Oregonbigfoot.com file# 04161

REPORT OVERVIEW

Date: may , 1995
Lemhi county, ID
Nearest town: North Fork
Nearest road: Hiway 93
Conditions: overcast
Time: late afternoon
Location: The location is off of Hiway 93 about 11-12 miles south of the Idaho, Montana border above a campground call twin creeks on the West side of the Hiway. The sighting was about 1.5 miles up a dirt logging road that begins above the campground.

REPORT DETAIL

Description of event: I had gone for a run up the logging road about 4:00 P.M. I ran about 2.5 miles up the road and turned around and headed back down. The road surface was covered with a very fine dust and had not been driven on or had foot traffic of any kind. As I began my run I had emptied a bottle of Iced Tea, glass bottle, and I put some small stones in it to create a noise to warn any possible bears, so they would run or be warned. This may have created curiousity instead, I do not know.

I saw no prints at all on my way up, for I watched my footing very carefully on terain like this. On my return trip down, about half way, I realized that I had just crossed two sets of tracks taversing the road diagonally. I halted and walked back to look, and much to my horror I realized what I was seeing.

The soft fine dirt had "foot prints" about 13-14 inches long and about 5-6 inces wide. The toes were positioned across the top of the foot. I didn't have a way to measure, nor the inclination at the time! The second set of tracks were smaller and paralleled the larger ones. The track headed off the road downhill and dirctly toward the next switchback that I still had to cover. I was terrified and ran as fast as I possibly could.

I teach for a nature program in Park City, Utah and teach tracking as part of the program. These prints simply did not compute! My brain instantly knew I was looking at something very frightening and evident.

I went back to our ranch and contacted the fish and game man, our neighbor and he came up to my place. We decided to head back up in his truck. As we were leaving, a tremendous thunderstorm started and it began to pour. The roads were running water and covered with mud. When I told my other neighbor, who had been a big game hunting guide in these mountains for years, the story, he just looked at me and said Uh Huh, Yup!

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