Number of Witnesses: three other people one adult two children 16 and 17
Length of Observation: about 20 min
Animal Description: none
Vocalizations Heard?: none
Physical Evidence? (hold Ctrl key to select more than one): Tracks
Four of us two adults and two children 16 and 17 were hiking on the Lapland Pond trail in the Black
Mountains near Lake George, NY. We were on a three day hiking trip staying at the Lapland Pond lean to and then onto Millman Pond lean to. Our trip started at the trail access at Pike Brook Road trail parking area Friday afternoon Sept 14th, we hiked to the Lapland pond lean to to camp for the night, the weather was warm on Friday and the weather called for a front to pass thru later that night, in the evening the sky got cloudy later that night when the front came thru it had showered at around 2am for about a half hour. In the morning we packed our gear and left for the Millman Pond lean to. As we started out we past the Lapland pond area and headed off the access trail for Millman lean to heading south. It was at this point about a 1/2 mile into the hike we came to a point in the trail where a stream had crossed the trail path.Their was an area in on the trail where the ground was wet an muddy it is here where I noticed a very large footprint in the soft earth on the trail path. As I was in the front of the other hikers we all stopped.I could clearly see toe imprints in the foot print as it appeared to be a right foot based on where the toe was positioned. As we looked around we could see other impressions in the ground most of them were off the trail and in the leaves (woods) beside the hiking trail. From looking at the prints it appears the tracks first start in the woods coming towards the trail almost parallel heading south.at one point the right foot steps onto the muddy area on the trail itself after that their are no other tracks to be found. At this point we decided to take some photo’s of the print the only camera we had were the Iphone . We took several photo in order to get the right angle to be able to get a good shot. As we left the area this was Saturday the 15th we headed for the Millman pond. On our way back on Sunday as we past the area were we found the prints they were still there so I decided to take some more photo with my hiking shoe next to the print for scale. My hiking shoe is 12inches long, the size of
the print was about 15 inches long and about 6 to7 inches wide, the impression in the ground was about an 1 inch deep. You could see where the mud had squeezed up between the toes in the impression. I have one really good photo of the print.