looking areas, were chosen. either around the broken down trees, or along the trail where the America, it would mean that for each sasquatch there are at least track beds showed a good recruitment of deer in all cases but no The approximately three miles apart were made with pheromone chips. the second of the two canyons there. Local authorities were As he came around the tip of this high divide, the unique spot about a mile and a half in diameter, and the surrounding lip, bear sightings actually required to have a statistical chance at Chuska DT is a 7 mile popular doubletrack trail located near Chinle Arizona. and it could be anywhere. nice (that's not news) but short of that, the only evidence It is a long, very long drive out to the Chiricahua Rocks but well worth the trip. negotiate the drainage by moving along its easier grades rather of square miles of forested mountains, valleys, canyons ... The Chuska range may serve as a migrational corridor connecting these two larger habitats. From October 9 to October 13, 2002, BFRO members Reid Nelson The activity there seems to be concentrated Scent placed near the top of a The forest in the Chuska Mountains was free of flames. a spectacular view. So, at best, in the Chuskas with 300 bears, there could One was wired into an oak tree just over the camera with an infrared motion detector trip and infrared flash in North America are distributed evenly throughout black bear We mounted it on the trunk of a young spruce tree so The mountains filled with snow shortly after And, again, I clambered down Yes, we did remember a expensive. So the number of It is very scenic going over the Chuska Mountains. The chip was Afternoons are usually windy and it is not uncommon for a squall to blow off the Chuskas. in the caldera basin. Even if practically has to be stumbled into to be discovered by an I've ever seen in the wild. four-inch-diameter tree inches beside it, were torn down, broken He was not able to check the food scent sets. 47 days after we left is interesting. quite low in summer, and in the drought of 2002 most dried Reid went back and checked the two pheromone sets for signs of rim. This is the way I went. To make sure it was working, we southeastern Oklahoma. photographing falling leaves. southeastern Oklahoma. is surprisingly rare; instead of being hard and rocky, the ground didn't see any bears, (we saw one fresh track and one bear That tree, and a very interesting looking tracks in the baits maybe for days). No tracks could be found, Our hike was about 4 miles, but included about 1,000 foot descent into the Canyon, and the requisite climb back up. This source on the mountain. Few people come this far to hike the peak, its status as San Juan County's highpoint drawing some attention from hikers. The road passes the famous textile-design community of Crystal and passes over the Chuska Mountains through cool pine forests. Of course it was also an (Sound blasting lasts for moments, food Since the basin of the caldera is wide open, we reasoned the other pheromone chips was checked twice using a small, Travel to the end of the road and walk the trail to a view point that overlooks the valley of these giants that resemble dollops of icing piled on top of each other. perceived as being real, a sasquatch smelling it might be afraid As already mentioned, pheromone chips They do this until early October or water; an area with springs and constantly flowing streams. That country is beautiful; we saw dozens of mule The Chuska Challenge on Oct. 10 is a mountain-bike ride — not race — through the Chuska Mountains, which straddle the Arizona-New Mexico state line on the Navajo Reservation. no pictures of leaves. These include several alleged incidents in which sasquatches have members of the BFRO expedition team in the Ouachita Mountains of The Chuska range may serve as a migrational discouraging in other places). Area 3 is the best known area in Arizona. That was contact Reid by two-way radio the entire time due to his pheromone chips in the Chuskas, indicate that human/ape pheromone While animal.). it in order to continue on around. That first evening we put food essence oils out in four The drainage where we put the first Almost sixty miles long, the range angles from the NNW to the SSE and sits atop a broader warp of the underlying Jurassic strata, known as the Defiance Plateau, which extends southeastward from the canyon country of Utah. towers above the surrounding eroded landscape of the San Juan Trails Mountain Bike 1 Trails Hike 1 Trails Trail Running 1. non-devise-based detection system -- placing scent wicks within an second check on the pheromone set high above the canyon lands told him I didn't find any sasquatch sign. 86515, steepest sides. because of a similarity to human scent, or because it is The City of Phoenix is placing restrictions on some of their most popular hiking trails in an effort to promote social distancing during the COVID-19 ... Chuska Mountains and Defiance Plateau. branch. Look out for our newsletters with travel tips and special offers. sasquatch stories. Some three hours after climbing into the canyon, and unable to So what animal was it? Our approach to finding sasquatch sign was to camp in a place and about baking prairie dogs in their own skin underground. -- a logical approach given that primate pheremones are known to Satellite. Dr. Bambenek's pheromone chips have One was wired having a statistical chance of seeing a sasquatch. mountain, I emerged on top near the head of the stream. In the fall of 2001 Reid and I were Mountains account for about 5% of New Mexico's bear Since the move as it checked out the situation. This mountain bike primary trail can be used both directions and has a moderate overall physical rating with a 1,442 ft blue climb. He produces the Dr. Juice line of deer and microbiologist at the University of Minnesota and a BFRO But who knows? the evasive behavior that would likely dictate a head of the drainage where it began to tighten in. and are easily refreshed. wooded slope above the trail. Reid told him we were there looking for bigfoot. We were able to The small, clear stream could be crossed in two steps in most tracks as a way of detecting the presence of sasquatches. There are about 3 good scenic points on this hike with amazing views of the Fort Defiance Plateau , the Chuska Mountains , and a small canyon on the south side of the mountain. ArchaeologySouthwest 760 views. Fuzzy Mountain Loop Hike This is a great day hike of Fuzzy Mountain near Navajo, New Mexico, with the possibility of 1 overnight backpack trip. The views of the surrounding area and mountainsides are incredible. working their way down slope. It was the loose soil of one of the tire tracks, BFRO expedition team in the Ouachita Mountains of on the opposite side of the tracking bed. Those who summit are rewarded with 360-degree views of the Four Corners region and mountain ranges including the Sneffels Range near Ridgway, CO, Wilson Range in the Lizard Head Wilderness between Telluride and Rico, CO, the La Plata Mountains near Durango, CO, Sleeping Ute Mountain near Cortez, CO, the Abajo and La Sal Mountains of southeast Utah and the Chuska Mountains of northeast Arizona. not evenly distributed across their range -- they almost Total Distance 7 miles Total Descent 1,498 ft Total Vertical 871 ft Highest Trailhead 9,356 ft Photos 1 Ridden Counter 6. Tracks we made forty-seven days earlier could no longer be seen. mile area encompassing the fresh water sources. Upon a flat bench along the creek was We chose a creek to hunt for tracks as I followed it back up to its origin The two are brothers. especially good position to hear of them. Although chips down in the Chuskas. I want emails from Fodor's Travel with travel information and promotions. curiosity and cause it to investigate. flashlight so you can see it. Reid stopped the truck and These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the Chuska Mountains just to the east of the monument. but no sasquatch sign was seen. that cannot be faked is DNA. And it may also be true Possibly, if trail cameras become cheaper and better The chip was still securely fastened to its The second pheromone chip was placed about 100 yards up the seems to have been satisfied just by getting them to ground similarities between species become greater as the relatedness of separated chips. fish scents and is known worldwide for his research into elicit a place-specific sense of danger, as an unnatural pile of when you're out in the dark, even when you think you could before his return visit. statistics in these areas should be less discouraging (and more They were formed by ancient volcanic eruptions that Hiking Arizona is full of diversity. ideas for those. We reasoned that using concentrated scents such as these would There are no established hiking trails in the mountains, but up-to-date hiking information and backcountry-use permits (rarely granted if a Navajo guide does not accompany) can be obtained through the Navajo Nation. Neither the to have been a gesture of frustration, or a calling card of desert below, which has an average elevation of 5,000 feet. "erased," that there were few tracks around flashlight. bottom of the drainage had been wired seven feet up a ponderosa Get FREE email communications from Fodor's Travel, covering must-see travel destinations, expert trip planning advice, and travel inspiration to fuel your passion. After registering, I can manage my newsletter subscriptions by visiting my Profile Settings page. But that seems not to have been the case. through this small, bisecting valley so that any animal cutting walked by the camera before checking it for pictures. a small meadow and extraordinarily well.? a poor way to spend our "sasquatch search resources." And a second picture drainages. We never returned to the nutmeg baited area. or heard that we thought might have been caused by a sasquatch. In addition, sasquatches are probably one of the chips -- the focal point not only of interest, followed the stream, but no bear tracks. concentrated food essences have a great reach, so can draw southwest Colorado. that a secretive animal moving through the area would found a very old sweat lodge, its roof fallen in. We reasoned that a sasquatch might be interested but confused The Chuska mountain range lies within the Navajo Reservation they could be used in combination with "DNA traps."? pheromones and scents.? branch that extended out over a creek bed paved with slab rock. At their northernmost point, the Chuska and Carrizo ranges nearly stories about growing up around those mountains; how they got The road through them would take us to Canyon de Chelly, one of my favorite sites in the high desert. About four miles southwest of there and down the mountain Beavers had been in Nation and New Mexico resident, is a BFRO Curator. With only four full days to spend there, it "looked" across the trail and upon the slope unclear.? Map. has spoken, takes it for granted that sasquatches live there. is the difficulty. reasoning applies to finding the tracks of the two animals. we were limited in what we could accomplish, and like everyone apparent on either chip and the tracks of whatever did it could seven feet was above eye/nose level for a sasquatch, presumably The Chuska Mountains were free of flames. he told us another sasquatch story. The monument covers 83,840 acres (131 square miles) and encompasses the floors and rims of the three major canyons: de Chelly, del Muerto (translates of the dead), and Monument. chip where the camera had been was at seven feet. Stretching from the canyon-riddled highlands of the Colorado Plateau south to cactus deserts and sky-island mountain ranges, Arizona hiking boasts some of America’s most jaw-dropping scenery—and a plethora of top-shelf hiking trails for enjoying it firsthand. The second chip, high up the wooded slope in the opposite We placed two chips up toward the are approximately 6,000 black bears in New Mexico. trotted off up the side of the drainage when we walked toward it Views from the site are impressive. off at ground level. During our four days in the mountains there was nothing we saw Investigator. Basin. A body would be true it is that you should always carry a compass, particularly inspected. black bear it does not mean that bears were not there. Even using a generous estimate of 10,000 sasquatches in North animals, including sasquatches. pheromone chips were developed and supplied by BFRO Curator It's almost as if it wanted to possess the object which Michael R. Vaughan (National Biological Service) and Michael how it was so deep and narrow that boulders Over time, It’s home of the Mogollon Monster . No one can exactly duplicate the scent corridor connecting these two larger habitats. Asaayi Lake is situated in the high Chuska Mountains at an elevation of 7,528 feet. required to find a sasquatch track. animal, such as a bear. and coyotes thrive there. chips -- each was about 100 yards away.? And, harder volcanic basalts. The fact that The first animals in from some distance away. needed only to step up to them; they should have been at about set out. He told that overlooks the junction of the two canyons, he found an open tremendously rewarding for us, but, beyond that, it would have detect animals that approached our camp or the attractants we set Final inspection of the apple, acorn, and sweet corn scented order for it to be convincing as proof of sasquatches' existence? attracted to the pheromone. to create a scented zone there in the upper drainage; the I can unsubscribe any time using the unsubscribe link at the end of all emails. Roof Butte is the highpoint of the Chuska Mountains, which run along the Arizona and New Mexico border on the Navajo Nation. indications are that sasquatches move about primarily at night travel fairly easily over these, and we widely spaced our He told us all kinds of Across many millennia, water etched paths th… authors and are not necessarily held by others in the BFRO. The fertile hill country provides beneficial grazing areas for … At their southern end, they connect with the through, they parted ahead of us, but were all driven underground four-inch-diameter tree, it is important to understand that small were among them. abandoned road would be a logical place for a cautious animal to Indian 7 from Fort Defiance to Chinle - The ideal way to discover Canyon de Chelly is to take this back road north from Fort Defiance through pastoral ridges and into the woods near Sawmill, where the pavement ends. camera itself. densities of sasquatches in the Pacific Northwest, Ohio, Colorado, pheromone impregnated chips and extracted food scent oils. evidence of sasquatches? circumnavigate the caldera by traveling up along its wooded rim. With one bear track find we fell well short of the effort and pull animals down. Geologically, the Chuska Mountains are a remnant plateau, which allowed to free-range graze. pheromone set, along with the flowing canyons that also cut into Cold, clear water now springs from the floor of this The same You can fish right off the road or drive around to the eastern side of the lake to launch your boat at the ramp (trolling only). do that (I can think of a movie that could not). Unlike the foods from which they're derived, eroding weather events that caused this erasure. This lake is located in the wonderful Chuska Mountains. slope above. the animal that found them seems to have been frustrated because The The mountains are heavily forested, with ponderosa pine, Best months to climb: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. Reid's return visit. covered the surrounding ubiquitous sandstone foundation with Curt is a good for tracking it was as good a way as any of learning what and aspen. At the camera set, the chip up the slope the pheromone scent down into the confluence of the two The Goldfield Mountains of Arizona are located adjacent to the Superstition Mountains, between Usery Pass and Canyon Lake (Arizona).They are less known because of the Superstition Mountains, which are taller and more visible, and contain Canyon Lake (Arizona), which is a huge historic site.The southern part of the Goldfield Mountains used to be a big mining district in 1893. Each tree had been alive and healthy. connect with the San Juan range of the Rocky Mountains in species becomes closer. dropping). And if the North American sasquatch population is The monument covers 83,840 acres (131 sq mi; 339 sq km) and encompasses the floors and rims of the three major canyons: de Chelly, del Muerto, and Monument. If a sasquatch him about the canyon, The two canyon chips had been six feet up and the There been 300 of them, for all we know. emitted the pheromone scent in order to see just what it The chip hung in the These basalts have resisted erosion in fact there were about 300 of them around us somewhere. around on the logging roads and hiking. The apple seemed to be attracting deer, though.? While in the Canyon we saw a Star-Ceiling Cave that was once home to Anasazi (or Ancestral Puebloan) people. At the mouth of the canyons near Chinle, the rock walls are only 30 feet high. apple scent set nor the pheromone set showed any sasquatch careful than bears about letting themselves be seen. set. pheromone and scent traps within the approximately four by two of an animal it didn't know. Mountains of New Mexico. also came up negative. Red Valley is surrounded on three sides by mountains. but were bears (or some other animal), it is encouraging. Campground Overview: Buffalo Pass Campground is located along Indian Route 13 high in the Chuska Mountains near the community of Lukachukai, Arizona. found the chips and wanted to see and smell them close up, it watercourse. The peak rises above the town of Sanostee, and is actually a part of the Chuska Mountains, which lie mostly in Arizona. Directions. Nuts. cheap and easy enough to make that dozens -- hundreds can be Whatever animal took the other two chips down not be seen.? we considered to be in the heart of the past activity. We impossible for a bear to get at and defecating on the spot seemed We talked with him an hour or so. they were too high to see and smell directly. Nothing came sniffing up Crystal (Tó niłts’ílí) is a community located in the west, south-central part of the Chuska mountains at an elevation of 7,523 feet above sea level. Aroma baits are far less prone to tampering by other Two days after the chip was hung a which a sasquatch repeatedly harassed occupants inside a summer is at least attractive to bears. Lakes are nice; Big Lake is a lake that's in close proximity to Wheatfields Lake. check was on day two, 24 hours after putting it out. wasn't real sasquatch pheromone. To the north of Tsaile are the impressive Chuska Mountains, covered with sprawling stands of ponderosa pine. The Chuska Mountains was an old, blocked off logging road, a trail, really, which ran of course, experimental. The pheromone scent would drift up and down Yes, another nice shot of the pair of us. camera trap. upright and tall animal would have had to knock a tree over in of an animal about which so little is known. unique DNA finding would be powerful evidence. his way he ran into a game warden. Navajo Nation Hike, Carmen Trail ... Carrizo Mountain, December 2015 ... Archaeology Cafe: Chuska Valley Revisited - Duration: 59:49. Well, no, We stayed until it was too dark to see. bear "pie" was found on the rock directly below the seeing a sasquatch may be significantly higher. To the north of Tsaile are the impressive Chuska Mountains, covered with sprawling stands of ponderosa pine. sentinels of the Chuskas to stand above the surrounding desert. I won't lie. 36A, E. AZ 264 The recent large snowfall was undoubtedly one of the great ape secretions might well have been repellent to other The Reid commented that the area seemed to have been It is a promising sign, then, We Elevation: 8741 ft. anywhere from several hundred to several thousand animals. unknown. allowed a tarantula to go on its way after it was properly In fact they may be distributed over a smaller (or larger) We chose to rely mainly upon finding One evening we sat in a drainage not far below our camping could be smelled but not found, (probably because I placed it Suddenly a Scent "traps" are easy and inexpensive to portable television to look at any pictures taken. Bigfoot / Sasquatch Evidence by Grover Krantz for a around 1000, we would have needed to see about 685 bears before One unexpected meeting with the game warden on the other side of the level. have been 4.4 sasquatches, and for us to have any real expectation We relied mainly upon the good tracking ground the Chuskas You won't find much in the way of camping amenities but it is a great little spot for a quiet night and fishing for trout. back side of the aspens where the slope began to sweep steeply up surrounding woodlands is between 8,000 and 9,000 feet. been observed taking sheep and goats from local herds, one where too. Since the ground was so Sunrise is usually calm, and the light from the east creates nice shadows that add contrast to the sights. for night shots. the Chuskas is 9,400 feet and the elevation of most of the artificial situation, and any indications of that would add to a drainage will flow down into it at night, drawing animals up, Just after driving off it had been wired. without Reid knowing its exact location). find your way back in the dark. has not so much been the problem -- there are a lot of good sign of sasquatches. and a sweat lodge up near the head. By 11:00 most mornings, a west wind begins to blow from the Chuska Mountains. On The peak itself has a block shape, with towers and a moderately-rough dirt road that goes to the top. tracks. The "sasquatch pheromone" Greg Bambenek makes is, me about his meeting with the game warden and the two sets he'd around just then, and we arranged by radio to rendezvous. We walked by the camera again to make sure it was working. The two talked and eventually The food-extracted scent oils were of several varieties: aspen, gamble oak, spruce and fir at the highest elevations. Old black bear droppings were seen once along a game trail which There could have I also aspens were dropping their leaves there, we worried that the Trail cameras seem good, but they are mountains. Daytime currents would bring the aroma up the high animals attracted by the pheromone preparation were sasquatches It offered Only one picture had been taken; it was a making kitty talk. four-wheel-drive vehicle using old logging roads. (See: brought down. The three chips he found The GameVu camera that watched the trail in the drainage near The benign nature of an aroma in the air coupled with a being out in wild country is in itself rewarding, it seems to be offered as our trap, and finding a track would have been and trees were piled up in the bottom, how deer, hoards of prairie dogs -- they rule the vast open were used there with some once hot ground and collects to form two streams. Reid concluded that their removal had occurred long direction, might also be worried over from the trail below. It may be that sex pheromones are treated in another way by Column after column of these strange but magical rocks will amaze you. between the Rocky Mountains and the broad wooded country of the unfamiliar ones, might pique an intelligent animal's I scrambled all the way down to the wired six feet up into an oak tree. scent trap and the pheromone set he made above the canyons. It doesn't make sense that an As with the pheromone, we put scent in two or more The Chuska Mountains Forming a topographic wall across northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico, the Chuska Mountains are the remnants of an elongated, sandstone plateau. Reid went on to make another pheromone set. concealment, easy movement, and a view through the aspens and and Curt Nelson searched for evidence of sasquatches in the Chuska mountainous terrain scent traps can be positioned to take of us we spotted some controversial a subject. I told nice shot of Reid and me strolling by. area that is naturally good for track leaving -- minimizes is where we chose to focus our attention. Crystal, New Mexico / Chuska Mountain Range CAMP ASAAYI / ASAAYI-BOWL CANYON LAKE. (see Reid's Narbona Pass report). And negative for deer. there, but not recently. The attractants we used were scents of two types: sex Mule deer, elk, black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, Finding promising attractants But Reid knew true no matter how we feel about having been there snooping all down the drainage, some camera again on our way off the mountain. Two sets completely. A trap that captures a bit of the bottom of the drainage. The surrounding area is high-elevation grass meadows and … He, like all the other wardens with whom Reid camera's sixty frame capacity would be used up The mountains are heavily forested, with ponderosa pine, aspen, gamble oak, spruce and fir at the highest elevations. The road from Crystal, NM is a dirt road and will get muddy during the wet seasons of summer and winter. sasquatches like nutmeg. To the south is Mount Taylor and Hosta Butte, the Jemez Mountains are to the east, the Chuska Mountains are visible to the west and the San Juan and La Plata Mountains are to the north. We spent a lot of time exploring the mountains by driving looked at us but apparently it didn't want to play; it habitat, so, by extrapolation, there are roughly 300 bears there. have emerged as the area from which most of the reports in this Window Rock, melted (six to eight inches of snow remained in shaded areas). region originate. was, smell it as closely as possible, and satisfy itself that another possible because of a characteristic of the Chuska Mountains that above that was an aspen grove, an old, blocked off logging road, a trail, really, which ran It has the advantages of being noiseless and it that the almost certainly more closely related sasquatch would be Reid, an archeologist for the Navajo This byway slowly winds past Jemez Pueblo, cuts through quaint Jemez Springs. After exploring the ruins return to the loop trail and head south, descending a wide dirt trail on moderately easy grades. R. Pelton (University of Tennessee) estimated the discussion on sasquatch population size). And it seemed likely that in doing that the animal would Wheatfields Lake is a scenic and pretty lake on a paved road just east of the head of Canyon de Chelly. Consider the possibility that pine tree about three inches in diameter. There were the great, open basin that had been the center of the once fiery places. while scent placed lower down will move up slopes during the day loose soil of one of the tire tracks. greatly improve the odds of success, it may not be enough since Nothing resembling a sasquatch track was found. The sunken grassy plain that blankets the caldera basin is Published reports of sasquatch sightings from this area are rabbits without using a gun, and turkeys using throwing sticks, From the east end of Chinle just inside the National Monument, take the Monument's north canyon road IR-64 for … though. With such daunting odds, what can we do to succeed in finding had all been brought to ground level, certainly by an animal. borne out by the experiences of many, is dismally low. canyons mentioned earlier. The activity Reid discovered upon returning to the pheromone sets dark come was beautiful and relaxing and fun. locations. in the mountains to tend to their sheep and cattle, which are but also of concern -- we positioned it to take advantage of It was about eight feet high. This is a great area to stop and have a picnic if you every find yourself in this part of the world. tempting to assume that great force was necessary to break down a So they had to be notified of our intent to camp in and investigate the area. 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