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I'll be on the look out for you. Anyone who wants to look for me, just look for the guy with gray hair and the Seahawk's colored tie dye shirt. Perhaps those of us who are going could gather somewhere for a chat and beverage.

Your photos are important because they provide a baseline for comparison with the Skookum impression particularly if the hair patterns provide an "exact" match (as you say) and if the same type of creature made both (uncertain) but since you didn't see what actually made the impressions your comments are, then, also important indicators of how you interpret the impressions... Is this one better? The pressure marks on the top of the imprint just left of the word "marks" were the most impressive on site --- In grids B5 and C5, correct? Why do you consider these particular marks to be the most impressive on site? The "butt crack" imprint is just under the 'hair marks' notation and is partially visible --- Not sure I can see it. Which grids contain the "butt crack"? If the pic shows only the top 1/3 of the "butt" imprint then isn't the perceived "butt crack" in the wrong position and, then, not actually a "butt crack" at all? Isn't the entire perceived very large "butt imprint" in the wrong position for a human-like creature skidding down a slope?

I'll post the other photos in a day or so. I don't have the "hand mark" photos; think Jean from France has them. Yes, we have the "running steps." The "butt" imprint is below the "fonts" reading "marks and hair marks." It was very impressive and very large. This photo shows only about 1/3 of the "butt" imprint. The pressure marks on the top of the imprint just left of the word "marks" were most impressive on site. Actually, the size of the "butt imprint" was stunning. The "butt crack" imprint is just under the 'hair marks' notation and is partially visible. Later, Joe Beelart, West Linn, Oregon The most important thing is not our photos. The most important thing is to compare these photos and the ones to follow with the hair patterns in the Skookum Cast. Basics are essential and mostly overlooked in field research.

Bobby, I sincerely respect you and any thoughts you have expressed on this forum. Without belaboring the point of this particular thread, I would like to ask you to consider if the following described events and decide if they may indicate anthropomorphous actions. A little over fifty years ago I bought six acres of land that had been untouched for the previous forty years. It was was such a jungle that a person could not walk through it. I spent over a year clearing enough of it with an ax, brush hook and chainsaw to build our house. After the house was built, we moved onto the land, but only about 1/4 of it was cleared, but I continued to work to clear more. Then a nephew who had enlisted in the Navy, asked that if he helped me, could we fence part of the land so that he could leave a beautiful red mare with us until he got out of service. I agreed, we fenced about three acres, he brought the mare over and left her, and he left for boot camp. The mare was very docile, behaved well around kids and content in her new "digs". When I worked to clear more ground in the fenced area she followed me to my work area every morning and stayed so close that I continually had to slap her and make her leave when I was using the work tools. Even the chainsaw motor running would not cause her to leave. It got to the point that while I was working, she would slip up behind me and suddenly place her nose against my back and lift her head, pushing me forward. Sometimes I would loose my balance. She became so pesky, I had to cut a long switch and keep it handy. I would swat her with it when she got too close, and shout for her to "Get out'a here". She obviously did not like to be ignored or chastised for messing with me. Very soon after I started using that long mulberry switch, I was working in a small creek bed, with the switch leaning against a tree behind me. I heard the clicking of her feet on the rocks in the creek, I turned to see her ****** the long switch in her mouth, and wheeled around and ran with it at top speed. She stopped about 50 yards away, and was throwing her head up and down while nickering loudly. When I started toward her she galloped off, with the switch in her mouth. I had to laugh, and went back to work. (I found the switch later; it was chewed and broken.) While using the chain saw two days in a row, she slipped in and picked up my ax by the handle and walked off with it. Both times she dropped it in the cleared area about 20 yards away. Both days, she stood over the ax, shaking her head and nickering to get my attention. I had begun to become amused at her antics until one cold morning she really made me angry. I had just bought a new hunting coat with a game pouch and elastic shotgun shell holders. I worked in the coat in the cold morning hours, but took it off about mid day and hung it over one of the barbed wire fence's "T" posts. While I was throwing cut brush on the burn pile, she slipped in behind me, grabbed the coat's collar and pulled the coat off the "T", ripping the seam apart between the collar and one sleeve by that action. I threw a cursing fit, and chased her, throwing anything I could find at her until she dropped the coat,. About and hour later I saw her walking so slowly toward me with her head down so low that thought she was hurt or sick. I watched her as she plodded to within a few feet of me. I walked to her to check her feet and legs, raising each of the ground for inspection. After I did, and saw no injury, she raised her head and looked directly at my face, then nodded her head a few times. That was what she always did when she wanted anyone to pet her or rub her head. To me, it seemed she was - in a horse's way, apologizing. I reacted to her tearing my coat in such a angry fashion, she realized she had gone over the line. I patted her and rubbed her neck, and she became her typical perky self. Although she would follow and hang around me while I was working, she quit her "horse playing" after the "coat" incident.