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This book by former Geology professor David Alt is an excellent resource: Here is the link to the book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Glacial-Lake-Missoula-Humongous-Floods/dp/0878424156/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3PVDWHVYFB5BH&dchild=1&keywords=glacial+lake+missoula+and+its+humongous+floods&qid=1613529100&sprefix=glacial+lake+miss,digital-text,261&sr=8-1 At its highest level, Lake Missoula held an estimated 500 cubic miles of water. When it breached the glacier damming the Clark Fork River in Northern Idaho, all of that water was released over an estimated three day period across Eastern Washington. I was so sudden and wide spread that likely nothing living in its path survived. My wife and I have driven over a good portion of the floods path from the source to many of the parts of Washington that were reconfigured by the deluge. The panorama below is from photos I took at the Dry Falls in central Washington in 2013. It was formed by the floods as Glacial Lake Missoula emptied and refilled, possibly dozens of times towards the end of the last ice age. The insert is a scale photo of Horseshoe Falls to indicate the extent of the flood waters over Dry Falls. The next photo is an overview of the area form Google Earth with Spokane in the upper right and Moses Lake just right of center at the bottom. The tiny bright green bar left of center about 1\4 of the way to the top is the extent of the panorama. The large swaths of brownish gray are areas eroded by the ancient floods, leaving small remnant lakes dotted across the landscape, and show that only a portion of the waters passed over the Dry Falls. The last photo is a closer view, again the green line indicates the area covered in the panorama with the tiny gold bar indicating the area of the Horseshoe Falls insert in the Panorama. I've been driving through some of these areas since the mid 1950's as we drove from Helena to visit family in and around the Seattle area. My dad first stopped at the Dry Falls when I was about six and explained what we knew about it at the time, that it was an ancient waterfall. I still marvel at the fascinating, harsh but beautiful landscape and imagine the tremendous powers that created it every time we pass through.

Hominid, probably unknown.

Hannah Strait is back in her truck camper, and is now a bigfoot hoaxer... I can forgive her

Other, genus Figmentus Imaginatious (covers head, runs for door). But seriously, I go with pure animal classification.

You'll have some serious air under that rig. New decision: take a chainsaw to that tree across the FS road? Or just don the helmet and drive over it. You'll have the Rangers scratchin' their heads. The only difference betwee your rig and the Uni-MOG? You'll have the camper. Talk about a bug-out vehicle. Much luck and success to the "kids."

Cool, haven't seen that stuff.

Good of you to oblige! Do they farm out galvanizing/powdercoating? Or what do they use on the bumpers?

I selected "Other". My thinking is that Sasquatch developed it's own lineage from a Last Common Ancestor. It means that Chimps didn't split from Homo but instead split from a different primate species. Chimps went one way and the "new" primate went another. After a couple of million years the "new" LCA developed a better more bipedal characteristic and then split to gave rise to two new lines. Sasquatch and Homo. Both lines, evolving in parallel, created many branches of which Sasquatch may still have two or three subspecies still extant. Homo did the same of which Modern Humans are all that is left. Since their Last Common Ancestor was bipedal that trait continued to develop in both the Sasquatch and Homo lineages. Homo, of course, got the better brain which happened at the split- and may have even been the cause of the split rather than a later result of the split. There are many small details that have led me to this hypothesis that collectively point to this being how Humans and the creature are so similar anatomically as well as genetically. Or course, only a good physical sample scientifically studied could verify any of this.

One of the reasons I suspect this whole theory could be true is that we can say things like "never in the history of homo sapiens sapiens has it ever been the only bipedal mammal." In fact, there's a neat little chart in this Bob Gymlan video It clearly shows how often multiple species shared the earth. And the statement he makes about people who think we are alone now when we haven't been for our entire history being like believing the earth is flat is spot on.

Lol. Yes of course. She said they exist no matter what I think and since they are bigger than me. I can plead fear as my defense.

Next project. My Dodge!