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Headed out today by myself to find a hidden ground squirrel colony fairly deep in the Idaho mountains that I had stumbled upon while hiking a couple of years ago. Incredibly, I was able to find it. It's off a fairly good gravel road, but it's a steep hike up the mountain. You can barely see my 4Runner parked down on the road... But then when you reach the top, you are rewarded with thousands of acres of old clear cut with ground squirrel colonies everywhere... I settled into a sniper spot with my 10/22 and plenty of action about 100 yards away. It was a sad day for the ground squirrel community. Spent some time also sitting in the shade and glassing the open areas but saw nothing. No tree markers, no broken trees that were suspicious, and no tracks in the mud or soft dirt. It had just rained the previous three days, so the ground was nice and soft. Headed back to the 4Runner and decided to head deeper into the woods and go over the Palouse Divide. Just beautiful country. Stopped and took some glamour shots of the 4Runner. Then, was going up the mountain and had my camera up and taking a picture... When I saw a flash of fur right at the corner in the road leap into the trees to the left. It was a wolf! It was so fast, that I couldn't get a picture of it, even with the camera already up and taking photos. I sped up to the corner and stopped and jumped out of the truck to see if I could get another glimpse but it was gone. I then started surveying the area and found the tracks it left when it leaped into the trees... I then found multiple piles of super fresh wolf scat in the middle of the road, so I must have come up on a pack passing through. I then continued on up the mountain, but encountered snow. I still had another 500 feet in elevation to go, so it was only going to get worse. I don't do spring snow. It's unpredictable and usually like wet concrete. So I turned around and found a different route. Also came across some really old wolf scat... And some giant moose scat... Headed the 35 miles or so back to the nearest town without getting stuck or breaking down. Hmmm... Must be a Toyota thing... Stopped at little redneck bar in a logging town and had a PBR to make it an official Idaho outing...

@BlackRockBigfoot exactly like fred Flintstone feet, Or like 5 foot tall, 400lb, and needing amputation diabetic feet.

In modern humans shod their whole lives with shoes? Yes. In humans who have never worn shoes? Their feet are very wide in contrast.

Wouldn't be a bad idea. Sure beats paying taxes LOL

DIY and custom RVs are very popular now

@vinchyfoot That's ok. I am not into tiktok. But we have no idea what is out there and we should be careful. That's all.

Reports of feral humans or wildmen are probably misidentified Bigfoot. There are likely some regional varieties. With the Eastern and Southern Bigfoot smaller than the more familiar Pacific Northwest variant.

Looking good and nice to see they're keeping busy.

Hi all, I have been interested in this subject for a long time, and particularly after a few strange encounters on the East and West coasts of Canada. Looking forward to participating.

No. It was the “I don't do snow” part.... (I take no responsibility for the Idaho monkey operator that cannot get compaction on his subgrade and then spread fresh gravel over the top of it to hide the fact) Nice pics!

It’s not thinking.... it’s a matter of necessity. A human cannot pack the same load as something 800 lbs can. So we cut it up into manageable chunks.

There are stories out of the Smokey’s above and beyond the Dennis Martin wild man... Around Haywood County in North Carolina there are stories of ‘beast people’ in the mountains there. I have shared this story with a couple of you in the past, but there is a survival instructor in that area that says there are some sort of upright feral creatures that caused him to shut down his classes...these things were described by one person as ‘beast men’. Not too far from there there are human bare prints found in the mud and snow. I find the idea of feral humans more believable than ‘beast men’, but maybe it’s a smaller breed of Sasquatch. As far as the differences between actual human prints and small Sasquatch prints...we have found bare footprints that are within human range lengthwise, but seemed disproportionately wide and flat. I called them ‘Fred Flintstone feet’. There have been other prints found in the mountains that look pretty much like a human foot...except that the prints are found in places were you wouldn’t normally find people walking barefoot. Ascribing rational behavior to either a group of people who have willingly left modern society to live barefoot in the mountains or a group of self sustaining folks who have lived in those mountains for generations without contact with the modern world...that doesn’t make sense. They could be abducting hikers for breeding purposes, curiosity, loneliness, or other less savory reasons known only to them.

Had a great trip with Nathan! Pretty country! Rain today. Nice yesterday. Saw a couple cool suggestive track ways. Nothing solid. Nathan did some audio and thermal recordings last night. Saw lots of Mule deer. No Moose, no Elk. Saw a Griz hair pole Nathan knew about where biologists collect hair samples.

ESEE 5. Convexed with TKC G10 scales.

Tech Bowie

Using dads whet stone to get my Gerber sharp again. I used it to dig on the Chev when I was stuck this Dec. That whetstone is older than I am....

No, I merely asked you a question. Because when I google the subject much of the content comes from tik tok, which I wouldn't hold my breath on.