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I hope, as a new guy here, I am not posting something that's already been suggested. Last weekend, I was on a group camp with the SUFON folks (Seattle UFO Network), and a guy named Tobe Johnson whipped out one of the new Sionix night vision cameras. He had the one HERE IN THE LINK for $600. Okay...I have seen a lot of night vision stuff...but I have NEVER seen anything like this camera. We were at a dropoff next to a deep valley, and two miles across the way there is a big wooded ridge. There is NO MOON. I mean it is near pitch black out there. Tobe has us all take a look through this camera, which uses proprietary CMOS technology. And this thing absolutely turns night into mid-afternoon...IN full COLOR. No green junk with darkness, no black and white with dark spots. It must be seen to be believed. If you point it at a black sky, it looks like noon time in full sun. I have never seen anything like this camera, not even close. Not even REMOTELY close. Even though the ridge two miles away was nothing but a black lump in the darkness, the camera would show the entire scene in full daylight, individual trees, roads, everything. It will do still shots, infrared, and video. This thing just came out a short time ago, Tobe says. (His name is just one syllable, like TUB.) If you are looking for the ultimate in night vision, they have it. I did a review and said they should call it DAY vision, because that's exactly what it is. I was absolutely stunned. LOL I told Tobe someone should build a shrine to that thing. The tech is patented. EDIT: Some people use it on guns. But right away I could see that the best use of it was simply to turn night into nearly full daylight no matter how dark it is. Starlight for that thing is more than enough ambient light. We were miles from any town as well. The fact that it will do this IN COLOR is amazing. Frankly, I don't have the $600 spare to buy one, but I am saving up the money. I have to have this. Below is a YouTube demo showing 'regular' green night vision compared to the Sionix.

My conclusions are based on reading literally thousands of BF incident reports and hundreds of videos as well as a handful of encounters across two different states and 25 years. This is a personal hobby, nothing more. I do not set out to prove anything to anybody and honestly do not care your position on BF. Just replying to your post. Very sorry it was inadequate for your needs. You have been added to ignore so please do not bother replying.

I tend to call Bigfoot Sasquatch more often than I call Sasquatch Bigfoot. Sometimes, I call it by each name in the same post. To me, it is the same creature, so what does it matter? Would a North American hominid by any other name still smell as rank?

BF does not seem to be bothered by the smell of other humans constructs. RV’s, coolers, tents, etc. If this was the case why are they apparently extra reserved around cams? Plus if their nose is similar to ours then their sense of smell should theoretically be on par with ours, at least that’s my thought.

Hello to all, new member from Alabama

Hi folks, Longtime enthusiast with a deep interest in the phenomenon from a young age. I’m an avid outdoor enthusiast based in CA whose hobbies intersect directly with potential Sasquatch territory, and I’m here (with a very open mind) to learn more. Currently devouring Raincoast Sasquatch after an enjoyable first trip up to the PNW with my gf. Very glad to meet you all!

New here, just learned about this forum. I'm a somewhat average guy from New England, with a lot of reading and random knowledge under my belt... Honestly up until a few years ago I mostly dismissed the idea of bigfoot, but it was never anything I looked into or studied. Then I came across info about the BFRO, and realized these things have been seen by way more people than I realized. I've also heard, right in back of my house, a call that sounds just like many of the clips one can find on YouTube. So this definitely gave me pause to reconsider. (And when you hear that call in person, it's not something you'll ever forget. lol) I hope to find some good info here...

My God! You actually believe that, don't you! I would ask for your source material, but you would probably just come back with' "Just do the research and find out for yourself!" And don't tell me you formed a belief in Sasquatch artwork such as, 'braiding'(?) by just looking at pictures! You should not say something like, "They have a very strong family hierarchy, bury their dead,regional boundaries, and hunting parties..unless you state your source for this information! Or, am I just supposed to believe this as gospel?

It's been a few weeks since I've been out in the field. Relatives visiting, and staying, and the weather has been so wet this past month I can't remember a year quite like it. Creeks are flowing and ponds filled to the brink. It was overcast today and I spend most of the day poking around water and looking for prints. There was a small print, with toes, but not sure what it was. I placed a trail cam near where a pond below fed out to a creek. We'll see what, if anything, it produces. If you look at the pictures below, you can see that 10' inside the treeline it is dark and another world altogether.

I ended up going a couple of miles on open water on my pontoon boat, which is a lot of freakin' work. My son and his girlfriend had kayaks and left me far behind in a short time. They wanted to get to a swim dock that was supposedly less than a mile away. It was further. So, after they were about a mile ahead of me, I just pulled onto a neat little beach with some cool quartz formations and drank beer and poked around. Water was like a bathtub and it wasn't too hot at 91 degrees.

You leave pavement at Clarkia Idaho. It was dark when we got there. The road is gravel but it’s good road. It’s the main haul road for the loggers. It had been oiled. But it was strewn with brackets and tools and everything under the sun that would rattle off a log truck or a crummie. We stopped for a pee break 16 miles in and always do a walk around. I found out my front axle is 13/16 lug nuts and my rear axle is 3/4.... problem. My lug wrench didn’t fit rear axle. So in the morn I drove out and got a spare rim and tire, and a 1/2 drive socket set. Once we had her back on her feet, we decided discretion was the better part of valor and turned around and went back to St. Maries. And got the original replaced there. We put in the St. Joe river to kill some time. The boat traffic was unreal on the south end of lake Coeur d Alene. Yesterday we fished the Pend Oreille river and slayed a bunch of small mouth bass. We will try the expedition again but only after I put new rubber all the way around the boat trailer.😬

My outing today was of the social variety, rather than research, but it was great to get out and be with other local researchers, after almost a year and a half of varying levels of restrictions on gatherings. We met at a small park in the mountains near Chilliwack, B.C. at about noon, and spent the whole afternoon enjoying good food and catching up on our efforts over the last year. The weather was perfect, with the heat wave moderating and the fire smoke easing for the day due to a refreshing breeze through the old cedars that shaded us. Besides myself, other BFF members there included MagniAesir, Grandcherokee, and Thomas Steenburg, as well as a few interested parties who are not on BFF. One of those is Darcy, who has been working on a full size Sasquatch sculpture in styrofoam, which got knocked over by a curious young lad of about 6 or 7, but only suffered minor damage.

While its possible they could see IR @MIBb@MIBbrings up a few good points about that thought. Personally I think they can hear and smell the cameras. Prior to taking a picture theres a high pitch whrrrr that is generated as the camera powers up. This is why animals are looking dead into the camera quite often on the forst 1 or 2 frames they are captured. Theres also an ionized air smell due to the electronic components around the camera, all of that stacked on top of the fact that this is anbrand new object in a very old familair place to them. So there's way more than one factor going into play here beyond just the possibility to see the IR blink.

On another site? Heresy!