarked that there was quite a bit of new growth in the 10+ years he'd been there and wasn't sure where he was. The terrain was steeper than he remembered and covered in thick overgrowth and downed trees everywhere. He had to stop frequently and rest (he's 85...) and we had to back track a few times to get our bearings. Finally, at around 3pm, he finally spotted a huge dead tree that he used as a marker on a map years ago... We found the site about 15 minutes later, 100 yds to the North. We took a bunch of photos, cleaned off the plaque, said a few words, then got teary eyed as the old man said his goodbyes to a spot he would likely never visit again. On the way up, we went through several huckleberry patches and stumbled across an impressive pile of bear scat. This was likely from a Grizzly. I took a photo of it with my sidearm, a Ruger Super Blackhawk Bisley in .45 Colt. As to any Bigfoot evidence... Really nothing concrete. Tons of elk and bear sign. I found this tree that was pushed over and raked up pretty good, likely from a Grizzly. I found a few springs and checked them all for tracks. This one had a very distinct print that looks like a large footprint that was about 18" long. But, it was old.

Don't know about them fighting each other but here's a video of one fighting a bear. Scary stuff ... You are warned not for the faint of heart

September is when they typically have their biggest sales. I've seen as much as 40% off. That may not happen this year, as the demand for their products has been very high due to virus (and possibly other) concerns. They've sold out of a lot, so I don't see them running any steep discounts anytime soon.

I am not a member, nor do I have any truck with the BFRO beyond a devotion to reading the sighting reports...and I do that religiously. It might get under emphasized how much that database has contributed to awareness and knowledge. Back in the day, nobody in their wildest dreams ever thought that there could be a compendium of that size and degree of accessibility. I get that we are largely a population of non-readers, boy do I. We've had many epic debates here with some skeptics and scoftics. What those opponents mostly had working against them, I'm convinced (aside from a general lack of outdoor experience) was a noticeable lack of reading comprehension skills, and/or lack of motivation to read at all, along with a deficit in the area of deductive reasoning and critical thought. The BFRO database, and the story it tells, require at least a little bit of those abilities. Once you realize this, the story that is there becomes coherent. To me, if the BFRO and MM disappeared tomorrow, that single legacy would justify all else it might be guilty of perpetrating.