Sasquatch Sightings

Account

Dr. Northrup and students were looking for tracks in the Bluff Creek area. Above Laird Meadow, in snow, they found a single clear 12" print, then a number of doubtful, rain-washed prints mixed in with boot prints. Two hikers had circled Onion Lake through deepening snow and gone on up the road. About 300 yards past the Onion Lake sign on the road above, where they were making 24-inch paces in three-foot drifts, a set of 16-inch tracks came on the road, stepping, apparently deliberately, in every second human track. As conditions eased the big tracks reached a stride of 56 inches. Subsequent observation of track decay suggested they had been made only the day before they were found. The big tracks came up from the north-flowing Pecwan Creek branch that drains Onion Lake. Followed through a valley South of Onion Lake, the tracks went from one dead tree to another, and loose bark was stripped up to nine feet. After this they followed the human tracks to the boundary ridge road junction two miles from Blue Creek Mountain, where human and sasquatch tracks turned South. The group also found a double set of 16-inch tracks farther up the road towards Blue Creek Mountain (1000400).