An incident in the early 1960s that got me
deeply interested in the subject of Sasquatch
went something like this: A logging company
owner by the name of Joe Manuck had a smaller
show at a place on Pitt Lake called
Frenchman's Bay (now known as Christian Cove
on the maps). He went up the mountain about
one mile or so to get at some big timber in a
very steep and rugged canyon. In the process
of setting up a temporary camp for his crew
and cook, Manuck towed a wood frame and
plywood cook/bunk house on 3-ft-round skid
logs up the valley with a D-8 Cat. After
Manuck logged the show and got most of the
good wood out, he left the old cook/bunk house
up there for family and friends to use as a
hunting cabin.
One
weekend during the fall of about 1962, my
friends Fred Gerak, Ron Gerak and Vince Manuck
Jr. headed up to the area for some blacktail
deer hunting. They reached the place late on a
Friday afternoon and proceeded to give the old
cabin a quick sweep to get rid of the mouse
droppings, chop enough firewood to last a
couple of days, cook some dinner and then hit
the sack early for some much needed rest.
Sometime during the middle of the night they
were all rudely awakened by a massive crash of
something hitting the outside of the cabin
hard enough to dislodge the stove pipes and
fill the entire cabin with black soot and
choking smoke. At first light in the morning
they inspected the cabin fully expecting to
find a giant boulder, claw marks from a big
bear or some other such sign on the outside
walls but found nothing.
I
went up the following weekend on a hunting
trip and had a good look around the cabin for
myself. I found no broken branches on any of
the small alders that had sprung up beside the
cabin or anything else to indicate something
with a rational explanation responsible for
crashing into the cabin. Over the years I
often pondered the thought of what could have
possibly hit the cabin's walls "so high up"
above the skid logs (on the bunk side where
everyone was sleeping and probably snoring a
bit) with the force required to knock the
stove and its pipes completely out of
commission. Not a one of us could figure this
out until a later date when the stories of
Sasquatch began to quietly circulate amongst
the area's loggers.
© Ken Kristian
West
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