British Columbia winter of 1980. 1 bigfoot creatures involved

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Encounter date: FEB 23 1980
Year: 1980
Season: winter
Time of day: n/a
Duration: n/a
Story Originator: 1st person
Reported by: Clayton Mack, Bella Coola (now deceased)
Terrain: valley
Lighting: n/a
State: British Columbia
Nearest Town: Bella Coola (Pop. 300)
County: Central Coast Dis
Coordinates: Lat 5222-- Lon 12640--
Distance to Town: 4 Miles
Number of Creatures: 1
Creature Types: one large, sex unknown
Photographed: NO
Tracks: n/a
Tracks Cast: NO
Tracks Photographed: YES
Creature Fired At: Bullet Missed Creature
Effect of Firearm: n/a
Superhuman Action: n/a
Trees Undergrowth: Species n/a, Variety: n/a, Tree Cover: n/a, Tree Condition: n/a, Tree Type: n/a, Tree Abborations: n/a, Undergrowth: n/a, Undergrowth Type: n/a
Slope: valley bottom, Slope Was Facing: n/a
Nearby water: river
Distance to water: contact
Substratum: n/a
Snow condition: shallow old
Weather condition: n/a, Heat: n/a, Wetness: n/a, Snow: n/a, Temp: n/a, Wind: n/a, Clarity: n/a, Humidity: n/a
JG Incident type: 2
JG File Date: FEB 80
JG Source date: FEB 80
JG Source type: phone call
JG Source reliability rank: 8
JG Source incident rank: 8
JG Visibility Index: n/a
Related incident id: n/a
Five boys, Deric Snow, Herb Edgar, John Schooner, Don Hans and Gordon Edgar, fishing in the Bella Coola River at Four Mile, near the entrance to Thorsen Creek. Snow found huge footprints on the south bank of the river, appearing to be several days old, in a small amount of snow on top of ice. Prints 21" by 12" going in single file down to the river and back twice. Grizzly guide Clayton Mack was contacted, and took pictures of the best prints, after outlining them with sand. Interviewed by phone by John Green, he said he thought the creature had crossed the river from the north but turned back each time instead of crossing the road south of the river.