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I'm thinking the Bumble(aka the Abominable snowman, kinda telling, eh?) from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is the first introduction a good many of us had to the world of giant furry hominids, one that laid a foundation of wonder at a seemingly terrifying being who later plays the role of the only one capable of a critical task. Also, am I the only one who thinks of Norseman whenever Yukon Cornelius comes on screen? In a good way of course! Merry Christimas and happy holidays to you all!

Well I pulled a dumb one. Took an afternoon drive, threw in my ruck, recon bag and rifle. Went out the south fork of Sherman road. You guys have seen tons of pics of that place. I tried turning around at MM 3. Wide spot. I knew I was in trouble as soon as I left the hard pack two track. I got several runs at the hard pack portion of the road before she high centered. And the more I dug and tried to rock it? The deeper I got. The Gerber LMF and Woodsmans pal got a work out. Shovel? No. Winch? No. Tire chains? Nope! What an idiot. From about 1:30 to 4:30 I fought it before giving up and stripping down to dry clothes on the dash and melt snow in a pop bottle. All I had in the camper where saltines. After a long and mostly sleepless night I put half dry clothes on this morn. Grabbed my recon bag with my pistol and started hiking out. Luckily I got two small messages out to my wife. South Fk Sherman rd Stuck Of course my inbound messages where flying in even though I only got two messages out. Service was basically non existent. Lots of merry xmas. Lots of texts of my wife freaking out. Uh oh. Concerned friends.... now I feel like a jerk right? My wife had called every one in the county looking for me. She picked me up where the road meets hwy 20. My daughter gave me a big hug. My wife was mad but teary eyed..... Im glad she picked me up. A miracle those 2 measages got out. Otherwise with Covid and Xmas day? I would have walked back to town! It was 13 degrees at the pickup when I left this morn. I tried dozens of times to contact Onstar. Nothing. I had Inreach in the oilfield but my canceled it when I got out. Definitely need something in the future. I was damn lucky to get a message out. So I went back to the ranch. Threw my tractor on my flatbed and went out and recovered myself. 100 HP tractor would not bust that Chevy loose! I had to have her on the throttle as well. Crazy! Anyhow Im good. Was never worried, other than what I was putting loved ones through. Albeit walking all the way back to town would have sucked badly. I need to get more set up for my overlanding adventures. Winch Shovel Axe kit Maxtrax Comms of some sort that dont involve cell towers tire chains (I have them on tractor, roxor, etc, but I dont think in this case they would have worked) On my 3 mile hike out I kept hearing branches breaking. And every once in a while thought I heard some hooting. But then at one stop I heard Ravens. Dunno. Im glad I had my pistol. I check my backtrail alot and kept expecting a Cougar standing there. Only sign I saw was Deer, but lots of Moose in there too. Merry Xmas!

Hello to anyone who is interested in my research! I guess I caused quite a stir in the contest forum. My apologies for creating a logjam. It was recommended that this might be a more appropriate section for that kind of discussion. If this isn't the place, please let me know. I am a complete novice to how forums work. Who Am I? I am a professional archaeologist who has surveyed hundreds of thousands of acres of national forests, national park lands, national wildlife refuges, state forests, and other federal, state, local and private lands from New York to California and from Wisconsin to Louisiana. I spent most of my adult life navigating heavy forested lands with only a topo map and a compass searching for cultural resources in order to identify them, record them, map them, test them, and in some cases excavate them. In order to do my job, I had to distinguish natural settings from cultural disturbances. Changes in vegetation often provided indicators of historic or prehistoric past activities. I have recorded thousands of archaeological sites in wooded environments. Nowadays, the people who do that kind of work are guided by GPS. I had to keep track of my distances walked by the measure of my strides. Later on, after joining the US Forest Service and moving up the food chain, I managed heritage resources on a forest wide scale of millions of acres of national forest, worked on forest management plans, Environmental Impact Statements, Environmental Assessments, as well as managing heritage resources in wilderness areas and wild and scenic management plans. I have a great amount of experience working with biologists, silviculturists, foresters, geologists, fishery biologists, and scientists of different disciplines on best management practices for a variety of habitats to protect, preserve and/or interpret special use areas. I've always had an interest in large hairy hominids, beginning with the Yeti and later Bigfoot. I can still recall my fascination in reading my friend's father's copy of Argosy magazine the article about the Patterson-Gimlin film of Bigfoot. I remember thinking "That would be fun and exciting!" At about the same time, I was greatly influenced by Jane Goodall's work with Chimpanzees that was shown on National Geographic specials on TV. Influenced enough that I majored in anthropology in college. I cared little about Physical Anthropology. I really enjoyed taking Cultural Anthropology classes. However, after taking my first archaeology class, I was hooked! My senior year, that's all I took. When I went to field school, visitors often mistook me for the Field Director's Assistant in how much I knew and was willing to share with visitors. That catapulted to graduate school and then on to a long career as a professional archaeologist. Bigfoot was out of sight and out of my mind back then. It was only after I retired that my interest in Bigfoot was renewed. First, by the TV show "Finding Bigfoot," which was laughable, entertaining and sometimes informative. During this time, I was spending a lot of time at my family's camp. When I was kid, my grandmother lived in the house. After she passed, my father and mother used it as our camp or summer home. Since I was able to walk, I'd go off to play in the deep woods that surrounded our camp. Beyond the cut lawn of our yard was millions of acres of private and government forests. I played on logs, building forts and just hanging out in what I called my "pocket of peace" where I could be alone in my thoughts. Little did I know, I was never alone. Since I had no fear of forests and, like Thoreau, I couldn't get enough of being alone in the forest, I liked to hike into the woods by myself going as deep as I could where I would get lost and then I'd work to find my way back. To further challenge myself, I'd go hiking at night without a flashlight and into the woods in the dark. Moonlit nights were easy. No moon and cloud cover was something else. That was my thrill seeking adventures after I retired. After watching Finding Bigfoot, as a joke, I started incorporating their tree knocks, howls, and other methods into my midnight hikes with little success. After all, I had no idea that Bigfoot existed away from the mountains of the west. Then I saw an episode that was filmed about ten miles away as the crow flies from my camp. Hmmm, I thought. I kept knocking and howling. Still without much success. Then I found my first footprint. It was 18+ inches long and was embedded four inches into the ground. I'm a big guy and I couldn't make a dent into the ground deeper than an inch. I call this my "first step" into turning a hobby into an obsession. I graduated from Finding Bigfoot to watching Bigfoot researchers on YouTube. It was about this time that Barb and Gabby started gifting Bigfoots near her place out west. So, I started doing it too. From watching the old "Dr. Squatch" urban hikes and later "Utah Sasquatch," I started realizing that similar stick and tree structures were all around me and were what I played in and around as a kid. They were especially prevalent in my "Pocket of Peace." When that realization hit me, I went to bed that night in my camp lying awake for many hours staring at the ceiling thinking to myself "Hell, you're an archaeologist! A **** ANTHROPOLOGIST! An anthropologist who became an anthropologist from watching National Geographic specials on Jane Goodall and her work with Chimpanzees. Why not me with these Bigfoots who have lived alongside my camp all of my life? They must know me better than I know myself, after watching me in their wallows thinking that I was all alone by myself. That I was never snatched by them, though they had many chances to do so, said to me that they were no threat to them possibly because I was never a threat to them. That they had the chance to crush me like a grape and never did made me emboldened to conduct a habituation study ala Jane Goodall on them. How to do it was another question? They're not like Chimpanzees or most other forest animals. So, I continued gifting them for several years trying to figure out a way to study them. By 2015 I latched on to Christopher Noel's (Impossible Visits) research watching all of his videos and reading all of his books (as well watching others and reading every Bigfoot book I could get my hands on). I especially liked the idea of his "listening project." So much so that I bought a digital audio recorder to put out in the woods in the location where I had been gifting them. To document this momentous occasion, I brought along my Panasonic Lumix camera which could take digital photos and videos. Although I had for several years, I never took any videos of anything and never took it out with me in the woods on my hikes. Apparently, taking my camera along and videotaping my hike didn't go over well with those in the forest who I was gifting because I got zapped with infrasound. Here's a link to my adventure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ8zMMEZ4o0 I also got zapped the next day when I went back to regift and retrieve my audio recorder. Here's a link to that video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTrXOJbr1M8 Since I had no fear of them, I took it all in stride. Their infrasound discombobulated me and, in doing so, made me fall face first into a tree trunk but I didn't want to show them that it was their zapping to give them the satisfaction that, in fact, it was their zapping that made my legs turn to jelly and my head spinning before I hit the tree with my noggin. When I brought the recorder back to the camp with me, I played back some of the recordings. I could hear some anomalous sounds beyond the hissing sound of recording. Growing up, I used to lie in bed with a transistor radio turning the dial to far off stations and through the hissing sounds pick up stations from as far away as Mexico and Montreal. So, the hissing sound didn't bother me. It did, however, bother my wife who complained that all she could hear was "white noise." I knew then that I had to remove the "white noise" to be able to listen to the anomalous sounds of suspected Sasquatches. I also knew that I would have to remove it from all of the 24 hours of recordings in order to establish a baseline of presence and absence of suspect Sasquatch sounds. This, to identify patterns of sounds and differences of sounds. All these thoughts ran through my head at the time and I had no idea how to do it or even how to download the audio files. This took me a year to do. I first learned how to download the files and then found an article written by Sasquatch Bioacoustics on how to use the free audio processing software called "Audacity." After much experimentation, I figured out a process that would allow me to carefully peel away several layers of the "white noise" without any distortion to reveal the anomalous suspected sounds of Sasquatch. My next step was analyzing the 24 hours of audio recordings of June 1 - June 2, 2015 which I called "A Day in the Life of a Group of Bigfoots" divided into two days, Day One (June 1 from about 8 pm to midnight) and Day Two (midnight to approximately 8 pm June 2). Here's a link to the 48 episodes in a playlist https://youtu.be/ju8jvzl9H2Y?list=PLzkVpssCSuoc8oHJcw-LFjAAYR7kpgy-j If you don't have 24 hours to listen to all at once, you can listen to each episode individually at your leisure. I then started posting them on my new YouTube channel called "Bigfoot Anthropologist." https://youtu.be/ju8jvzl9H2Y?list=PLzkVpssCSuoc8oHJcw-LFjAAYR7kpgy-j You might say that I am specializing in the research of Bigfoot behavior through audio surveillance and field visits (sometimes with a camera) to collect information on Bigfoot activities to understand their language, rituals, spiritualism, intelligence, social systems, culture, demography, and settlement-subsistence patterns. I have tested and replicated these results in rigorous experiments. Consequently, I am extremely confident in my research methods and results. My interpretations of the data are all my own, but the data that I collect is presented for anyone to reach their own conclusions, as is part of the process of the scientific method. I call these tests "Cross Cultural Comparisons and Collaborations" and have a playlist of 50 of them at https://youtu.be/MhrBqoGCF0E?list=PLzkVpssCSuocNDhg8SCNgaoJZuPf6KVVt Again, one could watch any one of them individually by clicking on whatever episode that you are interested in on my channel. Some are video classics and others are collaborations using other Bigfoot researchers materials (with their permission). I am not a traditional Bigfoot researcher. Nor do I approach the subject matter in the same manner as traditionalists. My posit is that I assume or affirm the postulate that Bigfoot is real and that, once interaction is established, we can learn about them through observation. Albeit, they are naturally averse to being observed. The fact that I may not always observe them by "seeing" them, knowing that I am in their midst by examining audio data either from a digital audio recorder or audio from a video or both should speak volumes to those researchers who seek to know more about these elusive reclusive hominids. Anyone who is on this journey of discovery who also posits their existence is welcome along. Those who continue to question everything about their existence will have a great amount of difficulty just taking the first step. If you want Bigfoot to be recognized by Science, you have to first start with one. I am a Scientist who recognizes that they exist. I may not be the first, but I am one. I interact act with them and they with me. I have captured them on film and audio. I have broken the "Bigfoot Sound Barrier" by figuring out how to carefully peel away the "white noise" from the ambient background sounds of the forest to reveal suspected Sasquatch sounds. I have carefully examined hundreds and hundreds of hours of Bigfoot audio recordings in context. Contextual information is key to understanding human and hominid behaviors. By studying the patterns of Bigfoot sounds in similar contexts, I've identified different types of Sasquatch sounds from "happy Bigfoot sounds" to infrasounds used to zap people and many other sounds attributable to other patterned hominid behaviors in a variety of different contexts. Watching my videos on YouTube is free and subscribing to my channel is free also. As a member of this forum, I'd especially welcome you to leave a comment on any video so I can know who you are on both platforms. Please be respectful, as you are on this platform. Besides my YouTube channel, I am also in the process of writing a book on all of this. It will be an ebook. When it comes out, I'd like all of you to have a free copy of it. My hope is that it and my research will help you out in your own journey of discovery of this fascinating phenomenon we call Bigfoot. In my mind, we're all in this together, even if we are following different paths and have divergent ideas. We are one with Bigfoot. I simply ask to be accepted in your community for who I am and what I am doing. I'm anxious to share what I know with you and look forward to establishing a dialog with like minded individuals. I would like you to think of me as your friendly neighborhood Bigfoot Anthropologist. Peace, love and Bigfoot!

I'm glad you're ok Norse. Merry Christmas!

The Ravens were placing dibs on your eyeballs. Good that you are safe and able to have a food coma. Some vehicles are not 'winch friendly'. I carry MAASDAM pulling products. MAASDAM Pow'r-Pull 1 ton strap puller and 3/4 ton rope puller. Strap length doesn't matter because extra rigging is needed to attach to an anchor point ( big tree ) and the vehicle. The strap puller has to be operated with the drum horizontal or the strap will 'walk' off to the side. I learned that the easy way. The rope puller can handle an unlimited length of 1/2 dia. rope. I have a 5 gallon bucket filled with 1/2 rope. The anchor point is usually a long distance away from a vehicle. Trees bend and yes, it is possible to pull over a small tree. MAASDAM pullers are utility items and not restricted to vehicle extraction. I have been considering buying CB radios. There may be a good chance that vehicles, with 4WD and high ground clearance and CB radios are in your areas. Then there are the HAM radio operators. Norseman, do your trucks have CB radios?

Ugh! Glad you are OK. Funny you had BF on your mind even after all of that.

I have to keep reminding myself, the better I make my rig, the further off road I'll be stuck! The last time I did something similar, my daughter and I were 43km off pavement, no cell service since km 9, and walked 10km to find a guy with a Garmin inreach to call out for help. I now have a Garmin myself, and upgraded from a softroader Mitsubishi Outlander to a Hummer H3. Now I'll ne able to screw up waaaay out there. :-( Glad you're back safe at home for Christmas, norse.

Once your hung up it’s over lol. No wonder even the tractor needed a little extra help to get you out. Was probably frozen to the ground and your dragging the belly till your out. Glad it all worked out and you have both a lesson and new tale to tell and pass on.

I have a BAR in .300 win mag

Hi SwiftWater, I believe those 'berries' are rose hips. A good vitamin filled winter food source.

Hi Incorrigible1 - To answer your question, Hominogist Richard Soule has taken great interest in my work. He just contacted me today about the clicks that I identified in his interaction video with Chia Tonga on the Omaha Reservation with Dr. Igor Burtsev. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cl4JJoFZmY Richard mentioned that Duke from Bigfoot Radio contacted him about a story, "the Glagg Saga" in which a person named Kevin befriended and orphan juvenile Sasquatch that took him into a cave and traversed the cave in complete darkness. After watching my video, Duke came to the epiphany that the clicking sounds you have identified are, in fact, echo location and that these Hominoids use echo location to traverse in the darkness. I then shared with him an article in Science entitled "Echolocation in blind people reveals the brain's adaptive powers" https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/echolocation-blind-people-reveals-brain-s-adaptive-powers#:~:text=Now%2C a study of blind,neural repurposing never before documented. Richard Soule has thought so much of my work that he's introduced me to several American Hominologists as well as renowned Russian Hominologists Dr. Igor Burtsev and the late Dmitri Bayanov of the International Center of Hominology in Moscow. So far, some Hominologists have taken an interest in my research. I don't expect mainstream science to latch onto my research until long after my death. The lukewarm reception that I received from the Bigfoot research community when I launched my channel also didn't surprise me. It reminded me of when I wrote my Masters thesis many years ago. It was met with ridicule by my contemporaries because "all of the major archaeological syntheses of the archaeological area in question never mentioned anything about any aspect of my research interest." Twenty years later I was introduced to a group of archaeologists at a meeting in which the person closest to me looked at me in shock and said in a loud voice "SO, YOU'RE THE LEGEND!!!" Nearly four decades later I was invited to sit in on a video conference call with NPS archaeologists, who were all familiar with my work, at which I was introduced to the group as a subject matter expert who was "ahead of his time!" So, you might say that I've been there and done that with one of my archaeological research interests. It takes a while to catch on. The beauty of science though is that the power of a theory lies in its explanatory powers. When researchers conclude that your theory works the best to explain things much better than any of the previous theories and it becomes obvious to everyone, then there is a paradigm shift. When the shift occurs, it usually happens with a new generation with open minds. One thing that I learned is that it takes decades to become "an overnight success." With that in mind, the audience that I aim for in my research is the next generation of Bigfoot researchers who I expect will have the same response as I received with my thesis. I'm just beginning in this field and I don't expect to be an "overnight success" for quite a while. Thank you for the great question Incorrigible1. I hope to have more examples and more interested scientists to add to this in the coming years. :-)

Good advice on that last sentence. I'm a little confused by the rest...will leave it at that.