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I'd highly recommend a chest pack from Hill People Gear. You wear it under your backpack (or daypack) and it holds your firearm and other items you want to access. You can drawn quickly from it and it does not interfere with your backpack's hipbelt. Also, you can use two straps they provide to dock it to your backpack so the chest pack is essentially weightless. I never go in the woods without my chest pack and, being a bit of a gear junkie, can say without question that it is the best piece of outdoor gear, or clothing, of any type that I've ever owned in my life. I got the largest one as I can fit a Ruger Super Redhawk revolver (Toklat) in it. If you are carrying a smaller handgun maybe a smaller chest pack would work. The video below discusses and displays all of the chest packs they offer. https://hillpeoplegear.com/Products/CategoryID/1 I've always carried a neck knife so even when my backpack is off I have access to a knife. There are molle attachment points on the bottom of the chest pack to attach a full-size knife and sheath. In the chest pack, I carry two small flashlights, a compass, map, leukotape, car keys, butane lighter, and my phone so they are always with me when the backpack is off.

Excellent advice. Thank you. I am not familiar with the Adena mounds, but I will certainly look into them. There are many burial mounds, particularly in the Mid-West with legends of giant remains being discovered. Bigfoot area still reported from the area, particularly in Ohio with the Grassman reports. There may be a link between Bigfoot and the ancient burial mounds in the region. I do have archaeological training (two Masters Degrees and certified field school completion) and am poised to get into an archaeology PhD program. After I am fully certified I will certainly seek federal and tribal permission to excavate these burial mounds, and will also search for potential locations in the Mount St. Helens area. Caves will be a good place to search as well, as archaeological surveying techniques could prove useful there without a fully fledged excavation. That will be another promising place to investigate. I do. And will certainly take up the torch. Archaeology has great potential, and should be used in tandem with other methods such as tracking and DNA.

I carry several knives, but my main field blade is my ESEE 4 (which I am in freaking love with), which I have been carrying handle down on my right pack shoulder strap (I am left handed) so it makes for really quick deployment. @Madison5716 carries a Scandi style knife in more of a dangler type sheath, so that is not really an option. With all she's been through, I am not sure a chest rig would be an option for her, but she has really bounced back and is amazing. I also got a "battle belt" from Condor and I LOVE it so far. It simply opens up and velcros around my pack's belly band and offers more padding (as if I am not soft enough around the middle!). I needed that extra padding. Then it has a boatload of MOLLE attachments so I can strap the holster for my Colt 1911 (and two extra mags). I also hand carry a shortish spear with a quick release sheath and use that as a walking stick.

I actually had some hands on training by a local Archiologist/Paleontologist over the last two years and I got to clean the remains of a T-Rex from the Hell Creek Formation. It was pretty wild, and yes I kept a fragment from the first bone I exposed to the sunlight! That said, much of what we call "historic" sasquatch areas really havent changed much in the last 12,500-15,000 years. Those areas were then, and are still today, largely desidious. Desiduious forest is notoriously bad for preservation, not only due to scavengers but also the acidic nature of the forest floor breaking down minerals at an accelerated rate. Your best locations for these types of remains would be areas that were once desiduious and have become more arrid for one reason or another. Ritualistic burrried remains, would have to have some sort of care given to them to keep the earth from reclaiming them as well, we have a working theory that the "giants" found in the Adena mounds were likely sasquatch, so burial mounds would be a good place to look but they are fervently protected, typically by federal law but in some cases local. So thats another road block. Sites like Mt. st. helen though I could see being very promising where sudden environmental shifts occured upheaving layers of sediment very capable of preserving remains for millions of years.

Yes, but no, it’s much much older. Here is the theory.