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Getting my overlanding/exploring rig more capable. While not nearly as awesome or capable as Norseman's Ram, it can go on some roads that stock pickups might not be able to. Just a leveling kit with 37s, a 13.5k winch, and beefy bumper.

One of the questions regarding the PGF is how was it that Patty could leave a deeper impression in the sandbar than Roger's and Bob's horses. There was well-known poster here on BFF who did an experiment on a sandy beach and posted his results (and video or pictures I think). It turned out that his foot impression was deeper than a horse whose rider had it walk near his tracks. I was flummoxed how a heavy horse on small hooves would not be deeper that a much lighter person with larger feet. The moral of that story is that the mechanics of a foot's movement are far more important than the weight of the person/animal making the impression. I wish I could remember the BBF poster's name but cannot. It was a while ago.

My YT channel and my only video on BF...

Oops, wrong spot. Preview, lol.

I think I require a firefighter chaperone in the woods, because I AM ON FIRE. Stay tuned for today's adventure:)

I watch your reservoir videos on YouTube!

Thanks, PNW. I'm not a flyweight, by any means. My prints were essentially leaving a bare trace. I'll see if I can find a photo. In the meantime, check out the fingerprints left on my car! Here ya go!

This video was great! I wish you would have shown your tracks and how much you were sinking in, though. Even though conditions could have changed the last day or so since the tracks were made. But, the fact that those BF tracks were sinking in twice as deep as the surrounding deer tracks, with a much larger surface area, tells me that the BF was significantly heavier than the average whitetail deer of about 130 lbs. I would guess at least a 400lb creature. I'm 6'2" with a size 13 foot, and my footprint is 10" long; very close to the track size you found. I weight just under 300lbs. So definitely a juvenile BF of about the same height could easily weight another 100lbs with all the muscle mass they are known for. Wow! Great find!

Hey Mad, love the videos and glad you're having fun! I'm usually lurking but admiring all the sharing.

Looks really capable. Are those running boards, or rock sliders under the door sills? My H3 came with what looked like sliders, but were really only cosmetic, as I managed to crush one on the first trail I drove the day after I bought it.

Moose stand 7 to 8 feet tall at the shoulder, are 9 to 10 feet long, weigh 1,200 to 1,800 pounds and where there is a high concentration of them, there are still large amounts of ripe growth available to them and other animals. They run up to 35 miles per hour. Brown bears are 4 to 5 feet tall at the shoulder and 8 to 10 feet tall when standing on their hind legs. They weigh up to 1,500 pounds and can run 35 miles per hour and can kill many moose, caribou, elk and deer in a year. So, I don't find those descriptions of sasquatches ridiculously far fetched, just somewhat exaggerated due to witness perception.

That poster was my friend Bill Miller, who unfortunately passed away 6 or 7 years ago. That test was done on the shore of Harrison Lake, here in BC. He is sorely missed in our local research circle.

Honorable mention for Creek Devil, he's a great voice with consistently solid historical data.

How is The Sasquatch Archives not one of the choices?!?! I'll even type it in all caps to express my surprise - HOW IS THE SASQUATCH ARCHIVES NOT ONE OF THE CHOICES?!?!

All of the above mentioned have merit, I'll include an unrepresented channel, Driftless. I like his approach, he asks the right questions and has come up with some good strategies giving impressive results, IMO.

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I think it's just that the winter is usually very quiet for the community due to the challenges of being able to access the woods due to snow. Would love to know your YT channel, though! My own personal journey of trying to discover evidence of the existence of BF has led me to conclude that BF is likely connected to aliens and UFO phenomenon due to hundreds of accounts of UFO and alien activity associated with BF sightings. It's not where I wanted to go with my beliefs, but the overwhelming evidence and lack of evidence is narrowing the possible explanations.

If we take the supernatural or aliens off the table? I see three possibilities. 1) Sasquatch is a species of Homo. Maybe after the land bridge it got cut off and technology regressed. It lost the ability to make tools and fire. A lost banished Homo Erectus population that become some thing else. It’s a human cousin that filled a niche we didn’t excel at. A nocturnal lone wolf preferring steep mountainous terrain and boreal forests. They watched us evolve from the edge of the timber line. 2) It’s a species of convergent bipedal evolution from a known group of great apes like Orangutans. Or Paranthropus, Gigantopethicus or some old world ape order now extinct with Sasquatch living on. If we evolved to walk bipedal, diverging from a Chimp like ancestors 4 million years ago? Who is to say it didn’t happen more than once in Africa or Asia? 3) It’s a new world ape that evolved here and was never anywhere else. It shares nothing in common with old world apes other than superficial similarities. Its closest living relative could be a Spider Monkey or some other Amazon Monkey species. An even older example of convergent evolution that has no close relationship with great apes or humans. It’s completely its own species, genus and family. And its fossil record is completely undiscovered. Humans invaded it’s territory only very recently in time scale. There is no male Neanderthal DNA left in the world. People who have 4-8 percent DNA get it from a maternal lineage. Which means that human and Thal hybrid male children either were still born or were sterile. Which means that our two species interbreeding was strained to its limits. Much like what we see with a Donkey and a Horse. Mules are usually 99.9 percent sterile. With an exceptionally rare Molly mule getting pregnant and beating the odds. I have heard similar reports within Indian legends. The child is often still born. There are other stories in the old world but I will just stick with North America. Options 2-3 wouldn’t produce a viable pregnancy much less a fetus. Are the stories to be trusted? We just don’t know. Maybe the woman was pregnant when she was abducted and rough abuse and trauma just eventually aborted the pregnancy .

Bob Gymlan hits a homer:

Here's an oldie but goodie, in limestone....how long has the Hairyman been running around?

Does this include a search for Georgia or Alabama football fans? Oh, wait, that would be a search for rabid humans!

Here is the video of the moose. IMG_2661.mov

Some from this year blacktail deer hunting More IMG_20251101_142002.heic IMG_20251101_203359.heic

This fall! His is a hog!