Young deerhunters see moving biped shape and later hear vocalizations witnessed in Valley County, Idaho

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At age twelve my cousin and I embarked on our first official hunting trip with my other cousin and father. We set up camp early in the day a few miles north and east of McCall,Idaho. The day was October 25th, the weather was cold and clear with a corona around the moon telling of the coming snow. It was dusk and my cousin and I had just finished setting up our lean-to shelter about seventy yards from where my dad and other cousin had there tent set up. We both got a feeling of being watched. We turned and saw the silhouette of a very large bi-ped observing us from only about ten feet away. Scared we reached for our rifles, but by the time we turned back the creature/ animal was gone. My older cousin was quite a prankster, so immediately we thought it was him, but he was still at the campfire talking to my dad. In the morning no tracks were found as the ground was nearly frozen. That next day we walked up into a nearby drainage about seven miles from camp. At an elevation of around 7...