A thousand pardons. I must have mistook your waxing poetic over coyote sounds as a covert dismissal.And if you had read my post carefully I never said SPECIFICALLY 'why it couldn't have been a bigfoot' - just that it was very 'coyote like'.
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A thousand pardons. I must have mistook your waxing poetic over coyote sounds as a covert dismissal.And if you had read my post carefully I never said SPECIFICALLY 'why it couldn't have been a bigfoot' - just that it was very 'coyote like'.
Yes you did but I appreciate the compliment!I must have mistook your waxing poetic over coyote sounds
So you now have a profound understanding of the meaning of words, yet decided to snip my quote.Yes you did but I appreciate the compliment!
Most consider my writing to be crude and uncivilized but your intrepreterptation of this as 'waxing poetic' has given me a profound understand my words obviously have a greater effect than I ever imagined and I will be guided in the future by the strength of your observation!
Hoax!OK....here we go....1973. I was on the landing early where I was bucking timber in late October. I was the first one on the landing about 0630 hours. I figured I would touch up the chains on my saws. Gray light of dawn. I laced up my corks on the back of my pick-up. It was raining pretty good up on Burnt Mountain where we were logging old growth in Coos County at about 2300 feet elevation. I looked up and saw this very large foot print in the mud. I used my bucking tape to measure it. It was about 16 -18 inches long. I went up the little hill to see if I could follow it or get a glimpse of what made it. I found what looked like the front of the foot... (toes and foot pad) about 5 feet away. Consider it was going up a steep muddy bank. I didn't see anything but by the time I went back past where the first print was it was pretty much washed out. It was raining pretty hard. So whatever it was must have been right there when I pulled up to the landing. I have hunted and killed a number of bears. This was NOT a bear print. No claws. Looked like a bare-foot human print. So that is my Sasquatch story. Probably nothing out there. Right?
I do not "believe" in Big Foot....but I also do not outright dismiss stories about him from folks that I have no reason to distrust.
Just tossing this out there....
What if Sasquatch is a spiritual presence or a "personification " so to speak of the wilderness...
Instead of a truly physical being....?
Again not saying that I believe that either..Just something to think about.
Andy
A number of Indian tribes considered bears quite like "just another tribe" that occupied their environment, since they were often observed standing (sometimes walking) upright, were easily determined to be extremely intelligent, often demonstrated no fear when encountered, and ate nearly exactly the same wild foods.
Also, when a bear is skinned, the body morphology is almost frighteningly similar to that of an Olympic wrestler.
Mmmm...One thing is for sure..if it is proven that there is such thing as Bigfoot, the deniers will be the first ones out to exterminate it..
Mmmm...
Well as I said....
I don't believe in big foot....nor do I outright dismiss the stories of those that do....
I also will not be "out to exterminate it " if big foot is proven to exist.
For what it is worth Whatcom Wa ( where I live ) passed a law in 1991 proclaiming that
Whatcom county was a "Sasquatch refuge area"....and that harming one was illegal.
Andy
One thing is for sure..if it is proven that there is such thing as Bigfoot, the deniers will be the first ones out to exterminate it..
Its nice to be loved....Lucky me....Fortunately for the rest of us, you do not enjoy the same protection.
Mmmm...
Well as I said....
I don't believe in big foot....nor do I outright dismiss the stories of those that do....
I also will not be "out to exterminate it " if big foot is proven to exist.
For what it is worth Whatcom Wa ( where I live ) passed a law in 1991 proclaiming that
Whatcom county was a "Sasquatch refuge area"....and that harming one was illegal.
Andy
So I'm gonna say your last comment could be somewhat of the reason. Maybe Bigfoot is some type of biblical being. Only seems to show up once in a blue moon and then gone. No tracks. No photos. Nothing.If there was a bigfoot I would have bagged one already. I have been hunting many years and logged many hours in the woods of course a good amount of that napping. Only twice did I see something that I could not explain once was an opticle illusion and the other maybe a bigfood. About 7-9 years ago Weyerhaeuser opened up their property to vehicals on weekends after 20 years of being closed off to the public. That year you paid per vehicle so going in with some friends it was not a bad deal now they charge per person.
I was driving with my bro in law and it was getting late I was trying to group up with my buddies and took a wrong turn and we were driving through a grassy clearing on the side of a hill. Up above us was where the Caves were that some of the Mollala Indians lived the road was going back into the trees and I was looking forward when something massaive crossed the road through the trees really fast about 100 yards ahead. FIrst thought a Elk or Deer jumping accoss so I sped up and then it started to dawn on me deer are not that color I thought for a moment as there are some large ravens there but I though no this was much bigger maybe a black bear but it was too big and too tall. I stopped to take a look but something gave me the creeps like spider senses tingling so I didn't get out of the truck and drove on.
I finally grouped up with my buddies one of which hunted the land with his father in law 20 years before they had closed it off he had a big grin on his face and I said you think I am nuts and he said no that same thing had happened to him back when he was a kid up there and he never told me about it because he thought I would laugh at him and call him nuts.
So OP either you are nuts or you are some kind of bigfoot magnet. Maybe they are some kind of spirit and they are messing with you because of something you or your ancestors did. .
Maybe I need to hunt with you so I can finally bag a bigfoot.
I'm calling BS on this story.I've done the camping thing all over the Great Northwest for decades, mostly the more remote Forest Service roads, and MAINLY in Washington state.
Only once did I ever see any evidence of Bigfoot. And that was down in Oregon.
A friend of mine and I were on a Forest Service road in the Siuslaw National Forest in Oregon. Early 1980's. We were actually camped out at a State Park in the little town of Yachats, on the coast. It was my friend, his wife, the truck and camper, and the Jeep he towed behind the thing. We left his wife at the campground and just went into the hills for the day with the Jeep.
So after a few hours of all this Jeep driving we finally come to a dead end on some Forest Service spur. I couldn't tell you exactly where it was, but maybe twenty miles from the coast. We got out of the Jeep and started walking on into the woods from the dead end. Not very far in, we came to a cathedral-like spot where the old growth still existed.
And that's where we found several tracks. Usual Bigfoot size and shape tracks. Frankly, it scared the heck out of both of us. I got up on the heel of my hiking boot and sort of jumped up and down, trying to duplicate the depth of the tracks. Dirt wasn't very firm, but I couldn't come close to making my track as deep as the ones we saw.
I had no weapon that day. My friend had left his pistol in the Jeep. He wants to go back and get it, follow the tracks, maybe get a shot at whatever MADE the tracks. I talked him out of it. We decided to just drive back to town, since it was getting late in the afternoon.
That night, we all went to a small bar in Yachats. And after dropping our story on a couple of the locals, they weren't very impressed. They said sometimes people would go up in the woods and purposely MAKE Bigfoot tracks here and there just to do it and get people talking. Still...way out there past the end of a dead spur seemed a pretty unlikely place to do such a thing. Took a lot of weight to make those tracks, and they were very fresh. Didn't convince me that Bigfoot existed, but it was kind of weird.
You "bag" a Bigfoot, and I'm guessing you'll be behind bars for a long time for murder. Lol!!! I ain't shooting no Bigfoot!!!Well if BF existed somebody would have bagged one by now. I have seen and heard some odd things in 45 years of wandering around in nature but most all can be rationally explained unless you want to believe or imbibe enough to believe. It is a hot topic at my house and we are split down the middle on our believing. I am a home brewer and the name of my little operation is the Bigfoot brewery. View attachment 716825