Veteran Tracker Documents Anomalous Bigfoot Tracks in Idaho

A seasoned tracker with 41 years of experience in the northern Rockies has come forward with what might be one of the most compelling track discoveries in recent memory, and the details are absolutely worth diving into. The video comes from the YouTube channel Bigfoot Records, and it features a firsthand account from a 64-year-old wilderness guide, tracker, and private researcher who has spent decades learning to read the snow in Idaho's most unforgiving terrain. On the morning of February 11, 2020, around 7 AM, this individual set out from camp on a north-facing ridge above the Locka River drainage in central Idaho, where the temperature had plunged to a bone-chilling negative 14 degrees Fahrenheit. Overnight, 18 inches of fresh powder had blanketed the landscape, and by midnight the skies had cleared, leaving behind that signature high-country stillness that the Idaho panhandle is famous for. What this tracker found that morning was not ambiguous in any way, and he makes that point clear from the start. He had been running a winter track survey in the area for six days, documenting elk, mule deer, a mountain lion working a drainage two miles east, and a wolverine track that took an hour to authenticate. The sixth morning changed everything. The tracks emerged from the timber on the north-facing slope at approximately 4:45 AM, based on frost formation on the impression edges. They ran along the ridge crest for about 300 meters before descending into the drainage to the west. The measurements speak for themselves: 19 and 12 inches long, 9 inches wide at the ball, with a stride length of 71 inches in the descending section. The depth in the new powder was consistent with a weight estimated between 500 and 700 pounds. This was not a bear rising on its hind legs. The gait showed the specific mechanics of something that has never had another option but to walk upright. For four hours, this tracker followed the trail through negative 14-degree weather, 18 inches of powder, and ridge sections that required crampons. The reason for such dedication was simple: returning to camp with an incomplete record would not do the evidence justice. What makes this account stand out is not just the size of the tracks but the behavior they reveal. At a decision point where the ridge offered two descent options, the tracks paused. The pressure pattern showed a weight shift from forward movement to standing weight, and then the stride continued toward the western drainage, the more sheltered route. This was not the navigation of something unfamiliar with the terrain. This was the choice of a being that knew the drainage, knew the prevailing wind patterns, and understood which slope would be more stable in those powder conditions. Around 130 meters from the initial trail point, the tracks deviated to investigate a wind-felled lodgepole pine. The investigation lasted approximately five minutes based on frost formation differential, and the tree itself was undisturbed. Whatever had stood there had looked at the fallen tree, assessed it, and moved on. The departure and return to the ridge line were both deliberate. Perhaps the most striking detail came at the point where the tracks descended into the timber. The stride pattern changed, not to running, but to the specific deliberate shortening of someone controlling their momentum on a steep powder slope. This is the stride of someone who knows how to descend a powder slope without losing control, not the lurching, weight-forward descent of an animal moving through snow on instinct. It is the controlled, weight-distributed descent of something that has done this before and has learned through experience how to do it well. The tracker's conclusion is one that researchers have whispered about for years but rarely articulated so plainly. They are not avoiding the winter. They are using it. The deep snow pack that makes human movement difficult and aerial observation ineffective is not a hardship they endure. It is a condition they have learned to exploit. The snow is their cover. The brutal winter that empties the back country of human presence is the season in which they can move most freely. This account aligns with what many longtime researchers have observed about Sasquatch behavior in regions like Idaho, Montana, and the Pacific Northwest. Winter track discoveries have long been considered some of the most valuable pieces of evidence because snow preserves a complete record of movement, behavior, and decision-making in ways that summer substrate simply cannot. The ability to read frost formation, pressure depth, and stride mechanics transforms a set of tracks into something closer to a written language, and in this case, the language tells a story of intelligence, planning, and intimate knowledge of a landscape that humans had written off as impassible in February. The tracker had been working this drainage for three years before that February morning. Anomalous sign from March 2017 had originally drawn him to the area, but it did not repeat in 2018 or 2019. Two winters of survey work with nothing to show for it except the ordinary wildlife record of a healthy northern Rocky Mountain ecosystem. His understanding of large-ranging species told him that absence was not the same as non-existence, and he continued the survey specifically because he understood that absence was evidence of range, not departure. The February 2020 return was not a surprise. What surprised him was the timing. February, in a winter with well-above-average snow pack, in a temperature regime that makes that ridge one of the most challenging terrain features in the area. Whatever made those tracks had come to that ridge in negative 14-degree weather in 18 inches of new powder for a reason. Not by accident, not in flight from something easier to avoid in a different season, but by choice, in conditions that a being without specific knowledge of that terrain could not have survived. This video is absolutely worth the watch for anyone who takes track evidence seriously. The level of detail, the measured tone, and the decades of experience behind every measurement make this one of those accounts that stays with you long after the video ends. The Bigfoot Records channel has put together something special here, and it deserves a full viewing to appreciate the significance of what was found on that ridge.