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Doing great on Sturgeon in the Wilamette!

Hello, Logger Charlie here. Had a Great Uncle who was Hunting Buddies of Roger Patterson & Bob Gimlin who worked in the Logging industry all up and down the west coast from Washington, Oregon and Northern California. He started out as a Faller and later when his body wouldn't allow him to Fall timber he bought his own Logging Trucks and hauled timber till he retired. He passed away a couple of years ago but the things he told me as a young lad got me hooked in 1970 when at a family reunion Loggers Picnic I asked him about Roger and Bob and what they caught on film, well if you knew my great Uncle he was a no nonsense, honest as the day is long, trustworthy man. The kind of guy you wanted to be when you grew up, the type you wanted backing you up in an alley fight cause he wouldn't run and would have your back. Well when he looked me straight in the eye and said "lil buddy....Roger an Bob might have been a couple of wild ones in their youth by but they weren't Liars and if they say it's real and for true, well you can bank on that. From that very minute I was convinced Bigfoot was way more than just legend or hearsay. I'm in my late 50s now and want to talk to people like me who have seen and heard things there is no logical explanation for.

We used to do quite well sturgeon fishing in the Columbia and halibut fishing of the coast of Newport. We would have a fish frys and we would cook halibut and sturgeon that we caught and you could hardly tell the difference between the two. Good times!

HEY, where you gonna be? Want to meet up? Message NorthWind and I. I assume you've scheduled a bunch of stuff already, but I'd love to meet you! Okay that made me laugh!

I might offer the advice that you don't divulge locations. I have a few that are long term investigations, and the last thing I need is a bunch of idiot n00bs going into the area and screwing up the balance of things.

Yeah, another example of existing technology. It's a step up in cost (about $3K) but certainly affordable for a research project looking to try to track a BF.

Perhaps a "scientific research" version of a Personal Locator Beacon could be used inside a gift. You know the kind that Dave Paulides touts. These normally work for about 24hrs continuous but could be modified for a lower duty cycle to extend the operational life. Something like this we have today and it would fit inside a bigger baby doll like my granddaughters have. The current ones work with GPS positioning and a powerful 406MHz. signal that goes to NOAA, which then gets forwarded to a local S&R team. Maybe some research organization has an idea for a variant of this product. There are three types of NOAA Emergency Beacons. Food for thought...

Going fishing with my cousin for two days. Land lock silvers at Riffe lake by Morton Wa. And then sturgeon fishing on the Wilamette in Oregon. After that I think I will go check out our family name on the logging plaque at Forks, Wa. I’ve got a Washington cougar tag. Might do some calling.... Stay tuned!

Saw almost as many elk in Packwood as I did at the feed station over at Naches. White pass was just wet. No snow on road. Nat, makes sense! I drove truck for 33 years!

This guy passed me on the way to the coast on I90. He calls his rig Ruguru. Its the white bronco. (Correction Jeep) He had Sasquatch all over rig and was advertising his podcast. Wandering Ways Plates were from Montana. Anyhow I started listening to his podcast. Cool! Im at Yakima and gonna check out the Oak Creek feeding station for Elk and Bighorn next!

By the time I was zapped, I did not openly carrry or deploy cameras. The exception was the cube GoPro on my hiking stick. That I covered with a monkey sock puppet. I think the reason I was zapped is that I encountered a BF searching a large log for termites. If not that, it had just been to the artesian water hole, and I blundered into it. From the depression in the vegetation near the the log, I was about 12 to 15 feet from the BF when it first hit me with infrasound. It could not withdraw as it was trapped beside the large diameter down log. The only way out was over the top of the log or past me. If I was BF, that would be too close to let an armed human near me without doing something. It let me walk past the log on the trail then zapped me when I was just beyond the log. I stopped and looked around but would not have seen the BF just behind the log at that point. It was about 3 long strides away from me. In a way I really do not blame it. I certainly preferred being zapped to it standing up and ripping me apart. I was most upset because it could have just let me walk past and I would have never known it was there. The zapping destroyed my illusion that we had becaome friends. I might have stopped to look at the end of the log where I had seen a stick inserted previously, as if it had been used to get termites. I just don't remember doing that. That log had been an item of interest for a few months because of the placement of the stick.

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.

I modified my Sony ICD-PX333 field recorders so they can run a full week. I use AA rechargeable batteries instead of AAA, plus a 16GB SD card. (link)

@Skinwalker13 While checking out the casting of your foot print. As I magnify it up on my computer in the toe area It seems like I can see fingerprint ridges on the toe part of the castings. I think that yours is the second time that I have seen ridges on castings or ever ridges within prints on surfaces. Madison has had some prints that she had posted that showed some ridges with in her prints that she had found. I am sure that you know that this kind a of things cannot be faked. The only way that I can imagine of them being faked is that the the prints were premade in silicone and enlarge. Then having these ridges within the faked silicone premade prints that were enlarged. So this track is the left foot then. I am sorry but I love studying these tracks when they are found. I find them amazing. Just the fact that these creatures can walk on two feet is a mind bender for me. Some of the prints that I have found were not easily found on surfaces that were mostly leaves. The ones that I did find I had to be on my hand in knees and had to place my fingers in where the toes were. I then would start looking for heel prints so that I could then start tracking.. I am not trying to be like what @BlackRockBigfoot is stating. Yes, I do have a language barrier that does prevent me from expressing my self . So my apologies. Dude, You do not know me for one. You have no idea from where I came from. It was not my attention to be condescending. I Had question about the photo and that was it. There was no attitude about what I asked. I received an answer and I was good with that. I still have more questions about his photo. I am sure that I still have the freedom to do that, Right ! Or should I start keeping record.

preschool you say, god bless her patients. I see now how she tolerates all the antics here so well!