These two track casts as I recall, were taken in the 80's in SW Washington State (Blue Mtns). They are the same foot, from the same animal. Imagine, that you were falling down a muddy slope onto your face and you put your hands out to stop yourself, with your fingers spread wide apart! That is exactly what these casts show, only with a toesplay. As the animal does a 'heelslip' it stops itself, by splaying its toes wide apart! It really shows the extreme dexterity of the toes on these animals! These casts are from the collection of a good friend and my old field research partner KL, a great outdoorsman! Let me see you do that with a pair of carved wooden feet!
Bipto to add photos...

Viloa.

Just thinking of my toes splayed to stop my fall,HURTS!

That is a good point to ponder.How difficult or unlikely would it be to hoax a track of this kind.
Unless the guy is really bad at wood carving.

Wow !! Toeplay 2 looks like it HURT !
These are both left foot prints, correct?
I'm looking at #2, with the huge halux, wondering ... how much of that is slippage, and how much is toe ?

Oldtimer, could i please get a copy of those emailed ??

Thanks

Those are the kind of tracks like to see.(yeah like I know alot about it or something :wink: ).ones that seem to have to account for anotomical oddities that would be unlikely, as something a hoaxer would think of.It sure adds a lot to the credibility of the find.

Check your mail, Rob!

Now those are some groovy tracks, oldtimer! Did your friend notice any other tracks near these that were shaped normally? Was there a track to follow? The reason I ask is, if the tracks nearby return to normal shape, lacking the splayed toes, then this is a very very very very cool set of casts!

Or..... Another Bossburg mutant Squatch....

Hey OT
Could we get the dimensions of those puppies?
heel width, length, ball width? Thanks! Nice going!!