Oct 29

Footprints from a listener

Hi Wes,

Thanks for the excellent website dedicated to all things Sasquatch. I particularly enjoy the stories from Washington as I am from there do a lot of hiking in the Cascades. I guess I am one of the crazy ones who still goes out hiking all the time despite knowing these details.

I stumbled upon some interesting footprints in January of 2014. I haven’t got around to sharing them much,mostly due to people greeting such topics in a pretty immature fashion.

On that day I was hiking along the closed section of Highway 20/ North Cascades Highway to capture some roadside landscape photos. On heavier snow years the road would have more snow, but at the time there was just a thin layer of ice. I had seen some old snowshoe prints a mile or so back heading up the road along with some smaller animal tracks along the side of the road. The ice was pretty solid at this point, so my steps weren’t creating much of an impression at the time. Then out of nowhere on a pretty solid stretch of ice I saw the photographed prints extending across the road. I used some items for scale. My shoe size is fairly large at size 12 and those footprints clearly dwarf them. I have tried to explain them with every conventional explanation, e.g.: upright bear, trickster creating the impressions in the snow. When considering the length,linear nature and accuracy of stride and the size/detail/accuracy of impression it leaves me stumped as to what it could be besides a Sasquatch. I searched briefly along the side of the road to see if there were any indications of a path through the woods, but I couldn’t find much of anything. The prints could have been made a few days before I was there. and the terrain is pretty steep on both sides, making investigating around there kind of challenging.

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