The International Bigfoot Symposium

[westerncanadian]

As some forum members may know, the 40th Anniversary International Bigfoot Symposium will be held in Arcata, California on October 20 and 21. This event will be in honour of Roger Patterso and Bob Gimlin's famous filming of a female sasquatch at Bluff Creek.

Bob Gimlin and Al Hodgson will both be there and the organizers are awaiting confirmation that John Green and Patricia Patterson will attend.

The event will be held at Humboldt State University.

I was going to go until I was advised that the price of entry is going to be US$225. You get entry to the symposium, a t-shirt, a program and a poster for that fee.

I can't afford that so I will not head down. If anybody from this group does go, please do us a favour and post your comments about the symposium here.

You can visit the symposium website at:

www.sasquatchresearch.net/symposium.html

[sebastian]

$225? Still cheaper than going camping with Matt.

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I followed the link to sasquatchresearch.net and listened to the audio recordings. The last one is spectacular and triggered a memory from a hunting trip a few years ago.
We were hunting at chilco lake (our first and last time, not much game) on the west side (boat access only) and there was some howling at night. At the time I attributed it to wolves but it was unusually low in pitch, very similar to the Washington recording. My interest in Sasquatch had just been rekindled about that time (it must have been after the Manitoba video) and I had done some internet research before this trip, maybe that explains the feelings of unease I had on that trip. There were huntable benches above camp and rock peaks (with goats) above that. Grassy areas where snowslides had removed trees had 15-20 foot aspen growing on them (many of them broken off at the 9 foot level). Yes, I measured with my gun and did check, and found one on the edge of the slide area, protected by a few larger trees which was also broken. No sign of twisting though.
Across the lake from camp was a mountain with no vegetation and a large cave in the side. A well worn trail led to it. I looked it over with the spotting scope but nothing was visable there. Maybe thats where the howl came from? Maybe game was scarce because it was scared?
When I first researched sasquatch on the internet, I ran into the story of the logger observing sasquatch digging out pica from a scree slope. That triggered a recollection of a scree slope I had found in the Tulameen area which had lots of pica and piles of rocks on it. At the time I thought it odd and didn't think partiers would have gotten into such a remote area although there was an overgrown logging road. I have looked for this road on subsequent trips to the area and believe I know which one it is now, so this fall I will go in there again and take pictures.