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Yep. It was gorgeous. Lane County, outside Eugene, Oregon, out in the Cascades.

Well, since we're all putting up pictures of when we were young 'uns. Penn State ROTC 80-84 timeframe. My wife has asked me where I've buried this body as my six pack is now behind a keg or two.....

These look kinda fun for night activities. https://sneakyhunter.com/product/hiker-bootlamps/

A friend and I were out riding once when we scared up some partridges (I think) which EXPLODED out of the underbrush. On the bright side I now now what the last few furlongs of Secretariat's Belmont Stakes win must have felt like.

Thanks for the replies. Talking with My dad years later he was 100% sure the screams were not a mountain lion. as the crow flies this is not far from the area of the Sierra recordings. Dad said the track way was two legged not four and he couldn’t come close to matching the stride. Hunter lots of good camping at that elevation on NF lands

I'm very interested in that area up Highway 108, especially at @ 4500'-6000' elevation in winter. East of that, at @ 8000' elevation in October, is the area of the Sierra Sounds events. I've run SSI queries on the seasonal differences in reports in the area, and sure enough, the winter reports are all on the western side of the Sierras and at @ snowline or just below. Looks like a great place to camp for a few weeks one winter........if I can find a legal place to do so that time of year..........

Moon rising over Hall Mtn. Sullivan Lake, Wa.

Kind of the opposite of a field trip, since this happened at home...but, A friend of ours sneaked over to our property and put our early Christmas present up while we were out. Still not used to seeing it as I come down our road.

I frequent this lake and I know Tobe well as a researcher. I have absolute confidence in his identification ability. This is a very squatchy area, despite the people. I have found prints here, and been yelled at by a sasquatch close by. I am 99.5% certain these are real and I KNOW there are bigfoots nearby. I will absolutely go on record as saying I think that it's not only possible, but probable. Because I know the London Prints were found there, it's a place I return to again and again, hoping for something just like that! Also, I'm certain of that print. Look at where it bends - on the outside. We've found the same thing.

I'd think it's certainly a possibility and the lack of fossil evidence doesn't mandate it's non existence, since only a small percentage of species are represented in the fossil record, which one might well think applies to ancient hominids as well. This might be particularly true for a species that secrets it's dead away. another question is where did it originate? Did it cross the land bridge from Asia at one or more of its uncovering as ocean levels dropped? It may well represent some hominid version of megafauna, with its large size in part a strategy to exist among the predators of that time...perhaps it was the primate intelligence that allowed it to survive when the vast majority of the megafauna species died out, either due to shifting climate/ecosystems or at the hands of the newest monkey in town, we humans. And that primate intelligence, as it progressed, allowed them to disperse and adapt to the new and varied habitats across the continent. Or maybe doing so is what propelled the development of a higher cognition that enabled them to recognize the threat posed by the more technological western man, and thereby evade them. Just a thought...

I watched it. I'm torn .. not sure, with only personal preference about what I'd like the truth to be to draw on. I do not think he is lying .. I don't think a person can keep up the facade that long. I believe that he believes what he is saying whether it is true or not. I would say it is either true as delivered, or some of it is true and has been in some way reinforced / expanded on in such a way he is not aware of untruth in it. A few years back a friend .. my hiking / bigfooting / hunting buddy .. spent a weekend with a volunteer group restoring trails into the area we research. They spike camped Saturday night, the organization that they were volunteering for brought in food, water, etc by pack train. He said that in the middle of the night, when he was in his tent, something was pressing down on his chest squeezing the air out of him. (Sound like Barton's account at all? :)) He said he told "it" that it was killing him and asked it to stop. It did. He could find no evidence of his experience the next morning. Though a bigfoot knower, he rationalizes that experience as sleep paralysis ... and maybe it was. I see a few possibilities regarding his account. 1) It is a hoax. (As above, I do not think this is true.) 2) It is true, word for word. (I sure hope not ... but I do not have complete confidence, only wishful thinking.) 3) Something terrifying happened and was reinforced in a way that he believes the account he shared. That is where sleep paralysis might be the seed and his mind trying to cope with it, subconsciously constructing the rest of the story, could be the reinforcement. Without intending to assassinate his character, we have to consider substance abuse. Does not seem like he is a drinker but by his own words, he stayed absolutely plowed for the rest of his time there. Alcohol poisoning is a thing and at that level, alcohol can trigger hallucinations which can be connected to pre-existing intense fear. There is no way for any of us to investigate to ferret out truth from this. We bring our preconceived notions of what is and what isn't, how people behave and how they don't, to the table and they color our interpretation of information presented to us. Sometimes right, sometimes wrong. I think the wise thing is to keep it under consideration, like the Missing 411 accounts, in case the set up / precursor things seem to be happening to you so you can use what he did as a tool for getting yourself out of it, but do not overly dwell on it so that it ruins your time out there. So, y' know, take it under advisement, but know there is no way to either validate or refute it based on anything other than pre-existing personal bias. ... and continue to be careful out there. MIB