We took a few days off last week to enjoy the fall colors. We hiked and watched for bigfoot tracks. We talked bigfoot when appropriate. One print we photographed appeared to be or could have been a bigfoot track.
A week or so ago a reader of our online bigfoot magazine, Bigfoot Ballyhoo, told us about several tree knocks his hunting group heard during the night. The area, Siuslaw National Forest, is several miles inland beginning at Canary Road, just south of Florence, Oregon. We were in a car so didn’t venture as far as we’d have liked.
When we did occasionally glimpse the distant mountains between the thick roadside trees, the area certainly had the appearance of bigfoot country (you know, long ribbons of wispy mist, mountain ridge after mountain ridge, and a lacy moon just visible, although day).
We took several photos and enjoyed just being in bigfoot country. I’m often disappointed when trying to take photos when deep in the mountains, because nine times out of ten there is no place to park safely. And there is this additional concern: logging trucks. During the five days we were away, we met with many loaded logging trucks barreling down narrow mountain roads, the drivers trying to keep with tight schedules.
You do not want to be parked on a narrow mountain road when one of these trucks makes its appearance. So, there you have a couple more reasons bigfoot photos do not abound: roadside parking, lack of, and fast moving log trucks.
On our way home, we took Mill Creek Road to Loon Lake. We wanted to check out the area for an upcoming overnighter. Loon Lake, located inside Elliott State Forest, is a jewel of a lake and in places 150 feet deep. The young gentleman, Michael, we spoke with was happy to tell us about the bigfoot tracks that are regularly found on the mountain roads above the lake cabins. So we have planned to rent one of these cabins, stay a couple nights and go searching for bigfoot tracks, and, of course, enjoy the lake area.
Linda Newton-Perry along with her husband, Christopher Perry, is the author of five fiction bigfoot books, four children and one adult, and a Viking Age novel, FORCED BLOOD THE NORSEMAN. The Perrys also write a weekly bigfoot column for their local weekly newspaper and an online bigfoot online magazine, Bigfoot Ballyhoo. Until next week, Linda Newton-Perry
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