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There is a sighting report from 1936 in that area. Yellow dot marks the spot.

I have one of these Napier Truck Tents I like it so far. The only real con I have run into is that I lose the bed of my truck as a storage area, but I found that most of my camping totes will fit under my tailgate or the truck.

I'm surprised at all you veterans saying it's fake. Do you really think they're not clever enough to make themselves visible right in the center of the frame so that viewers will find it unbelievable? Well that and they're notorious for their drive to be the star, but from a distance which denies all but xspider's scientific confirmation? In a like manner, despite a lack of trackway evidence, you can bet they're walking around on their Bigfoot tippy toes just to visually extend the leg length, which in light of their foot size could be considerable. It's not like they don't know about the thigh:calf ratio thing. And just like that, they've fooled the dwarves again! Stealth and subterfuge has always been their strong suit, and it strikes me as a bit naive to think their development/evolution/advancement of these skills has reached its apex(or Ape X) No, I think they've crossed over to the next step of wileyness, and this is video proof of it! Or maybe not......

From Clint Smith: Here's a guy who appears to lack brain cells: a fishing guide on the Alaska Peninsula (home of the highest density of giant coastal brown bears on Earth) leading fishermen through the brush to go fishing.........and carrying a 9mm semiautomatic handgun. Now, I'm not quite sure how or why this came to be, but he did successfully kill a brown bear that charged after they kicked it up at extremely close range in the brush. I don't recommend such activity, but it goes to show that 1) the correct ammo, even for hand cannons like 44 mags and larger, is at least as important as the caliber and action type of sidearm selected, and 2) Hitting what you're shooting at while under extreme pressure is the most important criteria of all, whether shooting bullets or nuclear warheads. My bottom line?: I have a rifle on/in my vehicle or slung over my shoulder if I'm not in or near my vehicle, and my sidearm is strapped on at all times unless I'm in my sleeping bag, at which time it's lying near my head with light mounted on it (mounting effective lights on revolvers isn't easy). https://www.americanhunter.org/articles/2016/8/10/alaska-outfitter-defends-fishermen-from-raging-grizzly-with-9mm-pistol/

Hypothetically they could but there are not many examples of parallel evolution taken to the necessary degree. The more similar the end result and the deeper in time the split, the less likely that option becomes. Example would be mara and european hares .. though they evolved to fill a very similar niche on different continents, their differences are as obvious as their similarities. The farther we go back in time for a split from the known pongid/human tree, the more likely that either fossils will exist somewhere or the thing is imaginary ... and the tracks I've cast were real, the plaster impressions were real, and I can tell you that in the setting where I found "my" trackline, a hoax was not possible and nothing exists to misidentify. I think the evidence points to a very late split off the known "tree" or a known split that underwent very rapid physical adaptation due to extreme, extreme climate stress in isolation from the parent population. That isn't something I "know", rather something I compute as best guess based on the evidence available to me. Setting Ketchum aside for a while and focusing on the "theory" of hybridization, the idea has several points of biological merit. First, it has been reported that there are two similar forms, one more apelike with cruder "speech", one more humanlike (in feature) with more articulate "speech". Both are similarly massive but the more ape type is reported as having even more extreme musculature than the other. Second, broad variation in size and color. Third, variations in number of digits, especially toes. Plus other things including native accounts of abducted women who return pregnant with seemingly partially non-human offspring. To me, taken on the whole, it suggests one of two possibilities, either a species in severe decline with a lot of mutations reinforced by massive inbreeding -or- (the option I lean towards) a hybridization event which is still incomplete such that the genes of the 2 parent species are not homogeneously spread across the whole population yet. I find what is happening out there very fascinating. I think there is something quite unique occurring right under our noses that most humans are overlooking. MIB

So last week I contacted two of the authors of the 2017 Cerutti Mastadon paper. Now it was never specifically mentioned in the paper what the authors thought actually made the breaks to the mammoth bones though it was strongly implied that it was some sort of hominin species. I told them I thought it was a Homo erectus based on the findings in Lake Chapala and both of them thought I was on the right track in making that assessment. They then sent me this supplemental to the Cerutti paper. The good stuff really doesn’t start until page 56 but I thought it was quite interesting that it mentions Homo erectus, Neanderthals and Denisovans as each being possible contenders for pre-Holocene hominin expansion into the Americas. Now neither of them would say if they specifically believed in Sasquatch however the one did say that if there is something out there presently and you wanted to find the origins then this 5e interglacial period of Beringia is where you’d definitely want to start. Nature Supplemental.pdf