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In places where those exist they are definitely worth checking out (my opinion of course). We don't have either right here. The mining is essentially all placer mining so of no use. I can think of a couple mine shafts and one limestone cave across an area about 150 miles x 150 miles. What we do have .. in places .. are big rock slides / boulder fields. One way to dispose of a body in them is to hide it in a crack between boulders, then let nature (gravity) cover it with gravel over time. Another would be to dig into the talus, then rebury. Since this is mostly designated / legal wilderness, no heavy equipment would be available, and otherwise in areas simply too remote / too far from roads, it would be difficult for a human with mere muscle power to remove the rocks, etc that something with the assumed strength of a sasquatch could use to cover a grave / burial site. I'm not as negative a that sounds, just being realistic about the challenges. It is very worth keeping an eye out for an opportunity. If the first ones don't pan out, another still might. We only need one success.

No it’s good to be pragmatic. I might start packing an entrenching tool in my travels.

The Columbia basalt flow that covers much of the Columbia river drainage in Washington and Oregon is a basalt layer that averages well over 1000 feet deep. That was formed from rifts in the crust and must have been something amazing when it happened. Anyway it is honeycombed with lava tubes. Many we know about but most likely many exist that are unknown to European settlers. I suspect that many are used by BF in the winter or perhaps year round. While it may be below freezing above the surface, the average temperatures in the tubes year round are in the 40s. Speaking of vegetation colors, if you look at the satellite image of ape cave with superimposed trail features you can see where the lava tube runs because of the lighter color vegetation on top of the tube. The thin soil layer over the tube does not support large tree growth. If someone went from known tubes, learned the color differences, or taught a computer to recognize them, one might be able to find unknown tubes. I suspect that some of the missing in Skamania County WA disappear because they blunder into holes and fall or are helped into holes in lava tubes. Climbing out may be impossible through a small hole in a collapsed roof. LIDAR might show clues as to where they are. There are a lot of BF sightings in or near gravel pits. Not sure why. Eventually gravel pits go inactive and could be used for rock burial. Certainly burial in heavily rooted forest soil would be very difficult without shovels or pick axes. But if dead BF were carried into the mountains, buring them well enough to avoid scavengers in talus slopes would be just a matter of moving enough loose rock and not require tools. Humans in mountainous areas with little soil and much rock intern their dead in rock. And finally I found a 4 by 12 rectangular shaped stack of rocks in the talus slopes on the East Side of Mt St Helens. It was not natureal, the rocks appeared to be stacked, and a strangely shaped delicately ballanced arrangement of rocks on the West end looked like a bird. Those rocks for sure were placed there. I felt like I was being watched while there and did not get closer than about 4 feet to the feature. It was litterally a couple of hundred feet South of the Ape Canyon trail.

https://www.wired.com/story/could-a-tree-signal-if-a-corpse-is-decaying/ This wasn't the article but it does go into the science side of finding deceased animals and such. The key words in the article are changes in "leaf color and reflectance." The reflectance part I am sure is detectable with UV but I'm finding it difficult to pin it down. It could also be UV absorption? In either case I'm 99% sure UV was something I read about somewhere. Same method science uses when studying images of UV detection on flowers to see what bees and other insects see.

So these rebellious individuals are preemptively killed and buried before they commit acts that could be captured on film? A sort of Sasquatch Minority Report? if these are clans of individuals with leaders, enforcers, and followers … then where is the individualism? Where are the rebels, the screw-ups, and the unlucky? I know that there is something going on with the Sasquatch phenomenon, but this almost seems like a hive-mind mentality. This doesn’t seem like primate or even human-like behavior.