Joe Beelart On The Oregon Bigfoot Highway

Joe Beelart carefully places a red apple on a mossy stump. “We’re going to set out our first offering here.” He performs the same ritual every time he comes out into Mount Hood national forest.

“We used to call it baiting, but now we call it offering. It changed because we started to think of them as more human. An offering seems to make them more responsive to you.”

He and his fellow enthusiasts cite the Hewkin-Sullivan rule, after the adventurers who coined it: on average, it takes a an observer 200 hours on the ground to encounter any new evidence of Bigfoot.

In the past, he put out an apple a month, but the time and expense of camping is a greater burden in retirement. Still, he’s been up eight times in the last year. He’s always mindful that fewer hours mean fewer rewards.

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