Clarifying terms: a blobsquatch is a blob. It could be rock, log, shadow, branches, combination of all the above. This isn’t. It is a bipedal hominoid, the only question being whether the suit is its birthday suit.

Comments and setting make the immediate toss a naive option to anyone familiar with …well, with hiking off trail in the mountains in an ape suit. You do that a lot? How ’bout your friends? How ’bout their friends? Didn’t think so.

Yet, it has, strictly to me now, what I normally consider an immediate-toss feature: human-like proportions and movements.

I wouldn’t say compelling. I honestly don’t know what to think of it. One of the adults, putting one over on the group? Maybe. But none of the kids ever found that out? Sounds fishy to me. “Sure, let’s let this haunt them the rest of their lives.” Yep, typical caring-adult behavior.

Sometimes all one can do is: Who knows?

And because someone is in their early 60s you are inferring their story isn’t valid? Careful, now. Do you think that about Bob Gimlin, who is well past 60, (but doesn’t look it)? Or that John Green’s experience and knowledge is suspect due to his age? Is age now a qualifier for a sighting? When we start adding qualifiers such as that we reduce our objectivity and being truly open to examining the subject at hand.

If you are younger than 60, and I believe you to be, then don’t forget – we “old guys” were your age once – and you will eventually have the privilege of becoming ours.

What also struck me was that the adults were concerned enough that they didn’t want the kids off by themselves. Now if it had just been a person they’d seen, I would guess the adults would have told the kids to stay in groups because of strangers in the area (yep supposition on my part), not told the kids to stay near camp and not to wander off alone.

It did look like a human movement jumping to the rock, but it’s the details of the sighting that leave me wondering.