Sasquatch Sightings

Account

Bud Ryerson phoned John Green in early morning to say he had found tracks made the night before. Green flew to California with Rene Dahinden, Dale Moffit and tracking dog. Met in Orleans by S.C. Buttram. Saw tracks that evening, hair stood up on dog's back, but no one wanted to track in the dark. Next morning dog could not follow. Typical "15-inch" and 13-inch" tracks going generally North in very deep dust on unfinished road Ryerson was building along ridge at Blue Creek Mountain. Individuals had come on the road and left it again at different places, so may not have been travelling in company, but all tracks were made in a short period (est. one hour) when the surface of the dust was damp from a brief shower in the early evening. The maker of the larger track had scattered some small machine parts that were in a box out onto the road. Fingermarks in dust on parts showed no whorls. Had been well over 1000 tracks originally, but all those in wheel paths on road wiped out. About 600 remained. Bud Ryerson said there had been two different smaller tracks, but only one was evident in the tracks that remained. Tracks photographed and some poorer ones cast, but best saved for arrival of Don Abbott from B.C. Museum. Plans to cast them next day aborted, as roadbuilders graded road. Same tracks as seen farther south a week earlier, and in Bluff Creek fallers' camp, apparently made same night, but not seen by Green etc. until several days old.