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If I were forced to leave my native Montana, northern Idaho would be my first choice. The country is beautiful and the people are typically very friendly. Coeur d' Alene's climate is moderated somewhat by Lake Coeur d' Alene in much the same way as Kalispell and the surrounding country by Flathead Lake. Like the Flathead area, Coeur d' Alene derives a lot of income from the tourist industry. My wife and I over nighted there two weeks ago on our return trip to Helena from visiting family in the Seattle area. We stayed in a business class hotel near I-90 and there weren't many empty spaces in the parking lot. We dined at a popular local sports themed pub and it was packed with people waiting in line for a table. Just read Norse's post and don't disagree; I'd likely pick one of the smaller towns off the I-90 corridor, but we're retired. The nice thing is, even if you settle in the city, you're minutes away from wild country. If you have kids, the Silverwood Theme Park is just 15 miles north of the city on Highway 95. We took our kids there several times in the late nineties and early oughts, the last time staying in the large RV park they operate. Post Falls, between Coeur d' Alene and the Washington state line is home to the Buck Knives factory. Even though I've been through the area many times since the mid-fifties visiting my dad's brothers and my older siblings around Seattle, often staying overnight, Norse certainly has much more knowledge of the central area. I have spent time at Priest Lake and in Sandpoint on Lake Pend Oreille. We spent ten days in August of 2019 in Wallace and explored some of the back roads and local attractions. Nathan Footer lives somewhere up in north Idaho, you might PM him. If I can answer any questions shoot me a PM. Good luck!

Well you have proven yourself correct. If we share bipedalism? We are super close. No other living great ape is bipedal. Just us. It would be a huge discovery.

As a child, I had it all figured out. Monkeys grew up, and as they got older/bigger, they became various apes, until finally, at adulthood, became gorillas! Mom informed a young, merely brash (not yet fully incorrigible) me, that was not the case. Live and learn.

Thanks Norse. That will help me greatly in my quest to get up to speed especially given my unwavering interest in all things sasquatch. Incorrigible1 - It's rather obvious that I am stumbling and fumbling with this subject. I'm definitely a not a ready-for-prime-time primatologist!!

Cheetah was a chimp. Chimp is an ape. And a human is an ape. I believe there are 5 species of apes. No worries, let’s get you up to speed. Livings species within the family Homo Sapiens/Humans Chimps Gorillas Orangutans Bonobos There are also “lesser apes” such as Gibbons. The main difference between an ape and a monkey is that monkeys have tails. Apes do not. (Plus bigger brains, bodies, etc) And monkeys are broken down to between new world monkeys and old world monkeys. There are no new world apes discovered..... yet.😜 https://news.janegoodall.org/2018/06/27/chimps-humans-monkeys-whats-difference/

Was awesome..... met alot BFer's all of them in the Moonshine distillers shops LOL.... TN is so beautiful

Not to be too critical, and commenting light-heartedly, but Cheetah wasn't a monkey.

Which I don’t. It’s hard enough to prove ONE unknown cryptid let alone many similar types. That’s a question we can ask after the discovery. Parsing out your statement? Your saying that because other large mammals still exist in the Pac NW? That it’s prime Bigfoot habitat? What about Moose in Maine? Or the reintroduction of Elk to the great Smokey mountains? What about polar bears in Ontario? Caribou in Quebec? Canada is a vast wilderness. And the US is connected to that wilderness by mountain ranges that serve as wilderness corridors south. And the Eastern US is more heavily timbered than the western US? Black bears are also prevalent in the East. Whats not to like?

IN Gatlinburg? Don't make me laugh (oopsie, too late). The thread topic is: "Going to Gatlinburg, TN next week any good spots to Hunt BF?" The thread topic isn't "are there Bigfoots IN Gatlinburg". The OP is looking for "any good spots, which means YOU'RE off topic. But to answer your question: Nests in Gatlinburg? Not likely. Because there's probably no Bigfoots in Gatlinburg to build them.