Mount Waddington District, BC near Port Hardy

Cape Scott Provincial Park, Vancouver Island

It was about 8 am clear day . I was walking ahead of my partner and had walked off the beach inland on the main trail to and from Nels Bight which is a huge crescent beach open to Queen Charlotte sound on the northern tip of Vancouver Island in Cape Scott park.( google B.C. provincial parks for a look at the area) When you enter the trail and where I (we) saw the print it is covered in alot of low lying vegetation,mosses ,scrub pine all adapted to the conture of the windy weather up there. The land at the northern tip of Van. Isle is a lowland too incontrast to the deep fiords and mountains that make up for most of the Islands landscape and topography, The exact area where I saw the print was off the trail about three or so feet . I recall seeing only one,and Im sure at the time we looked for another. But as Im writing this I do remember being excited for the discovery but having a good healthy fear to get on the move! We hadnt come there searching for Bigfoot. L.O.L. The main detail is that it is a very remote location. Youcan look at it on a map. Its not hoax territory. It rains pret.ty much every night any season in that area. I recall it rained really hard three days previous on our way in,so the track was fresh. We were there at the very end of Sept. through the first four days of Oct. camping up from the beach about aprox. a quarter mile from we saw the print on our way out. These were the days before digital and Yes we had taken the last picture at the trail head, Apicture of me leaving the beach with my 80lb pack on my back. To this day we wish we wernt out of film! To my best recallection I was loking off to the sides of the trail and all around as usual. Its a pretty interesting place. I stopped when I spotted the footprint and called out to MIke. He came along and we marveled at it, Shocked of course cause its cool to think about seeing a sasquatch print then there it is! We both grew up in the Vancouver area and it is just part of the folklore around here. Any way it was really cool and here I am telling the story to someone else 19 years later.We have only recently told our kids. They are now of the age when they ask us what we did before they were alive.This is one story they are quite facinated with. Of note to is that it is very noisy in the bush at night when camping. It was our experience any way.We put d own to racoons,Elk and also bears wolves and cougar in the area. Our first night camping about 16 km from the sighting we heard wolves and did wake up to what we thought were wolves? outside the wooden shelter we stayed in that first night. Anyway the next day dawned bright and sunny and we were on our way putting the night befor e behind us and hiking into Nels Bight. Thanks for having this forum to share encounters with this mysterious creature.

hwy. 17 Northerm Vancouver Island

4 Oct 1989

08:00 AM

Clear

Tracks

We had just had breakfast and packed up camp on our way out of Cape Scott Prov.Park. We had beeen there for 5 days camping and exploring the area on foot.We had hiked to the lighthouse the previous day.

My boyfriend at the time. It was just the two of us on a wilderness trek.

I pretty much covered that in the (describe the area question.

We saw one footprint, It was not a fake. It had the same weight distribution that a human foot print would have into the mud but deeper, It was about 15 to 18 inches in length. Big toes. Wide with a low arch.

It was very quiet.

I probably did notice it because the edges of the trail are in general undisturbed and where the print was the brush looked like it had been broken and pulled back.

It again is the remote area that we saw this.Why would any one hoax? Also it being so remote what better place to be if your a sasquatch? Fresh water,salt water ,lots of easy food and lots of places to hide and #1 no people.

Thomas Steenburg

On October 4th, 1989, Ms Jennifer Hughes in company with her boyfriend, Mr. Mike Silver, were hiking out from the beaches of Cape Scott Provincal Park after enjoying several days of wonderful weather in what has to be one of the most beautiful trails on Vancouver Island. They had finished packing up and were hiking out along the same trail they came in on. This trail was, and I believe still is, the only way in or out to the Park's beaches and lighthouse.

While walking out the couple came upon a wet mud hole on the trail that contained a single, large barefoot footprint which according to Mike was not there when they had hiked in. The print astounded both witnesses and they did study it and the surrounding area for approximately 30 minutes. The print was clear enough that all 5 toes where clearly visible. But no claw marks were seen, and the shape was more human-like than bear-like. No measurements were taken at the time but Jennifer thinks that the print was about 14 inches long and 6 1/2 inches wide. Mike remembers it as about 15 inches long. No photographs were taken. They did have a camera with them at the time but had used up all the film over the previous few days of the trip.

Now both witnesses are avid outdoors people, who have backpacked many a Vancouver Island trail, and are familar with bear tracks and the footprints of much wild life. In this case they feel they had come across something different. Both witnesses told me that they think this track was that of a Sasquatch and not that of a bear. Nor do they feel that they were the victims of some sort of prank. Mike did mention that the only other hikers they saw on the beaches during this trip were two young guys. It is not known if these two men left the area before our witnesses. If they did, I feel that a prank may be possible, though unlikely.

Jennifer just felt that there should be some record of this find and that thought prompted her to report this to S.R.I. Now I would normally recommend a report like this one as inconclusive, due to the fact the footprint was not photographed. But taking into account the outdoor lifestyle of both witnesses, as well as the fact that after 19 years both feel that this was indeed the footprint of a Sasquatch and not some other common animal, and they both are 90 percent sure that the two other men were not out there to pull pranks on people, I recommend this report be listed as a footprint find.

Thomas Steenburg.

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