Ok, this is an area I have so many questions about. I hear a lot about teepee formations, X formations and other markers that some claim are territorial in nature. We have plenty of intelligent people in here who can tell me if they are for real. I have never given them much credit. I have seen a few strange formations but I can't connect them with bigfoot.
I know some of you have more knowledge of their behaviors than I do and so I would like to know what you all think about the subject. Should I be looking closer at these formations??

Also, tree bows?? I see so many tree bows, many done by natural causes but some that are just downright odd, like they are tied to the ground or held down in place by other broken limbs in a pile. Are they actually considered markers???

I know you guys will help me out here! :wink:

Oooooooo touchy topic, more so than shelters i think.
But yeah, i'm looking into this topic more too.

It seems to me that they do leave some sort of markers, X formations, directional markers, footprints, deliberatly broken vegetation.

Bonobos do this, and i suspect other apes/monkeys. Why not sassi?

This is interesting and a topic I know absolutely nothing about.

What about the bowed over trees I have seen on so many websites???
Any truth to those?? What is your opinion in your experience??

I can accept that they do things to vegetation and such in the normal course of being a bigfoot......BUT

Some websites make silly claims of rock formations as proof of bigfoot activity..........Helllllllllloooooooooooo.....people have been using rock piles as directional markers on trails and for boundaries for like 100's of years....almost every trail I hike on has rock piles somewhere as a marker....

Maybe bigfoot play blocks with stones, I don't know, but the big deal they make out of your average, ordinary rock pile at some sites is about as credible as photos of "bigfoot" blobs..... :roll:

Ok, *walking out on the limb* (*edit* hehe no pun intended, but hey, there is one, and its cute )

The only "tree bows" i have seen myself, have been anchored to the ground by another fallen tree, or part there-of. There was one that i saw, that the wood holding it, didnt appear to have originated from any of the nearby trees.

*HERESAY ALERT* - I have been told by another person, that he saw a couple that were tied to the ground with twisted grass. I find that hard to swallow. Grass would pull out of the ground by the flexation of the tree, unless it was, A: alot of grass with deep roots, B: a very small tree.

I have seen X formations on the ground, older wood, not laying there but placed. Perhaps an alert or caution sign? (both instances, you would be seen by humans in dwellings just a few steps further). but thats pure speculation at this point.

Bonobos are known to break vegetation to show the others following, which direction it went, usually to a feeding area. Footprints are used the same way. Bonobo clans dont move out all at once, they go in smaller groups. They gather to feed, and to nest at night, breaking up during the day, and leave "signs" of travel direction for others to follow.

Makes ya wonder, dont it?

Hey, maybe if we left out some of those kiddie alphabet blocks ... what would they do with 'em ? Spell out a message???

"GOBBA"

ROLF

This stuff's very interesting and something I would like to learn more about.

"GOBBA"????

"ROLF"????

Ok Rob, what are those letters??? I must be having one of those blonde moments again...

How bout: SND CHIKEN

You know you all are really cracking me up......

LOL...good one bipto!

I keep trying to research this but am finding no reasoning as to why some are considered formations and some are considered fallen trees? I really would like to know more about it but unfortunately like many of the blob photos I can't see what the photographer supposedly did.

Take a look at the photos on this site, Jim. The Texas Wildman Project

There are some good photos and the researchers are good about keeping their objectivity in regards to the formations. It's probably one of the best galleries I've seen regarding this subject.

thanks Fishy.funny I have seen things similar if not exactly like the ones pictured,never gave them much thought until recently.and you're right about the other thing too the objectivity is to be commended with so many nowadays saying every photo of a tree or rock formation has got to be a Bf sign.I wonder how many of them have been found in close proximity(sp.?)to sighting reports?

They had a blob pic

Worse yet, a fog pic



It does make you wonder.....personaly I wouldn't give those stick and tree formations a second thought.....I will look around more.....I would be inclined to think people or weather are the culprits.....but who knows?

Those pics of the folks with hair all over their faces really were bizarre huh????

well not really o lot of men have beards.(oh you meant the ones of the guys with hyreotriwhatsit? )

Yeah, but they seem to understand it's probably not much more than a shadow.

Some of the pictures were interesting, but some of them just look like stuff that happens to trees. Some of it also looks like stuff people might do (for whatever reason). I'm not discounting all their pictures at all, but some are more compelling then others.

Meanwhile, they posted this picture of a track:



That's no bigfoot track! Whoever it was dropped his driver's license right there next to it! Doesn't anybody else see that!?!

By jove you're right, Bipto!

I can't believe I didn't catch that earlier!

You guys kill me! ROTFLMBO..

And since we are talking about sticks and stacks and formations..here are some pictures for everyone to nitpick... :roll:

The pictures are of a stack of sticks in the fork of a tree about 5 or 5 and a half feet off the ground with a rock wedged on top.







I took this picture on a forestry road several miles from anything at all. Just off the side of the road where we stopped because we were tired of driving and were going to stretch our legs and let the kids wade in the creek next to the road. And before you ask, no I am not saying a bigfoot is responsible, it could very well be a person, but why? No campsites or pull over spots anywhere near or homes either. Sure made me wonder anyway.

:wink:

In my experance in the woods of washington and Oregon you will get breakage in the winter from the weight of the snow but it is easy to tell what did break the tree. if They look bent, twisted and peeled at I would think at different heights according to dominance or size of the Sasquatch not unlike bear clawing trees at different hieghts to display who is the boss. which it is impossible for a bear to break a tree like that without opposable thumbs. I have found prints in areas with broken trees in dense concentrations around berry fields near Mt Adams Wilderness. It also marks the path or give directions for food sources.

If anyone can get infra-red or remote sensing photos of the forest? Would there be a path of broken trees that would have a definite secondary canopy of pine trees which would be at a different height then the rest along that same generalized path.. what you think??


ken

I'm going on the basis of the trails I used to make as a through the woods and other places but I'd say yes depending on the amount of use of the trail.other factors would be IMHO wether or not other animals used this same trail.type of growth or undergrowth.since a lot of the undergrowth that I'm used to i.e berry bushes milkweed etc.can grow to full size in a single season.but what I know about Oregon is limited to having drove through it on I-5.very pretty scenery.but couldn't tell you what the heck is anywhere except gas stations along it. BTW welcome to the BFF.

Hi all ,

i have seeen pine cone formations in the forest it was a pile of pine cone two feeet in diameter and there was a square 2x2 with a rectangulqar spur about 4 inches across and two feet long it was wierd. i dont know anything about this type of thing.
anyone seen this before

thanks,
ken

No, Ken, I have never come across a pine cone arrangement. I wouldn't rule it out though if I did. I have not been in these woods around here yet in the fall and winter and I am looking forward to whatever I might find this fall when I do get out there. If I do happen to come across any pine cones in a strange arrangement I be sure to pay attention to them, and I will be sure to let you know! 8)