Jasper

Date: July 1995

Occurrence: A friend and I were hiking on the Sulfur Ridge Trail. We came to a piece where the trail had fallen away, so we decided to stop for a break. I took out my camera to take a picture of the hot springs below. I happened to look up at the summit and I noticed someone standing up there. I started waving because I thought it was a person, and since we were the only people on the trail, we'd be walking past them anyways. I even pointed my camera at it, but didn't take the picture because of the distance. The thing didn't wave back, and it was then that I really took a look at it. It was about 6:00 pm so there was plenty of light still. What I saw looked a dark brown man covered with hair. It stood upright and had arms and legs like a human.

After several minutes it started to run down the face of the mountain. (We were below the tree-line, but well in sight of the summit.) At that point I said Holy that guy is nuts! I thought it was a mountain biker, because he descended so quickly. (About 1 1/2 minutes at the most.) It came straight down without using the switch backs and that's when I knew it wasn't human. I immediately thought it was a grizzly or other animal. When it hit the tree-line I realized it couldn't possibly be a bear, because it stood taller than the trees.

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Witness: L.

WCSRO, 2006.