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Just be sure to take the basics for entering any forest. If you are asking questions about the area you probably aren't familiar with the people who have gone missing in the forests immediately north of Carson. I can think of three mushroom pickers that disappeared in the last four years between Carson and Trout Lake. One was found deceased but no sign of the others. Several hikers have gone missing in the last three years just east of the FS 60/65 intersection, absolutely no sign of them ever found. Have the right gear and know how to use a map.

And stay off my lawn!

You could have saved me a lot of typing by just stating you are a JREFer. I thought I was having a legitimate conversation.

As a lifetime big game hunter, I have no empathy for those "hunters". They should have sat quietly as you passed, just like a lion, a bear, or I would have done. I've been accidentally shot two different times by hunters, and both times they were in my hunting party. I now hunt alone, and I have a damned good reply for those who try to tell me that hunting alone is dangerous. Another thing I've noticed: three days after big game hunting season closes, and as the last hunters leave the field, the predators and scavengers come out en masse. Human hunters literally leave a smorgasbord of protein out there (bone marrow, livers, kidneys, hearts, meat, heads, etc) for God's disposal crew, not to mention their camp waste. The best bear hunting in Alaska begins immediately after moose season closes. I know a party of hunters who sat on a moose gut pile that was left on the last couple of days of the season, and ended up taking two brown bears and a wolverine from that spot over the following week. Sasquatch hunting will improve dramatically after human hunters leave the field after the close of deer season, your odds of getting shot (accidentally or not) will be greatly reduced, and the overall experience will be much better.

If I had to live in NY, or in the Midwest, I'd be grouchy, too...

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.

That looks very much like the Peace River area of NE B.C. and NW Alberta. The vegetation, tea coloured water, and iffy roads are just like that.

I suspect it depends on scarcity of resources .. food, water, shelter .. in the general region, thus how easy it is or isn't to simply avoid conflict and move somewhere else just as good as the place they're leaving, along with density of human population and its regional behavior, and then the personality of individual bigfoots. For instance, based on report data, I'd be more cautious across the southern tier of states from Florida through Texas to Arizona. Seems like the BFs are more pushy. For the most part, the Pac NW doesn't have the same reputation but there are exceptions like the upper Molalla and Clackamas river areas east of Portland / Salem. There's no reason I can think of for that so far as resources so I assume it is a personality issue. There's nothing like a certainty of dying a horrible bigfoot-induced death anywhere. There's no absolute guarantee of not. On the balance, I find it improbable enough that I don't worry about it, there are far more probable dangers anywhere you choose to go .. including staying at home where we mistakenly presume we are safe. MIB