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@BC witness The spot I got to, the road ended at a very large clear-cut area near the top of a ridge. It had been recently worked as there were still tracks in the road from the equipment. I slept in the truck, as the ground was still muddy from recent rains, and cooked smokies on a campfire for my Thanksgiving dinner. It got really cloudy and foggy overnight, but no snow fell, which was too bad because something paid a visit while I was asleep. I was on a gravelled spot, so no tracks that I could see.

Hi Guys , We are opening a Sasquatch gift store in Forks Washington on Halloween and have a few position open .. if anyone knows anyone interested in being a manger, podcaster, screen printing please let me know Ken@SasquatchTheLegend.com or stop by we are here everyday getting it ready to open 80 N. Forks Ave Forks WA 98331 Thanks For any HELP https://sasquatchthelegend.com/pages/job-opening

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Love it. Sport S with a manual like your Gladiator.

An affordable must have accessory is a Hi-Lift Jack and Hi-Lift Mate. Very effective low-tech solution if you get stuck or get a flat tire in the field. I always take them with me when off-road. They also make an inexpensive mounting kit for Jeep hoods.

Hot spot for sure, Beaver is a special place.. that discovery trail out there is amazing .. Rich Germeau and his dad did all the counters and shelving ffrom wood they cut and milled on their property and Tom Sewid is doing a Mural on the north face of the building this week.. the store is right as you come into Forks from the north on Highway 101 before the Twilight store ..

Sounds cool! I was there in July and chatted with an old fella who recalled a road crossing that spooked loggers near Beaver, think it was off of 101 thereabouts.

Good luck! I'd like to get up that way some day. I'll definitely come visit!

cmknight, I tried to go as far upstream as possible, hoping to reach the fairly large waterfall that's visible from parts of the valley, but the east bank road ends where my H3 is parked in the 8th pic down, and the west bank road ends at a very old washed out bridge. I believe that both spots are still a few km from the falls and the headwaters. The falls are just visible almost dead centre in this photo, appearing as a vertical white line in the dark green trees. Try zooming in. I thought I had saved my Gaia maps track of this trip, but it's not on my phone, so i guess I didn't push the right button at the right time. It showed my progress up both sides of the valley very clearly.

Hi, my name is Maggie. I joined today because my sister claims to have seen a Bigfoot and I’m interested in learning more.

Thx, Marty. 8 ) I mentioned "our average, scientifically confirmed bigfoot" because, in my opinion, the research and the evidence (notwithstanding, the video above) precludes any possibility that such animals do not exist. There is no way to reconcile the idea that every, single 'Bigfoot' report is due to insanity, lies, or misidentification. And, since all it takes for Bigfoot to exist is one valid report, there we have it.

Love the old buildings and equipment, @BlackRockBigfoot. Although BC has fur trading and gold mining history going back 200+ years, not much survives in the wet coastal area where I live and explore; there is much more of what you show in the drier interior plateau. Monday, the 11th, was our Thanksgiving holiday here in Canada, and since my family did our big dinner on the Sunday, I was free to do a day trip. I chose the Mystery Valley/Eagle Creek region due to it's distance off pavement and number of reports of sightings and footprint finds over the last few decades. The start of the gravel FSR is about 45 minutes from my home, and it's about 40 km on the main logging road to reach the Mystery Valley turn off. Once I was headed up that road, I explored every branch line off it, most of which were deactivated, with cross ditching to prevent the whole trail getting washed away in our fall and winter monsoons. I saw no big game sign, and no sasquatch evidence, but did manage to bag a nice plump grouse for a future dinner. After crossing Mystery Pass into the Eagle Creek drainage, I turned upstream on the east side of the creek to a bridge about 5 km in, then headed downstream on the west side, hoping to reach Chehalis Lake on that side, but eventually reached a washout that was a bit too challenging to attempt, so I backtracked to the east side and reached the lake that way. The weather was great all day, and I sat for an hour in a camp chair during my lunch stop, with a great view of most of the creek valley below me. There were a few campers still at the north beach, where Eagle Creek feeds the lake, and lots of human and dog tracks all over the beach, so no chance of locating extra large tracks on the pebbly beach. Near dusk, I headed back towards Mystery Pass, exploring one more side branch before dark, then it was back onto the main FSR, and a bumpy 40 km back to pavement and then home.

I looked into roof top tents. It would be ok for me solo but there's no way my GF could get in and out safely. Plus our garage is not quite tall enough to be able to open one up to dry out, I'd have to remove it for that which defeats the purpose. The ideal would be a slide in camper but that takes more truck than I've got right now. A "topper" (what we call a "canopy" here) would do pretty well .. but same situation with only a 5 foot truck bed. I think I'll be using a reg'lar old ground tent for a while longer. Hammocks are looking better but that means you have to have trees and some of my favorite camping spots are out in the high desert where there aren't 2 junipers within strap distance for 50 miles. I don't think sage brush will support one .. just guessing, but I feel like I'm pretty close to right. Gotta scoot .. looks like I'm going camping in 10-15 minutes. What gear to take, what gear to take?

The area around us is littered with stuff like this… old machinery and equipment, old homes quietly decaying deep in the forest. When a lot of the land here was turned into national forests, there were people living there tucked away in the hollers. Some moved away per the government’s demands. Some didn’t. We find old stills fairly often.

Found an old homestead site today. Tons of cool machinery.

It's ironic that I used to get 3 or 4 days off before, but now get more done with only 2 days off. Before, I used to sleep until 2 or 3 in the afternoon. Now, I am up well before noon, so have so much more daylight to get stuff done. During the work week, I have plenty of time to do chores and even go shoot before work. Before, it was wake up, shower, and get to work. Hoping to get back in shape enough to do some deep off-trail exploring in order to discover some real BF sign and habitat.