So I went there...the road to get there is unbelievable...the windiest sucker you ever saw and longgggggg you have to reallt want to go there to drive this road...and I guess the road had been unpaved...but it's paved now...I don't know when that was done....but for a long 15 or so miles there is nothing but windy road and hairpin turns...and we missed the dirt parking lot the first time and I turned around and found it on the way back...we didn't notice a sign on the way there...easy to miss I guess....anyway...the loop trail is about an hour walking...we saw no sasquatch or sign of sasquatch...of course we got there later than I wanted and there were other people and screaming kids.. ....but the forest was awesome...so here are some pics

Woops here is the story:

Mendocino County, California
September, 2001 - Hendy Woods State Park, Montgomery Woods


My girlfriend and I were camping along Hiway 128 in Mendocino County, Ca. We stayed at an area called Hendy Woods. Hiway 128 goes N/NW from Cloverdale on US 101 to the coast near the Albion/ Ft. Bragg area, and Hendy Woods is in the redwood belt between Booneville and the coast. There are several stands of old-growth redwoods in the area. We decided to go to Montgomery Woods one morning, being told it was not a camping area, and wouldn't have the motor homes, and kid-filled campsites, and the trees preserved there were spectacular.

We arrived at Montgomery woods about 8 am, and were going to hike the self guided trail. The parking area is small, and it looked like we were the first, if not the only ones there.

It was a cool, foggy September day. About a 1/2 hour into the hike, my girlfriend thought she heard someone on the trail behind us. We stopped and waited, but there was no noise. We continued to the base of a huge redwood, and sat to rest.

The redwoods are an eerily quiet place, with the thick, soft redwood bark and ankle-deep tree leaves and needles absorbing lots of ambient sound. Suddenly, we heard something moving through the undergrowth 20 or 30 yards away from the canopy of trees. It was big, heavy, and moving at a good pace. I whistled, and the movement stopped. This was as scared as I've ever been. It was silent for a minute or so, then the movement continued. Whatever it was, it was so close, and I was frustrated that I could only see brush moving, but not the creature. It stopped moving about 100 feet or so away, then let out a scream that would scare the dead. We froze, thinkiong this was it. From behind us, several hundred yards to the west, came a similar scream, as if responding to the first. We looked back, but couldn't tell where exactly it came from. Then the first creature screamed again, louder and longer than the first time.

I can't tell you how loud it was...the lung capacity was enormous. I can remember thinking that we might be surrounded, and that we might die there. Suddenly, the first creature started to move, not away, but parallel to the trail.

There was a bit of a clearing, and we saw the left side of a 7 foot tall, hair-covered biped. I've met Shaquille O'Neal at the LA airport, and this thing was so much bulkier. Huge through the chest and shoulders.

I only saw the left arm, and the wrist was the diameter of my biceps. It looked at us for 2 or 3 seconds, then turned to it's right, and hustled down the ravine. We looked through the trees to follow it's progress, but we had waited a minute or two, and it was gone. M.P.

Received: Friday, October 19, 2001 1:52 PM

pretty woods!

Lots of places to hide!

somehow my little posts got posted more than once...how do I delete the repeats?

Anyway...more pics

Well there was this Hippy chic that received some National media attention in 1997, although I didn't learn of her until Aug 2006; she climbed into one of these Redwood Trees.

That's right her name is Butterfly...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Butterfly_Hill

Umm, my question is, maybe she knows something about bigfoot and bigfoot calls ??? Afterall, she lived out there for over a year - longer than anyone here on BF or longer than any BFRO expedition... 4 day expedition... : ) funny

Who knows... But thanks for your efforts.

BTW, I don't think many people that call themselves an Environmentalist, like Butterfly or an average person from the NW or Calif, are true environmentalist...

I understand they don't use wag bags, no rather they poop feces in the Parks and on places like Mount Rainier... (Did someone haul Butterflys poop poop out of the woods for her, her trash as well... ? If so, That's really nice.... )

Also, I hear that they don't pay extra tax on their "Outdoor products" as the Fishermen and Hunters do, the true environmentalist.

Now this is an interesting story. I hope some of our Calif. people will add more about the park. I had never heard of the butterfly girl. But a lot goes on that I never hear of. Monkey made a couple of good points. As a person who has paid over $200.00 this year to the state of WA for the right to hunt and fish I can appreciate what he/she says. Most of these so called environmentalist do not realize, if it wasn't for the sale of hunting and fishing licenses our wildlife would be in a sad state.

Oh, sorry - didn't mean to high jack the thread... but I wanted it to get some traffic...

Correct, about Butterfly, maybe she knows something or has her opinions. Bigfoot, if he/she exists (today I'm 90% convinced - not 100%) would definitely find Butterflies behavior to be the strangest yet. (And another thing - I don't know if Butterfly's Redwood tree named "Luna" is remotely close to the Park mentioned in the thread.)

So back to the main point of the thread - Anyone know anything about this Park? Do you think it's a hot spot?

I live right by Montgomery Woods. It's a beautiful area, but for whatever reason, Mendocino County has never had the number of bigfoot sightings as Humboldt County, which is not far north and pretty much identical as far as the natural environs (hotter, though). It's tempting to see the Washington Cascades as the real "home" of sasquatch, with fewer and fewer populations as you go south.

There is a documentary about Butterfly that will awnser all your questions,except if she has seen or heard Bigfoot.

Hey gnarsqatch....how long ago did they pave that road in there? It is a very windy road...we drove real slow on it but it takes a while to get to the reserve....Montgomery woods is not a park it is a reserve...so there is a dirt lot and one pit toilet (which was a stinking mess!) so like I said...people really have to want to go there to get there. I imagine back in 2001 when that story was written that road may have been unpaved then?? Pretty isolated there. It is also by someplace called the Shambalan Ranch??

That road was paved fairly recently but I don't have a date for it. It could very well have been unpaved in 2001. Not sure about that ranch, will ask about it. It's very easy to picture squatch in those woods, except for the fact that they are loaded with tourists and hikers. But I guess there's always the "curious young male" of bigfoot lore ...

Excuse me! But is anyone else confused bythese comments?

First he says:


Then he says:



Then this:


So what was it he actually saw?

The left side of a 7ft tall hair covered bibed which was huge through chest and shoulders?

Or, only a left arm and wrist which was the diameter of his bicep?

And how did he know it looked at him for 2 or 3 seconds? There is no mention seeing a head, let alone a face..go figure!

A synthesis of what he said [with obvious annotation]:

"We saw the [entire]left side of a 7-foot, hair covered biped, that was huge [front to back] through the chest and shoulders [compared to Shaqille O'Neal]. I could only see it's left arm [since that was the side facing us], and the wrist was the diameter of my bicep. [It turned and] looked at us for 2 or three seconds then turned to it's right and hustled down the ravine.

"[We went to where it had been located when we saw it in the clearing], and we looked through the trees to follow it's progress, but[because] we had waited a minute or two [before doing so], it was gone"

Simple, everyday, colloquial conversational English that we all use day to day. Not hard to understand at all. Most people do NOT write in "reporteese" (full formal "proper" hyper-specific parsing) like doctors, lawyers and military officers do...