BIGFOOT TRAPPED BY NORCAL FANATIC!
The Yoda of Bigfoot, in other words, was a PGF skeptic.
2007: Return to the Haunted Forest
It’s only September, but for me, the damp, drizzly air holds all the giddiness of a Christmas morning. With any luck I’ll soon be downloading pictures off the game camera that a week ago I bungie-corded to a young spruce tree in the heart of the Haunted Forest. I strapped several cheesecloth pouches of raw chicken to nearby trees, fastening the juicy bundles to trunks in view of the game camera such that, arms outstretched, the baits are positioned well above my own 6-foot, 3-inch head. (The oozing pockets of free-range, organic poultry would sit out-of-reach of every known forest inhabitant, I calculated. But a giant, bipedal ape? One could easily grab the protein-rich snacks.)
I’m hiking eagerly along toward my forest laboratory when my heart jumps: An SUV adorned with the familiar green insignia of the national park service comes to a stop abruptly in front of me. Actual visitors to the park are so rare — never mind on a chilly, late-September morning like today — that the presence of a casual day-hiker like myself is apparently an alarming anomaly.
The vehicle’s roof-mounted emergency lights flash and a concerned female Park ranger rolls down the passenger-side window, wearing a quizzical look on her face.
“Hi,” she says, but after a long pause seems unsure what happens next. Finally, remembering her script, she resumes: “And what are you up to this morning?”
“Birdwatching,” I reply, in complete semi-honesty.
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