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Slow day at the kissing booth I bet

@Tahoma— Don’t miss the mention of Madison’s Garmin Inreach Mini. Others recommend this device, too. A while back I had posted about safety, asking what’s your contingency plan if you’re hurt or sick in the Outback. Calling for help if you end up in bad circumstances is right up there with keeping warm, dry, and nourished. But hopefully you won’t need to.

She's lucky it didn't roll over.

NorthWind: I DO look for hairs or prints. I have bad eyesight so I always stick my nose right on top of things for extreme ZOOM. Hairs here so far are raccoon or from the cattle. I do really look at things, though. If I did find a hair, I would get out gloves, ziploc, and tweezers! LOL!

I've played recordings of Native American flute music, and gotten knocks. I figured maybe they yearn for "the good old days when NA people would play their music. It's got to be better than Justin Beiber or Snoop Dog.

Annie Nore: On this end after reading what you wrote, I understand completely. Alone at night. Similarity in the land, residential/wooded areas (I also have the farm land connection.) I would be thinking the same as you. I didn't have cable or internet while in WI, I didn't know Bigfoot was a thing. If I had known, I would have been communicating with people earlier. I would have paid far more attention to what was going on in my yard in WI. Also, I didn't have the internet until a couple of years after returned to MO, many things happened before I read/heard/learned about classic behaviors and signs when I got online. I wasn't happy about it, it became very serious very fast for me. Not really an amusing subject for me. The subject evokes many different feelings for me, sometimes conflicting. I don't know how I would react if I had been shadowed/flanked as I walked my usual route, I would be frightened if I heard whistles in the dark. I brought up the topic of out-of-place sounds, I'm sure I haven't written about all of them. It's weird enough as it is, tried to get enough nerve to inquire. I can also say that the CLARITY of recollection of these events is something that is not typical for me. I've tried to figure out why there is such clarity for these memories in comparison to other memories and I can't figure it out, it bothers me a bit. This is why I truly want the people on this forum to have a sighting or experience classic behaviors, see the tree manipulation/signs and I also wish for everyone to experience the weird stuff. It would put an end to much of the skepticism. You don't know until it happens to you. A lot involved with this.

I am very new to this forum, so I haven't mentioned anything of my "experiences" yet. They were all the same and not anywhere near as fascinating as yours and others in this group. I grew up in the country between a city and a town. It was not in the deep woods and there were other properties and people not far away. We lived on a five-acre property that had a railroad track running along the back line. As a teenager, I often used this railroad track for a shortcut when walking to and from a friend's house. This track ran through a thick brush area and then a wooded area before I reached our back line. From our back line I had a clear view of our house through a field. I have a fear of bears due to an up-close experience when I was about six years old, so I often hummed, sang, or whistled when walking the railroad track at night. On my way home I would sometimes hear steps in the brush. I would stop and they would stop. They would begin shortly after I started walking again. Thinking it was a bear, I would increase my volume and keep walking until I got to our property line. I always thought if they heard me coming or if I was louder they would leave me alone. I never thought of the possibility of a Bigfoot until I was much older and thought back on those nights after reading about similar experiences. Hunters have told me that a bear will often choose the easiest route and does not make much noise unless running. The brush area was fairly tall and thick and, if this is true, a bear would probably use the track. I have seen and heard deer and it did not sound like deer. Will a deer stop when I stop and start when I start? Do bear? A few times I thought I heard a whistle. I would stop and not hear it again so thought I probably imagined it. I would hear a single note and not another. The first time I heard a whistle I thought it might have been a person. I even yelled at my friend's older brother thinking it might be him. With the brush being so thick and the track being elevated some feet, I couldn't imagine anyone going down and walking through there to prank someone and then never show themselves. Someone would have to walk a way through brush either side of the track to do so, too, or on the track and be seen. I would hear a few steps or two or a stick break now and then as if being stepped on. Funny thing was it did not make a lot of brush movement that I could hear like an animal rambling through the brush might make. This would happen off and on over a four-year period until I moved away. This took place in the western end of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. If this happened only once or twice then I wouldn't think much of it. The stopping when I stopped and waiting for me to walk a bit before starting again is what I find strange. This would happen off and on over about a four-year period until I moved away. I thought nothing about a possible Bigfoot so never looked for signs. That was the extent of my "not sure" experiences.

A little different adventure on Sunday, in sasquatch country along Harrison Lake east side, but not a research trip. On Sunday morning I drove a young couple from Chilliwack out to Clear Creek FSR to assist in the recovery of her Ford F150, which had been stuck in a washout since Valentines Day. The actual recovery was done by Vedder Towing, I was shuttling the couple who owned the truck, and part of the tow crew, as well as a backup anchor if the tow truck got stuck in the snow. Overall a 10 hour operation. Actually, there was a Sasuatch involved; zoom in on the tailgate and you'll see a decal of the St'ailis First Nation Sask'ets, the origin of the word Sasquatch.

Found some nice prints, one fresh, the other in limestone and no telling how old. They were within 20 feet of each other, only separated by eons.

Ah! We didn't eat there. Dont know. It was a great time and we saw a 12 footer! No skunk apes unfortunately.