Big Foot (Green River, Cody: jobs, college, company)

[ElkHunter]

Ok, let's talk about some controfrointial info.

I'm not sure how to open up this thread. Beat me up, kick my butt, I don't care. I've seen something that I can't discuss out right. I know what I saw, I almost hit it. I'm not sure what it was.

[MHT]

Originally Posted by jgussler

Ok, let's talk about some controfrointial info.

I'm not sure how to open up this thread. Beat me up, kick my butt, I don't care. I've seen something that I can't discuss out right. I know what I saw, I almost hit it. I'm not sure what it was.

What's "controfrointial" mean?

[YOU-CANT-EAT-SCENERY]

Originally Posted by MHT

What's "controfrointial" mean?

That's what I wuz wunderin'

[ElkHunter]

I was just thinking that a lot of people would call me a crack pot. Can't blame them, a while ago I would call them the same thing.

[shadowwalker]

O.K. I'll bite. I saw in the early 1981 Elk season in the Upper Green River area. I was watching a big basin one afternoon. I was about 1 1/2 miles away. I saw in the fadeing light of day. A large black animal with a log. It picked up the log and smashed it against a rock. I mean,standing upright on two legs, it literally picked up the log and hit the rock. That night it snowed about 10 inches, but that didn't deter me from making the trek to the site. Besides I could hunt going and comeing. I got there in the afternoon and couldn't really see tracks, except big indents in the snow. I set my boot by them. The snow indent was about 3 inches wider and 4 inches longer than my size 10 1/2 boots. I was impressed to say the least at what I saw for the tree. It was a rotting log almost 2 feet across and close to 30 feet long before it was smashed on the rock. The rock was a boulder about 5 feet across and close to 7 feet sticking out of the ground.I figure looking for termites or dusty miller larve.
I have hunted the rocky mountains for over 40 years. I have never seen anything like this.
Another time,in 1986 a fishing buddy told me about finding a yearling Elk in a tree. Pretty funny I thought. We went back to the tree, here is what I saw. In a small basin norhtwest of Cody Wyoming. I saw a 250 pound elk, close to 30 feet up in the "Y" of a Lodgepole pine tree. It was laid across the big pine limb, with it's neck bent around a limb with another limb crossed over it from below to hold it. My buddy suddenly started freaking out at the meat left on the elk. He said there was more meat gone off the hind quarter and front quarters. Than the day before. I looked around the forest floor and in the pine needle floor of it. Was big indentions in the ground. No discearnable tracks though. I then realised something that made me think no mountain lion did this. After the size of the huge tracks in the pine needles, I then saw that whatever did this broke branches off the tree on one side to climb up it. They were twisted off at the base by the trunk. Here there was a smell like no bear stink I ever encounterded. He now won't talk about it and has never been back into the mountains he hunted all his life.
I have another friend in Utah that says he has run into a Hairy Man, a couple of times in the Unitah mountains north of Vernal, Utah. He won't say much about it, though. He said they get pestered enough. And he aint going to make anymore trouble for them. He has to hunt there and they let him. He is a Ute indian on the Rez down there. I guess add me to the list of Whacko's, But I know what I have seen there.

[ElkHunter]

You've officially been added to the list. You're in good company. I've talked with several people that have had sightings and none of them were crackpots. They were good honest, god fearing people that had kids in school and good jobs.

But I know what I saw. It just wasn't right.

Tell you the truth, it's stopped me from hunting. This year I had elk tag, antelope, deer, never went. Not sure why. But I didn't go. I've thought about it and wondered if I was scared or if I respected his area. Crap, who's scared when they are carrying a 30-06, and two pistols? But I just didn't want to go. Not to that area anyhow.

[YOU-CANT-EAT-SCENERY]

I saw this really hairy creature the other day, and it stunk too....turned out to be my ex wife....

Dang, shadow, I was riveted to the screen reading your story!!!

[mark6052]

just wondering why do you go elk hunting with a rifle and two pistols? looking for a gun fight? oh thats right bfoot carrys too. mountain gansta.

[ElkHunter]

When hunting, I always pack a pistol so that if I wound something, I don't have to stand 4 feet away with a 30-06 to put it out of it's misory. I carry a bigger pistor because I have, in the past, taken deer and antelope with it rather then use my rifle. It's a great challenge.

[janb]

Bigfoot is serious stuff in my parts, the county has a $10,000 fine + 5yrs for taking him out!! I have a tee shirt with this ordinance printed on it, valuable stuff... it pre-dates our Volcano now That's old !!! I also have a video of him wrestling one of my kids. We did that for a jr. college 'media class' (it's bloody too!). I have a set of models we used for foot prints too, really PO'd me when my kid used some 'clear cedar' for that... darn kids these days...

from ""http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/ordinance.htm""

"Sasquatch Hunters Get Warning"
July 23, 1971
Skamania County Ordinance is Serious Despite Date


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