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I had never heard this story before, as Bob Titmus passed away years before I met the local Harrison crew, so I called Thomas, who I know had been friends with Bob T in the last decade of his life, and Thomas recalled Bob telling him the same story about this close, but non visual encounter. That would have been a terrifying experience!

I can see it now "Norseman Camo Products Inc.". We will make you famous and me rich...

A series of articles on camo patterns and their effectiveness: https://www.hyperstealth.com/camo-improvement/ They used to have a white paper on their site about camo effectiveness, but it seems to have been taken down at some point. The conclusion was that Multicam was good. However, since then, other patterns have superseded Multicam in effectiness. These guys are on the cutting edge of camo technology: https://www.hyperstealth.com/homepage.html - old site https://www.hyperstealth.net/ - new site They used to have a lot patterns on their site, but sadly not listed anymore. https://web.archive.org/web/20170726092356/http://www.hyperstealth.com/deceptex/70-30-LW-fabric-order.html A lot of their patterns were not for sale to the public. For myself, I am probably going to pick up some CADPAT in the near future. It is highly effective, even if it is not the current "flavor of the day". Studies indicate that it is still competitive against newer patterns.

I knew ASAT was going to enter into the comments. Many animals / forest animals are dichromatic. They see blue to green wavelengths very well. Orange and red are grey tones. Green dyes in human clothing can't compete with a biological green like chlorophyll. Camo clothing may have 'UV' brighteners for marketing purposes so you will look like a blue neon humanoid to bears and deer. The colors black, grey, brown have worked well since we were running around with pointy sticks. Face painting with dirt / clay was with 'Earth colors'. ( worked for Arnold ). The case of the Sumatra Tiger, aka 'Tony the Tiger', is interesting. Prey animals would see the coat as a shade of grey that is broken up by the black stripes. Jungles have birds with greens. Possibly for mate selection and camo. Many birds have tetrachromatic vision and 'see' ultraviolet to red. Avian predators can follow the urine trails of rodents. Some women have tetrachromatic vision. Don't go there. Here is a bone to chew on. Humans are taught colors when we are young. About this time of year, bears are chomping down skunk cabbage. Nice yummy shades of green and yellow. It is their laxative to clean themselves out.

Wow...nice to see the comparisons of the different patterns. Got the old tiger stripe pattern pants, not so much for hiding, they just they look cool...

Ultimately he's just a glorified version of Hans Christian Anderson, he's just a story teller. There is zero vetting done and never has really been, of the emails that come in at least. Anyway, digressing. I don't think they disappear per se, i think they utilize their environment to a level that the average human these days has little to no comprehension of. I've thought for a long time that they utilize angles a lot. What i mean by that is trees etc, and blocking lines of direct sight. I'm also under the impression that they attempt to conceal their tracks in a number of different ways, some of which would freak us out completely, such as walking backwards over their initial tracks as has been documented in other primate species (Chimps) for example and not always using the path of least resistance if that leaves them and their tracks exposed.

Cheapest and most common surplus pattern

For winter? Lots of folks hitting the roads looking for tracks. Let's consider the nature of the beast (pun intended). Starting with winter, researchers obviously will be looking for, and seeing, tracks of all kinds. A few may be on foot or show shoes. Others may try to find a trackway by covering more ground in a vehicle on forest and other remote roads. Some of these methods may depend on the age of the researcher and what kind of physical condition they may be in vs. the terrain, which could apply to any season really. The likelihood of finding a trackway is slim at best but if one is cut, then with snow there shouldn't be just a single footprint. Also, prints that haven't melted out will be better defined and so the animal/creature that made them can be more easily identified. None of this is anything new to most of us. We could go through things like this season by season but no matter what, the key would be in the documentation process. We've seen images of suspected Sasquatch trackways. Some are quite impressive and have their own set of details that make a Bigfoot trackway unique unto it self. But what does one do with it? Photo it obviously, maybe with video, take careful measurements, get a GPS read maybe. Perhaps spray on some snow wax and then cast a couple of prints? But here's the thing, All of that has been done many times over and it hasn't succeeded in moving science's needle. Because, even though physical, it's all considered trace evidence. Some of you may have seen that I have set myself up for taking trackway snow samples should I be lucky enough to cut one. My materials cost ended up to be a only little over 40 bucks. In addition to a cooler, block ice for preserving any sample integrity in transit, and two gallons of household bleach for sterilizing the the small plastic snow scoops and 1 liter wide mouth Nalgene containers and their screw top lids. Total cost for everything so far? Under 60$. The bleach and blocks of ice I bought locally and the rest was through Amazon. I downloaded labels for the containers off the internet and printed them onto waterproof 8x11 peel-and-stick paper and got some good grade felt markers for writing on the labels. I picked up a few paint stirs from the hardware store to mark and stick into snow as identifiers for the video documentation. The only thing I need to do is purchase a small manual defrost 1.1 cu ft freezer (there's a good reason for that) for around $100 to store any samples in once I get them home. And that's it. One can get themselves all set up to scientifically collect and store samples for well under $200. All that's needed is a trackway. And BTW, the set up isn't just for snow samples, although that's my main goal which for me now means sometime next winter. There are a few detailed protocols involved, but they're all pretty simple and easy to follow. I can go into it if anyone wants to know more but, so far, that's the personal winter methodology that I've settled on.

Probably the same way a deer or a heard of 25 elk can disappear with very little trace almost before your eyes as they have done to me many times. All I can come up with is that it is the same force that allows one sock a week to disappear from the dryer. Magic?

I am still waiting for them to appear 🙃

I've seen reports of Bigfoot wearing a shirt. I've seen a report of one smoking a cigarette. I also know 90% of the Bigfoot reports are pure, unadulterated BS.

Sorry to upset you, gotta a little a Bromance going for Meldrum there do ya? There's nothing to indicate anything like Bigfoot has ever existed, until then its all fun and games, and we are all experts on this imaginary creature. That's the whole purpose of this site....we're all right/experts until that big day comes!!