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Meet with Sasquatch NW Group
Pierce County, WA

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Bob and I went up to meet the Sasquatch NW crew in Pierce County (George, Jesse, Adrian, Rick, Susan and Ed). We arrived at 2:30. Rick showed up first, then George. I walked down past camp while Bob and Rick talked up by the gate. George followed me. Something went crashing throughthe bushed onthe right side of the road. I turned and saw that George had heard it too... I motioned for him to catch up to me. The noisemaker was off in the brush about 20 yards away. We couldn't see anything but it comtinued to move. We could heard it breaking branches loudly, and crunching as it walked through the underbrush. I was really excited, couldn't believe our luck, and was grinning like an idiot as we continued down the road toward there the woman had had her sighing two weeks earlier. We rounded the corner and I heard it moving again. We both stopped and looked inthe direction of the sound... it sounded REALLY close, like we should have been able to see it right there in front of us. Just then, a stick about 6" long and 1" in diameter came flying out of the trees. It landed just outside the treeline, quite aways away from us. It was to the right and it drew our attention away from the location of the breaking branches. Suddenly, to the left, we heard a stress-fracture sound, like a tree getting ready to break. A log that was lying down at an angle moved... teeter-tottered... THREE FEET. We discovered later that something apparently had stepped on one end and had broken the other end at the root wad (see photos) causing that end to come flying up and the other end to fall. We saw the end drop. The strangest thing is that we should have been able to see "it", but couldn't!

That night, we heard bird calls like those we heard during the day, but also exactly like what we've heard around us during Bigfoot encounters.

Bob walked away from camp to relieve himself and scared something in the bushes right in front of it that ran off on TWO LEGS through the thick underbrush. He came running back, zipping up and freaked out. The next morning, there were obvious footsteps mashed into the undergrowth there and a swath cut through the brush where the thing had run off. The four impressions were 3' apart in thick brush.

Susan and Autumn examine footsteps in the brush	We found a 3" long hair here, where it appeared something was watching the camp the prev. night	Autumn standing where something ran off the night before when Bob went to relieve himself	George "Ladies Man" Karras	Location of 4/25/01 sighting (woman with dogs). Anthill w/track on right.
Camp, Sunday a.m.	Adrian tearing down camp	Where George and Autumn Saw the log drop at 2:30-ish, Saturday	Closeup of same area	End of the log that raised. Notice the debris that was picked up with it
Clean area under log. The end of the log raised approx. 2 1/2 feet when the other side dropped	Log, on the right, that something stepped on, making it "teeter-totter"	End of the log again with the debris it picked up when it raised	Dark forested area behind the log.	View looking down the logs lengthwise. The log that moved is on the right.
Area behind the logs	George and Autumn's view when the log dropped	View of forest when Autumn first heard crashing	View of 4/25/01 sighting area, woman with dogs. Anthill with track on right.	Anthill with possible track (may be shoe print!)
Autumn's size 7 1/2 next to "track"	Track estimated to be 16"	Track, no flash	Track, with flash	Closeup of toe? area
Anthill with ?track?	Photo of area where crashing was heard	Another, same area	Jesse points to freshly broken stick behind log that moved	"Den" under rootwad in forested area behind log.

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