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wiiawiwb, I carry a Zoleo satellite device, and have had to use it once, back in January when I got stuck 12km off the main FSR in deep crusty snow. I called out at 4:30, and the 4x4 rescue group had me out by 11:30. gigantor, I've just spent a few hours on the Hummer engine swap group page, and though the LS3 can be bought cheaper than the I5, there are MANY extra parts that have to be sourced or modified, so I'm waiting for a quote on a good used I5 and labour to install.

This was found in north east Iowa and is one of the best footprints I've ever seen. There were several prints but this one was the best. Obviously a juvenile and outside of human ratios for the ball and heel. Both Dr. Meldrum and Cliff B. have viewed the cast and Cliff has even produced a copy and is in his museum. Pretty cool stuff.

Yes, I do trust these guys. This is my second expedition with them. And both times I’ve had encounters. First time I saw two Sasquatches, one on thermal at night and the second was a daytime sight right outside my camp. And between both expeditions, I’ve seen orbs, eye glow, camp visitations with audio of something walking and breathing around my tent. As being a contractor for my profession, I do a lot of custom building, so I really look into detail if something could have been man made as well or hoaxed somehow. But there has never been any indication of that. And with all my personal encounters out there, I’m a knower not a believer.

Germany 300,000 years old. Probably Homo Heidelbergensis or maybe early Neanderthal It looks like a short stabbing spear. https://www.archaeology.org/news/11604-230720-germany-paleolithic-tool

I put the image through edge detection on my computer. Nothing much to see. The print on the vehicle has better detail. Drop LEGOS around the tailgate area. Wait and listen. If the tailgate gets ripped off.........oops.

That's the way to go if you can pull it off. Sorry you lost your engine... An LS3 with some cheap upgrades can make a lot of power.

Been there, done that, multiple times. Since 2006, I've had a $950, an $1150, and a $650 tow bills. Thankfully, the only engine I wasted still got me home many years ago. One of those tow bills was due to a blown tranny in my F-350, though. That was a $5800 repair. These things seem to happen on Friday evenings or on Sundays when somebody who can help isn't available............ I now carry a sat phone along with a personal locator beacon in my pocket when in the woods. Two of the breakdown locations I needed a tow from were on well traveled highways in cell phone dead zones.......both times were before I bought the sat phone.

These are from the 90's, but there are a bunch of "Track Record" newsletters at archive.com that may be worth reading through. https://web.archive.org/web/20041011000259/http://www.internationalbigfootsociety.com/html/the_track_record.php A bunch of "Track Record" encounters are in the John Green database, and highlighted on this forum in the John Green SSR section. You can go to https://bigfootforums.com/forum/160-john-greens-sightings-database/ and enter the search term track.php to find them.

Disasterous field trip attempt! My youngest son, Rick, and I headed out Saturday morning for a 3 day trip through some high country with multiple small lakes, about 300km from home. We were going to camp at each of the lakes on successive nights, and come home Monday afternoon, as that's a holiday (BC Day) here. As soon as we left pavement and started climbing towards the first lake, the H3 overheated. A bit of checking showed that the fan clutch was not engaging when it should, so we decided to go the 20 km back to the hwy and cel reception, and call around for a replacement. The nearest town, Princeton, didn't have one, but said their branch in Kelowna did, and we had about 4 hours to make the 175 km trip before that store closed for the long weekend. Since the H3 was running just a little hotter than normal at hwy speeds, we decided to go for it. All went well for 90% of the trip, but just 15km from the parts store, while climbing a 2 km grade with barricades along the sides, the temp spiked, and I couldn't pull off in 100km/hr traffic till a pullout near the top, and the engine rattled, blew a cloud of blue smoke, and seized as i turned into the pullout. It's toast. Time to call BCAA, who inform me that I'd used all my tows for the year, and a paid tow back to my home would run about $1400. My daughter is also a BCAA member, and still has tows available, but she needs to be at the site to show her card before the tow driver will hook up. She agrees to come out to do it, but it's a 300+ km run, and BCAA says their driver could be there at 8 AM Sunday, so she was up at 4 AM to make the drive up, and haul us back home. She arrived at 7:30 Sun. AM, the tow came at 8 as promised, and all was good, except the tow would only be to the local yard until they had a long haul driver available on Monday or Tuesday. The tow arrived at my home at 1:30 Monday, now I just have to find a shop to rebuild or replace the engine. The 3.5L I5 engine is ridiculously expensive, so I may wind up doing a 5.3L LS3 swap instead. Either way, it'll be a while before my off road warrior is ready for battle again. Rick and I spent Saturday night camped at the pullout, where we broke out the camp stove and cooler. He cooked up our steaks and made salads, while I was on the phone making all the necessary calls for help. Since we were no longer driving, we also finished off my 6 pack of cider and most of his bottle of vodka, then tried to sleep in the truck, in 35C heat, with traffic roaring by, with coyotes and cicadas going crazy in the brush all around us. We did manage a few hours of rest, and were up at 6 to cook breakfast and make coffee, but the valley was full of smoke from distant wildfires, so we could hardly see the beautiful local scenery. The second photo is the smoky Sunday sunrise.