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My conclusion regarding the subtle reorientation of objects is that something lifted some of the objects to examine them (perhaps smell them or look at them more closely), tried to replace them in the position found, but failed to accurately do so. (Only comparison of before and after photos allowed me to notice the differences.)

Sockeye @ Lake Wenatchee White caps today😬

Have you tried "Planet of the Apes"? Damn dirty Sasquatch.

Drum like the late Charlie Watts in Sympathy for the Devil!

Left the jar lightly sealed and screwed on, had the same element of stickage or finger dipping as you except the jar was pretty much cleaned out and the top put back with the jar and lid in the hollow trunk. Very strange, I had pulled the screw the lid of the jar trick in a tree then screw on jar with the jar appended to it and never had any luck with that setup

9-dot, those are interesting pics. It's interesting what gets moved and what remains untouched. Seeing the feathers made me think of an odd happening the husband/wife team I mentioned earlier had one time. They don't live on their property in SE OK, though they have a cabin and also bring a travel trailer with them. They had put a few boards on concrete blocks to back the trailer up to to make an easier step. One time they put a Nerf Football and a Nerf baseball, along with other toys on their gift log. The wife checked the log one morning and the Nerf football was gone. They then left for about two hours and when they got back, they found the football all torn up and laying on the boards below the steps at the back of the travel trailer, along with two cardinal feathers sticking up at an angle. The man thought the football looked like it had been chewed on and mentioned it looked like there were teeth marks in it, though he wasn't sure just what happened to it; and wondered if they thought it was something to eat. This frame shows both the football and the two feathers, plus one of the feathers themselves as they looked when they got back. From what they said, both items appeared on the boards during the two hours they were gone. It's interesting the Nerf football was taken but the baseball was untouched.

I leave food items. I do not leave toys or candy bars. On the ground or tree stump height. I have used eggs to check for opposing digits, toothy mouths and bird beaks. Broken shell is lack of dexterity ( grip and mouth ) and bird beaks. Unbroken shell is opposing digits, great mouth suck job or maybe a human. One has to consider other campers and roaming mineral prospectors especially if the site is close to water. Braeburn apples are easy to store and transport. I had green colored apples left untouched so I just do Braeburn. I had a location with a stump that was several feet in diameter and the heart wood rotted out. The cavity was a tapering vertical hole that could hold about 4--5 apples. Stumps in clear cuts are not flat or level with 2 cuts. Food placed on top ( visible ) will draw animals / birds. Bird poop tells all. Bears are sloppy. I was watched. I had all the apples disappearing overnight. No crumbs. Everything was vacuumed away. I would camp about 1,000 feet away with terrain blocking the view. They also had high ground position. No humans got past me. I set up a test to determine what was getting very nice Braeburns. I used a stick from the base of the stump to plunge into the apple core. I measured a range of extraction forces with a Chatillon scale that had memory function. I can't find my notes with the pulling force values bur IIRC, going over 10 pounds was not unusual with a fresh apple. The stick did not have 'beak ' marks from a raven ( one of two suspects at the grime scene ). The stick was removed from the apple and placed in the same spot every time on top of the stump. Right or left handed? I do not know. What ever retrieved the apples had to reach deep into the hole to get the bottom apple. The hole ended up very disturbed. I was not able to find hairs. I put up a trail camera and instantly lost the site. The shrew that was living in the stump got a rest. It was freaked out. The images with the folding scale and Chatillon scale have the classic BFF 'red circle' around the shrew hole. The stick is in my freezer complete with 'high tide' marks.

Attached is a set of pdf files saved from a PowerPoint presentation regarding gifting in the summer of 2016 - initially on my own and then later in the summer with Jim Myers of Sasquatch Outpost in Bailey, Colorado. During that summer a large number of gifts were taken - certainly by something with dexterity, human or other. Much of the rearrangement of items was subtle and was only perceived and documented by comparing before (as left) and after (as found) photos. A number of other encounters were experienced, but this file is mostly about gifting. Due to file size the presentation needs to be broken into 4 parts. Part 1 2016_10_15 Summer 2016 Gifts PUBLIC 1.pdf PART 2 2016_10_15 Summer 2016 Gifts PUBLIC 2.pdf PART 3 2016_10_15 Summer 2016 Gifts PUBLIC 3.pdf PART 4 2016_10_15 Summer 2016 Gifts PUBLIC 4.pdf

bipedalist, that's interesting about the peanut butter jars. I have heard of people putting out peanut butter. There is a video somewhere on the internet from "Barb and Gabby", and Barb would put out jars of peanut butter. One time she set a partial jar of peanut better on a stump, and when she checked on it again, the jar was laying on the ground by the stump, and the lid was off the jar and also laying near the stump. She showed the peanut butter in the jar and it looked like it had been stirred with a small stick. It was as though something took a stick, maybe slightly smaller than a #2 pencil, and moved the stick back and forth in the peanut butter. I went back to the video and rewatched the part about the turtles. The wife had placed a small green turtle on the gift log and it soon disappeared. It reappeared a few months later back on the log, and it was right next to an empty turtle shell that they had not put out. They also put two six packs of eggs out and a week later they found one carton under a tree about 25 ft. away, with the carton open, and thought the eggs had been eaten since only the broken shells were in the carton. The other carton had disappeared and they never found it.

We had some of that action on the Whipsaw run, though the toughest obstacles had bypasses that were a little less puckering. I definitely made good use of my skid plates and bump stops on a few occasions. Two of the guys are 4x4 bloggers, and took loads of video and drone footage that should be edited and posted in a week or 2, and I'll link to those when they're up.

I went out on a group 4x4 run this weekend, to a trail I hadn't driven in about 30 years, called the Whipsaw. It's rated as 1 of the top 10 off road routes in N. America, and it didn't disappoint on that level, though there was no sign of Sasquatch anywhere along the 75 km length. There was lots of dust, mud, ruts, rocks, and mosquitoes to make it a real adventure, though. Most of the route is along a 6'000 ft ridge, in alpine parkland, and the wildflowers were in full bloom. We camped the first night at a small lake in a little spruce hollow, and completed the run the second day. Every truck made it through without breaking anything, though there were minor dents and scratches, and one that kept overheating on the second day. The scenery is spectacular!

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i enjoyed the joking, but to answer the question is I dumpster dive at Shipleys Donuts. They throw out all their donuts daily and bake new ones. They use 50 pound flour sacks to throw their old donuts out. And you do not want to eat donuts that have been sitting in a dirty dumpster. Sweet feed is good, but that cost money.

On Sunday afternoon, I drove out to the quietest mountain valley in the region, and explored all the old logging roads, right out to the headwaters of the big creek. In 5 hours out there I saw 1 dirt biker near the start, and 2 4x4s parked at the very end of the valley, probably hikers heading up into the alpine. I spotted several grouse, some bear scat, and some nice big deer tracks, but nothing Squatchy. I took 2 hikes along some very overgrown old roads, but the swarms of mosquitoes kept the time out of the truck short. On the east side of the valley, I couldn't reach the end of a couple of the roads due to snow banks blocking progress, but the west side road was clear all the way to the huge bluff that boxes the south end. The views from the high points were worth the drive.

I'd hate to think what happens when one of them wants the remote.... Just saying