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Post by vilnoori on Nov 8, 2007 17:42:06 GMT -5
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Post by thomassteenburg on Nov 9, 2007 1:11:35 GMT -5
And keep your camera at the ready ;D
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Post by vilnoori on Nov 9, 2007 15:49:17 GMT -5
Yes, sir!
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Post by vilnoori on Nov 14, 2007 15:54:22 GMT -5
Jackpot! I found a couple of likely footprints on the outside of a pool on the edge of the south beach. The step was about 6 ft. long, but I'm not sure as both feet looked like the same foot. So it could be a big barefoot man in November, or you-know-who. There were lots of other animal prints, too. The environment: See the snow line just above the height of the trees? According to the tracks there was a man and a dog there, as well. Also black bear, coyote, river otter, and some kind of cat (either a small cougar or big bob cat). I also saw three trumpeter swans on the lake. Interesting place!
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Post by kootenayspirit on Nov 15, 2007 21:17:49 GMT -5
Great photo's....beautiful lake! I wonder what the print would look like with the leaves removed?? "You-know-who" certainly doesn't make it easy for us does she?? Hope you had a great trip!!
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Post by vilnoori on Nov 16, 2007 22:14:40 GMT -5
If the weather holds, I'm going again next week. Lovely solitary place.
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Post by rastaman on Nov 20, 2007 15:48:40 GMT -5
If the weather holds, I'm going again next week. Lovely solitary place. I used to work at the army base at Vedder Crossing a long time ago before they shut it down, and hiked many times the areas in and around Chilliwack Lake. The trail North towards Lindeman and Greendrop Lakes always looked promising to me. I think a Sasquatch was seen one time in the past along that trail, if memory serves me right. The BC Parks map below illustrates the isolation and wildness of the area really well. www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/chill_lk/chilliwack_lake_map.pdf
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Post by vilnoori on Nov 22, 2007 14:30:32 GMT -5
rastaman, did you ever find any caves other than Chipmunk caves out that way? Just wondering...
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Post by vilnoori on Nov 22, 2007 15:03:31 GMT -5
Managed to get there again, though there is now some snow on the ground. If it keeps snowing I won't make it in again, since I don't have 4WD. Unless anyone wants to take me along with them? Well, this time I thought I had nothing. The light was fantastic, and there were cougar tracks everywhere. Beavers have been storing up branches underground for winter. Racoon tracks too. But when I came home and looked at the pics, lo and behold, I've got a blobsquatch!! This area didn't have stumps, so it is not a stump. It has all young poplar/birch trees, and it is located between meandering loops of the river right in the ER. And something is trying to look like a stump. close up section of same picture: Fresh cougar tracks were everywhere:
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Post by beegee on Nov 22, 2007 17:41:33 GMT -5
Have been following your progress with interest.......... look to the top of the crossed branches in the close up,............ is that a head shape, ? was up there myself at weekend, lots of salmon going through........... Good Luck
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Post by Gerry on Nov 22, 2007 22:20:24 GMT -5
Hmmmm...I am not one to say what is, or what isn't. But what I have seen here so far leaves a lot to be desired before put forward as any knid of evidence ...of any kind of marking! But keep on truckin!!
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Post by vilnoori on Nov 23, 2007 1:49:03 GMT -5
Hi Gerry, Glad to see you around. Well, there was no shortage of pictures, I just don't want to overload the page. More cougar tracks (and racoon, I presume): Closer up:
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Post by vilnoori on Nov 23, 2007 2:08:27 GMT -5
By the way, I don't of course know for certain, but I think the two prints from the first trip were good ones. Here's why. They were exceedingly wide (over 6 inches across) and very deep with rounded sides and straight outer edges (so no arch and no double print from a bear). There were indentations of toes. Plus, it's November. Not too many barefoot people out there in November, with it just a few degrees over zero. The water was frigid. The prints were on the outer edge of a murky pool, off the common track. It looked to me that it was walking in the water to conceal it's path and stepped out onto the edge of the sand a couple of times. There were people tracks there, and every one of them wore boots with typical rounded closed toes. You don't get such a spatulate print from round boot toes. The step was very long, too. The print is not big by sasq standards, but not bad for a human, at least a size 12. Here's a bear track from not far away, same day, for comparison: And mine (I take a ladies' ten and weigh 270, certainly no light weight):
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Post by Gerry on Nov 23, 2007 22:31:34 GMT -5
Pictures are good! Keep them coming! I love this part of the country!!
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Post by rastaman on Nov 26, 2007 15:40:39 GMT -5
rastaman, did you ever find any caves other than Chipmunk caves out that way? Just wondering... Vilnoori, I never have found many caves out toward Chilliwack Lake. Are the Chipmunk caves the ones close to Chipmunk Creek? Great photos of cougar tracks. Some wild country out by Chilliwack Lake. With some luck, you might just find some great footprints of a BF along the sandy shoreline. All creatures have to drink water sometimes, even a BF.
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