hi all,

I got some interesting thing to report but none of my own.

I left in the middle of the night to go up to listen all night in the area. I arrived early in the morning like 4:00 am. I picked out a spot along the 3220 forest service road and stoped the truck and listenend untill about 8:00 am and then pulled the truck to the top of a valley over looking a clearcut and layed my head down for a short nap. I wope up at 10:30 am and started the car and started rolling down the hill looking for Sasquatch prints in the enbankment along the road. Then i noticed thaat the car ws listing to one side i had punctured both of the left side tires and the tires where almost coming off the rim, i must have clipped a snag or ran over a spike and then parked and the air slowly leaked out.

So i was pretty much stranded in the middle of nowhere.. i started to pack to prepare for the long walk out but a elk hunter drove by and gave me a ride down to Eagles cliff which was the first place with a phone, So i got droped off and had to wait for an hour for a flat bed tow truck. I had a look around and started talking to a coulpe of different peopl there at the store about the local area and then about Sasquatch.. One of the people that i spoke with was a Elk hunter (archery season in WA ended on sat.) he told me about some experiances that him and his hunting partner were camping around the cedar flats area southeast of Mt. St Helens and had several experainces that he thought where sasquatch related.

Tuesday night he said that him and his buddy hike in to meadow about three miles past a rail tressel and into a small secluded meadow it was late in the day and the sun was going down. when something screamed from the bushes scaring the crap out of both of them, he said they walked back to back for two or three miles with mag -lights shining looking for what had screamed at them. then ran to the truck when they got to the tressel. then later that night he said that his buddy and him where sitting in camp and his budddy was playing his guitar and some thing approched the camp which let out another scream. his buddy droped his guitar and shot 3 or 4 arrows into the darkness and the other guy shined his spot light into the direction of the noise and saw nothing. The rest of the night went uneventful. The next morning him and his friend observed prints around the camp and he discribed to me how it was a type of track that he had never seen before because of the appearent double track feature of the print, he said that the heel was deeply impressed into the ground and then there was a raised ridge of dirt that seperated the front of the foot. I was surprised by the hunters discription. On the BFRO there is a page on the functional morpghology of sasquatch by dr. meldrum that shows many examples of the flexable flat foot. Such as the photo of patty's foot print on that page. This raised ridge of the strata of the footprint is caused by the midtarsal break allowing for greater flexablity of the foot, allowing climbing steeper grades and to accomidate it gait. This trait is present in lower apes (not us) the same joint exists in our feet but it doesn't flex giving the arch.

The hunter described the ridge as the most puzzling feature of the track. I told the hunter about the midtarsal break present in sasquatch footprint he seemed to understand what it was talking about and agreed that the vast size and presence of toes pointed to a Sasquatch.

I felt very convinced that especially with him discribing the footprint as he did just as discribed by Dr. meldrums research on the BFRO. He was a commecial tire salesman and a vivid bow hunter.


Then while we where talking the woman whom worked at the store mentioned that another elk hunter had a experiance with some thing throwing large rocks at his head while sitting in a tree stand a couple days earlier.
And that a family that had been camping down by the lewis river saw that something from the top of the cliff was throwing boulders down into the river below.

I was amased by the local history and frequency of the sightings in the area , the woman showed me a display inside the store with some news clippings and photos of sasquatch and a couple of casts.

Then my tow truck showed up and i went up the mountain to recover my rig and then had it towed to Hood River OR it took four hours., It cost me $450.00 for the tow and $580 for four new tires. It really was friday the 13th.

I droped off the cast i made from my other encounter at Jeffery Lemeley's house (he had to work)and then started home after the nightname was over. It cost me a Grand but i had fun. got me a new place to look that was suggested by a local so i am waiting for more rain.


Thats the latest,

ken Ken Ken Yielding

Wow, Ken, bad luck! Sucks about the tires...

Great interview though! Sure sounds like Mt St Helens is the nexus for some serious activity. Wish I lived about a thousand miles closer so I could keep you company on your next trip!

No kidding Ken.Glad your trip went well.sounds like there may be as Bipto said a hotbed of activity in that area.good luck if you get out there again.

Ken, the main thing is YOU are ok Great great comments on the footprints. Neat. Thanks !!

Sorry about all your troubles there, Ken. But the good news is, you now have 4 new tires and you are all ready for chasing those Sassi's up and down those back roads during those nasty winter conditions. A little inconvenience now could pay off large later on... Keep plugging away at it, and keep us posted! And great report on those tracks soldier!