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Subject: Re: OT: 2 men were found dead from exposure after looking for
 Sasquatch
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 14:01:18 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 07 Apr 2025 01:14:53 -0400, Judith Latham wrote:

> Two men from Oregon who went missing after going on a search for
> Sasquatch have been found dead, Washington state officials announced
> Saturday.
> 
> The men, both from Portland, were reported missing by a family member on
> Christmas Day and were set to return from searching for the legendary
> creature in eastern Skamania County on Christmas Eve,
> according to the county sheriff's office.
> 
> A search was launched and a vehicle associated with the two men was
> found off a road near Willard, Wash.
> 
> After a three-day search involving more than 60 people, the bodies of
> both men, 37 and 59 years old, were found in Gifford Pinchot National
> Forest, located in the southwestern part of Washington state, in a
> heavily wooded area, according to the Skamania County Sheriff's Office.
> 
> Their cause of death appears to be because of "exposure, based on
> weather conditions and ill-preparedness," the sheriff's office said.
> 
> The area had faced rounds of snow and rain with temperatures in the 30s
> across the Cascades in the days leading up to the men being reported
> missing. The search for the men also took place amid "difficult terrain
> and harsh weather conditions" as crews faced conditions such as
> "freezing temperatures, snow, high water levels,"
> law enforcement said.
> 
> Sasquatch, commonly known as "Bigfoot," is a large, hairy figure that
> resembles a human and is thought to live in northwestern parts of the
> U.S. and Canada. The existence of Bigfoot has been debated for decades
> and many have reported sightings of the creature. More than 700 reports
> of Bigfoot sightings in Washington state have been submitted to the
> Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the group says.
> 
> In Skamania County, harming Bigfoot is punishable by a $1,000 fine and
> can include jail time, according to the county's chamber of commerce — 
a
> law meant to protect the mysterious creature and to prevent hunters with
> large beards from accidentally getting shot.
> 
> https://www.npr.org/2024/12/29/nx-s1-5242491/portland-men-dead-
sasquatch-bigfoot
> 
> 
> Judith


From perusing Google News it looks like the British tabloids skipped
running this story, though the BBC took it.