Last weekend my husband and I went back to the spot with promising signs.  Which we plan to investigate this winter.  We decided to camp there for one night to see if our preliminary investigation was correct.  It was cold.  We slept in our tent that Saturday night with the temperatures in the 20's.  Brrr!

Well, we had a better than expected result there.  I was hoping for tree knocks and maybe one walking around the tent while we were sleeping.  OMG!  This was our first night there.  My mind is swirling with the possibilities of this location.

We had eye shine from at least 3 while we sat around the campfire.  We spotted the eye shine all around our campsite.  For two hours we had them watching us from different locations.  They moved around.  At one point they were close enough that I was able to see the top outline of one of them.  Also I was able to see the eyes of one change colors from white to green to red and then white.  I saw two walk closer to us.  That was exciting but a little unnerving.  We decided it was time to go to bed.

The next morning we went to the locations where we saw the eye shine.  Most were only 100 feet away!  The spot where we saw them walk towards us was 50 feet away!!  I knew they were close but not that close.  This is one of the best eye shine I have ever seen.  It is almost as good as the amazing eye shine I saw in Central Colorado in June. 

I left my audio recorder on the whole night.  I will be listening to it to see if we had visitors walking around the tent while we slept.  At one point during the night I woke up thinking I heard a knock but I am not sure.  I'm hoping the audio will have it.  Who knows?  We may some interesting things on it.

When you do your legwork which is time consuming and not much fun it can pay off.  You have to go where the clues point you to and then hope you are correct.  For a non-existent species that our society says is a figment of imagination, you would think that I wouldn't be able to have the results I have.  Go figure.

SQUATCH ON!

This endeavor has been a major labor of love.  When I first started out, my family did not know what to think.  My husband started going out on some of my investigations so I wasn't by myself all the time.  When he found the 17 inch print over a year ago he was more enthusiastic and open to this idea of a possible bipedal primate.  Now he has no doubt.  The evidence and our investigations have convinced him.

With this in mind, we went exploring for a new investigation spot for this winter.  We wanted a spot that we both found and will research together.  Where do we look?  How will we know it is the spot for us?  If you have read my earlier posts I have outlined several criteria that I usually use in my investigations.  So far they have not failed.  I will briefly list how we found this new spot.  I added a couple of new criteria due to my factoring in the Colorado winters.

• I used locations of reported sightings.  I know of 3 in this area.
• Geography of the terrain.  Ravines?
• Food source such as deer or elk in area.
• Relatively easy accessibility for vehicles.  Is the road maintained during the winter?  How steep and rugged is the road?  How close to the main highway and is there a town somewhat close by?
• Signs of their presence in this location?

The above picture is at one of the spots we explored.  It had all of the above criteria and had many signs we were looking for.  It shows a lot of promise.  Hopefully it delivers.

So my friends I will keep you posted with this spot and my first love, my original spot.  I hope this winter while you are toasty warm reading my posts that you will remember that I am out in the cold, wintery conditions continuing my grand adventure.

SQUATCH ON!

Almost 1 year ago I had joined a group of fellow Sasquatch investigators called SIR (Sasquatch Investigations of the Rockies).  There were several main factors on why I joined this group.  The 3 factors that I liked about SIR-why they investigate, how they do their investigations and their intent.  Egos and hidden agendas are not for me.  Life is too short and I don't have the time or patience for that.

SIR's approach in their investigations is a more respectful and gentler way.  The intent is not to be portrayed in a negative manner to Sasquatch.  Since SIR is willing to use patience and time at their spots, the Sasquatch groups there will interact with them.  It is this mindset that had me join SIR.  Mike, one of the co-founders have repeated many times, "Would you like to have someone come to your house and behave in a negative manner?  The same thing applies to Sasquatch when you go to their home in the forest."  Screaming, howling, shooting guns, big bad male egos, hunter mindset and dogs all are negative factors to Sasquatch.  The concept of "You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar" should be used when investigating Sasquatch.

The reason I bring up SIR's mindset is to explain how I and SIR operate when we out investigating.  I want to be a respectful friend to Sasquatch and not a hunter of one.  Your approach and intent is conveyed through your body language and persona when you go out.  If you go having a he-man and a hunter mentality then they will avoid you.  They are almost impossible to find as it is.  Why make it even harder?  I wonder if that is the main reason Sasquatch gravitate more towards women and children?  It make sense.  That is why I have an advantage over some of my fellow investigators.  Being male isn't wrong but it helps being female.

One of the gentle techniques used is offering a friendship plate of food.  This usually takes a while before they trust you enough to eat what you leave them.  Would you eat food that a stranger offers you?  The same thing applies to them.  By going back consistently and offering the friendship plate of food will have them get comfortable enough so they will come and eat.  In the case at one of SIR's research spots you can see them come in with them using their eye shine.  It is amazing and something special.

This approach was used at a friend's spot this past weekend.  Two years ago a "baby monkey" was spotted in a large pine tree.  Since then the friend and his wife have been trying to establish a positive relationship with that group of Sasquatch.  Saturday afternoon, four of us went to the friendship spot to leave an offering of food.  While there, I had walked a little bit away from the others and was scanning around.  I saw 3 black shapes watching us.  They were big.  The one in the middle was swaying sideways back and forth on its feet.   I called the others over and showed them what I saw.  One of us decided to move closer and he saw the face and noticed the brow line and cone head shape.  I told him not to move any closer.  I had seen the big one in the middle turned its head to watch him.  I thought at first they would take off but they stayed where they were.  We left a few minutes later.

If we had been screaming, yelling or doing other negative actions the chances of 4 people seeing 3 Sasquatches would have been zero.  Those Sasquatches would have left and avoided us the whole time we were there camping.  By being respectful, offering friendship and doing human things had this group curious enough to come in to watch and stay.  Starting on Friday and going through Sunday we saw and heard them.

I hope I explained a little of my mindset in this endeavor.  This is a labor of love.  I am on a voyage of discovery.  This journey has been surprising and helped me grow to be a better person by learning from my mistakes and using a lot of patience.  This bipedal primate is an amazing being.  I hope I have shown them the better side of human nature.

SQUATCH ON!    

The adage that when it rains it pours could be applied to me.  I really do need to go out and buy a lottery ticket.  My journey is so unexpected and exciting.  I had another visual this weekend.  This place was over a hundred miles from my research spot and about 50 miles from the other one I had a couple of weeks ago.  I consider all of my recent sightings lucky but this one was truly a chance encounter.  If I wasn't being diligent about looking up and scanning the area then they would have stayed hidden while watching us.

They were black and very big.  One was swaying back and forth on its legs and turned its head to watch one of us as he walked a little bit closer.  He said he could see the face and the cone head shape of its head.  We stayed and watched for a couple more minutes and then left.  We went back the next day.  I found an impression on the game trail that goes right to the spot.

I have no doubt on what I saw.  There were three of them.  All a different size.  The one in the middle was the biggest.  I went from wishing to see one to seeing several in a few short weeks.  WOW!

Ya gotta love it!

SQUATCH ON!

Last weekend was one of my favorite things to do.  I combined my love of Sasquatch with the joy of a child.  A friend of mine has a 9 nine year old son who is fascinated with Sasquatch.  I had taken him out several months ago and had so much fun that we went out again to a different spot.  One of the advantages of living here in Colorado is the choice of where to look.  This time I picked a spot purely on how squatchy it was.  It just called out to me.

Jordan and I started out on designated trails but there was nothing of interest.  I noticed up on top of a hill some aspens and pines that may have a ravine with a stream nearby.  I climbed up and sure enough the area was showing some promising signs.  I had Jordan join me and we went down into the spot.  As we went down to the stream, we came across a game trail.  I found 3 tree breaks in a row.  I found some tree structures too.  We did not find any prints but maybe next time.

We explored another spot that goes directly up from this spot that pointed to even more signs.  They are in the area.  I'm hoping to see signs that they are in there often and may even live close by.  I had to curtail the investigation because poor Jordan was worn out.  He keep wondering why our forest friends live in such hilly and hard to walk places.  I smiled and said that is why they do.

Children are unpredictable and impulsive.  Their joy of exploring and openness to possibilities make them the perfect squatching buddy.  Jordan played with his whistle.  He picked things up.  He examined just about everything and his drive to figure things out is the perfect partner.  I absolutely loved it.

The best part of my day was when Jordan was eating his ice cream and asked when will we go out again.  I couldn't ask for a better partner.

SQUATCH ON!   

Big Foot sighted in Colorado!

The three things that I find pretty amazing about Colorado is the climate, geography and how wildlife thrives.  Nature always finds a way.  Water is worth more than gold here for a reason.  We have limited moisture and high altitude.  How can we have these lush forests that sustains abundant wildlife with limited amount of precipitation?  The answer to this is our mountains.  They capture enough moisture for this to happen.  The water moves down, forms streams which in turns travels  into ravines and canyons and finally finds the rivers that eventually empties into an ocean.  In the ravines and canyons pockets of water will form into ponds, lakes or lush meadows.  It is so amazing to drive and see nothing but dry conditions and then you turn onto a road following a ravine/canyon that goes up towards the mountains.  Then you go around a corner and a lush and green forest greets you.  It is another world.  It is these areas where wildlife and our forest friends thrive even in dry areas such as Canon City, Alamosa or Gunnison.

The reason I brought this up is to explain how Colorado have reports of Big Foot even in our drier regions of our state.  The answer is the mountains.  Our mountains give nature and our wildlife the ability to thrive even when the surrounding areas of the mountains are bone dry with dry creek beds, cactus and no trees.  As long as they can move undetected, have water within walking distance, elk and deer in enough numbers, then our forest friends will use the area.

I didn't know this about Colorado until a couple of years ago.  I have traveled all over Colorado since moving here 15 years ago but couldn't figure out why there were hunting in our drier regions.  There seemed to be as many hunters hunting for elk in our dryer regions as there are in the greener parts of the state.  The light clicked on after I started researching for Big Foot.  An excellent example of this was the time I had met my husband in the mountains while he was working.  While he was at work there I had decided to do some squatching.  I had read about a sighting that was about 10 miles away.  When I arrived at the town I couldn't figure out how there could be a sighting close by.  Where we were staying was dry.  Very little vegetation, mostly rocky outcrops and dirt.  The Colorado River was there but it was dry 20 yards past the river.  I had some misgivings about going.  I decided to try anyways.  When I followed the road up, I literally turned a dry rocky corner and a lush ravine/canyon area appeared.  It was a different world!  It was alive with wildlife, pine trees, aspens, vegetation, clear running water and many little ponds and marches.

It is one of those types of places that I went to do a little camping and squatching this past 5 days.  It is always nice to get away from your normal routine and go do something different.  I have been at this spot for one night previously a few weeks ago.  It has signs of Big Foot activity and there are 2 reports close by.  I liked the odds.

We had visitors during 2 nights.  My husband woke up at 2 AM the first night to rapid knocks.   We had them walking around the tent for 2 nights.  Early Thursday morning around 5 AM I heard one walking by me when it hit the side of the tent by my head.  I was proud of myself I did not panic or scream.  On 2 evenings I heard howls.  They were in the distance and not close.

My husband and I decided to explore an area that I would say was squatchy.  It was calling me.  What an area!  We found many Big Foot signs in there.  As we were coming down to go back to our campsite, we were following a ravine.  Back behind a structure and some tree breaks I looked up at the top of the ravine about 30 feet away because something caught my attention.  Something BIG, I mean HUGE brown upright "thing" was looking at me and then turned ran to my left and then turned into the trees and was gone.  It was much bigger than an elk or moose.  There was no ears or a back that you would expect to see when it turned.  When it moved it was smooth and fast.  No bounding or leaping you would expect from elk or deer or moose.  I stood there with my mouth open.  My adrenaline was going a mile a minute.  I couldn't get my mind around what I saw.

My mind is still trying to grasp what I have seen 2 days ago and also at my research spot.  I have seen them in 2 different places hundreds of miles apart.  The odds are too fantastic.  I think I need to go buy a lottery ticket.

This journey is so fascinating and incredible.

SQUATCH ON!       

With anticipation I went back.  As I was going in I found a track of prints that looked like one chased a deer.  I followed the tracks up to a game trail that was closer to where I had my 3 glimpses last year.  Then I decided to follow the game trail.  Guess what I found?  A 14 inch print!  Actually several.  I followed the 14 inch prints to the perfect rock spot.  Secluded but open enough around me with enough foliage for them.  Almost like I was led there.  Interesting.

Just before I came upon the rock I saw movement.  When I looked closely I saw a brown shape bend down from some trees by the cliff to watch me.  It had long hair!!!!  It looked at me and then turned around and climbed up the rock that was behind him/her.  This was not a bear, deer, mountain lion, elk, squirrel or coyote.  The color, size and length  of hair indicated that it was not any of those animals.  My 3 glimpses I had last year were black.  This is the first brown one for me to see.

I sat in my new spot for 2 hours.  Guess what happen during this time?  Over to my right by a bus-sized boulder between 2 trees I saw a black shape watch me!!!!  I moved my head to the right and the shape did the same thing.  So I talked with the shape.  For 20 minutes I would look, talk and move.  The black shape did what I did (except the talking part).  Several times I clearly saw the head and shoulders.  Interesting, interesting, very interesting.

About 20 minutes before I left a young buck came within 10-15 feet of me.  He watched me and I talked with him.  I heard some knocks and he did too.  In fact he got very nervous.  He licked his nose, flicked his tail up and stomped his front foreleg while glancing towards the knocks.  I kept telling him he will be dinner for my friends if he doesn't leave soon.  I was getting nervous that I may see him hunted down in front of me.  He finally left while looking back behind him where the knocks were.

Well, this visit was much more than I expected.  I have no doubt about what I saw.  I saw a brown and black Sasquatch or Big Foot.  I am still wrapping my mind around what I saw and experienced on that day.  If they were not Big Foot what were they? 

Who knows what will happen next?

SQUATCH ON!