Two fly-fishermen reported huge, human-like footprints 7 miles apart
along the banks of Colorado's Eagle River.
Bill Heicher, a wildlife biologist at the Colorado Division of Wildlife,
evaluated the evidence and drew two conclusions:
The tracks weren't faked and a bear didn't make them. Says Heicher:
"It's no animal that we know of."
(© Theo Stein, from his article in The Denver Post January 2001)

A long time Bigfoot investigator from Aurora, Colorado wrote Bobbie Short saying:

"The Eagle River reports are true and backed by good evidence. Many photographs were taken of the footprints as well as two castings that I know of.

The Eagle River is only in "Eagle County" as it begins there and runs into the Colorado River in the same county. The sightings and track reports were from different areas along the river many miles apart.

The first "examined" reports were from the area where the Colorado and Eagle Rivers converge west of the town of Gypsum. The tracks were actually found a few miles up the Colorado River by a fly fisherman named Vern Parsons.

An officer of the Colorado Division of Wildlife and a biologist named Bill Heicher examined a clear photo of the tracks, which were five toed, 18 inches long and very deeply impressed. He could not identify them as belonging to any known animal but was convinced they were genuine.

Within a week Eagle County Deputy Sheriff Don Kaufman checked out a second report made by another fisherman named Bill Brice who found a second set of tracks on the banks of the Eagle River just east of Gypsum 7 miles away from the first set and believed to be genuine.

An independent Bigfoot researcher from Kansas by the name of Keith Foster has been reported as making an extensive investigation of these incidents Theo Stein wrote about in the Denver Post."

© Investigator PW, Aurora, Colorado, 15 January 2001.