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No, the tech simply isn't there now and may not be possible ever. The problem (I'm a programmer, computer science grad, IT guy ... so this stuff is in my area of expertise) is that a chip is not enough. A chip is a processor. To DO anything you have to also have a power supply and I/O devices for the processor. We don't have the capability to build power supplies of sufficient strength, sufficient life, that is small enough. Moreover, the smaller the I/O device is, the more power it takes to send the same signal over distance. In other words, we have conflicting limitations. The RFIDs we are most familiar with are passive, they can only be used at short range in the immediate presence of a scanner. A scanner capable of "reaching" a small device at great distance has to use a great deal of power ... cells / DNA subjected to that level of power break down (aka "cancer" ... same root mechanism as skin cancer from excessive UV radiation). We're not merely not there, but we can't get there, not with mere improvements in the current technology, it would require something entirely new, something that lies well into the realm of science fiction today. MIB

Originally from Oregon in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains I now reside in AZ. I have had three experiences, I cannot call them encounters because I do not know if they were Bigfoot related. All of the experiences happened many years ago in Oregon. My first (not chronological) experience happened in the Snow Peak area when I was approximately 15 years of age. My friend and I (he was 2 years older) had driven up to Crabtree lake to fish. This is a place that we had been many times and it was a beautiful little lake. We had been fishing for approximately 45 minutes when the hair on my body started standing up and I felt as though I was being watched. I am getting goose bumps now just typing this. I had wanderered around the lake from my friend and we were a few hundred yards apart. I kept fishing for awhile until I could no longer ignore what I was feeling. I wandered back around the lake to my friend and told him I was feeling creeped out like someone was watching me. I still remember the incredulous look on his face. He looked at me and said, "You too? Let's get the hell out of here." Now, I can't tell you what caused this feeling, but both of us had it. We left the lake and I have not been back there since. Later in life I moved to AZ and met a man who is very interested in Bigfoot. He asked me, since I was from the Pacific Northwest, what were my thoughts on Bigfoot. I told him I thought it was in the realm of possibility. This sparked a new interest for me in regards to Bigfoot and I started listening to Sasquatch Chronicles podcast. It was there that I realized I may have had two other experiences after listening to some of the stories and learning about their behavior. Experience #2: I was about 12 years old and my father and I were deer hunting in the Cascade Range. We had driven out a logging road and stopped on an old landing surrounded by re-prod. We could not see the bottom of the landing due to the thick re-prod near the edge but we could see across the the other side to glass for deer. We noticed what looked like fir cones being thrown up into the trees away from us. My dad thought it must be a bear, but even at 12, I could not wrap my head around how a bear would grasp and throw the cones uphill into trees. We observed this for a few minutes and then left. Experience #3: I was 17 years of age and myself and two friends decided we were going on a camping trip. We decided that we would take a little aluminum boat with a small motor and go to Green Peter Reservoir. After we put in, we would motor up the reservoir a little ways and find a suitable place to camp away from other so we could drink the beer that we were planning on bringing. After camp was set up we were sitting around the fire in the early evening, just at twilight. There was a light breeze blowing, had to be less than 1 or 2 mph, very slight, when all of a sudden, what sounded like a large tree cam crashing down in the timber behind us. We all thought nothing of it other that a tree must have rotted and fallen down. I did not notice anything untoward for the rest of the trip. I do not know if any of these experiences had anything to do with Bigfoot, but I have felt that it is entirely possible for Bigfoot to exist for many years. After learning about their behavior by listening to podcasts, these experiences certainly fall within that possibility. I am about 95% convinced that they exist, but I am not a knower.

Saturday, Jan. 23rd, I made my first field trip in months, to a very local mountain, since we're still under local only travel restrictions, outside of essential work trips. I chose a nearby mountain that drains it's eastern slopes into the valley where I had my sighting, over 40 years ago. The drive from my home to the start of the forest service road is only about 25 minutes, but the climb to the top of the mountain on the deactivated spur road is well over an hour, as there are many drainage cuts across the surface, restricting vehicle speed to 5 or 6 km/hr. The slow crawl up the very steep road is worth it, though, as the view of the valley from the summit is spectacular on a clear day, which it was, though a snow storm was predicted for Sunday. All we got Sunday was rain though, as the temperature stayed just above freezing down in the valley. On my drive up, I only encountered 2 other Jeeps on their way down, so I had the whole summit plateau to myself for a couple of hours. There was some old snow in the shaded areas along the road and I saw numerous deer tracks, and of course footprints from the other visitors, but no sign of anything like a sasquatch print or trackway. I did spot a couple of ponds and small swampy areas in hollows back in the forest that will be worth a scout in the springtime, after the snow melts from the high country. Though the sun was shining, it was very cold and windy, so I only got out of the H3 to take some scenery shots, which nearly froze my hands. Next time up there will be in warmer weather, so I can do some exploring of those wet areas without becoming an icicle. 1st photo Looking SW with Dewdney Slough and the village of Dewdney at the bridge at near side of the valley. My home is hidden in the mist among the hills in the upper right of the pic. 2nd photo Looking SE, with the city of Chilliwack just barely visible on the valley floor at the left edge of the photo, Mt. Cheam in the middle horizon, and Mt. Baker on the right, in Wa. state. 3rd photo My ride at the end of the road in a clear cut, with Mt. Baker in the background above the roof. 4th photo Note the temperature display on the mirror! Brrrr, with wind chill it felt like -5C standing outside.

Upon further reading I’m wrong about the dog implant. The picture I provided only provides owner information from a hand held scanner held close to the dog. Sorry guys. I used yagi radio telemetry collars for my hound dogs. They now have gps tracking devices that go on collars about the same size designed to go on a collar. It seems that’s all the smaller the technology is right now.