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Then it must truly be a BF, we all know they are naturally blurry. 🤷

Im just going to start dumping my trail cam pics into this thread! Enjoy! (No elk this time…. Dang it!)

That is a solid hypothesis, and I've always thought that could be why the smell isn't described in every encounter. We know some primates have a similar response... even humans have a tendency to sweat when nervous. Interesting... I wasn't aware that it was a voluntary response. Thank you for posting the article!

Norse, you’ve got deer AND moose on your land? And elk if they want to show up? You could put together quite a “slide show” or montage with all the photos of critters who live by you. I’m impressed!

You may have time before your surgery to place an order and receive a mail order bride. I actually know a guy who did this and they are very happily married.

Cows and recreational vehicles are NOT allowed in wilderness areas…… guess again. The frank church and the selway bitter root has airstrips grandfathered in. The Bob doesn’t even have that. It’s foot traffic or by pack animal. Same goes for the Wenaha Tucannon in Oregon. And every other wilderness area in the PAC NW. if you have evidence to the contrary I’d like to see it. Maybe SE Oregon has some non greenie USFS employees working down there? Good for them. But the agency as a whole leans heavily to the hippie side of the equation. They would LOVE to cancel hundred year old grazing allotments and ban all motorized traffic off the forest. No problem. I got told on the Colville NF I couldn’t ride my E Bike behind a locked USFS gate on a road made by a bulldozer….. I thought EV’s are green? Evidently not. They are as a whole off their rocker. And the park service is even worse.

Hello from Michigan. I have never had an encounter myself, but have known people who have had class A encounters and I am deeply fascinated by the subject. I am excited read more encounters from my part of the continent!

The problem that many Americans forget, when they are talking about government coverup, is that we would not be talking about 1 Federal government. At a minimum there would be 3 Federal governments involved, more if sasquatch reach into Central and South America or Asia. You are also talking about a coverup that has lasted decades, without major leaks. The Mexican cartels control the border like nobody else, imagine the money they would make off of a body or captured specimen, but where are they. If there was a decades long coverup going on across all of North America. you don't think that China or Russia wouldn't have at least got a whiff of it by now, and they would like nothing better than exposing a secret like this, even if for no other reason than to embarrass us. A coverup of this size would involve hundreds if not thousands of people over the last 50 years, and they have somehow guarded this secret, better than nuclear weapons.

great pics, norseman. Interesting pic that shows that one deer on her hind legs. I was thinking this can happen when several are around feed and one of the deer wants to try to establish dominance.

Attention, people do all kinds of things for attention.

Good question. I'm cautiously skeptical. The reason is that when I have smelled what I suspect may be bigfoot, there have been no other indications of their presence. When I have seen them, found tracks, been whooped at, exchanged whistles, had things thrown near me, and during the camp visits backpacking, I've smelled nothing. Some here may recall my account of bumping into a strong, acrid fecal smell on the mountain in 2007. A few years ago I was out of town in training for a week. I was wearing Merrell Trail Gloves walking from the hotel to class. One day I bent over to take the shoes off and I got hit by essentially the same smell. My first thought was that I'd somehow unknowingly "soiled" my pants. :( :( :( However, it was coming from the shoes. They are plastic and don't breath very well. Apparently they retain foot moisture and it ferments. :( :( :( Unpleasantly. So .. I have to leave what you're suggesting on the table as a possibility. If that is the case, I think it most likely to be a result of a startle reaction, not something under conscious control nor something that happens if situations develop slowly. MIB

I have smelt them on trails following me. But have also notice the wind direction and the smell would just vanish when I would stop. So could it also be that they might be aware of how they smell. Like I have said that I have notice the wind direction and from where the smell was coming from. The smell would clear. Yet, I would still hear movement along the side of the trail. I am not sure that apes/chimps are self aware of there own smell like us humans are. We hunt so we try to hide our scent from the game that we are hunting. So do these creatures do the same with us. I am not saying that we are their game. But they do observe us in some form that when we smell them and look in the direction from where the smell is coming from. They seem to know to move and hide. Just my observations.