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My view is there are not many of these things out there ( less in your area, maybe 3 from border to Newport ) and I am convinced they come down right to a place they find " tolerable " and skirt along river corridors just above normal human access or use. The cycle they likely follow in the colder climates must be large and in thick timber so the ice plate deposits from melt and refreezing cover a lot of their recognizable prints and destroy details that give it away. I believe Grassman58 on youtube has found a few suggestive trackways over the years. Being close to edge habitat for deer, elk and remote valleys with running waterways would be priority. My only guess would be they reduce activity massively, perhaps have some caches and operate at on deficit until snow breaks up. I would not be surprised to find out one day they can reduce their metabolic rate in the colder months, some form of torpor but not true hibernation. I have heard some far north native tribes are reported to have this ability to a degree. I could see them taking advantage of shafts and shallow cave systems but I want to know why we don't find preserved tracks in the cave floor if that is the case. There are a variety of snow trackways from nearby your area and they tend to occur around periods of bad weather, one I remember was about a guy found a set of prints that crossed his property near the Priest River area and they led up hill to a mangled deer completely disemboweled and meat pulled from the body, he noted bloody butt marks, hand prints and knee prints in the snow around the carcass. This was back around 2008 or something, the tracks went up hill into timber through some nasty thick regrowth and the guys could not follow as the snow was bucketing down and night was falling. I met the guy and heard his story first hand at the Klondike Tavern in Laclede, WA just before he moved to Alaska ( Thorn Bay ). I heard a similar story about someone finding snow prints up Dry Canyon Rd in 2014, tracks crossed the road and went up hill toward the north to south ledge above the river, I tried to get in touch with the witness but he was native and did not want people to think he was crazy so he would not get in touch with me. I also got a report of a snow trackway behind Freeman Lake in February of 2017, guys brother told me a little about it but said that he would not talk to anyone as he was a totally recluse. The other factor is that people out in these more harsh environments and remote properties are generally tight lipped and don't like to share. They know stuff and you don't and they want to keep it that way. To just touch on the coast for a second, I have loads of data here that seems to indicate they are still moving through their core habitats and visit throughout the year, as noted in another thread. They seem to drop below the holding snowline and hang out in wet thick crap on the edge of big timbered slopes that border a variety of habitat types and resources, they then cycle through a kind of loop along preferred paths over the course of a couple weeks and return to the starting point. Outside of the coastal states, your guess is as good as mine honestly but we still get the occasional snow trackway in the dead of winter so my question would be, how is it happening if they go coastal? This where I am with the question and that is what I have come across in my 4 years investigating the Selkirk area and it did not add up to much. I 100% agree, if you can solve the winter strategy in snow holding areas then you can really move the ball forward.

They do. Just not as often as we'd like. This is partially because there are very few sasquatches and the sasquatches have taken up nocturnal or other behaviors to minimize contact. For example, bear encounters in berry patches occur in Alaska, but not nearly as often as they could, considering there are @ 140K bears, less than 1 million people, and an area over twice the size of Texas involved..............as well as the fact that people don't pick berries for a good 16 hours of the day.

You talked about Bigfoot needing to leave cover and be out in the open to forage. That’s a false assumption. I have picked huckleberries under a lodgepole pine canopy in Ferry county. Stuff grows IN the forest. That’s my statement. And yes? There are plenty of reports of berry pickers encountering Bigfoot. And yes there is a seasonality to it. https://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=20802

I remember the story! Cliff has them on his website. https://cliffbarackman.com/home/projects/footprint-database/database-contents/2005-priest-river-id/ I still say a snow bike has the potential to follow a snow trackway to its conclusion. And if we don’t want to kill it? Then a crossbow with a biopsy dart is the next best thing.

We've had a fair amount of rain, especially the horrible flooding in July.....not used to finding so many interesting prints, still have a bunch to post from the last several months, the last one is an oldie in Limestone. Some of the pics have multiple prints & sizes.

My only issue that I have been struggling with for years is what happens in winter? 7.5 lbs of animal fat and protein means your hunting. In winter? Hunting means tracks. Lots of tracks. And ungulates move down the mountain closer to human habitation. And 3 lbs of fruit, nuts or leaves would have to be stockpiled for winter. Which also means that during the summer months they would need to double their forage rate. We can say they all migrate to the coastal forests where winter is sparse. But that would definitely compress the population into a much smaller area. Which would make them much easier to find? If they just hunker into a cave or mineshafts in winter and go semi dormant then these lairs should be easy to locate? As most of them are mapped. Maybe depending on the region? Survival tactics vary? At least in the Pacific NW? I say if you unlock the mystery of winter with this species? Then that will be the final hurdle to discovery.

If bigfoot constantly has to search for berries and mushrooms, Bigfoot will have to be doing more grazing constantly searching for food. More grazing means more exposure out in the open. This should mean higher risk of being seen. My guess is Bigfoot eats meat in the form of what it can find. Whatever living thing one can find in a creek bed is on Bigfoot's menu. Eating meat means filling up Bigfoot sooner with less effort. This matches the idea we don't see heards of Bigfeet running around looking for food all day. There are a lot of large animals who are herbivores. They tend to be grazing all the time. This does show though Big animals can find food and fill their needs only on fruits and veggies and plants. I just think it makes more sense Bigfoot being a mixed diet animal who benefits from eating all of it. Here is what that plant-eating Elephant does for food: "They normally graze between 15 – 20 hours per day, which is why large spaces are essential for allowing elephants to eat for the amount of time and get the amount of nutrition they would in the wild. They can ingest approximately 150kg (330lbs) of natural browse in a day." Looks at a typical salad some 200lbs adult male might eat for dinner (hopefully one that will fill them up) "A large salad can contain a wide range of calories depending on its ingredients: 200 to 700 calories for a simple garden salad to richer varieties like Caesar or Cobb salads. Some estimates suggest it can range from 370 to 850 calories based on specific ingredients and their quantities. "