BFRO #20221: Winter hikers find trail of footprints near Clark Fork

📍 Location

📝 Description

It was during the winter of 2000-2001 and a friend and I were trying to pass the long winter in rural north Idaho with a "snow hike" to a waterfall. The closest town is called Clark Fork, population: a couple hundred. There was deep snow on the ground and it was cold, dark, and snowy on that day. We drove up a dirt road as far as we could until it was chained off. We parked the car and walked up some snowmobile tracks to where the trail usually is. I say usually because it was totally covered in deep snow. Most people would have thought us crazy to be hiking that trail that day but like I said before, it was something to do in N. Idaho in the middle of winter. So we managed thru the deep snow up a slight ravine. There were no other tracks that a human would make such as footprints, snowmobile, or snowshoe going up this ravine. Probably about half way up the trail/ravine, we crossed some tracks. The hair on the back of my neck stood up as I looked down at the tracks. I knew instantly what I was looking at but I tried to explain it some other way at first. The friend I was with grew up in Clark Fork and had lived there all his life. Without mentioning the word bigfoot or sasquatch, I looked at him and said "Is this what I think it is?" and he non-chalantly replied something to the effect of "We see this kind of stuff around here all the time".I definitely believed in the possibility of the existence of sasquatch at the time but these tracks really sealed the deal in my mind. I know what bear tracks look like in the snow. Moose, deer and elk also have a certain kind of track. The tracks that I am reporting were huge. I could fit my boot covered foot into them and they were definitely bigger than my boot. What was even more telling was the distance between the tracks. I would have had to jump from track to track to make it.So to sum it up: the tracks were roughly human foot shaped but very large-too large to be human. They were obviously made by a two legged, upright walking creature. The path of the tracks came across the ravine and up the other side- from "nowhere" going into "nowhere". This area is miles and miles of national forest on the Idaho/Montana border. There is no other rational explanation for tracks of this size and shape to be found where they were, when they were. Believe it or not, but I know what I saw.

🔍 Circumstances

2. Myself and my friend Tim.

🌤️ Weather Conditions

Middle of the day. In mid-winter in N. Idaho, the days are short and dark... and of course very cold and snowy. Deep snow was covering the ground at the time of the incident.

ℹ️ Additional Details

Middle of the day. In mid-winter in N. Idaho, the days are short and dark... and of course very cold and snowy. Deep snow was covering the ground at the time of the incident.

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