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So now we know why they howl in the night......

Kiwakwe - Great pictures. Looks very squatchy with lots of forests, cover, mountains, and especially thousands of ponds and lakes. Beautiful country. You're were up there in Maine. Above Moosehead Lake. Kudos! Norse - Also beautiful country on the other side of the continent. Very peaceful. I wouldn't want to leave.

My son got a week off work. But archery is from the 12-24. The rain on Friday made the smoke go away. Blue skies.

How long does your hunt go on? How's the smoke now? Ours finally broke a couple days ago. It was ... miserable. We lost much of 2 towns and had a little damage at the ends of 2 others. Last estimate was 2800 buildings destroyed .. no breakout between homes, businesses, and out-buildings yet. Anyway, hunting season begins for me 10/3. This morning I did a little range work with 2 rifles I might call on as backups in case I have mechanical problems with my primary. Feels good to be ready. Much of my normal hunting area is closed by USFS and BLM so that 1) people don't get in the way of firefighting equipment and 2) to keep from starting new fires. I kind of like hunting in the dry crunchy stuff because everyone else seems to stay home and I have it to myself, but this is too dry. And, depending on which way the wind shifts, sometimes pretty smoky.

I swear Norse....you look like a different person in every photo you post!

Hey, everyone -- I've been gone for several years and am back. Some of it is just personal interest (growing up in Northern California in the 1970s, I'll always have a soft spot for the hairy beast,) but also for research purposes for a fiction book I'm working on with a co-author. Looking forward to reading the old threads again.

Just curious, anybody seen this before? https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/06/some-very-strange-information-on-the-bizarre-vanishing-of-dennis-martin/

Norseman, thanks for sharing. I went into the William O. Douglas Wilderness for the first time last year and loved it. No hunting, just camping and hiking. Went there with others who claimed it was a BF hot-spot. While we did not see/hear any BF sign during our visit, one guy saw an orb moving around in the forest.

@Kiwakwe @norseman Great pics, both of you. Great scenery, from both sides of your country, I love these reports!

Archery season 2020 1st leg - Selkirks Bear and Wolf tracks, heard Wolves in Harvey crick. Cut one set of fresh elk tracks on way out by Petit lake. :/ One weird 3 toed track too. Pics 1-10 2nd Leg - William O Douglas Wilderness/Cascades Pics 11-19 Only spent two days in there. Into bulls both days. Calling on ridge and something came in silent and spooked out. Made us jump. Had a hot bull at camp this morn at 5 am. But spike only area. Elk sign out of sight. Every step. Wyatts GF Holly came with us over weekend. She hiked with Wyatt for Saturday morn hunt. I also love, love, love my camper....

Good luck with the H3 BC Witness! Thanks for the reports @Explorer, @wiiawiwbJust back this am from Baxter State Park, mainly a hike up Katahdin and given the campground atmosphere I wasn't expecting any activity but kept me ears and eyes alert to the small possibility. There was a sighting on the other side of the mountain in 2003, throwing small rocks and a good visual of a hairy nighttime visitor in camp, multiple witnesses and well lit with flashlights as it raised its arm to block the light. No such luck for us. Beautiful nonetheless-- On the way up the Abol, a lot of real estate for the Sasquatch: At the peak looking towards the Knife Edge: And Katahdin from Daicy Pond: Chilly morning pond smoke on the way out, a la wiiawiwb:

And here I thought it was a deer with an oddly configured antler rack!

The footprint, who's measurement became my screen name here, was found just outside the edge of the fire line immediately following the Biscuit Fire. 17x7

Outstanding!!!

I would be more comfortable with that answer, no doubt about it, but I'm not absolutely sure it is correct. There's stuff in the report data that gets filtered out because the groups that publish the reports are trying to "buy" credibility by appearing strictly scientific. That filtering itself is unscientific. It creates a misleading picture of what the data really is. I think we have to follow the data ... wherever it leads, whether we "like" where it is going or not, but few people, other than those who work within those groups, actually know what the data shows. Because of our discomfort with the topics involved, we are often willing to be mislead if not actively working to participate in misleading ourselves. IMHO that's where I come in .. I am willing to look at all of the evidence, not try to hide or bury any of it no matter how uncomfortable the implications of it proving true are, but then I put it under a microscope to try to determine fact vs fiction. There's a saying, not bigfoot related, roughly translated "people don't want to hear your opinion, they want to hear their opinion coming from your mouth." Telling a truth, telling THE truth, is not a good way to make friends in the BF world any more than it is regarding politics or religion. People don't want truth, they want validation. MIB