The witness in this report said well 4x4ing with a friend he saw a animal standing by a stump aprox 8' or 9' tall and 300'or 400' away,he observed it for about 20-seconds before it moved out of sight down a ridge.While standing by his vehicle he and his friend joked about it for about 15-minutes when about 20' away just inside the woods they heard a powerful grunting sound sending a base like feeling through there bodies ,scaring them into there vehicle and down the mountain.To read the full BFRO report click the link : http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=27847 .
Josh and I arrived at the base of Mt Sicker at 7:20am Sat oct 2nd/2010 . We drove up the mountain from the Mt Provost entrance driving for about 15-minutes when we came to a recently logged area which looked like a good spot to check for tracks, so we pulled over to see what we could find . A side from the usual suspects,human,elk and deer we found nothing out of the ordinary.We carried on to an area of Mt Sicker known as the "plantation".In this spot we drove all the roads and became familiar with our surroundings.It was at this point we decided to take a walk to check the area for any possible evidence.This turned up nothing , we decided to do a call blasting session which started at 8:10am ,the session turned up no replies.
We then turned to rock knocking which to turned up nothing..
Josh and I then made our way to the end of a short logging road a little further up the mountain with a great view of a slash below . We decided to get out of the truck to take a look for any movement in the slash or the bordering tree line below ,again we saw and heard nothing.
We then moved around to the backside of the mountain and into some heavy tree cover , I noticed a small sand pile to my left just off the road ,I also observed what looked like a possible track which was quite weathered just in front of the sand pile, at this point we decided to pull over to investigate the track. The track measured 14"inches in length and 4.5" inches is width. After covering the rest of the area around the sand pile Josh and I turned our attention across the road where we noticed some fresh wolf scat and a large blackberry bush ,to the left of the blackberries I noticed a heavily cover area of evergreens which when I lifted some of the branches looked like a possible bedding area for black bear ,Josh and I decided to move into this area for further investigation.We found some old bear scat ,we guessed it to be at least 6 to 8 weeks old , as we moved back deeper into the forest Josh was about 20-feet in front of me when to my 11 o'clock position I heard something big move off deeper into the forest away from us ,I stopped immediately and turned toward Josh,Josh was crouched and very still looking towards the direction we had heard the noise.At this point I walked up to Josh and asked him if he had had a visual of whatever it was? The following is what Josh said "Ya , I had a visual ,man did it ever move .It looked like two black bear legs moving away at an incredible speed,wow,weird.The legs seemed too skinny to be a bear and wow did it ever move quick".I then asked Josh if he saw anymore of the animal then just it's two legs?Josh said "no,the bush was to thick to see anything above the two legs but whatever it was it definitely moved away on two legs or at least that's what it looked like".At this point we decided to not pursue the animal in case it was a bear and pissed off.
We decided that setting up the trail cam at this location with some bate was a good idea so as we got back to the truck I looked at the blackberry bush to see if maybe a bear had been eating them ,what I observed was the bush was full and didn't appear to have been eat in from.
The trail cam was set up at 9:21am ,we then left the area in hopes that whatever we heard and Josh seen would come back tripping the camera's sensor.
We drove a couple klm's away where we came to the top of a valley . We then decided to drive down into the valley and do some more investigating on foot. We tried some more wood knocking which turned up nothing.We then decided to take some human foot measurement in a small patch of mud that we had found,we wanted to record our average stride for data ,we also wanted to see if we could create the 53"stride that the Sasquatch had made which the BFRO team had recorded on Mt Sicker in June of this year.
The following is what we recorded:
Note:Josh and I are the same height,5'11.5"
Average human stride = 29"
Maximum human stride (stretching legs as far as possible) = 49"
Jumping between steps = 59"
Measurements were made by either measuring toe to toe or heel to heel.
After a little further investigation in this general area we decided to retrieve the trail cam.
We arrived back to the trail cam at 11:20 am,there were no pictures taken.
After another quick look around in this area we moved to the old Sicker mine.We poked around for a while but found nothing out of the ordinary.We retraced our steps back to the "plantation"area and took a walk up an old road , Josh found a few interesting tracks but because they were in moss and quite scuffed they were unidentifiable.We then came to a trail on our right so we ventured down it coming across a few smaller sized trees which looked like they may have been deliberately busted and pulled across the trail.After further investigation we could not come to a final conclusion.We both thought it too be odd .
We then returned to the truck moving to the top of Mt Sicker opposite the radio tower.This spot looked like a great area to do some more sound blasting and wood knocking , we did both but primarily stuck with the wood knocking.This carried on for quite some time , we received no replies .
As we moved back down and around the mountain we found a couple trails running parallel too each other so we decided to stop and check the trails out . Other then the both of us feeling like we were being watched nothing else was seen , heard or smelt.
We then decided to call it and headed home.
All in all we feel the trip was a success though the elusive Sasquatch remains elusive.
A second follow up trip is already in the works.
Notes : Trip start time 5:30am . Trip ended 5:30pm
Weather conditions on Mt Sicker : 7:20am,temp +13, light cloud cover , slight breeze .
Maximum Temp +18 , clouds dissipated at 11:10 am , remained clear all day with slight breeze.
Other notes : Original BFRO report was omitted upon request, exact location of Sicker Sasquatch incident unknown at this time.
This post with extra pictures from our trip can also be found at my new site "British Columbia Sasquatch Organization" http://thesearchforsasquatch.webs.com/apps/blog/
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