Mountain goat hunters have encounter with 8'-9' tall biped witnessed in Valley County, Idaho

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In the early 70,s, 1973 to be exact, I and my hunting partner had an encounter that occurred near a tributary of the South Fork of the Salmon River drainage near the Frank Church Wilderness area East of McCall and West of Yellowpine, Idaho. Off a remote road on a late August evening while setting up camp to prepare for a mountain goat hunt, my friend and I had a strange encounter. We had set up camp at the back of my truck which I had backed off the road into a small clearing backed by thick brush. Behind the brush was a small meadow and a dark timbered basin surrounded on three sides by steep rocky ridges. The fourth side dropped off into the canyon leading to a portion of the South Fork of The Salmon River. It had gotten quite dark and we had a lantern hung in a tree over our cook table and Coleman stove. We had put on some nice thick steaks that were cooking and smelling up the whole basin. All of the sudden we heard this blood curdling scream followed by a whistle not far ...