Comments on: New BC Sasquatch Sightings

By: Goodfoot

Goodfoot — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:54:31 +0000

Wonder if BF was out trick-or-treating? Was he carrying one of those little plastic punkins with the handle?

By: Chris. H.

Chris. H. — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:03:30 +0000

Thanks! I really believe that the way to learn more is to observe more. As you say, mystery_man, travelling by canoe is very quiet and unobtrusive, and you can cover a lot of territory.

I’ve been thinking it’d be great if there was an online group of people who could discuss and select a good, 5-10 day canoe route through likely territory…that would be the first challenge: where exactly is ‘likely’ territory that can also be accessed fairly easily?

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:42:40 +0000

I agree. I think Chris H. has a fabulous idea in using canoes in the search. In my opinion, any Bigfoot expedition should be as quiet and non intrusive as possible if it is to have any chance at all of producing results. Rather that noisy groups of us smelly humans trudging around the forest, I can completely visualize a smaller, highly scientific expedition silently sliding down rivers through prime sasquatch habitat. It is a very good concept. Nice work, Chris H. Hopefully someone will try that out.

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:42:12 +0000

Chris H; excellent concepts there regarding using canoes, at least in summer and autumn. However it’s not the only way, and am reiminded by the lifestyles of the first nations people of the North and their relationship with the land and the seasons. We tend to think that the cold of winter is when people hunker down, unable to travel, but in the north boreal forests, the taiga and tundra, it was the opposite. Summer meant camping where there was lots of wood for smoking fish and keeping down the mosquitoes and bears. The aboriginal people of the boreal north know that when the landscape is frozen and under some snow that their sleds permit them unequalled access to the land; no bears, no bugs, no brush…and every river becomes an icy, almost friction free highway. In no other pre-civilized culture did individuals and their families routinely travelled the distances that the people of the sled and dog did. Then was the time to travel and meet up with their fellow clans and tribes. Most of our concepts of the north are the creation of people who have failed to recognize the superior adaptations the people of the north have been making and preserving for many many generations. Eskimo clever as it’s sometimes referred to, and cleverness all around would be advised in pursuit of the kind of evidence being sought regarding BF anywhere.

By: sschaper

sschaper — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:29:53 +0000

Maybe what we need is someone like Richard Branson or one of the internet multimillionaires to fund such a project.

TV like MonsterQuest may or may not be able to run something season-long, then make it into one show, even though their work with giant humbold squid was very much along the right direction I’d like to see them go.

By: Richard888

Richard888 — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:17:50 +0000

I think Chris hit the nail on the head. Bigfoot researchers should duplicate the actions of trappers but using cameras instead of traps in areas like northern Ontario and Manitoba.

By: Chris. H.

Chris. H. — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:32:21 +0000

Canoe is the only way to go! Cover lots of territory, (use bushplane drops of equipment when necessary to cover more territory) then set-up cameras and move on to the next drop with another party to follow in a couple of weeks; and then another in a couple of weeks after that on an established route. It’d be very economical as far as ‘expeditions’ go and would cover a lot of remote area with a more methodical approach. Besides, everyone loves canoeing! Many expeditions visit an area once a year, often at the best time of year for camping which conversely may also be the worst time of year for Sasquatch. Anyone with geo-cacheing experience would be very useful!

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:21:49 +0000

Good sighting.
I agree with Mystery_Man. I’ll be eagerly monitoring this. I wish to visit that area one day anyway.

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:35:08 +0000

I love Chris H’s strategy a lot, having done some canoeing in BC before. BF or not it would be a fantastic time through marvelous landscape.

By: DWA

DWA — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:43:10 +0000

RyanWinters86:

Understand your impatience. But then I wonder how many of them we’d see standing in fields.

Chris.H. :

Capital idea! Ideas like this are what make me wonder why primatologists do mundane stuff like count marmosets when they could be having some real fun.

Oh. Money.

Sheesh. If we pulled the funding of any number of studies I read about the findings of which don’t seem to me to have any bearing on our happiness, knowledge or beer supply, we could fund one like this. The lucky researcher, I’m sure, would be happy to provide his own gear.

Then again. Why not find an expedition, there seem to be a hundred or more of them every day, running some remote Canadian route, and ask them if they’d like to take this on as part of the adventure? Then have another one come behind them to “clean up” the cameras? Then…you get my point.

Time to discard the box here, ya think?