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I don't think you'll find consensus. Opinions vary and are strongly held. I don't think there's evidence for BF being merely a myth, the only support that has is lack of proof to the contrary, and lack of proof is not proof of lack. My research approach is looking for a F&B "critter", yes, a bipedal primate, but that's a weak term, it glosses over how truly close to us I think they are genetically. I'm looking at them being the robustus to our gracile .. more or less. Like darwin's finches evolving specializations to avoid competition for resources. Genetically, we run hot, open savannah in bright daylight, they walk cold, snowy mountains in the dark. Each specialization we have, they seem to have the opposite. I suspect they have brain capabilities similar to ours but oriented differently because their physical advantages resolve needs we had to develop tools and fire to compensate for. At the same time, in my past as a report investigator I had access to the raw reports almost nobody sees and there was an incredible amount of high strangeness that got "sanitized" out of the raw reports prior to publication. For me it is necessary to leave the possibility of some of the woo explanations on the table at least for now because, as I said before, lack of proof is not proof of lack, we just discard the uncomfortable so we don't have to deal with it. My approach in the field focuses on F&B. I keep an eye out for the "woo" and for ways to try to apply science to studying that when I encounter it. I can't take skepticism seriously. I've had two clear sightings. Non-existence is off of the table for me. MIB

This post is woefully under appreciated in this thread.

Been called worse things. Mostly by my ex. But blanking may have been a part of it.

Those were very easy to identify. Mud and melting snow tracks can be a bit more difficult for most. Of course not these experts here. Self not included.

So now your Native American name is "Two Skunks Blanking." Heh!

Thant's pretty special indeed. I once heard a small, rapid grunting / sniffing sound right outside. Still in my sleeping bag, I unzipped the tent window, and lit it up outside. There were two, uh, "amorous" skunks not three feet from my face busily doing their thing. I killed the light, and zipped up the flap quietly and went back to sleep, chuckling. Cool sound. Never heard that before. I can see how bear tracks can be misidentified. But I have seen them so many times now it just looks like "bear".

When I went elk hunting in north Eastern Oregon two years ago, The wolves started howling at around 3 am. The continued for a long time. It seem as though it was at least an hour. On the other side of the valley we were camped in there was a single howl that was going one while all the other howls were happening on the other side of the valley. That single howler was still howling when we left at 6am. It had been howling none stop for 3 solid hours and still going strong when we left.

It's pretty special to be tucked into your sleeping gag in a tent in pitch blackness and hear wolves howling for hours. One night I had a wolf sniffing the corner of our tent while we were in our bags. My head was literally less than 3' from his/her nose. How do I know? It was snowing (which added a special sound to the night as it landed on the tent). The sound of the snow hitting the tent somewhat masked the sound of the sniffing. The next morning, at that corner of the tent, were the wolf prints in the snow.

I believe flesh and blood mainly bipedal primate, with a very high intelligence level. Likely related to human. I don't really have any evidence of "woo" type of stuff, but I have heard it from direct eye-witnesses. In fact, I recently spoke with a man who was at least part Native American descent, who rather convincingly swore that he saw one change before his eyes into a deer, as well as reports of cloaking, like the alien in the movie Predator. I have not experienced "mind-speak" - though others have. I have heard this before from others, as well. Some on this forum. But again, I have no experience or evidence of this. It is, however, something I am always conscious of when I am out in the woods. Then there's infrasound. I have not experienced that, either, but I know people who have. Again, some are on this forum. I have experienced tracks and other physical indications. And, the sightings that Madison5716 and I have had. The data that I can confirm for myself lead me to believe flesh and blood, but I'm open to other possibilities if I find out otherwise.

To me if it exist I see it as a bipedal primate.

I had NO idea that Nepal could look like that. I always wondered what they would have to eat to sustain a large omnivore in a snowy or high mountain desert climate, but wow, that film opened my eyes. That's a lot of meat on the hoof AND some predators for competition... yeah, I guess so. Maybe traveling from here to there is what the snow prints are. I could see the Yeti as an older species or different branch further from us than the sasquatch species are. Their feet look very different and much more apelike.