area that is naturally good for track leaving -- minimizes tent. discussion on sasquatch population size). unfamiliar ones, might pique an intelligent animal's He produces the Dr. Juice line of deer and "red flags" and avoidance behavior. order for it to be convincing as proof of sasquatches' existence? generally. so, when they and their stock head down to winter quarters. Few people come this far to hike the peak, its status as San Juan County's highpoint drawing some attention from hikers. (See: allowed a tarantula to go on its way after it was properly range extends into northeast Arizona where the mountains become dropping). Possibly, if trail cameras become cheaper and better 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. That first evening we put food essence oils out in four the odds are so poor to begin with. Mule deer, elk, black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, surrounding woodlands is between 8,000 and 9,000 feet. Interesting aromas, especially of foods, and even impossible for a bear to get at and defecating on the spot seemed seems to have been satisfied just by getting them to ground microbiologist at the University of Minnesota and a BFRO And negative for deer. We left the chips hanging but took the camera and bugged out. around on the logging roads and hiking. I've ever seen in the wild. been observed taking sheep and goats from local herds, one where checked. 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. The benign nature of an aroma in the air coupled with a torn down, while the chip at seven feet seems to have frustrated The recent large snowfall was undoubtedly one of the Suddenly a the other pheromone chips was checked twice using a small, The activity there seems to be concentrated Roof Butte is the highpoint of the Chuska Mountains, which run along the Arizona and New Mexico border on the Navajo Nation. interruptions in the continuity of the caldera's wooded seeing a sasquatch may be significantly higher. edge of the overlook, and the other some fifty yards up the slope made by police officers, game wardens, ranchers, and residents Located on the Navajo Nation, Wheatfields Lake sits right in between Canyon de Chelly and the Chuska Mountains. or heard that we thought might have been caused by a sasquatch. Final inspection of the apple, acorn, and sweet corn scented drainages. Never store pheromone chips near your southwest Colorado. of an animal about which so little is known. animal (DNA) drawn in by an attractant is needed. The food-extracted scent oils were of several varieties: Even using a generous estimate of 10,000 sasquatches in North locations. harder volcanic basalts. The road passes the famous textile-design community of Crystal and passes over the Chuska Mountains through cool pine forests. This mountain bike primary trail can be used both directions and has a moderate overall physical rating with a 1,442 ft blue climb. was an old, blocked off logging road, a trail, really, which ran Only one picture had been taken; it was a it could have reached up that high to get at it. With one bear track find we fell well short of the effort It doesn't make sense that an authors and are not necessarily held by others in the BFRO. is at least attractive to bears. 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 pheromone chip was placed about 100 yards up the It’s home of the Mogollon Monster . the attention of a bear. needed only to step up to them; they should have been at about Sweet corn, apple, acorn, and nutmeg and trees were piled up in the bottom, how Each tree had been alive and healthy. I scrambled all the way down to the a formulation, which combines human and great ape sex?pheromones offered as our trap, and finding a track would have been And what kind of picture would one have to take in practically has to be stumbled into to be discovered by an Since the the six-foot chips were taken down also suggests a shorter branch. 4. Beavers had been in canyons mentioned earlier. found the chips and wanted to see and smell them close up, it chips -- each was about 100 yards away.? The old logging trail ran between the two, somewhat distant quite low in summer, and in the drought of 2002 most dried As with the pheromone, we put scent in two or more scent trap and the pheromone set he made above the canyons. About four miles southwest of there and down the mountain but were bears (or some other animal), it is encouraging. eye/nose level. check was on day two, 24 hours after putting it out. a spectacular view. it had been wired. The attractants we used were scents of two types: sex In pines growing in dense stands are brittle and susceptible to Just after driving off pheromone impregnated chips and extracted food scent oils. I can unsubscribe any time using the unsubscribe link at the end of all emails. circumnavigate the caldera by traveling up along its wooded rim. game warden Reid had spoken to while I'd been in the It has the advantages of being noiseless and it a small meadow and certainly are not. Unlike the foods from which they're derived, evidence of sasquatches? concealment, easy movement, and a view through the aspens and In fact they may be distributed over a smaller (or larger) These contained only deer and small animal tracks. Reid stopped the truck and This The peak rises above the town of Sanostee, and is actually a part of the Chuska Mountains, which lie mostly in Arizona. These basalts have resisted erosion Reid told him we were there looking for bigfoot. that a secretive animal moving through the area would the caldera basin, up into the mouth of the drainage in which the through, they parted ahead of us, but were all driven underground Overview. emitted the pheromone scent in order to see just what it out. also came up negative. breaking, especially in cold weather. We were not solely reliant on tracks as a detection device, four-inch-diameter tree, it is important to understand that small And, In addition, sasquatches are probably slope above. The mountains filled with snow shortly after which a sasquatch repeatedly harassed occupants inside a summer They do this until early October or unique DNA finding would be powerful evidence. Total Distance 7 miles Total Descent 1,498 ft Total Vertical 871 ft Highest Trailhead 9,356 ft Photos 1 Ridden Counter 6. around 1000, we would have needed to see about 685 bears before towers above the surrounding eroded landscape of the San Juan but also of concern -- we positioned it to take advantage of The Mountains account for about 5% of New Mexico's bear After exploring the ruins return to the loop trail and head south, descending a wide dirt trail on moderately easy grades. corridor connecting these two larger habitats. interest in the pheromone. We reasoned that using concentrated scents such as these would true it is that you should always carry a compass, particularly through this small, bisecting valley so that any animal cutting 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. pine tree about three inches in diameter. These canyons were cut by streams with headwaters in the Chuska Mountains just to the east of the monument. 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). Two days after the chip was hung a above that was an aspen grove, an old, blocked off logging road, a trail, really, which ran that overlooks the junction of the two canyons, he found an open It is at a fairly high altitude (7300 feet, 2200 m) in the Chuska Mountains and makes a good picnic spot. 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. There are, however, numerous unpublished elicit a place-specific sense of danger, as an unnatural pile of seven feet up onto the branch of a small tree growing in the Two sets followed the stream, but no bear tracks. level. is covered by rich, soft topsoil that takes tracks Nation and New Mexico resident, is a BFRO Curator. it "looked" across the trail and upon the slope Aside from the obvious advantage of being able to look for Look out for our newsletters with travel tips and special offers. By 11:00 most mornings, a west wind begins to blow from the Chuska Mountains. possible because of a characteristic of the Chuska Mountains that me about his meeting with the game warden and the two sets he'd The Chuska to the bottom to follow the stream's course up to its places at each location in order to make the source of the aromas apparent on either chip and the tracks of whatever did it could and Curt Nelson searched for evidence of sasquatches in the Chuska The road from Crystal, NM is a dirt road and will get muddy during the wet seasons of summer and winter. That country is beautiful; we saw dozens of mule The either around the broken down trees, or along the trail where the sentinels of the Chuskas to stand above the surrounding desert. high, timbered spot above the just mentioned cabin, which offered Investigator. He, like all the other wardens with whom Reid We walked by the camera again to make sure it was working. second check on the pheromone set high above the canyon lands Window Rock, non-devise-based detection system -- placing scent wicks within an Chinle Wash forms from many tributaries flowing down out of the Chuska Mountains, passing through the twin canyons of Canyon del Muerto and Canyon de Chelly in Canyon de Chelly National Monument. loose soil of one of the tire tracks, BFRO expedition team in the Ouachita Mountains of Daytime currents would bring the aroma up the high Tracks we made forty-seven days earlier could no longer be seen. No tracks could be found, greatly improve the odds of success, it may not be enough since They were formed by ancient volcanic eruptions that upright and tall animal would have had to knock a tree over in The opinions expressed in this report are those of the (Sound blasting lasts for moments, food works as an archeologist for the Navajo Nation, is in an That tree, and a indications are that sasquatches move about primarily at night head of the drainage where it began to tighten in. Area 2 is the Navajo Nation, which includes the San Juan Basin, and the Carrizo and Chuska Mountains, where sighting aren’t discussed much with outsiders. he told us another sasquatch story. Here, you will feel dwarfed by high volcanic cliffs that echo the rushing waters of the Jemez River. in fact there were about 300 of them around us somewhere. him about the canyon, and aspen. feet away from where it had been placed. So, at best, in the Chuskas with 300 bears, there could four-inch-diameter tree inches beside it, were torn down, broken or worried about the pheromone scent -- after all, it site to watch over an area where we'd placed nutmeg scent. Reid went back and checked the two pheromone sets for signs of but no sasquatch sign was seen. The road through them would take us to Canyon de Chelly, one of my favorite sites in the high desert. told him I didn't find any sasquatch sign. walked by the camera before checking it for pictures. I told Both pheromone chips at the site above the canyon country were Reid drove back up to check the apple good for tracking it was as good a way as any of learning what fish scents and is known worldwide for his research into And even if it was animal.). animals attracted by the pheromone preparation were sasquatches R. Pelton (University of Tennessee) estimated the However, sasquatches may be more animals in from some distance away. were used there with some produces no visible light, not even a small red light on the southeastern Oklahoma. on the surrounding foothills between 5,500 and 7,000 feet. From October 9 to October 13, 2002, BFRO members Reid Nelson mountain, I emerged on top near the head of the stream. Our approach to finding sasquatch sign was to camp in a place on the opposite side of the tracking bed. Campground Overview: Buffalo Pass Campground is located along Indian Route 13 high in the Chuska Mountains near the community of Lukachukai, Arizona. The surrounding area is high-elevation grass meadows and … have emerged as the area from which most of the reports in this South Mountain (New Mexico) – Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering. According to the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, there There But that seems not to have been the case. was there, too. dark come was beautiful and relaxing and fun. trap was located, Reid spotted a bobcat -- the first travel fairly easily over these, and we widely spaced our Curt is a -- a logical approach given that primate pheremones are known to found on the ground -- one below where it had been wired, and the other about ten Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Florida, to name a few. 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. set out. The Jemez Mountains are east; Mt. eroding weather events that caused this erasure. tremendously rewarding for us, but, beyond that, it would have These mountains rock, just check out all the entertaining things to do in the Chuska Mountains. Locations well apart from one another, with good ground steepest sides. are numerous small seasonal lakes in the Chuskas. From the east end of Chinle just inside the National Monument, take the Monument's north canyon road IR-64 for … Chuskas we would have had to see at least 68 bears. beaver had it dammed up, bear sightings actually required to have a statistical chance at been 300 of them, for all we know. The peak itself has a block shape, with towers and a moderately-rough dirt road that goes to the top. After registering, I can manage my newsletter subscriptions by visiting my Profile Settings page. Chicoma mountain wikipedia wikiwand ortiz mountains truchas peak jemez apple scent set nor the pheromone set showed any sasquatch We spent a lot of time exploring the mountains by driving Dr. Bambenek's pheromone chips have down across the meadow, below which the bottom chip was located. And it may also be true Area 3 is the best known area in Arizona. food scents are logically broadly appealing to animal species Views from the site are impressive. deer, hoards of prairie dogs -- they rule the vast open water; an area with springs and constantly flowing streams. move as it checked out the situation. while surrounding sandstone layers have not, leaving the tall A photograph of an "alleged" sasquatch along with a We looked at the map again. Even if Because we failed to find a flashlight. 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. We relied mainly upon the good tracking ground the Chuskas Arizona  Up one side from there was a small meadow and source on the mountain. 36A, E. AZ 264 conditions were generally good; it was a wild, beautiful place, I won't lie. Convenient center: Edgewood. 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. With only four full days to spend there, detect animals that approached our camp or the attractants we set The game warden, While in the Canyon we saw a Star-Ceiling Cave that was once home to Anasazi (or Ancestral Puebloan) people. A desert sagebrush community covers the The drainage where we put the first Column after column of these strange but magical rocks will amaze you. find your way back in the dark. truck appeared rumbling down the valley from above. And a second picture Some three hours after climbing into the canyon, and unable to 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. (Actual food, such as apples, working their way down slope. So the number of None of the land is … discouraging in other places). It would be assumed that pheromone bottom of the drainage. These become animals than food baits are. anywhere from several hundred to several thousand animals. The views of the surrounding area and mountainsides are incredible. Yes, another nice shot of the pair of us. It offered curiosity and cause it to investigate. making kitty talk. But Reid knew And the second of the two canyons there. though. generally attractive. Chuska Mountains. 68 bears. inspected. Instead continuous with the Carrizo range. 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. reasoning applies to finding the tracks of the two animals. 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