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Don’t believe in Sasquatch? Then YOU explain these footprints spotted near Inland Lake in May, by a trio of life-long hunters.
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BY PIETA WOOLLEY
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t a bear’s lumbering pace, we’re driving along a logging road near Inland Lake in mid-May. Rick Crozier is at the wheel; his head hangs out the driver’s side, scanning for disturbances in the sand at the side of the road. Soon, he halts the car. Sure enough, there’s a print. What is it? “Black bear,” he says, pointing to the claw imprints above the wide pads. “But what’s this?”
Rick, a retired real estate agent from Alberta, first found prints he couldn’t explain when he was out shooting with friends this spring. Raised in rural Ontario, the life-long bow hunter can tell a deer print from an elk print, a grizzly from a black bear print, and a cougar print from a lynx with a glance. These prints couldn’t be explained. The huge daddy prints. The big momma prints. The scuffling child prints. Not bear, not human. No claws. On predictable trails from the forest across the road, up the ditches,
Sasquatch Daze Friday and Saturday June 4 & 5 at Townsite Public Market
Decal design by Tristan Wolf
local Squatchers and see their Meet the footprint casts
in to Discover Creative Arts to Kids ! Drop paint your own Sasquatch footprint
See “real” Sasquatch fur (hair? fibre?) at the Knitters Nest
Sasquatch Cookie and buy a t-shirt Taste afrom Basecamp Outpost
free Sasquatch decal from Tourism Get aPowell River (while supplies last)
Enter to win a family Sasquatch gift pack (value $100) from Tourism PR
Learn more about local encounters Spot a Sasquatch, maybe! And much more!
the Sasquatch kids and baby
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