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He was also a young follower of highly respected Dr. Grover Krantz who postulated the Giganto idea. After Dr. Krantz passed away Dr. Meldrum had some breathing room to tweak the theory. His tweaking was the result of his expertise in bipedalism as it related to what he determind from footprint casts. He secretely held to the notion that Sasquatch simply couldn't be your classic ape.

I have heard them growl and whoop. The whoop sounds very much like it could have been produced by a human and does not sound bark like at all.

The massacre theory is a load of nonsense from an obvious crackpot.

Dr. Meldrm, who once thought sasquatch was most likely Giganthecus blacki, has changed his opinion and thinks its most likely a branch of Australopithicene, the species just before Homo, because the Laitoli footprints, left in volcanic ash a few million year ago, shows a similar morphology to sasquatch prints with the midtarsal break. He also believes that species walked with knees bent in a compliant gait like sasquatches.

It goes without saying that warmer-climate outdoor adventures are a lot more enjoyable. With that said, do you find any enjoyment going out in the woods looking for evidence when it is cold and maybe even snowy? I do and I'm heading out tomorrow for an overnight. Snow on the ground today and tomorrow-night lows around 23F. Actually not bad; maybe even balmy! In the past, I've accepted that better times were long gone and I too should hunker down and endure Old Man Winter. Not any more. Hunting season is over so there will be zero traffic in the woods. It's time to get out there and look for prints. A light snow cover provides the perfect opportunity. I'm not sure that something might be willing to visit me at night but we'll see. Anyone else looking forward to overnight cold-weather sasquatching and have you had any luck?

Timber Rattlers were living rent free in my head for about a month after having almost stepped on two of them this summer. The purchase and use of snake gaiters and chaps along with new full-grain leather boots has evicted this unlawful tenant from my thoughts.

Due early next year, on SciFi Channel, "GarNado!"

I went frame by frame as he walked along there trying to see any other prints but all I see are bear and probably wolf/coyote tracks, a few smaller critters. Just one, out of place small barefoot print, looks like there would be other human prints but I saw none.

Definitely a piece of it, but still potentially misleading. Without a definite type sample for the DNA comparison, bigfoots might well test out as human. Remember that the mtDNA tests focus on specific gene loci for making the determination, they don't check the whole strand. If the differences between human / sasquatch mtDNA fall at some locations other than what we currently test, we're not going to tell one from the other until the testing changes. I'd expect that if they dig deeper than just trying to do species identification and get down to the level of testing used for determining paternity, etc then differences should appear .. should come across as some unknown haplogroup. That's pretty close to what one of Sykes' samples said, some kind of rare eastern European DNA found in a very unexpected location. I think that's worth a 2nd look. I got to examine 1-2 pieces of the huckleberry that was broken off .. already contaminated, so no issue regarding DNA. Anyway, what I saw looked to be right at the limit of what humans could break by hand w/o tools as sharply as they were broken which points to very considerable hand strength. I was told that some of the huckleberry branches were considerably thicker than those I was shown. I think that puts it out of the realm of bear behavior, clearly and cleanly, and beyond the strength of the very vast majority of human hands. I find that intriguing as well. I would like to do some experimenting this fall. The huckleberry near me is a different species with pretty different characteristics but down by my dad's house the huckleberry is the same as the OP has. Then, as a side note, that first trackway I found back in '74 lead into a huckleberry "jungle" very much like what was shown on video taken when Meldrum went to the "nests" site. Again, very intriguing. There are definitely dots that connect. Some that should not, too. Caution is in order in drawing conclusions but there are conclusions and insights that can rightly be drawn, IMHO, from what the OP folks did, and did not, find. MIB