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Old 23rd April 2017, 07:36 AM   #401
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It's fun watching Kit embarrass footers....
http://bigfootforums.com/index.php?/...foots/&page=87
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Old 23rd April 2017, 07:50 AM   #402
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Immune to embarrassment. It simply isn't there.
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Old 23rd April 2017, 08:19 AM   #403
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Originally Posted by Drewbot View Post
This guy goes out in the Florida woods and gets clear footage of one of the rarest large predators in the world.

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a7a_1492738981
I was in FL a few weeks ago and spent a mere 1.5 hours in a spot that looked just like that - overstory pine and recently burned saw palmetto. Didn't see any panthers, but did get some photos and a quick video of swallow-tailed kites in a mid-air spat.

Real nature has all sorts of cool stuff in it. Fake nature has tall tales of cool stuff, but it's all fluff.
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Old 23rd April 2017, 08:28 AM   #404
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Originally Posted by Cervelo View Post
It's fun watching Kit embarrass footers....
http://bigfootforums.com/index.php?/...foots/&page=87
And with nothing more than honest questions stemming from his observations of data.

Here's another gem: we've had lynx show up in Kansas! Not bobcat, lynx.

We know stuff about real animals because sometimes people see them, report them, and, upon investigation, wildlife professionals are able to confirm them. In this case confirmation was easy, because it was a radio-collared lynx from the CO reintroduction program.
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Old 23rd April 2017, 08:49 AM   #405
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Originally Posted by The Shrike View Post
And with nothing more than honest questions stemming from his observations of data.

Here's another gem: we've had lynx show up in Kansas! Not bobcat, lynx.

We know stuff about real animals because sometimes people see them, report them, and, upon investigation, wildlife professionals are able to confirm them. In this case confirmation was easy, because it was a radio-collared lynx from the CO reintroduction program.
Dang.....the dude snuck up on a Lynx, that is astounding!!
Thx for posting that!
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Originally Posted by Cervelo View Post
It's fun watching Kit embarrass footers....
http://bigfootforums.com/index.php?/...foots/&page=87
The problem with that gigantor person's argument is that there is no scientific evidence for the existence of bigfoot where there should be an abundance of such. What proponents call evidence is indistinguishable from hoaxing, mis-id, or an out-and-out lie.
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Old 23rd April 2017, 09:17 AM   #407
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Originally Posted by Drewbot View Post
Bigfooters have been searching for the Big Feller for many years.
They have not gotten even 1 clear video. There are thousands of Bigfoots living across this continent, in semi-rural areas, crossing highways, raiding trailer homes and casino parking lots.

This guy goes out in the Florida woods and gets clear footage of one of the rarest large predators in the world.

Oh, and he wasn't even looking for this species.

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a7a_1492738981
Terrific isnt it?

Has anyone seen the BBC series Planet Earth?

The filming of Snow Leopards instantly came to mind after seeing the video above. From Wiki - ' Planet Earth Diaries explains how difficult it was to get close-up footage of snow leopards; it was a three-year process and is the world's first-ever video footage of snow leopards' and they caught it on film hunting.

The even recorded some Amur Leopards, of which only 40 are estimated to survive in the wild.

But nothing from Bigfoot. Who lives all over the USA and in various other parts of the world. Nothing. Not a jot. Wow.
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Old 24th April 2017, 05:29 PM   #408
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Something big happened! The Great Reveal!

Don't know exactly what, but it has something to do with a distant world, a portal, a machine that can keep a portal open, Sasquatch forest people saved by Matt Johnson and others and brought to earth where they can turn into trees, or something.

Matt Johnson teases the Great Reveal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEoEvnWkUc4

Streufert posted this tongue in cheek comment on Facebook:

" Does anyone have any further information on the Nobel Prize-worthy portal opening-controlling machine invented by this friend of Matthew Johnson's that was used in the saving of the Bigfoot Orb People from their dying planet?? I mean, this profound scientific breakthrough should be news all across the planet with companies and countries rushing in to exploit it, but I've heard no further details beyond the "Speakers Panel" given to a few dozen people at a Sasquatch spiritual revival in a motel in remote Washington state."

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Old 24th April 2017, 05:43 PM   #409
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Originally Posted by Cervelo View Post
It's fun watching Kit embarrass footers....
http://bigfootforums.com/index.php?/...foots/&page=87
Imho, Kit is great.
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Old 24th April 2017, 06:06 PM   #410
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I bet if you asked doctor Matt Johnson point blank, he'd tell you he really prefers boys 12 and younger because they're so non-judgemental and they usually stay quiet. Oh wait, I thought you guys were talking Dr. Johnson's obvious other avocation¹. Nevermind!


¹ That guy is a child molester if there's ever been such a thing. He must know Meldrum.
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Originally Posted by Cervelo View Post
It's fun watching Kit embarrass footers....
http://bigfootforums.com/index.php?/...foots/&page=87
The debate continues with that norseman feller offering up a video with this comment:
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How much more clear do you want it?
If he thinks that video offers anything comparable to the definition in the Planet Earth snow leopard footage, as one example, he needs glasses.
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That video is a great effort but the costume has obvious flaws. Who did that one?
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That video is a great effort but the costume has obvious flaws. Who did that one?
An outfit called Modern Galaxy.
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The video is not particularly clear given the technology available in even the cheapest cameras or phones. But it is certainly clear enough to see some flaws with the costume.

Does that norseman guy really think it shows a Bigfoot?
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The video is not particularly clear given the technology available in even the cheapest cameras or phones. But it is certainly clear enough to see some flaws with the costume.

Does that norseman guy really think it shows a Bigfoot?
I don't think so; he was using it as an example of a "clear" bigfoot video.

Which it is not.

Which calls his judgement into question.
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Originally Posted by William Parcher View Post
The video is not particularly clear given the technology available in even the cheapest cameras or phones. But it is certainly clear enough to see some flaws with the costume.

Does that norseman guy really think it shows a Bigfoot?
Poor Norseman....he saw some tracks he and his pappy came across when he was a kid they couldn't explain. Then apparently fell down the rabbit hole once he joined Bigfoot Fantasy W/Friends.
He's a great example of someone with supposedly tremendous outdoor experience letting a childhood experience distort his otherwise rational thinking, once he's part of a group that advocates a social construct as reality.
His position is nothing but a body will suffice to prove his childhood fantasy real, hence his submission of "clear photographic evidence" to support the "gotta have a body" position.
He also started a little group called Grendal Project that advocates hunting down the mighty beast. It seems to be kinda like the NAWACKIES, let's go play army, all tango, foxtrot, must have giant bullets for a giant beast gibberish...laughable a best, dangerous at worst. The plan was to mount these "expeditions" and put the issue to rest. As far as I can tell it's all talk, having been part of the group, until I started posting here and became the enemy.
Don't get me wrong I believe he has real world experience and certainly appears to have some awesome toys for exploring outdoors, unlike some other footer I've meet in person, but seems to have some sort of disconnect with reality when it comes to Bigfeets.

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The video is not particularly clear given the technology available in even the cheapest cameras or phones. But it is certainly clear enough to see some flaws with the costume.

Does that norseman guy really think it shows a Bigfoot?
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Poor Norseman....he saw some tracks he and his pappy came across when he was a kid they couldn't explain. Then apparently fell down the rabbit hole once he joined Bigfoot Fantasy W/Friends.
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Prove to me the Sasquatch with baby video is NOT real......

Its certainly clear enough that we are not dealing with mistaken identity.
Yes, poor norsman, he just doesn't get it. And as if that thread didn't have enough knuckleheads, that Far Archer is now weighing in.
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Poor Norseman...he saw some tracks...<brevity snip>
In all seriousness, good synopsis of the, umm problem. It seems the only thing the members of these "we'll get to the bottom of this" Bigfoot organizations really want to do is start more "we'll get to the bottom of this" Bigfoot organizations. Gives them a good excuse. No time to chase Bigfoot cause they're too mired in the damn paperwork.
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...seems to have some sort of disconnect with reality when it comes to Bigfeets.
Don't they all?

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Yes, poor norsman, he just doesn't get it. And as if that thread didn't have enough knuckleheads, that Far Archer is now weighing in.
I've always like Norse. I got along with him well at the BFF. I think he just has difficulty accepting that there is no mystery to be solved. As such, he clings to the notion that something might actually be out there, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. I think perhaps his time at the BFF has hardened that belief. Perhaps had he never participated at the BFF, he may have over time just abondonded the notion of bigfoot completely.
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I've always like Norse. I got along with him well at the BFF. I think he just has difficulty accepting that there is no mystery to be solved. As such, he clings to the notion that something might actually be out there, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. I think perhaps his time at the BFF has hardened that belief. Perhaps had he never participated at the BFF, he may have over time just abondonded the notion of bigfoot completely.
He's completely over his skis in that thread. In posting that silly video which he thought would make his point, he did the opposite. The thing is, with his outdoors experience, he should know better.
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Matt Johnson teases the Great Reveal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEoEvnWkUc4
1) The sound is better with the camera in his left hand.
2) He could sit down an not have so much trouble holding the camera.
3) He shouldn't point downward toward his crotch and say "Go down . . . "
4) I'm afraid his little red choo-choo has gone chugging around the bend.
5) . . . and/or, he's angling for an alternate reality TV show.
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How many citizens of Bigfootville will latch onto this as somehow a significant boost to their belief in a NA ape?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/s...=top-news&_r=0
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It's a terrible blow to Bigfoot belief.
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How many citizens of Bigfootville will latch onto this as somehow a significant boost to their belief in a NA ape?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/s...=top-news&_r=0
I think many footers are already in this sort of camp, whether they're Soultreans or some other. That Far Archer person pooh-poohs the out of Africa hypothesis, as one example.

ETA: They've already started on this one:
http://bigfootforums.com/index.php?/...ot-discussion/

It'll be fun watching them stumble around if this study is debunked. Actually, they'll just continue on, now that I think of it. After all, bigfoot's been debunked and they're still fumbling and stumbling on.
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Yes, poor norsman, he just doesn't get it. And as if that thread didn't have enough knuckleheads, that Far Archer is now weighing in.
Some dude over there insists that he saw the Bigfoot With Baby video about 10+ years ago. I don't think so. I'm pretty sure this is newish. It would have been shared and commented about quite a lot if it was that old.
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Some dude over there insists that he saw the Bigfoot With Baby video about 10+ years ago. I don't think so. I'm pretty sure this is newish. It would have been shared and commented about quite a lot if it was that old.
Yeah, that poster is a "knower" so it's a good bet he's a bit confused.
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How many citizens of Bigfootville will latch onto this as somehow a significant boost to their belief in a NA ape?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/s...=top-news&_r=0
The bigfoot-as-neanderthal stuff is about to get all up in herr at the BFF . . .
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It's fun watching Kit embarrass footers....
http://bigfootforums.com/index.php?/...foots/&page=87
I'm 100% positive that if there's one human emotion that people who either pretend to believe, or actually do believe in Bigfoot cannot possibly comprehend, it's embarrassment. What Kit's doing is essentially telling a bunch of die-hard Morrissey fans that Morrissey is a bit of a dick. You can no more expect those pretentious, quiffed whiners to listen any more than you can expect a Bigfoot believer to ever bother being shamed. I mean, it's 2017 and they're still playing the Bigfoot game. Embarrassment? Indigestion and confusion, more like!
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The All Female Bigfoot Team is led by Montra Freitas.

Here she is on a recent episode of After Hours with Rictor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpJulKRr1Jk

It gets really weird.

In fact I feel violated after skipping through it.

The video is chock full of Bigfoot 'Celebrities' and minor players, it is fun to try to ID them all.
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Not sure where to put these observations. I helped a tough old-school miner move a bulldozer, excavator, trommel, and a couple thousand gallons of fuel out to his gold mine 38 miles into the wilderness. It was another trip of a lifetime and I thought about you guys out there.

We had a lot of adversity, the kind only Mother Nature can dish up, but we prevailed. Small world out there - I know half the people with claims in the area. Near Van Curler's Bar on the Middle Fork of the Chena if you want to look it up.

They were mining out there a century ago, with one main deposit and then all these little outfits on side creeks along the main stem of this river. So there's a lot of old equipment, caved-in shafts - fascinating stuff, and it's amazing how tough these people were to get out there. Nothing but hard work.

So roughly every seven miles or so this old timer knew of "rescue" cabins for us. Over the years hunters "in the know" with claim-holder agreements use them. Various prospecting outfits pass through and lease cabins, equipment, or trade for one thing or another. I met the trapper for that area on the way in. He was doing some after-season trail work as the rivers were going out and we weren't even sure we could make it for that matter! He took nine wolves out there this year.

We left one snowmachine on the road-system side of the river so in case we had to ford it on the way back we could zip the last four miles to the road, wet and cold but alive. I went and checked once, and we decided to pull out the next day. One day later the crossing was out.

A couple of things really impressed me about the whole Bigfoot Live Action Alternate Reality Gaming on this expedition. First, why aren't the bigfoot just taking all the provisions out of these little cabins scattered about? The bears sure are a problem. We put a helipad in for a friend of mine up one creek and all he has at the moment is a "tent", although an industrial-type not pedestrian camping type. He has an electric fence around it. The old-timey cabins have barbed wire on the windows for bears and padlocks for the human predators. Plywood screwed onto doors. Not a problem for an 800 pound primate, but serious barriers for the real furry critters about.

People have huge stashes of food, guns, fuel, four-wheelers for trails and jet-skis for the main fork of the river, satellite phones, and fine collections of DVD's like Lonesome Dove - I was introduced to that by this old-timer at one of his cabins.

So why aren't bigfeet having a field day out there raiding supplies if he exists? Everything from squirrels to wolverine, marten, bear, and etc. are problems requiring elevated food caches, padlocked ATCO units and so forth. Why isn't bigfoot learning and adapting if he's so intelligent? Cooking up some freeze-dried Mountain House Stroganoff?

Tracks of every animal, all over the place out there. The bears are following the river stems. They have a real distinctive walking pattern, you don't even have to get off your machine to identify them. No bigfoot tracks, and this of all places would be his refuge.

Moose are like bunny rabbits in the spots where miners processed ground or cleared old air strips that grew back in yummy forage. Poop in the sun melts the snow around it, and there's so much moose poop I submit it as a visible benefit of moose poop to anyone trying to work in the woods. One step off the snow machine and you're waist deep in the virgin snow otherwise.

No bigfoot poop. Come to think of it - none has ever been found. We saw poop from the tiniest birds to the biggest moose. Saw some live ones, one real giant moving ahead of me, right in front of me, the damn thing would not yield the trail to me.

The second point about BLAARGing that came to mind out there is the car-camping trips they take that are dubbed "expeditions". The definition of words is abused in order to create the Alternate Reality. That word "expedition" first and foremost.

You don't see BLAARGers on real expeditions. It's too much work, too dangerous, too fraught with Murphy's Law. We had break-downs requiring agonizing walks, clever field repairs (I broke a bogey wheel shaft that carried the suspension on my snow machine pulling 110 gallons of fuel, and made a field repair with a black spruce pygmie tree and bailing wire). We got stabbed and whacked by jousting sticks poking along the trail: pants and insulated underwear torn the length of your side. Huge welts, bleeding all over.

Working in the dark, and on into the night with carburators dis-assembled on the table next to the tiny cabin's wood stove. If you drop one teeny pin in the snow, that machine is disabled. Now you're walking. But it isn't walking. It's stumbling, clawing, falling, punching through and crashing... every step of the way so damned treacherous.

That's why you BLAARG. In reality you're never more than minutes of walking on a road to 7-11 for ice cream and Marlboro Lights. This old guy had a grandson with him, a state wrestling champion, 22 year old college kid that operated equipment in Montana - and he quit. The old timer tried to do it alone, but he had a little accident and had to hike out 14 miles and get me.

In a BLAARGing car-camping trip you make up stories about bigfoot tossing Good-n-Plenty candy pieces at you across the groomed grass whilst sitting around the campfire. That's why skeptics are correct in naming these activities Alternate Reality Gaming. It is obvious on the face of it they are acting, not doing what they say literally.

I watched this old-timer dragging his enormous trommel on skids across this frozen creek, and enter a free-slide downstream (steep terrain), the tracks and skids sheering off trees poking up through the ice. But he's cool as a cucumber, got his digging bucket out trying to sink the teeth in upstream to slow himself down. Just terrifying stuff, no wonder the kid quit.

Mostly we hauled fuel with the snow machines because they are so much faster, but we got thrown a lot. You get that much fuel under momentum and it is taking you off the trail and down the mountain when it says so, and righting the situation is always agony. His machine rolled over him twice on one run - it's insane he tried it alone.

If we take BLAARGers literally then they are brave, intrepid scientists facing life-threatening danger in order to prove up on a great evolutionary question: the existence of a giant hominid roaming the forests at the edge of civilization. In truth, they're generally car-camping, alongside kids playing frisbee and mothers wheeling their babies on strollers. Dad's are at the bar-b-que cooking chicken. The BLAARGers are in this alternate reality among Good-n-Plenty tossing monsters.

Proving up on bigfoot is worth more than all the gold in the hills out there. Yet, they aren't out there. It proves they don't believe. Look what people go through for gold. For one ounce in a hundred fifty cubic yards of material.

In returning, this old man recovered in a couple days. I took three. That's what a real expedition does to you. I lost my cell phone out there in one of the many, many tumbles. There's no reception. I was using it for pictures. So there's one thing I finally have in common with 'footers.

So maybe I'm just lying.

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Used to know a guy who operated/managed hunting and fishing outposts in remote locations in Canada from Great Bear to the Eskimo lakes in what was then the Keewatin but we now know as Nunavut. These were fly-in operations of course, but make to them that, you had to haul heavy equipment hundreds of miles through the tiaga and tundra in the dead of winter; Cat trains with snowmobile escorts across frozen lakes and streams at 30 to 40 below. This just to bulldoze a runway out of an esker in order to get the whole thing rolling.

He did this for years, and once asked me if I wanted to help him start a goose hunting/brook trout camp north of Churchill, just south of the Manitoba-Nunavut border. He looked at my wife, who was pregnant at the time and said maybe I should wait. We did, and I lost track of the guy.

These people at the ones the BLAARGers and bigfooters pretend to be. They’re regularly making a living in the kind of places bigfooters claim “no one ever goes.” These are the people who would actually find a bigfoot, if they existed; not the pretenders in the NAWAC, nor the BFRO, nor the SRA, nor the special forces internet tough guys
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In returning, this old man recovered in a couple days. I took three. That's what a real expedition does to you. I lost my cell phone out there in one of the many, many tumbles. There's no reception. I was using it for pictures. So there's one thing I finally have in common with 'footers.

So maybe I'm just lying.
Perhaps, since you 'lost your camera' you could whip up some sketches based on Bravo- Sierra After Action Reports That's what the footers would do.
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The All Female Bigfoot Team is led by Montra Freitas.

Here she is on a recent episode of After Hours with Rictor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpJulKRr1Jk

It gets really weird.

Well she attracted a bigfoot on her first menstruation. They promoted female bigfoot hunters for that very reason. Too much testosterone wafting off the men hunting bigfoot. Weird, yes.

She (they) look like they spend a lot of time in the woods.

My trip sent me to the hospital, lol - my doctor anyway. For cortisone injections. He asked why I was so beat up. Scrapes, scratches, scabs, bumps and bruises. Same goes for the equipment.

I told them all the information was the same except for the sex change. This trip killed me so bad I have to just put a moratorium on sex for a while. That is my after-action report: wiped out.

Yeah Resume, when I was still flying I saw such lodges all over the place, and if I came in to land there was always caretakers. So vast an area with the people who ought to be seeing bigfoot... aren't.

Piloting, I couldn't see these little cabins in the deep woods though, 120 foot tall spruce trees hiding them. Van Curler's Bar for example is one of them I've always known about, landed at, and can be seen from 40 miles out at altitude. But quite a lot of these teeny line cabins, hunting shacks, prospecting units and etc. are tucked away hidden up little creeks.

If I knew to look for them, I'd find them I guess.

Seems like people are liking helipads - bringing a chopper in right at the diggings because even if you fly freight in to a main hub like Van Curler's, you still have to haul stuff to the diggings on your own creek. We put in three of them. Bigfoot helipads. The chopper these miners are generally using is $1200 an hour. Definitely way more effective to use a dozer freighting in the winter. We had a D-7 equivalent.

The terrain is just too sheer for landing strips, too high up the creek valleys. But you can etch in a chopper pad.
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I'm 100% positive that if there's one human emotion that people who either pretend to believe, or actually do believe in Bigfoot cannot possibly comprehend, it's embarrassment. What Kit's doing is essentially telling a bunch of die-hard Morrissey fans that Morrissey is a bit of a dick. You can no more expect those pretentious, quiffed whiners to listen any more than you can expect a Bigfoot believer to ever bother being shamed. I mean, it's 2017 and they're still playing the Bigfoot game. Embarrassment? Indigestion and confusion, more like!
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He's on a 2 week vacation courtesy of the mods.


ETA: Though I'm sure he isn't worried about his 50 UK.
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He's on a 2 week vacation courtesy of the mods.


ETA: Though I'm sure he isn't worried about his 50 UK.
No, if I win, he is out $2.5 million since I got 50,000:1 odds. I'm out 50 pounds if I lose.
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The needle has twitched ever so slightly in my favor of winning our bet. My chances are still on life support, but I'm not willing to pull the plug yet. And no, I won't elaborate and yes, I know how this is going to viewed by everyone here.

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I bet $1 that if you explain why it has twitched, skeptics will giggle...
Want to give me odds on that bet?
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Well that sure was exciting. Classified bigfoot intelligence, I guess.

I thought about your group out there, Northern Lights. It's no mystery at all why people do it. They don't want pain. Severe avoidance of hard work and injury. Who wants to go on a trip that is going to put them in the hospital? I got a Ford Explorer out of the deal. I took it in trade. When your quest is real, you have real pay-offs. Or death, lol.

This old guy hiked out 14 miles at night. He fell a lot, it's hard to describe how difficult it is to walk in heavy arctic gear on a "trail" that has been ********** up by an excavator and trommel. Ice, steep up and down sections, sides of mountains, crawling a lot of the time to prevent certain falls. I have so much respect and admiration for this guy, he's got a quarter million in equipment and provisions on the line. Along with his life.

We inventoried another operation that has the whole thing up for sale. Looked over what they got. D-8, cabins and cook-shacks on skids, excavators, and all the acoutrements. Track rigs, four wheelers, fuel tanks, everything through the gold wheels. Just as soon as they got it all out there the wife got cancer and died.

It was half a million dollars in stuff being offered at 50% discount if you take the whole thing. This isn't classified intelligence. If anyone wants to know I can put you in touch with them. It's all sitting at this big gravel airstrip you can bring a C-130 in on.

So speaking of risks, let's just look at this wager through the lense of Bigfooter Law of Opposites. All these people I encountered either directly or tangentially have staggering investments they've put in up-front. A quarter to half-million dollars cash on the barrel-head is the entry level bet. For mining, not prospecting. You can call yourself a prospector with just a backpack.

Fifty pounds, lol. In the Bigfoot Law of Oppposites a BLAARGER pretends to face risk. One person shows his risk by placing half a million dollars - everything he's got - on the line. Another puts nothing on the line at all up front. Fifty pounds - two lap dances - at some point in the future will be paid if a tooth fairy is not captured by then. That's quite the opposite of showing belief. It's paying a very tiny amount for a pretense of belief, that's for sure.

Same with the car camping trips. The worst thing that can happen is running out of ice cream. The purpose of concealing locations is to avoid embarrassment. To cut off the testimony of those who actually live and work in that spot. The ones that can testify the only bigfoot activity is the people pretending.

There's one real good reason for pretending that is obvious to me and that is near-zero risk. Going to a park or campground is near zero risk. That's the primary attraction to BLAARGing. Talk about safe. It's a zero fatality activity. Spelunking, scuba, climbing - these activities, even though fairly mundane, have fatalities. In the old days it was suicide and mental illness for the miners, not just direct mining fatalities.

I'm going to be a porn star for the rest of the day. With a chain saw. Alternate reality sawing.

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