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SWWASASQUATCHPROJECT:Those coordinates on my USGS map are on FR4205 and that is 11 miles from Yacolt Mountain which is SW of the city of Yacolt. Yacolt Mountain being so far away I do not know why it was even mentioned in the narrative. FR4205 branches off from FR42 East of the Sunset Falls campground. I have been on 4205 myself. I had paranormal experience in the area related to my audio recorder. Certainly the area is deep in BF territory so an encounter there is quite likely but I cannot understand why Yacolt Mountain even mentioned. Yacolt Mountain is also fairly heavily developed with a number of homes and some kind of small quarry operation on top. The only things that come to mind to explain the incorrect name are either a misunderstanding of the actual name, or that it is some kind of family or private name for the mountain. An example that I'm familiar with is in Helena, Montana where I grew up and still live near. One of three gulches south of town is named Dry Gulch, likely because the bed of the stream obviously responsible for cutting the gulch no longer has any water flow other than when there is a heavy rain. Davis Street runs through town for a bit over a mile then up Dry Gulch for about 5 more miles, and many people refer to Dry Gulch as Davis Gulch. Google Earth even shows the road changing to Davis Gulch Road. This leads to some confusion, especially with new residents. I've encountered other examples where people use the wrong name for a creek or other geographic feature because that's the way they learned it; often trying to correct the error is an exercise in frustration, especially when a common reference like Google Earth cannot always be relied on.

These are the GPS coordinates that Wes provided for their encounter: lat 45.82798 lon -122.22641. This is just above the East Fork of the Lewis River on the road initially identified on Google Earth as NE Sunset Falls Rd. and which turns into Natl Forest Develop Road 42 Rd (that is exactly as it is shown on GE). There is no mountain name shown for the GPS coordinates on GE, but a mountain located roughly two miles WSW of Yacolt is identified as Yacolt Mountain. I don't have USGS maps of the area and can't speak to the accuracy of the labeling, but Google Earth certainly contains plenty of location errors, i.e,, the town of Greenwater, WA as shown on GE is roughly 1.9 miles SE of the actual town, and in the middle of a forested flat land about .5 miles from Hwy. 410 that the actual town straddles. From what I have been able to make of it, most of the noise on this is coming from a group related to Bigfoot Encounters. Wes has been accused of making upwards of $30 k monthly (which would require 4,285 paid subscribers) and driving a new $70 k Hummer (he actually drives a ten year old H3). He got a call at about 3:00 a.m. one night last week requesting a copy of the death certificate for his grandfather (Wes and Woody said their grandfather had passed away the week before their encounter and they were driving around up in the mountains late at night talking about that) from an individual who claimed to already have the death certificate for his father. I've never met Wes or Woody, the folks that have only have good things to say about them.