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I am fascinated by how this vast continent (two continents, actually) came to be populated. It's a field that's wide open, with new discoveries occasionally showing earlier and earlier habitation. It's a contentious field, and it seems the "Clovis First" axiom has generally been found to be inaccurate. Current evidence suggests the first Americans were here perhaps 20,000 years ago (BP). It must have been an amazing time. It's a valid thread topic, as we can speculate whether bigfoot was present for far longer, or if they, too, immigrated into the Americas in the more recent past, say 50K years. Here's a presentation that I enjoyed and found enlightening. It describes several different technologies evident from their stone and bone tool fabrication. Hopefully you'll not be bored to tears with this.

In the middle pic., the brown ribbon at the base of the mountain across the valley is the mighty Fraser River, and my town is in the distant valley across the river in the upper right.

Heading out to set up for our weekend investigation workshop here in WV the mountians are full of leaves and the forest floor has come to life. Gonna be a good weekend.

Got up to the North Maine Woods last weekend, 5.5hr drive for a short stay. Did a topping off of fluids in the Rover day before heading up, had hoped to adjust the valve lash but got a thunderstorm with hail instead. Anyway after a 2.5 hr trek up I-95N to Millinocket, filled up the tank, took off to a thwapping top end...hmmm Lost a valve cap it had gotten so sloppy, it didn't get far, had spares anyway. 45 min layover to do what I should have made time for prior to getting underway. Happily purring afterwards. Gotta love the simplicity of an all mechanical diesel. Passing Katahdin and a bit of snow from the night before: Scanning for tracks along the way. This road was clear but spent a lot of time cutting the tops of blow downs with the Sven saw to allow passage. The cribworks, I've rafted through, can't tell from here but there's a 4-5' drop in the mix, good fun: And some flatter stuff My favorite camp spot had 4 large trees come down across the entrance, managed to fit between. Need that battery powered chainsaw! Years ago I had some large critter stomp at the head of my tent here, knocking over an 8-10" dead snag on the way out of camp Heard a few coyotes, barred owls, Kingfishers and the above gaggle, otherwise quiet night. I forgot my recorder! Following day, patrolling shoreline for tracks, oodles of moose everywhere, found coyote and fisher here, no big guy. Water is surprisingly low for Spring: We only saw one young moose on the way out. Good showing of bald eagles though.

I took this shot at the Willow Creek Museum about 2 years ago. I found Titmus' stuff to be rather disappointing...

This is my favorite YouTube channel. Matt is a great guy and I've visited his shop and hung out with him and his employees. Great people. They specialize in pulling out tourists from California that drive rental cars into the boonies.

Yep, that account is from Raincoast Sasquatch and I have a similar theory. I believe bears and squatch do what they can do avoid each other. I'm sure overlap in territories occur but for the most part, I think they keep a healthy distance from one another.

Went out today to a new area to try and find some mushrooms. This area is known as McCroskey State Park right on the border of Washington and Idaho. Not a particularly remote area, but I recall a rather large clear cut area that would make for an excellent spot for morel mushrooms. It's also about 7 miles as the crow flies from the Bigfoot sighting at my dad's property, and about a mile from a friend who lives off-grid and shot and killed a wolf/coyote hybrid. Weather was a perfect 65 degrees with light wind. Found some likely wolf tracks, but they were a little small, so either another hybrid, or someone's dog. But, no human tracks in the area I was in. No luck finding mushrooms, or shed antlers, or Bigfoot sign out in the clearcut area, so headed up into the timber and found some interesting things. This looked like a makeshift shelter that was created by pushing a few trees over. But, no tracks or hair found. This was another bedding spot created by a downed tree that was used by something big, but again, no hair or or other sign. Found some Trillium flowers, which are a sign of morels nearby, but no morels. Still, great day in the woods.

Roxor?? I am so jealous! I looked at those when I was shopping for a new UTV and LOVED the concept of a mini-Jeep with a diesel. But, they were just too big for the places I wanted to go. Still, very cool vehicles.