Footprints in the snow - Mystery
Last night-early this morning? Anyway, around 1:45 a.m. I looked outside. Just fresh new glistening snow falling. I looked again about 2:15 a.m. and saw these footprints in the snow.
Went out to measure them this morning. Sure wish I would have put a cover over at least one of them last night, darn it, as they did get filled in with enough snow last night after I saw them, so that you could not get a good impression of the footprint this morning.
The first picture shows the tracks going out through the yard, over a mound of snow, down, then onto the bridge. Don't know why they go over the mound, when there was flat ground to use. There was plenty of light to see with, as I have a street/yard light.
Second picture is to show the length of stride, you can judge by the bumper.
Third picture is a yardstick between some of the closer together footprints, with my footprints going in to place the yardstick.
Fourth picture shows that it is 7 1/2 feet from the ground to the bottom of the deck.
Fifth picture, handprint on the deck? It was the only place along the edge of the deck, that the snow was disturbed in any way. Just happened to be "right above" where the footprints went up to the deck.
Sixth picture is where the footprints started. One footprint right beside the tire, next one coming at the camera. The stride there was about 5 feet. NO other prints anywhere close. No snow disturbed on the truck, no snow knocked out of the tree. Nothing else close enough to jump down from. Looked all around the truck, and beyond, could not find another track anywhere.
I took some other pics with the yardstick in between the footprints, that would have shown that the stride was 5' from the toe of one print, to heel of the next, but they didn't come out well enough. Then I plowed before checking the pictures.
So, the footprints started at the truck, came down through the yard, with 5' strides. Tried to go up the outside steps (we do not use them) they were iced up real bad (from the melting and refreezing of the snow from the roof) and covered with snow. Gave up and came around to the front of the deck with smaller strides (reached up?) snow disturbed on the deck, then went straight out the yard over the mound of snow, onto the bridge, and into the road.
Solve the mystery.
What critter, in the Colorado Rockies, comes out of nowhere, travels at night, walks upright using a 5' stride, and can easily reach up to 8 1/2 feet?
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