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Up a little ways N yesterday for some bog trotting in an area about centrally located between 2 sightings of very differently described creatures, tall, lanky reddish haired adult with shorter assumed juvenile crossing the road and a dark colored, stout individual sighted from a canoe as it stepped up onto a shoreline boulder. About 20 miles apart as the crow flies. Didn't see any BF sign but plenty of color and Northern Pitcher plant: walking old woods roads, giant lichen/moss covered glacial erratics back in here along with old bear tracks crossed a few streams on the way, this was the only misty one: Ran video a bit of the drive out for the hail mary road crossing...

I will take my chances. A couple bottles of cabernet sauvignon to flush the grease out.

I am a handgunner at heart but there's a limit to how much practical punch you can get out of a packable handgun. When it comes to "encounters", of the large bear kind, yes, I prefer a rifle if it is sufficiently large. The only reason for a handgun in those situations is if the reason you're there in the first place precludes carrying a rifle ... like cutting firewood or fly fishing that require both hands. Any gun is better than no gun .. unless that gun just convinces you that you're bigger and badder than you really are and sets you up for, uh, having your attitude adjusted. Painfully. MIB

High speed camera. The hammer just dropped and is about to explode the primer! 🧐 No, no, you cap em in the knee! I think the idea is that hits are better than misses. So if you can hit under duress with a .454? Kudos. If you can’t? Yer gonna have to go get something smaller and more manageable. Pistols don’t give me any warm and fuzzies. I would prefer a rifle in my hands in an encounter.

Or by running faster than your companion.

^^^^ You noticed that, too? So the first way "not to get eaten by a bear" starts with pulling the hammer back. Second is probably to choose something bigger than a .45 ACP. Better than a stick, mostly, but a long ways from ideal ... a long ways from adequate. MIB

Without clicking onto the video, I can tell you that 1911 ain't gonna fire, no matter how hard he squeezes the trigger.

That last picture needs to be on a poster or something.

Siberia generates unique feelings within me. It's much like my beloved Alaska, but much larger. And it's wildlife is similar, but has much more, the Siberian tiger being the most impressive example. I always wanted to go taimen fishing. I strongly suspect that sasquatch type creatures remain in southern Siberian mountains and forests. If I was younger and richer, I would study the Russian language and go. But my brother-in-law and a priest friend DID go. Other friends went early during an oil boom on Sakalin Island. My brother-in- law works for Alaska Airlines, who opened scheduled routes to Vladivostok and Magadan from Anchorage in the early 90's. It didn't last long. Russian crime, both large scale and petty, put an end to it within a couple/few years. Those people would steal the instruments out of the cockpit while the planes were parked for just a few hours. Entire fuel loads for the planes would disappear en route between fuel storage points and the tarmac. They had to keep a man on board the aircraft at all times just to keep the thieves off, and the company feared for the man's safety. Personnel staying in Magadan feared for their lives. Hand grenades were a common weapon that criminals used. To this day, nearly 30 years later, Alaska Airlines still has not tried opening scheduled service again. My priest friend was the first Catholic priest to attempt establishing a Catholic parish in Siberia (Magadan) since the Russian Revolution. His success has been limited, was purely because he is as determined as a pit bull, turned out to be an entire career, and is likely more miraculous than anything else. The Russian government eventually drove him out. The remaining parish is essentially a persecuted religious minority living in a frozen, crime infested Hell. The Sakalin oil boom, created with early American technology and classic oil boom speed, was rather quickly taken over by the Russian government, complete with corruption. Within two years, the Americans were driven out. I'm too old and American to survive the Russian political and criminal environment. Frankly, spending time there scares me as much as the thought of hanging out in Mexico or Central America. No, thanks. I think the Russian political environment shows some promise, but the possible better days are a few decades in the future. Sadly, I think the world situation is in hard reverse..........I suspect American crime and corruption is catching up to the Russians. I like Alaska, thanks. It has been a wonderful home for the past 45 years, and it remains a great place to grow old in.

The footprint was pretty deep but that area was also very soft and extremely wet. The last picture of my post shows the heel area and it was pretty deep. If you click on that picture, you can also enlarge it. @Kiwakwe - Great pictures of a beautiful area. If offers ponds and dense forests both of which are what a sasquatch wants and needs. I particularly enjoyed your third picture as it is the type of terrain I enjoy being out in. Traveling down the road with your high beams on--it's always good to swing for the fences.

All right, it's time to organize a BFF field trip to Siberia. Or at least Kamchatka. Huntster can almost see it from his window! (I kid).

I bought a new knife, a low end Marttiini. It's really nice.

Compare that to these supposed Sasquatch finger prints http://sasquatchresearchers.org/blogs/bigfootjunction/2018/11/10/sasquatch-fingerprints/ :

Just a bit north/northeast of there is where my wife and I saw our first suspect tree structures. Just west of there is where she got touched through our car window by "something", and the next morning there was a very large handprint on our car.

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.