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I went backpacking into Emigrant Wilderness over labor day weekend. I read an old report of a daylight BF sighting on the southern end of the Relief Reservoir and wanted to explore that area. Went in at Kennedy Meadows trail-head and climbed up to Upper Relief Valley. Distance was about 9.6 miles and climb about 3,600 ft. Took me 2 days to climb. Unfortunately, the Creek Fire (NE of Fresno) dumped ash and soot on the whole area on Saturday afternoon and I decided to bail out on Sunday (instead of Monday). At 5 pm on Saturday, I could not see the sun and it was a dark as night. But the worst part was that my mesh tent and everything inside was covered with black soot and I was breathing that bad air. I was disappointed with this trip because: 1) Both lower and upper relief valley had cattle grazing (Don't like cows in wilderness areas because they change the wilderness and make non-local sounds). At least the cows did not have bells, like they have in other wilderness areas that I have been to! 2) Kennedy Meadows during labor day weekend is a ghetto - too many people crowded together (though not many people were climbing 3,600 ft to see Upper Relief Valley) I heard a bear at midnight and at 2 am on Sunday, but my Tascam DR-05 died on Friday (day 1). It was probably far away from my location because the granite walls of that area carry sound very well. My FLIR only captured rabbits, squirrels, and cows. Below are some photos of that beautiful area. Probably best to visit on a non-holiday weekend. There were lots of horse back riding into that area via that trail. So I took a photo of a group of horseback riding on the 2nd bridge from KM.

Or he would carry her over his shoulder... I have read his posts on the subject. 9 months later, there would be sightings of slightly shorter, slightly hairier, slightly more foul tempered Sasquatch.

A very succinct and wise post, Northwind. Thank you.

Great story. I was waiting for the typical "and before I got further, I took the queue of my trusty dog and didn't go further - I'm convinced it was a Bigfoot lair!"

I'm thinking that like Albert Ostman, if a randy female bigfoot were to spy our own Huntsman in the woods, that chemical chemistry would occur in a heartbeat. She would carry Hunts over her shoulder to her lair, where they would become very close. Cigarettes afterwards. JMHO

Same here, we just had a good sized alder go down in my mini-forest. Just stopping by to say love all the field images. Posting a couple from an overnight with family on the north side of Olympics. I recorded some kind of weird vocal which I may post after I ponder it more. Third image is a not clear snow print with toes from Mt. Rainier, taken by a family member on a day hike. There were at least a couple prints, but man sized. Just a head scratcher.

I would consider it a gift of recovery, Madison. An early reason to go strong. What I'm liking is that you folks don't get aggressive and go after these creatures. If what you are experiencing truly is the Bigfoots then they must somehow know your lack of being anything like a threat. I know you'll do the right thing: Give them time, give them space and leave it to them to make all the moves. Obviously there's some healthy curiosity present there- on BOTH sides of these meetings. Now that you two have their attention, there's no rush to do anything but be present which is an approach that seems to be working for you. I'll say it again, you deserve these experiences and I'm happy for you both of you and the rest.

Congrats Madison and NorthWind. That is so exciting and something all of us are hoping to experience. Was there any sense of flight during that time or did the wonderment of it all triumph throughout? Now that you experienced that, knowing the bigfoots behaved as expected, would any fear be present if the two of you are a quarter or half mile from your car the next time? I want to go sasquatching with the two of you!!!

There was a show on just last week on Sunday on the Anima Channel. lt was about the Yeti in Nepal. It was a British biologist who I believe his name was Mark who he took with him on this expedition another scientist. Her job was to take EDNA on the mountain where this climber had found some large foot prints at around 17000 ' . Now they said that there should have been no Human bare footed at that altitude. Well the scientist who took the EDNA sample had taken three samples I believe. Any how One sample was from some foot prints that were found in the snow. The other two samples were taken from a small pond on top of the mountain where they said that there should not be no human. The first sample came back as a mountain goat that should not have been from Nepal. The second sample came back I believe as a snow leopard I believe. The third came back as human but was mixed with some thing unknown. Strange Right ! How many times have we heard Human in the samples in the States. But they were thrown out because they were contaminated. How many times are we going to be throwing out these samples that people have collected. Yet ,science says that they are contaminated due to Human error. They need to stop doing this and start researching further into these samples. Stop trying to match these samples with some thing that is not yet in the data base. Start collecting blood samples from all who are involve with the samples collected. So that these collectors can be ruled out of the samples. They need to start a data base on these thrown out samples so that we can get a clear picture of what we are dealing with. They said that on the sample of Nepal it was 99% Human. What is that 1% unkown ? It is not primate or it would have shown up on the Data base. unknown means just that unknown.

Reports say people have shot them dead. Watched and heard them whimper, groan or scream when running away after being shot- even with a 30.06. Not really my idea of anything but large, powerful flesh and blood. A fair question might be is there an animal that has been see LESS that a Sasquatch in th last century? And if so why hasn't IT been given a paranormal status- at least I haven't heard of anyone doing so with any scientifically rare species. I can see where the fact that there is no specimen for study might result in a paranormal evaluation but, for me at least, there are thousands of reports that say otherwise. At minimum, the depth of reported tracks lends to a 100% physical creature. Ask Bob Gimlin if there was anything paranormal about Patty. Ask anyone who is a knower. Between us and the animal kingdom I only see one creature intelligent enough to remain "undiscovered", both in guile and in low numbers, which has ALL of the capabilities necessary to remain undiscovered without moving toward something beyond entirely physical. Christopher Knight remained in the same woodsy area of Maine for 21 years before his "discovery". Had a sheltered camp and everything and folks said it was so well hidden as to be almost impossible to find. Now imaging a creature that doesn't need an elaborate camp, blends in with it's surroundings, stays in remote, inaccessible regions, and doesn't need to steal things from people to survive. Putting the creature into these perspectives keeps it in the "real world" without question which, in my mind anyway, says to keep going in the manner that that we have been with perhaps a few changes in methodology according to what's available these days to assist in the search.

The line? Looks like a spider web to me. Attached to a swaying branch on the left side of the camera.

Great advice! I'm very sad to say that a third of the places where we go bigfooting are on fire. The entire McKenzie River corridor is on fire 🔥 and there are mandatory evacuations in all the pretty little towns halfway to Bend. Our trackmakers may be in trouble. One friend had already lost her house and two more have evacuated. The air quality is rated 417 out of 300 possible points, in the maroon category. Our sky is orange and the ash is falling like hazy snow. This is from my front yard.