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Took a trip through the woods in my Jeep from Idaho over into Washington via Skyline Drive. Beautiful country and just a 15-mile drive from my house. A bit of rain recently, so always looking for tracks. Actually bought two tubs of plaster of Paris for making casts. I've come across a couple of possible tracks in years past, but never was prepared. Now I am. Also added a fun decal to the side of my ambulance RV. And I started the conversion of my utility trailer to an "overlanding" trailer to tow behind my Jeep. It will haul an ATV along with my camping gear while providing a platform for an inflatable tent. I installed fold-up kitchen platform, fuel can, and will be adding a solar shower, water storage, gear storage box, RV lithium battery, solar panel, and inverter. It should let me go camping deep into the woods where the ambulance and Ram 2500 can't go.

For a long time, my best places to go involved a secluded pond. Wood knocks, audible movement around the pond, and red eyeshine. They work for me because people are less likely to be there especially when it is not easy to get to. I've decided to get an ultralight canoe, or more properly called a packboat. Short and light enough to be portaged. Get out on the water in the dark and silently paddle then stop, drift, and listen. Use the thermal to scan the shoreline. It enables you to get to spots on the pond quickly that would not be possible if trekked by foot. Moreover, the flashlight and noise while walking would immediately give away your position. I'll order in the next month or so but won't get it until next year. Looking forward to it.

Up by Priest lake on a tight jeep trail for part of it. Bald Mountain area. Saw deer and rubs and a owl. Tamarack is all turning yellow.

We are in a draught and the lake's shoreline around me have receded significantly over the summer and fall. I took the opportunity to walk my dog around one when I noticed a weird looking foot print. This side of the lake is a fairly remote and hard to get to area and it was the only print I had seen. Looking closely I noticed toes which I thought was really strange as the exposed shoreline is littered with sharp rocks, protruding limbs, and all sorts of garbage tossed out by fishermen. Looking closer the front of the foot was much deeper than the heel and it had about a 6 foot stride. I followed the trail off and on for maybe a half mile when I noticed the front and heel were now evenly depressed. I concluded the person was first walking then proceeded to run for a short distance. Running on this shore with bare foot is extremely insane because of all of the debris. Then towards the end of the lake it randomly walks in to the muck for about 50 yards, circles back to relatively firm ground and proceeds in to the woods. I could not imagine going out in to the muck with shoes let alone bare feet. It rained pretty hard 4 days ago so the trail had to have been created prior to the rain. I circled the lake's north side and saw a similar trail but much washed out which must have been created before the rain. The pics are not great because of the lighting but it was pretty clear that they were not shoe prints and were made by something with a very flat foot and no visible midtarsal ridge. The prints are not large, maybe size 10-11, but the depth was significantly deeper than I could make even jumping up and down. Attached are some of the pics. What do y'all think. Also, this location is about a mile from a spot where my next door neighbor's son swore he saw a 5-6 foot bigfoot at night watching him ride his bike in their backyard last June. He only saw it for a moment when he flipped on the bikes light. I studied the location the next day and saw a couple signs of things out of place but nothing definitive other than someone/something took a lot of effort to build a hunting blind/nest 100 yards from the location and right by the lake.

So I was thinking, why does it wonder off through the muck barefoot, get to fresh water, and then come back to drier land. Two different times, same behavior, different side of the lake. Of course, to get a drink of water. I have tracked them for over 20 years in this region though tree breaks but never foot prints because of the floor vegetation. Pretty cool. Anyway, have not posted in a while, hope you found the time spent putting it together for you worthwhile.

It qualifies for 'hard side camping'. And you can watch TV. A red ambulance RV must have massive room. Does your inverter allow you to operate a microwave oven? "Parking heaters" are available for diesel powered vehicles and boats. I know of 2 brands common on boats and vehicles: Espar and Webasto. Both are over $1k and permanently installed. There is a member of this forum that has a parking heater on his diesel Land Rover. Very toasty warm. Another way is the portable unit placed on the ground with gravity feed of diesel from an elevated fuel jug. Winter is here, no need to subject your dog to a cold ambulance. Norseman might have some input in the way of dealing with his big rigs.

It’s entirely possible. I know they have 86’d Viking settlement archeological sites in Canada…… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanfield_Valley https://artsfile.ca/ottawa-archaeologist-says-her-research-on-vikings-in-canada-being-disparaged/

Spent the night deep in the Idaho woods last night about 50 miles from home. This is where I found my first possible BF sign; a tree twisted and broke over 8' above the ground. This was about 10 years ago. Today... I forgot how creepy this spot is with virtually no animal activity or sound. I had a horrible time getting a fire started and ended up having to use an old Indian trick by wrapping a paper towel around a stick and dipping it into the fuel tank of my ambulance, lol. Temperature was around freezing when I went inside to watch TV. Had some odd things happen. First was hearing something hit the side of my ambulance from the direction of the twisted tree. Very light. Maybe a pine cone? No trees that it could have fallen from and nothing on the ground. Wet and soggy ground and dusty side of the ambulance. No tracks, no scuff marks, nothing. An hour later, heard what I thought was thunder outside. Looked outside and clear sky with nothing but stars. About another hour later and my dog began growling for no apparent reason. Got the shotgun with slugs out and opened the door to scan with the weapon light. Arlo declined to go outside, so I stayed in as well. No other incidents. Woke up a few hours later and it was very cold outside and inside! Packed up camp the next morning and scouted for elk for my brother on the way back to civilization. Beautiful day and saw a lot of country, but no BF sign. I walked this moist dirt road for about two miles and found hundreds of fresh deer and elk tracks, but no BF tracks.

When I worked for the Forest Service back in 1974 and 1975, I had no concept of what the agency's stance was on bigfoot. While on the job, if I had a sighting, I would have reported it to my boss who was higher up in the district office of the Rogue River National Forest of Medford, Oregon. He probably would have told me to not report it to the wildlife officer since this would put my job in jeopardy. My annual job performance review was coming so I would not have reported it to those higher up in the chain of command. Since my annual review was coming up, and if I reported the sighting to the wildlife officer, I probably would have been fired for disobeying my immediate boss. I would guess the Forest Service has not changed their stance presently, and they call bigfoot a mythical creature for a reason. This means they are not real, so they have no effect on Forest Service policy. Work someplace else if you don't understand the policy.

^ This. ^ Moreover, even within certain agencies (like the Army), few have the odds of encountering these creatures. But some do. I've used the example of Ft. Lewis, Washington. It's right on ground that is surrounded with regular sightings, is actually on ground that looks like a migration/movement area, has plenty of recorded sightings itself, and has been an Army post for over a hundred years. If sasquatches exist, and if that area is as density rich as reports indicate, and with the Army being there for a century, there are people within the Army family who know about it. I was an Army soldier (engineer), and then an Army civilian on Ft. Richardson, Alaska, for 35 years. I worked for the engineering organization that literally owned the post. We signed off buildings and lands to commanding officers of various units, but we were ultimately responsible for them (and we held the tenants responsible for proper use and damages). I was an "outside" engineer. Roads, grounds, railroads, bridges, etc. We had an environmental branch which included a Natural Resources Officer, who was responsible for wildlife. He set the hunting regs on post in cooperation with the state fish and game agency. Ft. Lewis has/had the exact same organizational structure. If sasquatches exists, they exist there at least in movement through the place leaving sign and encounters with soldiers and Range Control. Eventually, the Natural Resources Officer is going to know and share that knowledge with the Public Works Director, who will then share it with the Commanding General's Chief of Staff. Where the knowledge goes from there is certain to vary. But my experience is that's how it looks at the lower, local end. I'm also pretty well versed in what we call "unofficial lines of communication". All of us civilians, unlike both the enlisted and commissioned active duty personnel, worked there for decades. We didn't come for a three year tour, and then rotated out. We owned the place. Literally. And we worked together for decades. We were like brothers and sisters. We still are. And we talk to each other. Some word gets around. Some is hush-hush. Depends on what it is, and who you trust. On Ft. Rich, we talked openly about the wildlife. Those of us in the exterior trades and activities had regular contact with the bears, wolves, and moose. Lots of it. And we shared those experiences with others. If I saw a sasquatch, would I have talked? Yup........to a few folks. Certainly not all.

Based on my reading of hundreds if not 1000+ reports, I am a firm believer that the Federal Government as a whole fully understands BF and for reasons you can only guess feels it is best not to reveal them and even protect them where possible. For instance, what are the legal or even constitutional issues if they are some form of relic hominem? Even worse, what if they have an alien origin (which I do not believe but there are plenty of BF/UFO related reports). I have seen them and ran in to them multiple times over the last 30 years in NC and NJ (and may have a den/hunting blind build by them 100 yards from my back yard) and no longer care to get proof of their existence. I doubt I would reach for my camera or phone if one posed for me. Just leave them alone like they leave me alone when wandering through the woods.

In terms of the impact of the arrival of europeans, you can't diminish the probable damage done by the foreign antigens, which may very well have killed off the the vast majority of sasquatch, at least those within close enough proximity to the natives as they became afflicted. The Europeans practice of laying blankets infected with yellow fever and the like across trails could have transmitted these diseases to the Bigfoot just as they did to the native americans. It may have taken longer to pass between them due to their more widespread distribution. There's estimates of 90% mortality rates amongst natives (even higher in south america) if this applied to the sasquatch, perhaps their rebound was slow, then as whites killed off the majority of upper level predators, and deer populations began expanding, eventually to the point of overabundance, then the sasquatch had plenty of prey, little predator competition, and more empty land to move into, reclaiming old turf, thus expanding their numbers once again.

Although this is a video/documentary, I believe the theories this guy advances go beyond the video itself and are worthy of more discussion. His video lays out an interesting argument for Denisovans being the "wild men" of history and of our more modern-day Sasquatch sightings. Some of the information in this video has been talked about here before, but he does an excellent job of tying it all together. He shows how the Denisovan fossil evidence we've gathered so far could point to Sasquatch. He also talks about the historical distribution of wild-man stories matching the speculated range of the Denisovans. Another very interesting topic he presents is the early-man "avoidance" theory. This is where one group of human-species adopts a more primitive or "wild" lifestyle to avoid having to interact with more technologically-advanced groups of "humans." This would lessen the chances of being killed-off or absorbed. Over tens of thousands of years, the more "wild" human-species group would develop enhanced physical characteristics like being, larger, hairier, faster, better night vision, etc. As I said, some of this information has already been discussed in this forum, but this is the first time I've seen one source that links it all together in one theory. Interesting! https://youtu.be/vN9q8ewDQs0?si=Eyi6vE2g2PH2XEJz

When I was younger, I had a dream Landscape Architect job with the Forest Service designing a large RV campground and a recreation park along the Applegate River in southern Oregon that took a year to do. I'm 79 now and want to be truthful about memories. After this was completed, my job became irritating and boring. No more parks were on the horizon, and my new job was to fool the public about logging! It was a clever plan that I've kept secret until now. My job was deception and to drive the main national forest highways and mark all the forest areas on a map that one can see from the road. I also marked forest areas behind mountains that were not seen. Can you guess where the plan for public deception is headed? The hillsides marked as unseen while driving the highway were going to be clear cut of all trees which upsets the public because Bamby the deer's forest was going to wiped out with logging and clear cutting. The refreshing forest seen from the highway were going to be preserved and all is good in nature land ................ so the public thinks. Needless to say, I became out raged, quit, and went to a different landscape architect job. My point is deception by the federal government that is also taking place with bigfoot. The forest service hires credentialed wildlife biologist and how many bigfoot reports have you read from one of these biologist? They spend hours driving remote forest roads, and hike on trails and a few of them must have seen bigfoot. Lots of people see them. I have two friends that saw one and I saw one too. See my eye witness sketch is below. Do some internet searches and find even one report by a forest service biologist that mentions or even focuses on bigfoot. One of the forest service's duties is to study and protect wildlife during logging operations. You as a taxpayer are still being kept in the dark when if comes to bigfoot? How do you feel about this dilemma? What is your opinion? Should I have quit the forest service? Are we being kept in the dark? My sighting is below.

Maybe not that tough a sell. Some evidence of Denisovan tool use comes from caves also occupied by Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens, so it's not 100% settled. Even if Denisovans did use tools, some groups could have opted out of it in favor of a more "wild" lifestyle. The avoidance-theory that this guy floats, speculates that hallmarks of civilization (like tool use) would increase interactions with other human-species. That in turn would lead to competition, which would lead to some species being decimated. The thing that some get wrong about evolution and the survival of a species, is that it's not locked into moving in one particular direction. Tool use, leading to civilization, leading to technology may not be a forgone conclusion with some hominum species. It may just be one possible survival strategy. We see this avoidance-theory to some extent in modern humans with the few remaining uncontacted tribes. They choose a stone-age lifestyle (how is that even possible in 2026?) and even violently resist contact. Perhaps Denisovans were more physically equipped to adopt a wild, natural lifestyle. Whatever Sasquatch is, their lifestyle has worked for them!

The skull is a gorilla skull. How did they program the 3-D printer without a Sasquatch skeleton? IIRC, the plastique-fantastique was made for media activity. I can't remember who bankrolled it.

I think Mount Saint Helens had to be a big one for them. But like you, I think they’ve had them long before that. Yep agreed.

I think that is a real reasonable perspective. There IS no perspective and there IS no telling what our court system might do. I think it is a stone better left unturned .. at least until we know what is under it. Maybe "they" do know and anticipation of the legal situation is why they won't talk about it. Dunno. All, in all directions, is all speculation unless you happen to be someone who is in a loop we don't even know exists with certainty. There's a lot of logic to suggest it / support it but logic without substance, no matter how attractive, isn't evidence.

I have a stainless steel woodstove installed that just needs the chimney routed through the roof. Tough to find the appropriate flashing for a 2.5" chimney on a flat roof. I have a silicone boot designed for routing a chimney through a canvas tent for the inside. Just hoping to find something more robust for the exterior surface. It's a step up from my tent and pop-up camper...

It's hard to say how crazy it could get, but I'm sure it would be socially, culturally, economically, and even religiously traumatic. This is the primary reason why I believe that government just doesn't want to go there, especially since it's so easy to maintain the current mythology storyline.

I think it's the ultimate minority in the soup.

There is a lot of heat sensing video out there claimed to be sasquatches. It's useless to prove anything. I pay it no attention whatsoever. If Patty is Bob in a suit, a red heat blob is even more so, even without the suit. Three of the biggest photo evidence tool improvements over the past 40 years are cell phones, dash cams, and game cams. I have all three, but don't live in good sasquatch habitat, and my area has few reports. I use my game cam at bear bait stations. I have lots of pics of bears, foxes, wolverines, and even curious moose. Remarkably, over many years, not a single pic of a wolf, even though I've interacted with them many times in person. One of the most controversial game cam pics is the Jacobs pic. People still argue about what it is. There are lots of game cam pics of supposed sasquatches, and they prove nothing. I only have one dash cam, and it's in my daily driver, primarily for legal reasons. I never installed one in my pickup/camper, and so guess which rig I had grizzlies cross the road in front of me? Do you have a dash cam? How many folks do you think do? I've seen numerous dash cam videos from police cars. Again, they prove nothing. Cell phones? People get sasquatch videos on their phones regularly. One of my favorites is the Mission BC video. It proves nothing.

Nothing? There is a boat load of it. Heck they are on Eagle Cams for cripes sake! You want answers…. I understand. But just like UAPs there is a incredible amount of pushback from the deep state. And I dont see any of that changing any time soon unfortunately.

I think you're naively optimistic .. we are much more willing to be self-destructive (and pompously, righteously so) than you seem to realize. The courts do not care about the survival of the country .. at all. Where juries are in charge, where emotions drive decisions, the notion that anything can be "other than exactly as I want it" does not have a seat at the table. You have to truly believe there is a realistic risk before that sort of thinking comes into play. It won't until it is far too late to matter.

Is that a serious question? When decisions are made in courts by juries rather than being made by professional managers, a lot of really dumb things happen. We've had any number of post-fire salvage timber sales here blocked by court decisions when the environmental groups sued USFS and timber companies in federal court. Expecting anything rational once the courts are involved in emotional issues is pretty nuts once you've seen how things really happen. :( It doesn't matter anymore what you can prove or disprove, when it gets to court, all that matters is feelings, not science.

Well they don't want any more colonizers laying claim to anything. The Dorset people disappeared and the Inuit moved in. Probably because of 1st contact with the Vikings brought small pox. Its just to bad that the truth is a casualty in this debacle. I have a sneaking suspicion that contact between the old world and the new world is much older than anyone thinks.

“Good” is all in the eyes of the beholder. And one amazing crystal clear way better than good photo WILL NOT move the yard stick with academia one bit. We need physical evidence.

The Forest Service would not lock up their ecosystem but fanatical private groups might try.

Hello, my name is Tony and I’m from Kansas. I searched for LDR Blogs and bioacoustics and wound up here. I am an avid Sasquatch researcher and have collected audio in the field as well as casted tracks. I’m happy to be here. I don’t post much, but am very interested in reading and learning what others have to say. I am especially interested in LDR rigs

Thanks. I wasn't aware of that.

A flash of beauty bigfoot revealed: jaime

This interesting file about an older, earthy hound hunter and surveyor who ran across bigfoots in Northern California. He hunted with Blue Tick hounds in the remote woods of California, and he came across several Bigfoots. His dogs cornered bigfoots, and he tells what happened. He said his dogs chased a bigfoot and when he caught up with the dog and bigfoot it was too late. The bigfoot had grabbed the dog's back legs and bashed the dog into trees and killed it. He said when his dogs chased bears and cornered them the bear acted in different ways. He ran across bears and bigfoots while working as a surveyor in the deep woods of Northern California. Bing Videos

Great looking country! I'll have to get busy and post some pics of my recent trip through BC, Yukon, and Northwest Territory. We saw a LOT of wildlife.

Bumping this old thread, just because, I am nostalgic, hahah

I tried to find a thread about early Homo sapiens, and this was the most appropriate find. I thought this YouTube video on Bear Cults was great! It fit so much of everything I've been taught or discovered about religion, anthropology, and bears, and was just a great video in general. Enjoy!

I'm pretty confident that it would be absorbed, and I wouldn't hear squat about it again. Almost universally, sensitive information that I was involved in was absorbed by management, dealt with confidentially, and it remained quiet. And I remained quiet about it as well, and that confidentiality served me well with management.

When I say Government, I mean the people who control it. Whom ever has the power to stigmatize a subject. Project Blue Book claiming a UFO is nothing more than swamp gas. People who make April Fools jokes on the official U.S. Forest Service website about Bigfoot. Etc. This isn’t the actions of low level people. This is an active decision by the people who run the show.

They don't have to silence them. All they have to do is attach a stigma to it. Which they have done so. This was going on with Commercial Pilots who had witnessed UFOs reporting it to the FAA. It was a great way to get your medical pulled. Step out of line and things will get hard for you. We know this tactic from other fields. If your a witness your either mistaken, a liar, a drunk or you belong in a padded room. There is zero chance in 2026 that the government doesn’t know Sasquatch exists. Military, Border and LE surveillance has picked up anomalies 100 percent. 🤷🏻‍♂️ We have them on highway cameras and even a eagle cam. There is no doubt in my mind there is better footage archived somewhere. So why the pushback? Why the obfuscation?

Hey Wolfjewel....I have found lots of these over the years but no lab, these real creatures are better off as cryptids IMO, acknowledgement will only take some of the fun away, plus the restrictions that follow, long live the Hairyman!

Cryptids don’t exist but they found 125,000 Gorillas……🤔 Great post! Thanks!

If I was young and loaded with money.................... that would be a great adventure. I would hire some zoologist, a camp buckaroo, a medic and go for the discovery in East Africa! I think an Australopithecus is running around in the jungle there!

Sasquatches probably looked at native Americans more favorably since they had a low impact on their environment and the creatures were probably not afraid once they became used to living around the native Americans. This cohesiveness probably varied from tribe to tribe and more hostile tribes may have been averse to enjoying the company of bigfoots. The same applies in reverse with family groups of bigfoots who did not trust humans so it's difficult to know the relationship between the two groups. The relationship between modern humans and bigfoots today is probably far worse than when native Americans were dominate. Modern humans today have built the Forest Service that doesn't even recognize bigfoot probably due to admitting there is a bigfoot would amount to territory protection and vast reductions in logging if environmental groups demand extreme Sasquatch land protection.

The forest service designs and use to hide timber sales that helps remove fuels that build up in old growth forest and provides fuel for forest fires. Areas to be logged must be in proportion to the size of the drainage basin where the logging will occur. If a drainage basin is over logged then massive erosion will occur that floods creeks and rivers with brown sediment that can wipe out trout, salmon, and steelhead. Each drainage basin can have limited and planned logging which may need to be in public view, so fish are protected and wildfires are kept to a minimum. After a planned clearcut, grasses, brush, and small trees begin to grow back which supplies deer, and elk fresh leaves to brouse on. Bigfoots ability to raise a family and to find food is improved since deer and elk survive on the new growth springing up on clear cut land. However, during hunting season, Bigfoots ability to feed its family is reduced since bigfoots must evacuate prime hunting grounds to avoid regular hunters and hound hunters which forces bigfoot to hunt at night when hunters are absent from the woods. During hunting seasons bigfoots may need to hunt higher in the mountains where deer might be less prevalent and access roads are nonexistent. In general, the lives of bigfoots were probably more difficult during time when pioneers flooded lands throughout America. Bigfoots obvious desire to avoid humans has increased since the pioneer days which could have made them an endangered species that could go extinct. Since bigfoots are so difficult to find and to gather evidence on how they live, it becomes nearly impossible with present means to study them so they can become a documented and proven species. How we avoid killing a male and female bigfoot to prove their existence is a topic for another paper that could include hiring a massive forest workforce supplied with tranquilizer dart guns. Once proven, bigfoots and their habitat will probably receive national protection. Areas close to their nesting grounds will probably need laws to reduce hunting in these areas, build roads away from their homes, and supply food during winter months to prevent them from going extinct.

I am a firm believer in logging. And reducing the fuel load on public forests. Its a shame that the Forest service tried to hide it from the public who obviously doesn’t understand wild land fire behavior. They unfortunately only understand it when their house burns down. Which is the inevitable result of bad policy decisions decades earlier. Deer and Elk also love the young browse that comes after a logging operation or a burn. The forest floor receives more light allowing younger plants and different species to thrive. But should you have quit? In the words of John Wayne? A man outta do what he thinks is right! The government is a giant bureaucracy. Anyone who has worked for them should understand. Anyone who doesn’t probably thinks it is ran like a business. It is not. There are secret agendas and public PR campaigns that don't always align. I don’t pay attention to much noise. Just the results. And if your forest is burning down around your ears each year? Somebody is not doing their job.

Of course you should! Right now as I eat my morning granola and type on this laptop I'm watching Nathan (a former, and perhaps still present poster here) on his Study Sasquach channel. He just casted yet another footprint. Now, I'm not so impressed with yet another sasquatch footprint cast. There must be thousands of them now in various collections, including the PGF casts that came with a film of the creature actually making the footprints. They "prove" nothing. What I'm interested with in Nathan's videos are: 1) He's honest, no BS, and is as down to Earth as they get 2) He's active and tenacious, and I can always expect him to provide an excellent video of his experiences 3) And he uses incredibly wonderful gear, which is a science in and of itself, and even at my age, I'm still interested in such stuff for hunting (which my tyrannical wife and decreasing health seems to increasingly prevent me from enjoying)

The threats against whistleblowers and even the outbreak of missing and assumed deceased scientists is grist for the mill about how national security will continue to be used to cover up black box programs and funds, we can only hope the gold bars at Ft Knox haven't flown the coop already. Family of potential whistle blowers are now threatened and false charges used to wreck careers so the stories about BF researchers having home invasions and computers snatched in the past is totally believable. Mr. Gold's comments on the paranormal are as normal as remote viewing now.