BIGFOOT SIGHTINGS - Hiker's Final Photo The disappearance of Thomas Seabolt in late 2012 is a haunting indictment of the "pristine wilderness" myth that national parks like Gates of the Arctic work so hard to maintain. Finding a survival expert—a man who could literally start a fire with friction in -25°F weather—reduced to a pile of torn denim and a abandoned journal is not the hallmark of a "lost hiker." It is the evidence of a systematic, predatory harassment that ended in a likely gruesome c