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The main course will be served up by @PBeaton Get thee to the Campfire section, the "It's Saturday Night" thread, and be amazed by some of Pat's pizzas, tacos, fry breads, and other scrumptious feasts!

Found our official snack!!!

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In 1994 or 95, I was still living in Minnesota. The eastern portion of the state is thickly forested, and where I grew up was no exception. The underbrush can be very difficult to get through, let alone see into. The summer leaves make for ideal cover. I went bear hunting with a friend of mine that late summer/ early fall. Bear baiting is legal and an accepted practice there, at least it was. You could go to most grocery stores and bakeries and get a pickup load of food for free. You had to check back almost everyday, most hunters would be looking also. Sweets made for the best bait pile. We would just throw it on the ground at likely places. Some scouting beforehand would be ideal, of course. We had one bait pile hit out of three, I believe. A bear will absolutely destroy the bait. It looks like a small tornado has gone through, lol. My friend was going to sit in his tree stand above the bait pile, and we decided to set out “honey burners” to attempt to attract the bear. To make a honey burner, we took two coffe cans. A 5lb and a 1lb sounds right, but I don’t drink coffee, so my memory may be fuzzy. (It’s actually quite fuzzy from time to time.) we drilled 4 holes in the 5lb can to put a couple metal rods through to hold the 1lb can up from the bottom of the other can far enough to put a can of lit sterno under it. We then poured honey into the 1lb and wired the contraption to a tree. We each had a burner set up and we were about 200 yards apart. The smell of the honey was thick, as there was only a slight breeze. I only had a burner going. No bait pile. We could not see each other at all. I sat in my portable tree stand for a few hours, and along about dusk, something in the brush behind the burner started to growl at me. Deep, guttural grows. The growls were loud. I thought there was a bear back there, naturally, I was bear hunting, what else could it be? Lol. Those growls were quickly turning into a underwear changing moment for me. Then a tree in the background started to shake. Like, whip back and forth like nothing I had ever saw before. The top of the quaking aspen, (pople in Minnesotan) was somewhere around 15 feet off the ground, and the very top was shaking so fast. I don’t even know how to describe it. The growls intensified dramatically. I switched the safety of my .270 off. Then it just quit. The silence was deafening. The 200 yard walk to my friend was long, I tell ya. When I got there, we walked out together. It was almost completely dark by then. I never returned to that spot after I retrieved my stand the next day. I never considered this a Sasquatch encounter. I hadn’t even heard of tree shakes being a thing until about 8 years ago. When I heard about Sasquatch shaking trees, I instantly remembered this experience. At that time, I thought the PNW was the only place Bigfoot lived. Had I known then, I could’ve looked for tracks. I could’ve looked for bear tracks too, but those growls made me not want to know. So, I have no clue if this was an encounter or not. And I’m still just as happy to not know.

Oh, norse, love the leather ammo holder. Gorgeous. Show the whole thing. Beautiful photos, everyone. I'm out of thumbs ups. I'd actually wear that shirt, NorthWind. You know I love my Trek.

Hello, my name is Doug and I am from North-West Ohio. I've been interested in bigfoot since I was a kid and watch 'In Search Of...' with Leonard Nemoy back in the 70's. But my interest in the subject really peaked when in 2017 I happen to come across a facebook post about a bigfoot talk being held at a local library. That's where I met Marc DeWerth, the coordinator of the Ohio Bigfoot Conferences. Since then I've been to 3 Conferences and read several books on the subject. My favorite so far is Dr. Jeff Meldrum's Sasquatch: Legend meets Science. Looking forward to learning more here and hearing all of your experiences.

Looks like a beast.

WOW, Fantastic Work Bobby!

Look into permethrin for your clothing. I may have to get @Madison5716 one of these:

WOW! I am blown away, @BobbyO! This is amazing work! Thank you for sharing it here, and yes, I would love to have a PDF of this. I will send you a PM. Do you have any correlation on times of sunset / sunrise in that area too? Perhaps that might be of interest. I am also interested in moon phase, too, and you probably already know. I am in awe. Thank you again!

That is fascinating. Thank you for calling our attention to that additional insight!

Olympic Project Nest Area, myself Mr Norseman and Mr Hunster, two weeks, with someone dropping us in sausages and steaks to BBQ each night and we'd get the job done, no doubt in my mind. Oh ok, i'll add Corson, Hale and Spencer in there too for the crack !

My dream team doesn't exist. I'd contract with professionals for support; aerial, marine, evidence recieving/analysis, etc. My dream location is extreme southeast Alaska, primarily Misty Fjords National Monument and Wilderness, but if the National Park Service became a problem I'd reluctantly and sadly shift operations to Prince of Wales Island, Kuiu Island, Etolin Island, Zarembo Island, Kupreanof Island, Wrangell Island, Mitkof Island, or Revillagegedo Island.......in that order. My preferred strategy in Misty Fjords would be based on a live aboard boat (36'-60') and extended foot patrols up river valleys looking for footprints along with nighttime surveillance at anadromous river mouths and good clam bed beaches. A good expedition period would be eight months, from the beginning of April through November.

There easily half-dozen different location in the PNW to select. Would be tough to pick one. Olympic peninsula, St. Helens, Olympia area I've all had BF interactions. But would be fun to have interactions in new areas. As far as a dream team.... I would have to have the four horsemen: Krantz, Greene, Dahinden and Byrne. Even thought they all didn't get along, they're the 4 horsemen, c'mon.... who better from a historical standpoint? For other "passed" individuals, it'd be: Bindernagel, Freeman, & Napier (only to get him to admit BFs are out there, LOL) For current big name BF'ers, how could you choose?: Barrackman, Meldrum, Brown, Shay, Lieterman, Randles, Raymond, Cupertino, Fay, Knoll. How about people from this board? @NorthWind @Madison5716 @norseman, thanks for all your posts and the sharing that you do. But this is an exercise in personal likes and experiences from reading books and posts and listening to interviews... So it would be extremely hard to pick any particular individuals, there have been so many great individuals for many different reasons. My dream team would be anyone who can keep an open mind, keep an eye out for anything that is different and can keep their cool when wood knocking, screams and stomping is going on around you.