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Went for a nice little day trip with my wife on Sunday, to an FSR near Squamish. Stopped to check out a recreation site about 20 km in and stopped back later in the day for a bbq. Took a spur road, which ended up being a newly active logging area. The ground was still nice and soft, perfect for tracks, so we stopped and had a scout around. Found a few bear tracks and "human shaped" footprints, but, unfortunately, they were boot-tracks. Didn't take any pictures of those. Who wants to see photos of some logger's old, worn-out Kodiaks anyway. Absolutely no wildlife seen, whatsoever, except for a single solitary Grouse, and a deer, about 600 m (just shy of 2000 ft) from the FSR entrance off the highway. The area looks promising, so we are going to go back for a campout in the future.

Yup. I've gotten into the habit of taking some Milo Tucker dog treats whenever I go out walking or hiking. They are 100% beef liver treats made by a veteran buddy of mine in Victoria, BC. Dogs love them. Milo Tucker was my friend's dog. He passed from cancer some years ago, so these are named after him. He was a constant companion and helped my buddy battle his PTSD and OSI demons.

That was a day well spent, cmknight. That's a great area to explore, but I don't get out that way very often. I was on a trail run with a 4x4 group on Saturday, to the same area you and I went a couple of years ago, the high ridge between Allouette and Stave Lakes. With a convoy of a dozen 4x4s, there was no chance of spotting any Sasquatch, of course.

Found the official beverage when I stopped in a little grocery store on the way to the cabin... Too bad it was the most bitter and nasty IPA I'd ever had. My son-in-law loved it.

Huntster: 300 sq. miles = "Small"? 110,000 acres? M'kay. This is also not prairie or open taiga we are talking about. This is dense, almost impenetrable thicket of palmetto, vines and Spanish moss, black water and triple canopy. You could hide an entire Division there, probably. You may not be familiar with this terrain, but if you are not, it is sort of hard to picture just how dense and inaccessible most of it would be to anyone on foot. Visibility is pretty much nil outside of 50 ft. in any direction if you are not on open water or the occasional marsh savannah/hummock. So what that there are hordes of humans close by? Actually, sounds to me to be about the perfect habitat/location for a swamp ape. Pig for breakfast, pig for dinner, pig for supper....