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  1. 2022. Arrived a month ago yesterday. Got the plates on Friday. It's on its second tank of gas. There are upgrades in its future but first by bank account needs a breather 'cause along with this, I got Starlink and a new Sage fly rod. Time to put the brakes on for a month or two. In the mean time, I headed for the woods yesterday. Mostly fishin' but also keeping my eye open for tracks and running an audio recorder. It's about a month past the "hot time" for the area so it was no surprise that I heard / saw / smelled nothing at all. River crossing is via the white log. Sketchy but .. sketchy. The burn scar from a fire in 2008. Up on top above the ridgeline the burn continues. It is just over a mile to the top. I've spent a lot of time down in the shadow along the trail looking up into the timber with big glass .. spotting scope, 'nocs, and camera, but I haven't seen anything interesting in there yet. Nor have I heard anything. This is probably my favorite view. As a fishermen those pools look **good**. Can't get to them from the trail side though, there's a 15-30 foot drop-off into the water all along on my side. No way to get back out. The views are great. It's not that pleasant, though. By the time the river drops enough to fish the mosquitoes get real bad and by the time the mosquitoes back off the yellowjackets, then hornets, get going. There's always some kind of irritation. It's a nice place to hike in winter if you can get to the trailhead (snow). Also not a real safe place to camp because of the trees from that fire 14 years ago that are still falling. MIB
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  2. @Brian I have a 2014 Rubicon. It will take you where you want to go.
    1 point
  3. Ha! Fun. I did much the same a few years back on a little Honda Ruckus. The small wheels make them really twitchy in mud. I managed to stay upright, but I was sideways, with both feet in mud up to the ankles. I was out again today, as well, with the same results; no sightings or sign at all. My excitement came on the way back out. I had gone through an open gate for a work area (repairs of last fall's huge washouts) that had a sign saying the gate would be locked at 4:30 PM. I got back there at 2:10 to find it locked, and no one around. Though I had heard some chatter on the radio earlier, no one had said "We're leaving, get out". Way out past cell service, of course. After some discussion, my son, our lady passenger, and I decided to build a bypass around the gate by towing some large boulders out of the way and digging into the uphill bank to make a shallow enough slope to keep the truck from flipping over. Two hours later, with only one minor dent in the rear driver's side door, we were on the other side of the gate, and headed home.
    1 point
  4. Really because there is video of him driving his UTV around? Heck…. Call someone. If we were neighbors in Idaho or Montana. And I shot a Grizzly bear in my yard and wounded it? And it ran off and I shrugged my shoulders and went inside? What would you think of that? What would you think with your kids playing in the back yard? You would NOT be OK with my actions. This story could be complete horse manure. Fine, but taken at face value? That was really not OK at all.
    1 point
  5. I'll give you credit for imagination and persistence. However, it's not close to proving anything to anyone who isn't already convinced. It does not move the needle one iota, not for science, not for scoftics, not even for intelligent skeptics. Not even for this knower who remains a skeptic of the photo. I also don't consider "bear" or "chimp" proven. As I've said, it's an ambiguous photo. Even eventual proof of sasquatch will not validate the Jacobs photo as a photo of sasquatch any more than proof of sasquatch will validate a picture of a box of corn flakes as a photo of sasquatch. It has always fallen short in the past. It falls short today. It will always fall short in the future. The Jacobs photo is not a hill to die on so far as proof of bigfoot. Personal advice, one enthusiast to another: your time would be better spent in the field gathering new evidence instead of flogging a long dead horse 'cause that horse is not going to budge. I don't think you'll heed it but I'm offering it anyway. Best o' luck out there ... MIB
    1 point
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