Hiker encounters large footprints witnessed in Deschutes County, Oregon

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This is a very belated report. The early spring of 1976 I was living in a small log cabin on the banks of Tumalo Creek approx 10 miles into the foothills of the Central Oregon Cascades outside of Bend, Oregon. I took my water out of the creek and had an outhouse. One day I was hiking cross-country up the hillside up from my cabin when I came upon some extremely large, flat-footed footprints in the soft dirt of the Ponderosa Pine forest. They were exactly like the ones I have since seen on your website. There was a logging road that switched- backed up the hillside. Other than occasional logging trucks, no one else used that road except for occasional hunters in the fall. I was very surprised, to say the least. I had never heard any mention of Bigfoot sightings in that region before that but went to the library and found out indeed there had been some. It struck me that it was very unlikely to be a hoax as no one would expect anyone to be out walking in that area, so an unlikely place t...