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Right. Likewise "ish". If there is another scientifically viable explanation for what I've seen, I want to know what it is. I'm not talking about, nor accepting of, the sort of insulting, scoffing dismissal I get from the likes of dmaker or Squatchy, but something that truly fits. In the end, it's not about consensus, it's not about having anyone else believe me, it's internal. It's not a game. If I did not truly see what I saw, then I need to go have myself locked up. "Period." MIB

I did not cast the prints. Did not have casting materials. I did not notice dermal ridges. Close examination of the enlarged photograph does not either. The rain may be responsible for that. I have no idea if the print was laid down before the rain, during it, or after wards. According to the camp host it was a "cloud burst" Heavy but short duration about 2 AM. Mud the right consistency to pick up dermal ridges is pretty rare. It has to be just the right consistency so as to not flow out like wet paint or stick to the foot. Those two prints were the only prints there. There was nothing leading up to or away from the two prints. It appeared to me that the BF waded out of the lake and was headed towards the campground a half mile away. . If so the first few footsteps in the mud would have been watery and may have caused the hardening mud to flow out like wet paint. That was of some interest to me but there were patches of vegetation that I walked on to avoid the mud to photograph them so assume that who/whatever left the prints did the same thing, trying to avoid stepping in mud. Neither print obviously shows a mid tarsal break. Reasons for that might be lack of much of a stride or flexing because of the slippery mud. The longer the stride the more the midtarsel thrusting would be visible since the foot would flex more. So walking in the dark on slippery mud would likely be done taking smaller more tentative steps to avoid slipping. As I recall Meldrum said female BF do not show as much mid-tarsal break. Most likely because they weigh less. This is way into Meldrums field and out of my own. Next time I see him I will ask him about my picture related to that question. He really chastised me for not casting them. He wanted them for his collection. I felt like one of his grad students when I questioned him about the width and had not though it might have been female. There is more in Olevrec picture than squeezing together of toes. Notice how the unshod human middle toe extends further forward than the big toe as did my picture. Human women really mess up their toes by wearing shoes that are either pointed or too small in the toe box Talk about squeezed together toes. That black line shows deformity of the big toe which his bent towards the rest of the toes with the shoe wearer. My recent visit to a podiatrist revealed something about one of my feet. Looking at the xray he asked me to move my left big toe. I did it and he said he was surprised I could move it at all. Said if it had not been broken in the past, (you could see a separate bone chunk), he did not think I could move it at all due to arthritis setting in. No wonder the thing hurts as often as it does.