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"I would love to go, but my leg beeper will go off if I leave the house... "

Squamish, - July 2000 Forest manager David Mills reported seeing a creature in late June. Squamish police told him there have been several similar reports lately.As a forestry manager with the Squamish Indian tribe, Mills knows his way around the woods. So he's positive that what he saw was a sasquatch, a large, mysterious ape-like creature also known as bigfoot. He was checking out some young trees and kept hearing a noise in the woods. But when he'd turn, he wouldn't see anything. Then the hair on the back of his neck stood up. "I watched this hairy thing on two legs," he said. "It used its left arm to lift up a branch and walked about 50 feet. He turned in my direction and saw I was watching him, and ducked behind a tree." Mills snuck into the tree line and moved closer to the creature. It started screeching and pounding on the back of a tree with what sounded like a rock, he said. He kept trying to get closer, but the sasquatch would make a ruckus every time he took a few steps. Then he heard the woofing and jaw-smacking he recognized as a bear to his left. As he moved, he realized he'd come within six metres of its cub. The mother bear came out of the brush, but she ignored Mills — an odd move for a bear with a stranger between her and her cub. "Her anger wasn't directed at me, it was...to the right, at the noise it(sasquatch) was making behind the tree," he said. With two bears and a sasquatch nearby, Mills decided it was time to leave. "I flew down that hill. Then I just hopped in my truck and locked up the gate and left the area." The creature was nearly three metres tall and had black, shiny fur all over its body, Mills said. The screeching sounds it made matched those he's heard of a sasquatch recorded years ago on the Lummi Indian reservation near Bellingham. It also looked just like the other one he says he saw while working in the Olympics for the National Forest Service in 1995. It was kneeling by a creek when he and another worker came upon it, and it took one look at them and disappeared in two steps. When he reported his June sighting to the police in Suquamish, a village 20 kilometers northwest of Seattle across Puget Sound, an officer said he wasn't the only person to see a sasquatch in the area lately. When Patrick Julian heard Mills' story, he went to see for himself. Julian is a volunteer field investigator with a group called Bigfoot Central. "David was very credible," Julian said. "He sees bears back in the woods, he knows the difference between bears and bigfoot." Plus, there was a partial footprint in a muddy patch where Mills said he saw the creature. The track was 18 centimeters wide, which would make the foot about 40 centimeters long, Julian said. Published © THE PROVINCE Newspaper, British Columbia, Canada - July 14, 2000, article courtesy George Raitt, leeraitt@telus.net

This picture was taken at the mando's event center. We were putting in the ACMA awards. I think the show had about 300 hoists, it was pretty big. Any riggers in the house? What's the scene in seattle like?

Let's just say that access issues in the industry compel me to remain anonymous. The work must be done somehow, but there is no way to protect the worker. Things are kind of open ended from there... We operate in a grey area, a world of shadows.

Climbers have always worked as riggers. People like Bradshears or Wiggins, Kauk and Long. Movie work, rock and roll touring, convention work... You might be suprised who I work with. Some of America's best climbers are riggers.

That guy is me. I work as a high steel rigger for theatre or conventions. If you look closely, you will see that we climb the undersides of the ceiling beams. It's like soloing upside down 5.8/A4. I figured anybody who does this kind of work will know whats going on.

High steel

shhh...

Check out the Ultimate Tele Binding, manufactured locally. The binding is the brainchild of Armond Dubque,a Stevens pass local.This is a completely different animal, a step in binding that features a 6 point toe crampon. The UTB has been in devlopment for years and was used this year on the first ski descent of Mt. Hunter. The Ultimate Telemark Binding

Thanks!

The cable shot under the Seventh Heaven chair at Stevens pass was always a crowd pleaser.I would do it for my first run in the morning.

How Do I post a photo? The computer center here at the prison is very nice, but, the guy who knows all that stuff got shanked in the exersise yard on tuesday. Thank you, L. Granite

The Lips put on quite a show. Instead of a huge lighting rig they had what appeared to be 20 hippie kids dancing in animal costumes with large flashlights. Brilliant!

Enjoy... Winter in Washington

These guys are the coolest. They have been playing since 1983.. I believe there was a credit card commercial featuring them. The live show is really,really...interesting.

Enjoy... The band that is named the the Flaming Lips is from Oklahoma City. Is the Flaming Lips... the band,that is. Thank You. L.Granite

It's ok...there is no need to cry. Come on guys! let's all help him look for his ski... Now,where did you fall down?

crank the backside air to the sidepull... If these dudes find out the new Alpental crag is out of the bag!

Mt. Bailey is fun, a nice hill. There was a rash of bigfoot sightings in the area around Diamond lake including one reported by a group of skiers on the north side of the mtn. does A. lakes have that?

No motorbikes in a watershed. We did it in a 24 hour push on XC skis in April '97. We left at midnight to begin the approach and were hallucinating by the time we got back to the car.I was seeing rabbits and my partner watched me step over a old man laying in the trail. On the way out we discovered the tracks of two cougars who had followed us in. Just for fun, I waited to publish this until the weather was shit. Climbing is fun, L.Granite

You can thank those stupid snowboards for the stupid fat skis that allow for stupid skiers to ski powder. 100 years and they never thought of more surface area... It only took 10 years of snowboards to change the world, now there is extereme everything! You may even thank them for the popularity that climbing now enjoys..

Finally, somebody posts some shiznit and everybody gets quiet...I can hear the Google from here. You guys are pussies! Sincerely, L.Granite

The lost walls of Kormona For your viewing pleasure: This little sub alpine wall is tucked up in the back of a little drainage. A long approach,river crossing and much bushwacking give the faithful a view like this. The good news:you will not need a sleeping bag, no camping allowed. The bad news: It's already been climbed. A couple of times. Things like this are no secret,have fun. Best wishes, L. Granite

Dear Mike, From the rest of us, thank you. You are a gentleman and a scholar. My wife thinks the rest of you are "dorks who couldn't get a date with a calendar." Sincerely, L. Granite

My god! they are savages!!!