by Lauren Esker
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Squatching for fun and profit
Posted Nov. 9 by Peri Moreland
More like squatching for bugs, hypothermia and ... bear attacks?!!!
Squatching (that's looking for Sasquatch, for the uninitiated) is not for the faint of heart. On a gray November evening, I find myself in the parking lot at an Olympic National Forest trailhead, helping unload camping supplies and infrared cameras while wading through ankle-deep mud. Bigfoot comes out at night, I've been told, so we'll travel in darkness and sleep during the day. I'm already starting to have regrets, as rainwater trickles down the back of my neck and I drop my lens cap in the mud for the second time. This evening can't get worse, I think.
Those words will come back to haunt me later.
My companions and guides for my novice squatching adventure include several regulars in the Seattle Bigfoot scene. I first met Zachary Sorenson and Brixon Koutsopolis in August on a Bigfoot-sighting message board. Sorenson goes by bighairyfeet92 and runs a Youtube channel devoted to-