New worlds.

Dear reader,

Having exhausted my research areas in North Cascades National Park, which yielded very little supportive evidence towards shoring up my hypothesis, I decided to spend the summer months in a country less fraught with turmoil and thus have traveled up through the Cascades and managed to slip across our northern border into Canada. I am currently bivouacked near Chilliwack Lake. I’m warming to my newfound status as an illegal alien and scofflaw as this journey has tested the limits of my woodcraft. My decision to leave Washington was precipitated by the arrival of armed an militia group that chose MT Baker as the site for their wargames which of course drove any member of my subject species out of the area.  Nothing stymies a scientific endeavor more effectively than political unrest.

 On a positive note, Canada has a rich tradition around the Bigfoot phenomenon so for me it’s novel ground to plumb for further evidence of the North American Wood Ape.  I will probably spend some time reconnoitering the area around the lake. It’s quite beautiful here and contains all the necessary resources to maintain a sizeable population of Sasquatch.