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Nice rig.

Yeah, exactly. Now that they've thinned some of the forest areas for wildfire mitigation, we should be able to see heat signatures some hundreds of yards back into the tree line, not just the clearcuts. Beyond the R2D2, there's stuff out there which requires security clearance for access .. suggests to me it has capabilities beyond what we realize is possible. I wonder if FLIR needs a field tester? I'd do it even if I had to take some security folks with me to be sure I didn't run off with the toys.

Nothin' to be embarrassed about. It is a surplus thermal imager. It is a half sphere ... looks considerably like R2D2's domed top (from Star Wars) thus the nickname. Normally they are mounted on the under side of fire detection aircraft .. helicopters and small planes. BFRO mounts theirs (they have 2) "upside down" on top of a vehicle. They were featured on several Finding Bigfoot episodes. Even though the technology is a bit dated now they've still got better resolution than anything I've seen in the handheld range plus, since they output to a TV screen, they're good for a group to discuss what they're seeing where a handheld isn't of much use other than to the person holding it. The weaknesses are cost .. even surplus they're over $13K .. and water (rain). MIB

I carry mine on the front brushbar.

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.

(Copied / pasted) THE EARLIEST KNOWN MATING BETWEEN DIFFERENT HUMAN SPECIES has been defined by ancient DNA analysis. This interspecies sex happened about 700,000 years ago, long before we (Homo sapiens) were around. Ancestors of both Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred with their Eurasian predecessors - a well-established "superarchaic" population that had separated from other humans 2 million years ago. The time frame fits with the mystery sex partner being Homo erectus, who has to be regarded as the most successful human species of all time, lasting for 1.8 million years compared to our ~300,000 years to date. It's AMAZING what else the ancient DNA analysis can tell us: The superarchaic population was large (between 20 and 50 thousand individuals). When Neanderthals interbred with the superarchaics, their populations had been separate for 1.2 million years. Later, when this mystery population exchanged genes with Denisovans, the two populations had been separated even longer. This made them the most distantly related humans ever to interbreed. The DNA analysis also indicated that ancestors to Neanderthals and Denisovans endured at least one significant population bottleneck. It's mind blowing what DNA analysis is uncovering - stuff we would NEVER know otherwise! Here's the article that also has a link to the Rogers et al. (2020) research paper: https://www.businessinsider.com/ancient-humans-interbreed-with-mysterious-population-2020-2?fbclid=IwAR2EFwmtt3fzsvYamMHgfSm3VqQG00WqZmocx7gOcC_m0XQiU8pkrinu2VI

I was cleared for all activities. I think i would have preferred my e bike though. Anyhow I had to come back early, my wifes kidney stone has became infected. Never seen so many elk in my life. I could have shot 3 6 pt bulls within 100 feet of me if I had a branch antlered bull tag. And all of them were bachelors which means the herd bulls were bigger yet!!

Sat at trail head this morn being lazy cuz my back hurt from a motorcycle crash yesterday. Sat my electronic caller on my roof and called a cow elk into my back bumper! Ha! We have seen big bulls, one broadside (75 feet away) lots of elk, lots of mule deer, beautiful place. Just south of Haney meadows off 97. Just got cell service on this ridge I hiked up. Bumped 12 head of mulies, but they didn't spook, fingers crossed. Opening day the bulls were hot but now its quieted down abit. I will try and upload pics…. But no spikes seen yet.

I'm really slipping, it's been over a month since I last got out in the mountains, due to family obligations, bad weather, and the never ending honey-do list. I corrected that today, with a multi purpose sasquatch/deer/bear/grouse hunting trip to the mountains east of Harrison Lake, specifically to the same old clearcut where I tagged a nice fork horn blacktail buck 4 years ago. It was an afternoon run, leaving my Abbotsford home at noon, and reaching the start of the gravel FSR shortly after one. My target trail was blocked at about 1km in by a large group of wood cutters, so I carried on to the next uphill branch, which I found to be busy with ***** shooters, target shooters, and a convoy of side by sides. The next try was 5 km further up the main FSR, and that branch was gated at 1.5 km due to active logging. I then returned to the first trail, and found that the wood cutters had finished, and were gone. From that point on I had the old deactivated road to myself, and I started the long, steep climb to the old open cut blocks higher up the mountainside. With the cross ditching and washouts on the steep grade, low range was used to ease the load on the little 3.5L engine. On the way up I spotted a single grouse, that spooked into the trees before I could stop the truck and pull out the 20 gauge. When I reached the spot where I had dropped the little buck on a previous trip, I parked and got out to walk the old road and glass for game. I glassed the uphill side of the clearing without seeing anything, so I turned and looked downslope. I just raised the binoculars to my eyes, and I was looking straight at a beautiful cinnamon phase black bear! It was working over an old pile of logging debris, looking for grubs or marmots, I guess, and it was no more than 250 yards downhill from me, but what a downhill! The slope was much steeper than 45 deg., too steep to walk down, and waaaay too steep to attempt to pack a 3 or 4 hundred pound bear back up, even in quarters. So I watch it feed for 20 minutes or so, hoping that it would decide to come uphill, but it eventually faded back into the timber below the clearing, and that was the end of my chance for it. I took a couple of pictures of the view from that area, and slowly drove back out to pavement without seeing any other critters. In the second photo, the village of Harrison is just visible at the upper left corner of the lake.