When the first group communicated the finding via radio, the second
group had just reached the top of the mound, climbing around a spur of
rock leaning over the trail below. It was a perfect observation spot:
whoever stood there could have seen our cabin to the left and, down
below to the right, a group of private houses where our guide stayed the
night before.
The soil on top of the rock showed the signs of quite a
movement. We found various tracks of 4-fingered paws, like those of a
large cat (were we in the Grand Canyon they could have been those of a
Mountain Lion). But there are no big cats in the Valmalenco area. The
tracks were very clear and told us that the "Fumini" were not the only
people walking around the night before. We had no records of such marks
prior to this day.
The two groups converged to the opposite side
of the mound, Group #1 walking the valley below and covering two thirds
the mound, Group #2 following its ridge and then descending to meet the
others. Halfway through the ridge a third sets of tracks were found.
These were two 3-fingered claw marks (with a possible fourth stub in the
talon), different than the one found by Group #1 but, according to our
guide, belonging to the same "Grey" beings. Only, these were the marks
of their hind legs.