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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.

Heading out to the woods tomorrow with my girlfriend in the Honda Pioneer to do some searching for sign. Weather supposed to be perfect. Going to Moscow mountain, which is the site of a sighting that made the "Finding Bigfoot" show. It's also where me and my buddies would go to party back in high school. Memorable spots known as "Pond 9", "Rock Group", "Lookout", and "Cedar Grove". Can't tell my girlfriend about all the memories of those places, lol.

Looks like a wonderful day out, norseman, and a great way to beat the heat! I spent Saturday and this morning doing Dad stuff, driving a Uhaul from one town to another, helping my youngest son move to a new location, but I got to feed my need for the tall timber this afternoon, with a trip to Tamihi Creek, a tributary of the Chilliwack River that runs along the US border for much of its length. The weather has moderated here the last few days, so the temp stayed below 30C, which was very nice for a change. The recent very hot weather has really kicked the high mountain snow melt into gear, and the creek was a rushing torrent in the places where it was visible from the old narrow logging road. Most of the roughly 20 km length of the road runs through varying ages of second growth timber, restricting the view, but the last few km had been logged in the last 5 years or so, opening up the view of the Border Peaks, a number of craggy ridges straddling the international border. The mountain on the US side has a glacier at the top, with huge avalanche chutes running down to the creek, and a very impressive cornice at the top of the glacier. The US side of the creek appears to be old growth forest, as access from the south side of that ridge, to the north face that I could see, would be very difficult. In a couple of my photos, you can see the line cut through the timber that defines the 49th parallel. There were numerous deer tracks in some places, and a nice blacktail doe crossed the road in front of me, too quickly for me to catch a pic. I also saw several impressive bear scat piles, and spoke to a dirt biker near the end of the trail who had been there last weekend, and saw what he described as the biggest black bear he'd ever seen. When he saw it on the road, he stopped, and it turned toward him, rose on it's hind legs, and popped its jaw at him, so he did a quick u-turn, and got out of there!

Thankful we don't have many snakes here in Oregon. I love my hiking pole. It give me extra balance, which is much worse now than when I was young. Now I need all the help I can get some days, LOL. I use mine every single hike.

Everything @wiiawiwb said. AND I think they are very curious about us, just as we are about them. As with everyone, we are all individual, most good, some bad, with the same basic drives and unique personalities. Who knows? In my very first encounter back in 2012, I interrupted two of them hunting, via whistles, while sitting in my van waiting for my kid around 11pm, at a summer camp out in the woods in Oregon. I was star gazing with my binoculars from the far end of the parking lot, and heard whistles in the woods beyond me. So, after a while I got curious and whistled back. They stopped what they were doing and traded whistles with me, and moved in closer, triangulating on my location, while the deer ran past me right towards the biggest concentration of humans it could find (a kid's summer camp/towards the big bonfire area). I had no idea what was going on then, but NOW I know it was a very typical interaction. They whistled and on the second occassion, a few days later, traded knocks with me and zapped me. When they got bored, they/it left. Two the first time, one the second time (as far as I know). I've always kind of wondered if I should have tipped the camp off about them. But, the camp has been there for years and I've never heard anyone mention anything about their bigfoot neighbors...so... I said nothing. Wasn't sure they'd believe me any how, and didn't want to sound like a nut. Didn't want to endanger the bigfoots either, if they were just minding their own business (which sounds like it). IDK.

Went to Priest Lake friday. Anchored off of Eightmile island. Beautiful lake! Water was crystal clear and surface temp was 78 degrees. Got to try out my new Minelab. Found an old broken dock with lots of nails and bolts. Ring was a joke. Eventually found dimensional lumber at the bottom too. Didnt get rocks thrown at us from shore! Pretty quiet if biggie was trying to get cool. I threw the 460 Rowland in for good measure. BBQ tomahawk steaks that night for dinner. Some of the best I had ever eaten!

Yes! Those are called ground cherries. The are great for jam, jellies, tarts, and wine making. Also a valuable source of nearly year round occuring natural sugars.

The results reported by Dr. Ramos are incomplete and unreliable until the data is validated by other industry experts, then published. A reality show is not going to have a final conclusion. It is an open question if the testing accounted for distinguishing DNA coming from a pheromone chip rather than an animal that is present in the area.

All Meldrum had to do was to tell the organizer or Burtsev to send him photos. Hard to believe but not everyone had smartphones in 2011. Maybe the habit of snapping pics hadn't sunk in yet. Brings to mind another unrelated interaction between Bayanov and Bob Gimlin for some event that turned out to be a waste of Bob's time. I'm sure Meldrum and Morehead knew each other before that event.

@ManThing Welcome to the forum! The drive on 101 through Crescent City and into Oregon is probably my all time favorite motorcycle run ever. I used to go once a year but have slipped off that schedule. Upper, upper northern california is serious townie culture! That culture being aging hippies, cannabis, bigfoot, and remote mini kingdoms of drug cartels and all kinds of communes and weird cults.

2020 was cancelled and rescheduled for this October.

This is a long time coming, much needed mountain town recreation. Free admission, live mountain town music, art exhibits, open air market. Specific bigfoot events are in the works. Sierra Bigfoot Music Festival August 27, 28 & 29 2021 Eproson Park Twain Harte, CA I'm not sure who to give the artistic credit to but this is a pretty cool fest image.