I grew up in the woods and my 100-lb self would ride trees from time to time. I was more interested in the big trees, however, and simply climbing as high as I could.
So tree-riding is something that humans can do. Orangutans do something similar, using their body weight to bend one tree toward the next, thereby moving through the canopy to minimize time on the ground.
Chris has proposed a plausible form of locomotion that could at least occasionally be used by a hypothetical bigfoot.
Here's where he goes off the rails with his imaginary abilities of the imaginary creature, however:
*If unequivocally tracking a bigfoot, one assumes that the prints he claims to have been following were large. Maybe a little bigfoot could ride one tree to the next in the forests of Kentucky, but very quickly the weight of the footie becomes limiting to this form of locomotion, simply because the trees big enough to support the weight cannot bend sufficiently to allow it without snapping. Silverback gorillas spend very little time in trees compared to the females and youngsters, and they're far better configured for arboreal locomotion than are those hypothetical bigfoots. They're also about half the size.
*The real problem though is that Chris again contradicts himself with his own imagination. He claims at once that the bigfoots aren't spending enough time around the trees to leave any hairs behind but then claims that the bigfoots are climbing those very trees.
*So we're now up to 5 trackways, one at least 1.5 miles long, some prints impressed 2" deep (but no one is allowed to see them), and Flying Wallenda bigfoots taking to the canopy when they think that the great white hunter might be hot on their trail. Have I got that right, Chris?
