Posted on 07/21/2007 9:20:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
KAMAS, Utah
A group of about 45 people spent two days in the Uinta Mountains searching for the legendary Bigfoot.
Members of the Bigfoot Field Research Organization used sophisticated equipment such as parabolic microphones and night vision goggles to search for the beast on Thursday and Friday.
BFRO director Matt Moneymaker, a lawyer from Capistrano, Calif., said he founded the organization to be a clearinghouse for Bigfoot sightings nationwide. He says he once was as close as 15 feet from a Sasquatch in 1994 in Portage County, Ohio.
"Utah has a reputation of being a place with enough sightings and steep terrain where it is possible to see one," he said
However, acting Kamas District Ranger Dave Ream of the U.S. Forest Service said he was not aware of any Bigfoot sightings. He said that campers should be more worried about bears, which are coming closer than usual to campgrounds because of dry conditions and wildfires.
Still, those who say they have heard or seen Sasquatch are never quite the same.
Scott Taylor of Tacoma, Wash., says he saw a Bigfoot in 2005 while deer hunting on the coast of Washington.
"It's not like going out and watching deer and elk," said Taylor. "These are creatures that don't want to be seen. But when you see one, it changes your life forever."
A bigfoot doesn’t look like a bear.
Have you seen one?
Sorry, but I have to disagree with you on that. Maybe in Texas, where almost all the land is private, but in northern California and Nevada there are vast, and I mean vast, areas of Federal (Forest Service, BLM) land that have rarely, if ever been penetrated by man.
I can take you to several lakes in remote canyons not 20 miles from my house that are visited, and fished, maybe once a decade. Just because a road or trail goes through an area doesn't mean that people are out walking all over the territory.
How do teeth at least 125,000 years old from an UNKNOWN animal provide "evidence" of "Big Foot" roaming about today?
Hell, that's less evidence than Nyfong had to persecute the Duke lacrosse team!
Your post brought back some AWFUL memories of the MCMWTC.
In preparation for an unrevealed assignment — we KNEW we were in a pickle the instant we arrived at Pickle Meadow in the middle of a harsh winter storm in the early 60’s.....
I thought I would die from the cold, altitude or exertion required to get through the training.........then afraid I wouldn’t die.
My first time on skis or snow shoes, first time any higher that the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and the first time I was hungry for such a long period of time.....
Cannibalism is no longer unimaginable for me...
Had we not all been Marines - I’m sure I could have devoured anyone else we may have come across...
It was heartbreaking to see all the small animal tracks in the snow — but never even once really having a chance to kill anything to eat.....and the constant movement prevented setting traps and awaiting a meal...
My next assignment? Vietnam - arriving in Summer...
Boy did the MCMWTC prepare me for that!< /sarcasm>
Is hunting restricted in these areas?
The person in this picture strongly resembles Miss Chokesondick from SouthPark.
Thanks!
BTW Thank you for your service!!!
No, not at all.
Gigantopithecus blacki is a recognized species. It was in my anthropology text books in college back in the early 1970s. It was a huge, 10 foot tall ape, that lived than half a million years ago. There is no way of knowing from the fossils whether it walked on it's knuckles like a gorilla or walked upright like we do. But we do know that it existed at one time. All you have to do is think of the possibility of it not becoming extinct and still living in remote forests today.
What is your opinion on bigfoot, believer, non believer? Have you ever seen one or thought you did?
DOH!
Animal bones are eaten by carnivores in short order after the animal dies. Even shed deer horns are nibbled away by rodents and are gone quickly.
Roger died of cancer shortly after the movie was made. But, just recently, his accomplise fessed up to the hoax and admitted that he was the person in the gorilla suit who ran across that clearing.
As a sidebar, Roger even took me outside the tavern and showed me plaster-of-paris impressions of footprints that 'Bigfoot' of all sizes had made.
If you want to believe in this, have fun. But, they don't exist, never have and never will.
Sorry, But I've thought of it and ruled it out as beyond belief --- until some CURRENT evidence of existence is provided...
Hunters see tracks all the time. They are so common that
most don’t even get investigated.
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