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Dave Workman Member
Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 3699 | TRs | Pics Location: In the woods, by the big tree |
Okay, I've found the right crowd to quiz about this. Many years ago, I spent a New Year's weekend with a pal of mine at the old Boy Scout camp at the upper end of Spirit Lake (it was a grueling hike through knee-deep snow, BTW!) That place is now under about 200 feet of debris and water.
Anyway, he told me this story having to do with, perhaps, Sasquatch and a couple of brothers with a mining claim back in the St. Helens country somewhere, named Burgoine or Burgoyne, IIRC. It was, he said, supposed to have been part of the Sasquatch folklore. Maybe it was just a ghosty story to tell around the glow of a cabin's wood stove.
Anybody here familiar with that tale?
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." - D.H. Lawrence
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." - D.H. Lawrence
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mgd Member
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Quark Niece of Alvy Moore
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Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:13 am
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There's a drawing of Sasquatch on the St Helens area map of the Washington Gazetteer.
"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
Bernardo, NW Hikers' Bureau Chief of Reporting
"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
Bernardo, NW Hikers' Bureau Chief of Reporting
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Dave Workman Member
Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 3699 | TRs | Pics Location: In the woods, by the big tree |
I'm aware of the drawing, but it appears that's all you have to offer. I'm seriously curious about this tale, and whether there's even a hint of credibility to it.
One of the brothers, according to this tale, went out to get supplies while the other one wintered on the claim. He kept a diary. The diary told of hearing howling or some damn thing that got increasingly nearer to their cabin, and finally right outside.
Sounds more like the rantings of somebody who was isolated for many weeks than anything else, even hairy beasts pounding at the door. But, it was an interesting bit of Sasquatch lore.
Face it, tales of Bigfoot are part of the mistique about this region.
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." - D.H. Lawrence
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
My high school speech teacher was an avid hunter. He told us about seeing a Sasquatch while hunting one year. He saw it close up too.
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"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16098 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
I believe this is the story. It used to be in the old brochures they gave out. I think this is the origin of Ape Canyon there. The Ape cave was named after a spelunking club.
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Dante Member
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Backpacker Joe wrote: | My high school speech teacher was an avid hunter. He told us about seeing a Sasquatch while hunting one year. He saw it close up too. |
A childhood friend of BPJ and I (Jay, you out there?) had a couple Sasquatch experiences. After the first one, he went back with a skeptic who came back a believer. Damn good stories, if nothing else.
You've probably already found this, Dave, but here it is FWIW:
I Fought the Apemen of Mt. St. Helens
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Quark Niece of Alvy Moore
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Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:17 pm
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Dante wrote: | A childhood friend of BPJ and I (Jay, you out there?) had a couple Sasquatch experiences. After the first one, he went back with a skeptic who came back a believer. Damn good stories, if nothing else. |
Sorry, Dante, but Workman is soliticing supportable information only. Thanks for sharing anyway; I enjoyed your post.
"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
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"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
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Dave Workman Member
Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 3699 | TRs | Pics Location: In the woods, by the big tree |
Dante, I enjoyed your post, too. I'm aware of Fred Beck and his tale, and abut the miners' story and Ape Canyon. That got kind of drummed into me in the last century.
Neither of them are the tale I'm thinking about though. But kind of interesting nonetheless.
I've interviewed people who swore they had encounters with Bigfoot...and I remember a guy out in Grays Harbor a few years ago trying for his 15 minutes of fame by claiming he was the one who had left big tracks all over hell and gone to "start" the myth, but he looked awfully good for a guy that would have had to be at least 300 years old and living amongst the local tribes.
The people I interviewed were responsible people, one actually a top manager in a company who did not want his name used for fear of being ridiculed out of his job. But this guy encountered something and it scared the crap out of him and his two hunting partners the year before St. Helens blew, and he was up in the Toutle Valley when it happened.
So, I don't know. Just keep asking around I guess.
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." - D.H. Lawrence
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johnahl Member
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Quark wrote: | There's a drawing of Sasquatch on the St Helens area map of the Washington Gazetteer. |
Is that what that thing is. I bought one of those maps when they first came out back in the late 1980's. I took it work and showed everyone this cool set of topo maps for the whole state and it was less than $15. It wasn't long before someone spotted that symbol and asked what it was. I thought it was just something that DeLorme put in there so they could tell if their maps were being copied.
I thought it looked like a penguin wearing Nikes.
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Pete Member
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Dayhike Mike Bad MFKer
Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 10955 | TRs | Pics Location: Going to Tukwila |
Dave Workman wrote: | ...even a hint of credibility to it. |
Hint: there's no credibility to it.
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"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke
"Ignorance is natural. Stupidity takes commitment." -Solomon Short
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Pipsissewa Member
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Mount Logan Canada's Highest
Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 870 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle, WA |
Dave Workman wrote: | ...he told me this story having to do with, perhaps, Sasquatch and a couple of brothers with a mining claim back in the St. Helens country somewhere... |
The first time I saw your post I misread it and thought the story was about a couple of brothers who had a Sasquatch partner in their mining claim.
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WorkinStiff Member
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Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:48 am
Might it be one of these reports........
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