Leading a Bigfoot Hunting Team

Leading a Bigfoot Hunting Team takes a lot of hard work and dedication. You will be required to organize expeditions, find the right people for expeditions, keep the team together, and effectively report your team’s findings.

If you want to lead your own Bigfoot Hunting Team, here are a few areas that you will have to focus on:

• Initiative and Enthusiasm: You will be constantly on the move. The leader of a Bigfoot Hunting Team communicates with other groups, organizes expeditions, gathers information, and recruits new team members.

• Organization Skills: You will need to schedule expeditions, plan accordingly and rally your team to arrive at the site ready to hunt for Bigfoot.

• Endurance/Strength: Sometimes your quest for Bigfoot will take you to some very difficult terrain. By staying in shape, you will be able to lead your team effectively through any expedition.

• Character: People will follow you if you are trustworthy, dependable, responsible and competent.

• Courage: No one wants to follow the guy who is afraid of the dark.

• People Skills: To be a leader, you will need to be able to talk to others and bring them into the hunt. There will also be times when your team members will need some encouragement when things get difficult and need encouragement.

• Intelligence: Knowing where Bigfoot might be and searching there first will help you to find him sooner than searching indiscriminately. Having the right information is a necessity.

• Credibility: Your research must be well documented, backed by compelling evidence, and credible witnesses to be believed outside of the Bigfoot community.

Building a Bigfoot Hunting Team

When building a Bigfoot Hunting Team a lot of different skills will be needed. The team leader will have to seek out and recruit people that can fill these roles. Keep in mind that a person may fill more than one of the roles listed below and this list is by no means all-inclusive. The roles include:

• The Team Leader: The team leader is the glue that holds the team together. He communicates with all the team members and gets things moving.

• The Expedition Planner: Once the team, knows where it wants to search, the team planner looks over maps, finds a suitable location for base camp and possible search areas in the area.

• The Expedition Organizer: The organizer arranges any logistical needs for the team to include travel arrangements, transportation, etc. The planner and organizer work closely together during he planning of the expedition to make sure that everything has been accounted for.

• The Navigator/Guide: The navigator is an expert at reading maps and is familiar with the area that will be searched. He makes sure the team gets to where they want to go and gets back safely without getting lost.

• The Team Tracker: The Team Tracker is familiar with tracking animals or people and will be able to follow any tracks that may be found on the hunt. Good trackers include search and rescue personnel, military personnel or experienced hunters.

• The Writer: The team writer will record the events of the expedition, complete reports of the team’s findings and make notes of the team’s interaction with Bigfoot along the way. Good people for this role include reporters and technical writers.

• The Sketch Artist: A good sketch artist will be able to quickly make note and draw what the team sees if they encounter Bigfoot. This will be important when completing reports. Good people for this role are sketch artists, graphic designers, etc.

• The Webmaster: The team webmaster will maintain the team’s website, post photographic, written, or forensic evidence of Bigfoot’s existence. At a minimum, look for someone who has some fair IT experience.

• A Researcher/Investigator: A good researcher or investigator will allow you to interview witnesses thoroughly, extract necessary information, put information together, and make sound analytic judgments. Good people for this role are police officers, investigators, reporters, writers, and scientists.

• The Bigfoot Specialist: This person is the Bigfoot expert. He has read everything there is to read about Bigfoot and is familiar with what his behaviors, activities, travel patterns, favorite foods, etc might be.

• The Forensics Analyst: This person will be able to carefully gather evidence. He will take footprint castings, collect hair samples, collect scat samples, and record audio. This person will need to make arrangements to have the evidence analyzed and properly validated.