Another Winter….where does Bigfoot go?

[norseman]

My experience of the subject was in winter time. I’ve hoped and prayed ever since that day I would cut another fresh set of tracks in snow. But to no avail…..

 

Where does Bigfoot go in winter time?

 

What does he eat?

 

Why don’t we find more tracks?

[norseman]

3 minutes ago, hiflier said:

Of course you know well how many times this subject has been already gone over? So why do it again? Just post links to the half dozen or more old threads and be done with it.

Maybe someone has something new to share?

[norseman]

16 minutes ago, hiflier said:

Can't wait, the suspense is...well, I guess it's an okay suspense

I lie awake at night and bite my pillow because Hiflier doesn’t care for a thread I started……. No, not really.

[Twist]

3 hours ago, norseman said:

My experience of the subject was in winter time. I’ve hoped and prayed ever since that day I would cut another fresh set of tracks in snow. But to no avail…..

 

Where does Bigfoot go in winter time?

 

What does he eat?

 

Why don’t we find more tracks?

 

Is there any reason to believe they go farther north?  Retreat to even more inhabitable territory?   If one is to believe they consciously avoid humans then one must believe they are damn good at it.   Could they head deeper in the winter to avoid tracks and such?   Are the rare tracks found from the ones that cannot survive the winters in more remote areas?    
 

Are there examples of other animals that go deeper into the woods as it gets colder?   

[norseman]

1 hour ago, Twist said:

 

Is there any reason to believe they go farther north?  Retreat to even more inhabitable territory?   If one is to believe they consciously avoid humans then one must believe they are damn good at it.   Could they head deeper in the winter to avoid tracks and such?   Are the rare tracks found from the ones that cannot survive the winters in more remote areas?    
 

Are there examples of other animals that go deeper into the woods as it gets colder?   

Mountain Caribou stay up high in winter.

 

If they are chasing ungulates? That would be about the only opportunity. Most everything else drops to lower elevations.

 

If they are like a squirrel and have caches? They could hole up just about anywhere.

 

The theory I have heard is they go west out to the mild coast lines. That would possibly explain the minimal tracks found.

 

If we could find a fresh set of tracks in snow? With current snowmobile and timber sled technology? That would be a game changer.

[gigantor]

They can't stay put year round. They would consume everything in sight.

 

I always thought they are nomads.

 

[norseman]

3 minutes ago, gigantor said:

They can't stay put year round. They would consume everything in sight.

 

I always thought they are nomads.

 

I agree except in winter. At least in snow zones. I see plenty of Moose, Elk and Deer tracks plus smaller mammals. But the omnivores are fast asleep. The Bears have not hit my stand in two weeks…. We have had two snow storms. They must be denned up.

 

Primates don’t hibernate. No easy answers here.

[BC witness]

The trackway I found in the late '70s, and took John Green to see, was in late spring snow, crossing a high mountain pass between 2 large N-S creek valleys. That would seem to indicate that it spent the winter in the lower area of the valley bottom, then found some reason to cross to the next valley east. Both of these valleys get some snow every winter, but many feet less than the ridges separating them. There are no known hot springs in either valley, but both have decent size lakes.

[Huntster]

3 hours ago, Twist said:

Is there any reason to believe they go farther north?……..

Both the Bossburg and Sunnyslope trackways (48 years apart) were found in winter snow, and both were headed north. 

[gigantor]

3 minutes ago, Huntster said:

Both the Bossburg and Sunnyslope trackways (48 years apart) were found in winter snow, and both were headed north. 

 

Where did I read Bossburg was a hoax?

 

[Huntster]

1 hour ago, norseman said:

……..Primates don’t hibernate……   

Humans in Alaska tend to store food for the winter and stay home, especially females. It’s not a scientific hibernation, but it’s a dormancy borne of common sense.

 

The horrid smell associated with sasquatches might be related to nest caching, similar to grizzlies burying their kills.

1 minute ago, gigantor said:

 

Where did I read Bossburg was a hoax?

 

After the original trackway find, Ivan Marx tried to sell a movie footage of a sasquatch limping along that was faked. The trackway wasn’t faked.

[Twist]

1 hour ago, Huntster said:

Both the Bossburg and Sunnyslope trackways (48 years apart) were found in winter snow, and both were headed north. 

Interesting.  I’ll look up details on both events.  

[norseman]

2 hours ago, Huntster said:

Both the Bossburg and Sunnyslope trackways (48 years apart) were found in winter snow, and both were headed north. 

I believe Bossburg was tracked to the Columbia river where it supposedly crossed to the Flatcreek side. Or west.

[Patterson-Gimlin]

15 hours ago, gigantor said:

 

Where did I read Bossburg was a hoax?

 

Several reports over the years have been written about them. Known hoaxer studied foot anatomy to fake them. 

Just one that comes to mind. 

If faked and probably are it's a brilliant hoax.

So much better than horrible film hoaxes. 

 

 

 

[FelixTheCat]

On 11/10/2023 at 3:30 PM, norseman said:

My experience of the subject was in winter time. I’ve hoped and prayed ever since that day I would cut another fresh set of tracks in snow. But to no avail…..

 

Where does Bigfoot go in winter time?

 

What does he eat?

 

Why don’t we find more tracks?

Where I live, they have a range of travel, which diminishes as winter progresses, until the snow covered ground keeps them hostage in their innermost sanctum, which is the top of a hill which is very difficult to get to during the winter.  I did it one year because of unseasonably mild weather, and they promptly escorted me out, very scary at the time.