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Last weekend, I decided to mix 3 of my favourite activities together, camping, bigfooting, and astronomy. My wife and I headed up a relatively popular FSR (Forest Service Road) that is gated (only members of the local 4WD club have the code). We were hoping to get back to a camping spot we were at 3 years ago, but fell many kilometres short. I put out a recorder (Zoom H4n), but the only sounds we had were a bear that decided to snoop around after I had gone to bed at 2 AM. The weekend wasn't a total loss. I did manage to get some nice photos ...

18,000 lumens...wow! That's amazing. I try to use a very narrow beam, with almost no spill, so it doesn't illuminate the entire area. That way, when I scroll across a pond it may not alert something on the other side until the beam hits it. In order to get a narrow beam, I attached an aspheric lens (aka collimator) to my Tiablo A9. There are pictures of the narrow beam if you scroll down about 2/3rds of the wau down to a section called "Outdoor Beamshots" https://www.candlepowerforums.com/threads/tiablo-a9-throw-king-xr-e-r2-flood-xm-l-u2-review-aspheric-beamshots-runtimes.335491/

Hi everyone! Thanks for having me. I look forward to learning from you. I love the topic of Bigfoot. I have never had an encounter myself. I would consider myself a skeptical believer. I definitely believe there is something but exactly what that something is that is the million dollar question. I really am looking forward to reading what everyone else thinks.

Thats a nice setup. I am just now getting started into astronomy. My son and I have been playing around with a geographic telescope. Just looking at the moon and some planets. But I live in the city and not been out in the woods for a while. So, my eyes are through you guys who are getting out there. But I have been involved with another project in the city. That is taking me down the rabbit hole for sure. Thanks for those great pictures and those 4 x 4. I am still working on my 4" lift ford fx4 2012 5.0. Keep them comin.

I piggybacked my Pentax K-x and a Takumar 135mm f2.5 telephoto on top of my Celestron C8. Tracking was done with a Celestron AVX mount. The first photo is the Double Cluster, in Perseus. The second, M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, and the third photo is the North America Nebula, NGC7000, in Cygnus.

I visited an area this afternoon that I hadn't been to in about 35 years, even though the entry to the system of old FSRs is only an hour from home, along the east side of Chilliwack Lake. I was hoping to reach the beach at the south end of the lake, but hit a locked gate a couple of km before there, at a bridge over Depot Creek, so I back tracked to the Depot Cr. FSR, and went up to the end of the road, just below a very steep, rocky ridge. Back down on the main road, I continued north to the Paleface FSR, and followed it east towards the headwaters, but stopped short of the end at a cross creek washout that looked a little too sketchy to attempt to cross without a winch, or another vehicle to rescue my old butt if I got hung up in there. I saw very little wildlife, just a few squirrels and birds, and a few old bear scat piles, but no deer sign at all , and no sign of sasquatch. The weather was perfect, a pleasant 18C, with enough breeze to keep the bugs down, and some nice sunny breaks to brighten the cloudy sky.