Sicamous

Date: Early 1980’s

Occurrence:

In the early eighties my friend and I often went squirrel hunting on the mountain just

off of Solsqua road (Sicamous road)near the town of Sicamous BC. We are

experinced outdoorsmen and hant to this day. The mountain in question was at

that time completely wild and uninhabited and even today is a wildlife sanctuary

with undisturbed virgen forest no logging or other activity has disturbed the

area yet. We had spent the afternoon up the mountain and as it was starting to

get late we decided to head back down the mountain to Salsqua road and then to

the junction of Highway #1 (Transcanada) and 97A where my house was located. We

were following a game trail when we came upon a set of tracks that we had never

seen before they were much larger than the Grizzly and black bear tracks that we

often saw, it was so much larger and human like that we were really freaked out,

What kind of person would be walking around barefoot in the snow and how big was

this guy??? what was more disturbing is that these tracks were fresh having been

made after we came up the mountain earlier in the day and we could still plainly

see our tracks from earlier in the snow. We decided to follow the tracks as far

as possible and we proceeded down the mountain and continued following the

tracks for about 2 kilometres or more until we reached the dairy farm where the

tracks came up to a barbed wire fence in a field, it was like this thing didn't

even break stride it just stepped right over the fence and headed into a stand

of trees a short distance away at the end of the field. we went over the fence

and started heading toward the stand of trees but at that instance we became

very uneasy and had the distinct feeling of being watched and of bieng in

danger, the hairs stood up at the back of my head and we decided to head back

home as quickly as possible.

we did measure the tracks and we used our rifles to measure the tracks and they

were around 16" long, the stride was at least six feet ( I can do the splits and

I know that when I do that it is at least six feet and when I did the splits

beside these tracks they were just a bit longer than that) These tracks were

fresh and could not have been made by a human we were definate that we were the

only ones on the mountain that day and that after following them for over 2Km

that they were made by a large bipedal animal and not a human. Whatever made

these tracks must have been huge and heavy as it sunk down much deeper than us

into the snow we estimate at least 500 pounds (based on our observations of

other animal tracks.)

Witness: Clint P.

WCSRO, 2005.