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This is a photo from the areas in which I hunt, in an area with historical sightings and myths reaching back centuries, and not far from another area where a buddy saw what can only be described as a bigfoot while spring turkey hunting. It stalked within a few yards of him as he called turkey, and when he moved, it stood up and strode off with nary a sound. There's nothing to the photos other than a field of trees. Ain't they pretty? The tree I'm sitting in has been productive for me over the last 4 years, with a deer a year taken from it, and another dozen a year seen from it, so it's my favorite spot. General consensus is the deer population has plummeted over the decades, and hunter numbers/hours in this area are down. You see this reflected in camps with one deer hanging instead of 8, but some of that could be old timers cherry picking the best years (or those good years could be the cause of the current low population). It would take historic reports to determine harvest numbers. That said, no footprints noticed over the years, but I've heard branches break, trees fall on a dead still day, heard what sounded like conversation with no visible people, things like that. Nothing definitive. Unless you count footsteps that turn out to be a squirrel rummaging the underbrush. In the early part of the 20th century, the government reclaimed a bunch of farms all along the southern tier of western New York State. They planted pole pines by the hundred acre, and left other areas to wild-grow mixed hardwoods. The pines are often in regular shapes, rectangles, pines planted in rows. Some of the pines were planted too close together and have stunted growth because of it. When they thinned the pines or got the spacing right, the pines grew tall and straight. When they didn't, the pines interlace their branches and create a wall of annoyance. The nice thing about these dense pines is the deer love it. The bad thing about these dense pines is the deer love it. Either way, you don't sneak there, but the open hardwoods are easy to traverse. The deer traverse all of this with little problem, and often skirt the dense stuff picking a common trail in and out. Pretty nice of them. Water comes from ponds, springs, swamps and creeks are plentiful, loads of small game, fish, oak and other nut trees, and some farms. Population density is low, but you're never more than 2 or 3 miles from an occupied house or road I'll bet. We get out from 10 to 20 days a year, in two hours before sunrise, out at sunset.

My son and our friend have started a business together. Selkirk Outfitters Right now they are a custom fab shop. But are gearing up to focus on overlanding. Their current project is building a aluminum flatbed for a Toyota Hilux that used to be a Tokyo fire truck. The customer is a long range shooter that travels to competitions. They have also built custom bumpers for people. As well as boat tops. My 2013 Dodge Ram 3500 is next on the list! If you have a project your thinking about for getting deep into the back woods? Give them a shout! Wyatt 509-690-4140

I don't know if the program has been mentioned previously, but I watched a program tonight on Amazon titled "Track: Search for Australia's Bigfoot". It's about the search for the Yowie and it's not about a bunch of knuckleheads in the outback looking for the big hairy guy. It was filmed in the Blue Mountains predominately and is interesting. It's only 57" long but it's a well done program.

I'm going to say that hiding tracks is at least partially instinctive. I catch myself doing it subconsciously .. stepping across trails rather than in them when I intersect them. I also notice that I will instinctively step behind a tree when a helicopter or airplane goes over somewhat low. I do not know why I do those things, I just do them. Once you notice a previously instinctive behavior, then you respond to it by either deliberately not doing it anymore or by deliberately taking it up a notch or two, but you don't truly ignore it: that which as been seen cannot return to being unseen. MIB

That's great work. When I hit this powerball tonight, I'll throw some business y'all's way.

Sides are done!

Then how does he not know that the creature actually climbed the trees and this is what caused the snow to fall. It only makes sense that if you are following tracks in snow and they seem to disappear. That the creature might have not shaken the tree but might have climbed it. Then must have swung from tree to tree. If this was so then the tracker would just have to look in the trees to look for snow cleared limbs and track the creature that way. The tracks that are very hard to track are the ones that lead you unto ice covered lakes and then stop and disappear. Talk about woo, yea, that's a stomper.

He should be hitting up all of the overlanding forums and spreading his shop's name. That's a huge craze right now. He should make bank.

I agree, not sure why he kept panning away from it. I don’t think it looked like the other elk and the way it disappeared seemed strange. Maybe they’ll analyze it in the next episode.

Congratulations and wishing all the best on your son's new adventure. The flatbed looks amazing. Beautiful work. I'm not handy so it blows my mind how someone can do what he does. The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well.

@Foxhill You just can not say that it is a hoax and leave it at that. You have to say why it is a hoax. I just do not see this as a hoax and am not ready to call it a hoax. For one the toes in this photo on the left are way to long for some one to hoax it. I mean how is some one going to hoax those toes digging into the mud have toes that long. Even if they were wearing those type of shoes there is no way to fake those long toes in those shoes. The other problem that I have with these prints is also in this other photo that shows the creature slipping. In my opinion I do not see that the creature slipped on it's left foot. In my view I see it that it had stopped abruptly in the soil. Then the creature had dug out with it's left foot what looks like a slide to place it's left foot in front of it's right. But is my opinion. here is the photo that i am talking about : You can see in the picture where the slide is that the dirt on the top is not pushed in but is still like being pushed out on the top of the slide. The right foot on te top the toes are really dug in. I really do not think that a hoaxer would have done this with a made foot print. This was done with an actual foot print. This is why I say if you say that these tracks were made by a hoaxer then prove that they were. I am just showing you what i believe is actual proof that this was done by an actual creature. Now I am some big expert in the bigfoot world nor am I saying that I am. But I at least have enough experience to make my own judgement and if i am wrong all well i am wrong> I will learn .

So if Meldrum is doing real science. It’s science. But if he is saying Bigfoot tracks are real? He is a quack? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251678467_Ichnotaxonomy_of_the_Laetoli_trackways_The_earliest_hominin_footprints We don’t have foot bones from Afarensis. And yet scientists make theories that explain bipedal locomotion that coincides with The tracks and our earliest ancestors. What are your credentials to discredit scientists findings? Yes. We need the foot. But the tracks lead to the foot if they are geniune. And a scientist saying some tracks are genuine? Certainly lends to the validity. Yes?

Ok, you convinced me beyond a doubt.

I hear ya......but just like my response to Hiflier until you've got a foot to compare it to, its really all conjecture, which is fun and what the purpose of this site is, that discussion of what could be. Sorry but I can't buy into your, only the experts on the study of mythological creature's anatomy have keen enough eye to id "real" footie tracks.

Her clock is ticking. About 2 years of her ten years prediction of warming and the ocean swamping Manhatton and all low lying areas on earth has passed. In another 8 will she realize she has been misinformed? In the mean time she is jetting all over the planet and contributing to polution. She is so emotional that honestly I don't think she will make it 8 years. She will probably off herself to avoid drowning before then. It should be noted that Barack Obama recently purchased a low lying Marthas Vinyard property. Apparently he is not too concerned he will be flooded outl The hypocracy of this bunch is incredible.

Hiding of tracks is a behavior trait created to explain no tracks, the skookum print is obviously an elk lay.