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Alkaloid fueled additions: Boker Tree Brand 502 and Puma White Hunter. The Boker has a great feel and balance. The Puma is one of those knives I've wanted to pick up for decades due to its interesting history and because I've read too many African adventure stories.

He did it with a baby crying audio recording. I am going to throw a hyper-realistic baby doll into the mix. Maybe it will tick it off enough to bring it in close.

Wonderful report, PNWex. I'd love to find a berry patch like that. On my outing last weekend, I found a few small wild strawberry patches, but the berries were long gone, and the leaves brown and curled up from the heat and drought of the last few months. We're now over 50 days with no rain, though some showers are predicted for the weekend. BTW, I liked the look of the wheels on your rig, so I painted my scarred and blotchy old wheels a similar colour. I was going for bronze, but they came out looking more like copper.

Went into the woods this week to pick huckleberries since they finally opened up the area where my favorite patch was located. Still a pretty big fire in the area, but it is mostly contained and the wind was blowing most of the smoke away from our area. The woods are extremely dry! The dust was over 8" deep in some spots along the road. But, with a layer of a few inches of super fine dust on the road for miles, it made spotting tracks very easy. Looked for BF tracks, but didn't see any. Stopped a couple of times to check out interesting ones, but they were bear tracks in which the rear paw is placed half way into the track that the front paw left. Going down the road, it looks like a giant human print at first. In this photo, you can tell how deep the powder is and how big of a cloud it makes. Riding ATVs in a group in this would be miserable, unless you were first. If you look below my mirror, you can spot some deer and elk tracks. The huckleberries were absolutely perfect! Great crop this year and bigger than last year. This patch is huge and has huckleberries as far as you can see. Girlfriend and I broke up last month, but I love her parents dearly. I brought her dad with me. He's an immigrant from Tijuana and loves to joke how he's built for picking crops, lol. Got done picking and stopped by Bald Mountain Lookout. The lookout has been converted to a cabin that the Forest Service rents out. I was surprised to see someone was staying in it with the fires in the area. Last photo was of me getting a glamour shot of the 4Runner in front of the coolest public restroom in Idaho.

Well, that's what happened to us, twice. When we saw our two out in the woods, we had been elsewhere for hours and just stopped for a moment to glass the FLIR around for a quick look and BAM, there they were. The other one - the questionable one - we were out driving, broad daylight and it caught us watching it from inside a culvert across a river. Totally random. We thought it might be a person, of course, but it acted soooo strangely and was standing in 4 inches of water just watching us. After months of hashing it out, we both kind of came to the conclusion that it was a definite maybe. And definitely just plain random BUT... in the right location. Food available, water available, cover etc. Dang things could be anywhere where those variables come together, near humans or far away. To a degree, I think you make your own luck. Set it up so you're 1) out there in the woods consistently, 2) in a place where there's been reports and 3) try to go at a time when people aren't usually there or 4) at a place where humans usually don't go. Luck and strategy and gear.

That's gorgeous! NIce work.

LOL, I went bear spotting while caring for my infant granddaughter often. Taking her for rides got her to nap immediately. Then I'd park my van in a pullout and glass the slopes for bears while she walked around the van using the seats to stay upright. Occasionally she'd get in my lap and play with the steering wheel or pull knobs off the instruments. She's 6 now, and she'd be excellent sasquatch bait. She doesn't cry, but she talks incessantly with that squeaky little voice. She's a tough little runt, too. I'd sit up all night in the woods with her and a 12 gauge in my lap. Already a well experienced camper.

Whoa! That Puma!

When some have spent decades looking without an encounter one can only guess that there are very few BF around. Or and this is a big or, some are using the wrong field techniques. I gave up on any hope of tracking them down. It was obvious from my first few footprint finds that some BF were going to great pains to avoid leaving footprints. Found prints were attributed to unsuccessfult stretches stepping over human trails trying to avoid leaving any trace at all. Two prints does not for me make a trackway or trail I can follow. Dry season is even more difficult. A bear or cougar for that matter seem oblivious to the fact they are leaving prints. So if I cannot track BF, I figure the only hope of having an enounter is random quiet movement to develop a chance to have one blunder into me. That sadly happened to me too early in my field work to be ready for it when it happened. An incredible chance to get a audio recording of two approaching BF and a clear video were both lost to my unfamiliarity with a new recorder and me freezing up and not attempting to hide from the approaching BF. I just was not ready for that to happen and the adult BF spotted me before I saw it. My attempts at being interesting have never worked well enough to see one even when they have approached. There seems to be no formula for success other than spend a lot of time in the woods and be very lucky. The Chenalt Tribe elders claim you have to be worthy to see one. Perhaps I had the luck but was not worthy? Makes me wonder.

I agree. I might give this a shot.

I'm just out of ideas , Knocking , call blasting it's been done over and over again . Even if you hear the howl or get a knock back it seems when watching most researchers they never seem to get the visual of a Sasquatch when actively looking for one. Most of these encounters seem to be when campers , hikers , hunters are doing their thing and it just happens but they aren't ready to take a photo or film and then it's over and it becomes a just a story or report filed with the BFRO . I know there's no guarantee this idea will work either but it just seems like it's one that hasn't been tried .

Lookin' good!

We've tried the crying baby route once. Since I'm a preschool teacher, it was pretty easy to get a recording of a baby crying. We didn't get any response that we knew of, but it was a super creepy section of forest, so. That doll is creepy AF. If I found that in the woods, I would run so fast in the other direction... Holy Toledo. But we can totally try the crying baby thing again. But from my truck, not a hike=in.

The winter of 68 it took two D 8 cats to clear the county road the ranch was on. I wasn’t born yet. But the winter of 78 it got to -40 for a month!

The only roads that get that amount of dust are the main dirt roads with a lot of logging truck traffic. They grind the dirt into the fine dust you see. On secondary roads with no traffic, it's not bad at all. This was the jeep trail up to the huckleberry patch... As far as a wet season, it used to be pretty rainy and wet from March to June, and again from October to November. But, the past few years, we have had drought conditions with little snowfall in the mountains and not much rain in the spring. I heard the other day that rattlesnakes have been spotted in my hometown 15 miles away. That's never been seen before because it's been too cold for them at this elevation. But the climate is changing for the worse around here. Hopefully it starts transitioning the other way soon. The winter I was born here, was the worst winter on record. My mom was taken to the hospital on a snow machine because the roads were impassable by car. It got down to -41 degrees officially, but some residents witnessed - 62 on their thermometers. https://judge3690.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/cold-anniversary-moscow-idaho-resident-recalls-1968-record-chill/

Bingo. Building a giant Orang from fossilized teeth and a partial mandible is a weak theory, and clinging to it to explain or deny extant bipedal apes or hominids in Old and/or New Worlds goes beyond weak. The bottom line here and today is that there is evidence that there is a rare bipedal ape or hominid in North America. To many, that alone is too much to swallow. That's fine with me. They can run along and study the mating habits of echidnas. I'm curious enough to pay attention to events and wade through the stupid hoaxes, bickering, back biting, and basement theorizing that is expected as the BS in any other human line of thought. As an avid outdoorsman, I hope for an encounter with one of these creatures, but I'm aware that the odds are exponentially against me. A glimpse of one would be enough for me. Even another footprint find would be a gift. I'll leave the anthropological theorizing to the point heads that are still not in the game yet.

Yeah, or strength....those clips have to be held a certain way to create slack in the line, but you can't get the proper angle when strapped tightly to a tree, and must be unstrapped to get the proper angle.....I have a pic of it laying on the ground and will look for that, but might be MIA from my computer crash several years ago.

Bigfoot is not fake. I've seen 2 under circumstances where faking is not possible, one would have been fatal if it'd been a person in a suit, the other would have covered 200+ yards in the time it took Usain Bolt to cover 100 meters when he set the world record. On the surface, given the totality of the evidence available to me, I would have to conclude that any so called debunking of the PGF is the hoax rather than the film being the hoax.

I haven't seen that one around. False edge on the spine? Looks purposeful, I like! I was perusing knives today while drinking a cuppa coffee and smoking a pipe. Caffeine and nicotine hit at the same time and I bought stuff under the influence. I'll post em when they show up.

Its time for the camper!

assuming it wasn't from a few teeth is a weak foundation in either direction of the argument, and to have that giant Orangatang suddenly morph into Patty in the new world is just f****g stupid. It remains an attempt to fill the square hole with the round peg.