Dr. Jeff Meldrum analyzes sierra Bigfoot tracks over telephone [Video]
Dr. Jeff Meldrum most likely analyzed these tracks before the phone call, but it's interesting to listen to his thoughts about the Bigfoot tracks Jaime Avalos discovered in the Sierras.
Jaime Avalos is considered the top Sasquatch tracker in the country and he's been on at least one episode of MonsterQuest. According to Nite Callers Radio, in June of 2006, Jaime had a sighting of a Bigfoot and he was unable to turn away from the phenomenon and began an approach to the research like no other. Using his military training and his own visual projection techniques, Jaime began an unprecedented commitment to tracking these beings through the Sierras. In a series of incredible videos, Jaime documents his finds as he discovers them. Working with Jeff Meldrum, his track casts have confirmed that these beings do travel distances as far as 400 miles where Jaime has found tracks as high as 11,000 feet. As Jaime points out, what human would make this trek through very rough country barefoot?
Uploaded by 4jaimeavalos on Dec 13, 2011
Here is an analysis from Dr. Meldrum on some trackways I had come upon using the same formula I had created. This is a new area but came here based on increased precipitation which in turn changes the terrain thus ecology in the sierras. This is one such area.
The footprint on the right side doesn't look to have a high arch like the left foot, and the heel is pointed on the right rather than on the left. When you look at the strides though, it seems improbable that such a large creature would walk with footprints so close to midline of the body. For that weight and size, the strides should be more lateral and less medial. I just don't know how something that tall and heavy could walk with footprints being so close to being in front of each other as they stride.
ReplyDeleteBUT they do just that, yes?
ReplyDeleteThose are a lot of prints!
ReplyDeleteTrue Autumn but if you look at the feet they're splayed out laterally which aids in stability.
ReplyDelete@ Autumnforest
ReplyDeleteThis one is not a large one, the foot is 12 " long
200- 250 lbs (guessing )
in ratio, they look to be correct.
My feet are 12" long, and the Dr. Scholl's kiosk at the Rite Aid said I have flat feet: neither of these things make me Bigfoot.
ReplyDeleteThese look like human footprints to me. . . I have taken my shoes off in the middle of long hikes. I would like to see/hear more about these and other examples.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking if we use Patty as an example of gait, that creature had wide hips and no doubt a wide stanced gait. All dudes have their toes turned out when they walk--they have narrow hips and a little something between their thighs. Women, however, tend to walk toes straight ahead, steps almost in front of each other. I think you can tell a lot about the size and sex of a creature by its gait. If this does not push off it's toes like we do and has a midtarsal break, it can have both feet on the ground during stepping and therefore you would not see the footprints so midline or it would topple over.
ReplyDeleteJaime Avolos the No.1 tracker in the country...LOL That's funny considering his tracks all have arches are 11" or less and he has never seen an adult track yet. Jaime Avolos maybe a nice guy who likes Japanese swords..he carries 6 with him in the field. But he had Meldrum and John on Monsterquest take a look at Jaime's entire track collection and John thought they were all Humans as in us" and Meldrum thought there was a chance a few could be Juvenile Sas. There sure isn't any conscensus that he is following bigfoot across the Sierras. I would say Scott Carpenter is a much more successful Bigfoot tracker, check him out.
ReplyDeleteI bet when you have taken your shoes off while hiking you didn't walk through briar bushes and leave hundreds of foot prints for miles.. you probably just walked around where you stopped to rest.Each foot print would look different because if you notice your own while walking bare foot most are different one way or another..
ReplyDeleteAgain, more meaningless footprints. We've been seeing footprints for decades. They convince no one except those who already believe in bigfoot's existence. Also, something like this is easily faked.
ReplyDeleteWHO CARES!!!!! I'm tired of the same repeat, useless evidences of bigfoot's existence. Get a specimen or part of a specimen. Live or dead.
Am I the only one here imagining this guy spending years tracking a relic band of hippies?
ReplyDeleteThe article says, "...what human would make this trek through very rough country barefoot?" Uh, someone (like many many others over the years) who is faking big evidence.
ReplyDeleteHi Autumn,
ReplyDeletewith respect,do you have a link or resource to back up your last post? I'm not being argumentative, I'd never heard it explained quite like that before. I understand there are gender gait differences due to the pelvic areas ,just had never heard of what you mentioned.
I'm kinda worried because I've never walked the way you describe for women and trust me I am a woman.LOL
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ReplyDeleteJaime Avolos the No.1 tracker in the country...LOL That's funny considering his tracks all have arches are 11" or less and he has never seen an adult track yet. Jaime Avolos maybe a nice guy who likes Japanese swords..he carries 6 with him in the field. But he had Meldrum and John on Monsterquest take a look at Jaime's entire track collection and John thought they were all Humans as in us" and Meldrum thought there was a chance a few could be Juvenile Sas. There sure isn't any conscensus that he is following bigfoot across the Sierras. I would say Scott Carpenter is a much more successful Bigfoot tracker, check him out.]
WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO TURN INTO A BASH THE
RESEARCHER HERE????
Some of these sightings, notice I said SOME, I believe are what I call feral humans.
I understand discussing the origin of the tracks,the characteristics etc but I don't care if he is a Samurai Warrior, so what if he carries swords? You,yourself said he was a nice guy-why bash someone who is trying? I believe he is documenting what he finds and Meldrum was evaluating the findings.Sheesh.
If you think Carpenter is more successful send a message to Shawn and ask him to feature him or even better go out and find some tracks yourself, put those pictures up here and face this community, if you dare!
It's easy to sit behind Anonymous and identify what's wrong with others.
Your Right Blondie I will try to keep it to the evidence, but it was Jaime himself that told me long ago that he was the only tracker in the country doing it the right way and that I should just follow him, I guess that turned me against him. But I will try. Merry Christmas Everyone !
ReplyDeleteGood morning all- a few observations.
ReplyDeleteThe 400 mile range is nothing to dwell on- most animals will travel such distances. I would actually think Bigfoot often travel over much farther distances because of food. The creatures are big and it is all but certain wild fruits, berries, lichen and other edibles in the wild form a huge part of their diet and they consume alot of them. Deer and other small game are common to the same areas and droughts, too much rain, forrest fires, and human presence being common during certain parts of the year and new housing developments ect- will change from year to year- Bigfoot likely will stay in an area until certain food supplies are exhausted or until it is well traversed during hunting and hiking seasons and then move to another area and and another area after that if factors make the second area short on food.
Many doubt Bigfoot could survive in the very high elevations but I disagree. Snow is a very good insulator and we see this with igloos and native people who lived in snow shelters for years. They may spend much more time in higher snowy elevations because a snow shelter easily blends in and if insulated with brush and other materials could serve as the ideal home for them.
analysis via phone, must be a special relationship
ReplyDeleteI don't know BF's live in snowy areas in winter. Some say that the older ones "hole up" for the winter and just sleep a lot. They use young males as "sentinels" to watch over the holed up ones and warn them of any danger. BF's are definitely migratory.
ReplyDeleteJaime Avalos has never found anything but human footprints or possibly human footprints (the small ones). It's ridiculous.
I normally don't comment or even read stuff like this but my bull shit meter just went off hella hard core. "400 mile range is nothing to dwell on. Most animals will travel such distances " bigfoot aside..... wtf? Really? I'm not sure if its most or animals you don't know the meaning of. Or perhaps 400 or miles. That's it
ReplyDeleteAnimals may travel 400 but Jaime...hmmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteForget the supposed bigfoot tracks! There's a huge T-rex footprint right there in the foreground and we KNOW T-rex existed at one point, unlike bigfoot.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.atheistinfundyland.com/extraneous/photos/dinosaur_track.jpg
What's to keep him from still existing besides the huge-ass Chicxulub asteroid strike and 65 million years of no real evidence from the K-T boundary onward?
Kinda like the no real evidence we have for bigfoot. Lots of assertions of evidence, but no real evidence. Lots of promises of evidence on the horizon, but nothing materializing in real time. Lots of hot air about its existence, but nothing substantial.
Justin,
ReplyDeleteSimply explain how cougars returned to areas in the east and black bears to Florida. Wolves tagged in Canada, Bears tagged in Canada showing up in places much farther away. You may be an accomplished hunter but your no biologist and have limited if any education. Killing an animal and tracking an animal gives you no insight into how the animal lives. You have no idea where any of the animals you have killed come from and as one of the few people who hunt coyotes you should no they travel more than any animal.
This is your problem- its not that your a hunter- you just refuse to pick up a book instead of a gun. This is clear from your responses- you made more trouble for yourself by speaking because its the lack of knowledge clearly displayed in what you say that have caused people to doubt you.
and Justin please please drop the cuss words.
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