QUOTE(LAL @ Feb 15 2007, 11:57 AM) 
E.G.:
"The information on page 137 of "Meet the Sasquatch" is part of a paper by Jeff Meldrum, who was misled by the fact that the 13" cast with the dermals that he examined was incorrectly labeled as being from Blue Creek Mountain.
Carefully read, the paragraph starting at the bottom of page 45 of the
original version of "On the Track of the Sasquatch" does state clearly that the print on which I saw tiny lines was a 15" one, but since the reference to the lines is on the following page that is easily overlooked.
I have no idea how the wrong labeling came about, and was not aware that the dermal cast was actually from Onion Mountain until Jeff sent me a photo of it not long ago. I no longer have the original, and don't remember why that is, but I do have an old picture that shows clear identifying marks. It was not, in other ways, a good cast, and until the dermals were noted was not considered important.
John Green
Harrison Hot Springs, B.C., Canada"
And:
"It is on a 13" track from Onion Mountain that Krantz, Meldrum and Chilcutt have identified dermals. The track on which I noted a straight pattern that I likened to wood grain was a 15" track on Blue Creek Mountain road and that is indeed an observation worth thinking about, but I was referring only to the fact that there appeared to be tiny lines running lengthwise along the foot. Carved wooden feet would be no more likely to show an impression of fine wood grain than any other object made of such wood. As a rule wood grain can be seen but not felt. That same track, by the way, caused the tracking dog to react as if it had been subjected to a sudden shock--limbs abruptly stiffened and hair on the back standing upright--a reaction it showed no sign of the following morning . A more substantial reason to consider fakery would be that the Blue Creek Mountain tracks showed up just a few days after I had tried using a tracking dog on the Onion Mountain tracks--but Bud Ryerson was the contractor on that road job and Ray Wallace was long gone from California.
John Green
Harrison Hot Springs, B.C., Canada"
(reposted with permission)
"The information on page 137 of "Meet the Sasquatch" is part of a paper by Jeff Meldrum, who was misled by the fact that the 13" cast with the dermals that he examined was incorrectly labeled as being from Blue Creek Mountain.
Carefully read, the paragraph starting at the bottom of page 45 of the
original version of "On the Track of the Sasquatch" does state clearly that the print on which I saw tiny lines was a 15" one, but since the reference to the lines is on the following page that is easily overlooked.
I have no idea how the wrong labeling came about, and was not aware that the dermal cast was actually from Onion Mountain until Jeff sent me a photo of it not long ago. I no longer have the original, and don't remember why that is, but I do have an old picture that shows clear identifying marks. It was not, in other ways, a good cast, and until the dermals were noted was not considered important.
John Green
Harrison Hot Springs, B.C., Canada"
And:
"It is on a 13" track from Onion Mountain that Krantz, Meldrum and Chilcutt have identified dermals. The track on which I noted a straight pattern that I likened to wood grain was a 15" track on Blue Creek Mountain road and that is indeed an observation worth thinking about, but I was referring only to the fact that there appeared to be tiny lines running lengthwise along the foot. Carved wooden feet would be no more likely to show an impression of fine wood grain than any other object made of such wood. As a rule wood grain can be seen but not felt. That same track, by the way, caused the tracking dog to react as if it had been subjected to a sudden shock--limbs abruptly stiffened and hair on the back standing upright--a reaction it showed no sign of the following morning . A more substantial reason to consider fakery would be that the Blue Creek Mountain tracks showed up just a few days after I had tried using a tracking dog on the Onion Mountain tracks--but Bud Ryerson was the contractor on that road job and Ray Wallace was long gone from California.
John Green
Harrison Hot Springs, B.C., Canada"
(reposted with permission)
Well, by all means let's see the photo of this track with lines in it.
Green also said this:
QUOTE( John Green)
Matt
I have always left dermatoglyphics to the experts in that field, and for a long time I did not know what cast they were talking about, but that cast is definitely a copy of one I made on Onion Mountain, and it was not a very good cast at all--it was an old track on a road and I am by no means an expert cast maker. When my circumstances changed and I had a limited amount of space for casts I did not keep that one. Are you sure it is the curved markings part way up the heel that are supposed to be dermal ridges? They never looked like anything but a too-thick pour to me..
John Green
I have always left dermatoglyphics to the experts in that field, and for a long time I did not know what cast they were talking about, but that cast is definitely a copy of one I made on Onion Mountain, and it was not a very good cast at all--it was an old track on a road and I am by no means an expert cast maker. When my circumstances changed and I had a limited amount of space for casts I did not keep that one. Are you sure it is the curved markings part way up the heel that are supposed to be dermal ridges? They never looked like anything but a too-thick pour to me..
John Green
And...
QUOTE( Matt Crowley)
Rick Noll has told me that you DID NOT see ridges in the Onion Mountain track before you cast it. Is this correct?
QUOTE( John Green)
Yes
http://www.orgoneresearch.com/cast_history.htm
