From Ray Crowe's Track Record #41:
Date: date unknown
Location: Mt. Hood
County: Hood River
Floyd Henderson had and interesting experience that he told the group
about. Floyd said he was hiking from Polallie Camp to Surveyors Ridge, east
of Mt. Hood, OR, on Zigzag Trail. He was alone at 10:30 AM and the trail was
dusty, a light rain the night before smoothing and settling the dust. Animal
tracks were common and there were no other human tracks. Game tracks were
common, and Floyd, a naturalist-geologist, was studying them intently when
he came across a single barefoot human track in the middle of the trail, as
if it had crossed near a big tree (this is as he was descending. The track
was not present on his way uphill). On up the trail he heard snaps of limbs
and rustles of brush, and felt he was being watched. On his way back, 200
yards down the trail towards camp from the track, he noticed a heavy,
sweet/sour odor. The track of the right footprint was 14 inches long, 5 1/2
inches wide at the ball, and the big toe was about 2 1/2 inches long. The
track was impressed about 3/8 ths of an inch into the dust. Tod Deery and
Peter Byrne of the Bigfoot Research Project investigated the trail with the witness
on the following Tuesday, but by that time the trail had been heavily trampled
by other hikers.