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I suspect you don't understand the depth of the wilderness here. Back in the 1980's when I started baiting bears, the population in this borough (county) was just 10,000 people, and this borough is bigger than the state of West Virginia. There were no donut shops. There were two grocery stores that sold donuts, and they just didn't make the quantities waste. At that time there were literally more bears than people around here. Not any more. The human population has grown to nearly 120K. They're zooming around our firmer foot trails on ATVs, which didn't even exist in the early '80s. Fruit has always been difficult and expensive to get here. Baiting sasquatches must be quite different than baiting bears or other animals. I trapped a bit, but found it to be much too much work for the return. It was a good education, though. Baiting gears was quite different than setting a trap for, say, a wolverine, wolf, or fox. A sasquatch would be much smarter than even a wolf. The best bait for a wolf isn't even food. It's the urine from a female dog in heat. Laying a drum with 50# of donuts just doesn't seem like a way to catch a sasquatch, and sure enough, the hundreds of bear baiters around here, with cameras set on their bait, haven't gotten any pics of any sasquatches visiting their bait. Maybe there just aren't any sasquatches here?

When I first started baiting bears we used donuts. They definitely work, and they work good. The problem is getting them in the quantities needed to keep the bears coming. As more people moved into the area and got the word about baiting, the donuts got even tougher to find. That's when we started using livestock oats soaked with karo syrup. Fairly cheap, and big quantities were available, even in our rural area. It didn't work as well, but combined with honey burns, it brought them in and was easily refreshed. When grizzlies finally became legal to harvest over bait I moved away from sweets to used kitchen cooking grease mixed into dry dog food. I also brought a lot of dead animal carcasses both from my own little farmstead and road killed moose. In all honesty, I didn't see much change in the grizzly/black response ratio. Also, by that time, I had gotten a game cam, so I got a much better understanding of all the critters that came, not just the bears while I was sitting there watching. Now there are lots of commercial bear baits available at the outdoors stores that have popped up here, but that's expensive. The dog food/grease bait is the cheapest and easiest overall, closely followed by the oats/karo syrup if you prefer sweets. But if you can get your hands on fruit in quantity (tough to find in Alaska), I bet that would be a winner. It was a single apple that bagged the Skookum Cast.

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!