They abandon the site. It's been polluted by the truth. They have been introduced to the Bush Pilot rule: never give away the location to the eye in the sky.
I got a little tip for the
Bipto crowd. I live in a cabin in the woods full-time, and have about a hundred million acre back yard. I have two small children, and there's bears & moose about so this is how we sleep out in the woods at night to watch the animals doing their thing in the dark, taken yesterday:
That platform is 25 feet in the air, and we have a tent pitched on it. That's where we are staying right now other than the middle of the day. The only problem is keeping the kids from shrieking with laughter when they see animals, or calling back to the owls and other birds. They sing "twinkle twinkle little star" and call out to the moon. When the wind is heavy it really throws us around up there, which is a delight for them.
We never walk the same way in, always changing our route so we don't wear a path to it. We've cleared out the undergrowth, and have a view of about five acres. Five times as much land as the TBRC site. Nobody could throw a rock up at us and get away without being heard or seen. You can actually feel the foot-falls of a big animal tromping along. Your headlamps can shine pretty well at night, not good enough for pictures, but good enough to see animals. It's on a ridge so when the leaves come down you have a commanding view of the entire valley.
We're not wealthy people, quite the opposite. I got about $20 into this thing. The real work was carrying sheets of plywood over half a mile up the ridge and the construction work, which required climbing gear and balls enough to get the first beams secured. You can't spike them to the trees because they sway in the wind, which either splits the beam or breaks the foot-long spikes.
I feel a sense of obligation when I see people lying about being in the woods. Because it's been my nature since I was a little boy so I take misrepresenting it personally. That plot of land is only 210 feet per side, so it is a lie to say the cabins are a couple of hundred yards from each other if we have this property nailed down, and I think we do. That is off by an order of magnitude, calling it 200 yards when it has to be less than 200 feet. The talk about the nearest paved road being 2 hours away is a gigantic lie. So if people are lying about these mathematically verifiable features, then what are we to believe about the mythical animals they are seeing every day for months on end?
They got night vision goggles, trail cams, etc. but what the hoaxers have to do is throw things against the sides of the cabins to get their attention. High tech, but low woodland IQ's.
We have to make our own trails and maintain them because we actually do live on the edge of the wilderness. It's a lot of heavy work. Those guys have trails already put in for them, made by the sweat and backs of others, and roads to drive their passenger cars right up to the cabins, with beds and kitchens and all - and their "expedition" consists of renting a cabin and driving to it. That is not an "expedition". I've done plenty of real ones, and if you are using a car it is not an expedition.
I do feel bad for exposing this site on the one hand because people cherish the visions of themselves as intrepid explorers. But on the other hand lying is something I loathe more than anythng else, and most especially lying about the woods which many of us cherish for its truth.
