Group searches for Bigfoot in Uinta Mountains

ap on Riverside Press Enterprise ^ | 7/21/07 | AP

[California Patriot]

A bigfoot doesn’t look like a bear.

[Ditter]

Have you seen one?

[Inyo-Mono]

Sorry but there are too many people here and remote areas are hunted and fished by lots of people.

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.

[river rat]

"....he inferred that they probably came from cave deposits. Since the Giganto teeth were mixed in with middle-Pleistocene elephant and panda fossils, von Koenigswald estimated their age at 125,000 to 700,000 years."

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!

[river rat]

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>

[Ditter]

Is hunting restricted in these areas?

[38special]

The person in this picture strongly resembles Miss Chokesondick from SouthPark.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[mad_as_he$$]

Sorry to bring back the memories!!1 I don't know how many guys have told me they went to Pickle Meadows and then to VN.

BTW Thank you for your service!!!

[Inyo-Mono]

Is hunting restricted in these areas?

No, not at all.

[Ditter]

If *can* be hunted then I am pretty sure that it *IS* hunted. I just can’t believe that bigfoot hasn’t been photographed, if he exists, other than the fakes we have seen.

[Inyo-Mono]

How do teeth at least 125,000 years old from an UNKNOWN animal provide "evidence" of "Big Foot" roaming about today?

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.

[Inyo-Mono]

This may answer you questions:

http://www.bfro.net/gdb/show_FAQ.asp?id=412

[Ditter]

Very interesting, I read half, I will read the rest tomorrow. I am still skeptical as to this creature being more than a figment of a creative imagination. I have followed Mr. Ditter many miles on foot over some of our western states, Canada and part of Mexico, he carried the gun and I carried the camera. We occasionally walked up on game but most was spotted after sitting quietly in a vantage point of good visibility. Admittedly we never hunted after dark but sometimes our return trip back to the camp was in the dark.

What is your opinion on bigfoot, believer, non believer? Have you ever seen one or thought you did?

[philetus]

DOH!

[Ditter]

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.

[Parmy]

Years ago, when I was young, I was in the West Valley Tavern, which is located a few miles West of Yakima, Washington. I met a guy named Roger Patterson. He and an accomplise were the ones that started the 'Bigfoot' hoax in this area. They even made a home movie of a supposed 'Bigfoot' moving across a small, meadow clearing.

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.

[river rat]

"All you have to do is think of the possibility of it not becoming extinct and still living in remote forests today."

Sorry, But I've thought of it and ruled it out as beyond belief --- until some CURRENT evidence of existence is provided...

[Ditter]

I saw the guy you are talking about. I can’t remember the TV channel but the guy was talking about how he and someone else had perpetrated the hoax. Now Bigfoot is even living in Oklahoma. ;9) ~snicker~

[BF CHASER]

Hunters see tracks all the time. They are so common that
most don’t even get investigated.