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When I hang one on a gambrel I will believe, 'til then I am pretty sure they are a townie fantasy.

Where?

Found a few of those!

You are an IDIOT! When TR was told that story he was considered an Eastern Rube from NY on a hunting trip. He was told a campfire tale.

The bottom line is for more than a half a century large numbers of professional killers roamed this nation trapping and killing everything they found. And not one ever killed one of these things! Not one! Nobody found a skeleton! There is not one scrap of hide! Not one piece of actual hard evidence. Campfire tales and you are too damn dumb to grasp that.

In order for these damn things to exist there would have to be a viable breeding population and that means there would have to be well over 100 at any one time to prevent inbreeding. So where are the damn things? They exist in your imagination. Period! You are an East Coast Moron. I grew up in the Rocky Mountains and there is no way these things are there and avoid all the hunters, ranchers, sheep herders etc... on a yearly basis without someone shooting one.

Mac is right. If Bigfoot had existed, one of the old time hunters like Ben Lilly would have bagged several of them.

Not to mention the millions of trail cameras posted ALL Over AMERICA. And still not one REAL photo. Not one.

Starvation isn't pretty.

You're an idiot. In 67 years of hunting A Lot I've seen many things. WTH would I carry a heavy camera around in 1959 or 1975 or in 1982, or 1991...? I wasn't out there to show off what I killed.

Stupid mofo comment.

I sure wish that were true. It isn't.

Once worked with a few of the Blue Ridge folks. Pretty sure they were in close contact with BF.

North Cascades for 1 as well as the rest of the Cascade range on south into the Sierras.

The rugged Olympic mountains bordered by the dense old growth rainforests of the Olympics are another.

There are still, as unbelievable as it is to some, areas of the Mountain West that have never had a (European) footprint touch that ground. There are still areas of our country that are virtually impenetrable and unreachable by “normal” expeditions or adventure seekers.

Google earth gives couch-riding outdoorsmen and National Geographic channel “explorers” the false impression that we’ve seen it all and that the world really isn’t as big as it seems. So while the jumbo jet has shown us that the world is accessible it’s the Cessna that provides actual proof of just how big the world really is. You can’t fathom the vastness of some places from your living room window and you can’t claim the wilderness conquered from your Forest Service trailhead…

I don’t know whether Sasquatch exists but I know men whom I trust implicitly that have had experiences that they swear are true and I believe them. I’ve seen cell phone pictures taken the day before of tracks in the Mount Baker area and I know that the emotion shown during its retelling to me was genuine. I’m open to the possibility that something exists. I’m not open to the argument that they don’t exist because there’s nowhere for them to hide.

Aces
The North Cascades... Are so 'wild' that you have to wait in line to reserve a permit to camp there. Same with much of the Sierras.
To imagine that there are still drainages etc that have not been explored is fantasy. Don't get me wrong, I wish it were true.. unfortunately it just is not.

To the larger question of Bigfoot being real.. certainly seems to be real in the human psyche. European and native American.
I too have known more than one old timer who had an incredible story. Something they couldn't account for, And neither can I.

Beat me to it.

My room mate in FT Hood,TX woke up beside one once. Im glad I wasnt there to witness that.

I tend to agree with you longarm, but still think there are a few relatively undisturbed (by modern humans) in some of those areas where permits are "needed" to go for a hike. A fairly large majority of the types using those popular routes stick to them. There's the oddball fisherman/climber/hunter that will go off trail for their particular reasons. That said, there sure are a whole lot more folks out there, with more cameras at the ready, than there were when I was running around in the Sierras..

I'm like you guys too, in that having lived in areas that supposedly hold populations of the squatches, I've run across a fella or two who worked remotely and had some experiences they'd prefer to never have again. And I think there was one, who like renegade and his haint, who would never go back to the particular location where he saw something.

I have a tendency to think these things might be unprovable in normal terms.

Haven’t several small planes crashed in the pnw over the past few decades that have not been found ? I think a dedicated person could remain undetected living out there. Why not a primate that is more like us than apes ? Dunno , but an interesting thought and would be something if they do exist.

Excellent post.

Interesting story:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidb...d-anthropological-fraud/?sh=4a9510f14d25

Bruce

Jebus, man

Surveyors, prospectors, timber cruisers, rockhounds, hunters of every type- cats, bears, elk, sheep, deer, mushrooms, birds, etc, fur trappers, thru-hikers, Rock scramblers and mountain climbers, botanists (ever read about some of the hikes that David Douglas went on? How about that poor bugger John Day?), desperados and the men that chased them, snowmobilers, ice climbers, etc etc etc. The list is nearly endless.

As dear and important to our Western psyches as true wilderness is, I believe ALL of the PNW has been walked on. Sure there are some small pockets that are less often visited.. and even less often than that talked about by the guys that regularly hunt them, but still..

Geno, More than 40 years ago I was getting out the old 1950s topos of our beloved High Sierras and looking specifically for small lakes that had no name and no trail associated. I'd spend a couple of weeks each summer building a x-country loop trail of my own to visit these places. If *I* was doing it... Well... I'm sure it wasn't the only fella that came up with the idea.

Joe Biden has seen The Bigfoot

sniffed and groped it too !

real photo, not photoshopped