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I finally got my late father's pop-up camper restored and lifted and took it for a quick camping trip next to a creek where I'd camped before. The last time I camped there, a wolf pack came down the draw late at night and circled around the campsite, just out of the light of the fire. My dog at the time was acting weird and wouldn't leave my side at the fire, and he was normally afraid of the fire. I didn't realize a pack had come in until the next morning when I found their fresh scat and tracks all around. This time, only old scat and tracks, and no visitors during the night. The little draw was just beautiful and I loved to just stand there and enjoy the sights, smells, and sounds of nature. Camper was fine, but I think I prefer my tent in my utility trailer. The tent sets up faster than the camper, and I prefer cooking outside. I only use the camper for sleeping. I could see it being useful for a rainy trip, though. No Bigfoot activity this trip, either. It was a relaxing trip into the woods, though.

There is also the opposite of the misidentification phenomenon that skeptics invest so heavily in. Sketics claim that people see a bear and think it's a sasquatch, which undoubtedly occurs. Well, how many people see a sasquatch and believe that they saw a bear, since sasquatches "don't exist"? No doubt. Glickman discussed this, and points out a relationship of manufactured reports to human population density and mass media exposure. I think he's correct (pages 6-7). https://oregonbigfoot.com/docs/nasirpt.pdf Under such logic, though, if they're already doomed to extiction, what need/benefit is there to discover their existence? Just for the benefit of a handful of pinhead evolutionary anthropologists who today are the very foundation of resistence to sasquatch discovery? Screw those guys. Let them continue their travel through their self imagined universe.

1) There must be some amount of people who don't report a Bigfoot encounter. Whatever this number, it is probably an underreported since they don't want to be thought of as crazy or face ridicule that could come with it. Think of the abuse Gimlin had to endure from his coming forward in 1967. If I had a sighting only with no PGF-level or better proof, I would be very reluctant to come forward. On your point, if Bigfoot was shot or confirmed this probably would open the doors for more witness to come forward. But.... 2) There would also be a huge number of people claiming to have seen Bigfoot and a heck of a lot of new false reports. I think of a famous baseball game where a max of 30,000 attended and yet 2,000,000 claimed to have been at the game. People have a way of exaggerating their story if they can link it to some significant thing or event. If Bigfoot was killed and confirmed someone who had some unexplained event would suddenly chalk it up to being Bigfoot. 3) On the issue of Bigfoot being killed: Killing Bigfoot would be sad in the sense there cannot be many out there. In this way, if there is bigfoot it must be a near-extinct animal. Maybe it's the last one. Grover Krantz seems to be suggesting killing one is needed even it was the last one because it's essentially extinct anyway. That is, if it is thought not to exist what is the difference in killing one? If the news announced today someone shot Bigfoot and killed it, I would be OK with that under this idea: "The first one to kill a Bigfoot, they will give them a medal, the second person to kill one, they will get the electric chair" Grover Kranz.

I agree with many of the negatives of the concept of a "Bigfoot bounty". However, I wonder if one of the positives would be getting those who have had encounters, or have fairly regular encounters and don't talk about them to finally open up. In this age in which men can identify as women, or women identify as cats, and any sort of sexual preference must be respected, believing in Bigfoot will still get you laughed at in conversations. Pretty sure most of us have had the experience of being in a conversation with friends and acquaintances when the subject of Bigfoot comes up and one member of the group reluctantly reveals a sighting or incident. They have been hiding their secret for years or decades because they didn't want to be ridiculed for it. But if there was a million dollar reward for evidence, then it might just get the guy who knows a spot where there is frequent activity to finally come forward. Maybe.

Radio receivers cannot detect sound. Sound is wave in the atmosphere, radio is an electromagnetic wave.

I don't know what brand he uses but the function is the same. Lightning triggers for cameras work off of the burst of infrared light milliseconds before you see the flash / bolt of lightning. The photographers do not have a 'lightning fast' finger on the shutter button. Planet Earth has over 3,000,000 lightning flashes per day.

Did another long run around Priest lake today with a buddy. Got snowed on. And then from Coolin Id over mill creek to the Kalispel tribe. Saw one bear, lots of deer and the tribe’s bison! Didn't take as many pics. Oh! The pepper steak strips at Elkins resort in Nordman Id are to die for!