On Monday,
January 23, 2006 and Tuesday, January 24, 2006,
I had some very interesting conversations
over the phone with a male witness claiming to
have possibly seen what he thought was a
sasquatch near Copper Mountain, just outside of
Princeton, B.C. The witness also stated he may
have also possibly found what appeared to be the
creature's den, its bedding spot, and locations
where it may have been routinely
defecating for quite some time.
In brief, the witness who
reported this incident claims to be an avid
big-game hunter, woodsman, amateur
prospector and skilled survivalist. He also
stated he regularly hunts much of the southern
portion of the province. He enjoys backpack
hunting in remote areas for four or five day
stints. In other words, he wanted to make
it clear that he was not your
typical road hunter.
On this particular trip he was
hunting mule deer in British Columbia's
Princeton area quite close to the Washington
state border. To be more precise, the
witness was hunting in the Copper Mountain -
Flat-top Mountain area, just outside of
Princeton, to the south of Highway 3.
The witness said he had
made his way through a farmer's property, then
around a swampy area, and finally proceeded
uphill toward the summit of Copper Mountain. He
stated he was climbing up towards a cresting
knob of rocks when he suddenly caught about a
three second glimpse of something big and black
on two feet quickly moving off the knob and into
the cover of some thick willows.
Upon reaching the top of the
rock outcropping, the hunter discovered two
piles of extremely large diameter human-type
excrement (not coiled but rope-like), with one
pile on either side of the rock outcropping.
Looking closely at the excrement he saw what
appeared to some amount of fibrous material
that he took to be either squirrel or rabbit
fur. He said that because of the amount of
droppings or scat present at the site, it looked
like whatever was using the area had used the
rocks as a lookout, and spent a great deal of
time there squatting down facing in two general
directions. Those two directions offered what he
thought were the best lookout-type views of the
valley below.
On further inspection of the
area, the witness found the remnants of a crude
fire (no rock fire-ring) that appeared to be
fueled by long strands of old-man's-hair tree
moss and small sticks with snapped ends. In,
around, and on top of the fire were what
looked like remnants of small animal (thought to
belong to either rabbit or squirrel) and grouse
breast bones that looked like they had been
sucked clean. The witness stated that after
closely examining the bones there was no tooth,
gnaw or chew marks that he could see.
Although I now have decent
directions to the area, the witness promised to
call me when he had more time to talk and fill
me in on all the rest of the details. Note:
I received a call this morning
(Tuesday, January 24, 2006) and the
witness offered to take me to the sighting
location once the snow is off the ground.
Somehow I don't think the
witness's story is fiction. It may be
misidentification of a possible sasquatch
creature, misidentification of a
sasquatch possibly using a crude fire,
misidentification of two large piles of
possible sasquatch droppings, as well as misidentification
of the fur and small animals bones present at
the site being related to man or predator kills.
However, after careful consideration, I don't
think the witness concocted the tale.
The witness also mentioned
some very interesting details about "an old oak
stagecoach" he found up there half buried in the
mud. He again mentioned he would show all this
stuff to me if I wanted to take a trip up to
Princeton once the snow is gone off the ground.
I promise to update on this
intriguing report after I have had a chance to
visit the Copper Mountain sighting
location, I will also have new and exciting
updates on another very recent
possible sasquatch sighting report, the
recording of British Columbia's first possible
sasquatch vocalization, and the discovery of
possible sasquatch footprints in the
Harrison River/Lake area as soon as the
information is available.
© Ken
Kristian
West Coast Sasquatch Research
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