The following report was sent to me from a Mr. Sean Landers concerning possible footprints found by himself and his girlfriend on Saturday June 3rd, 2017 while they were hiking at Deer Lake in Sasquatch Provincial Park.

My girlfriend Adri and I went and stayed in Site 12 on June 2,3, and 4th. She is also enthusiastic about studying Sasquatch, so to be in Site 12 was really thrilling.  This is our second time exploring outside of the provincial park, and we went a lot farther this time. Last time, I fell in the creek on the way out, but that did not happen this time. 

I included the photographs of the footprints and the nest. The prints were found along the trail that is just north of Deer Lake.  As the trail leaves the provincial park, and nears the creek crossing, that is where we found the footprints. They are odd, as the toes are not completely where they should be… not sure. The toes are large and round, and have no claws at all though, which is a Sasquatch trait. As well, the sheer bulbous nature of each toe is substantial. Each toe print was about the size of a large cherry tomato, and very round. The depression in the mud from the print was also odd, in that it was very deep. When I stepped in the same mud while walking, it only made a superficial print, but these are clearly well sunk into the ground. I am 230 lbs, so whatever made these must have been more than me. 

We hiked up the FSR as indicated with a pencil line on the map I sent along with this email. Where the pencil line ends is where we stopped and surveyed with binoculars, then came back. On our first trip out here last year, after I fell in the creek, we only made it so far as the X marked on the map. This year was much better.

On the way back to our campsite we were looking for a route down through the woods from the trail, and decided to just wing it. From the trail above we could barely see our orange camping umbrella in the site, so we used that as a reference to descend through the thick forest off the elevated trail. It was steep, and dangerous, so we went slowly and about 150 meters north of the site (#12) I found this very unusually made structure. 

The pics don’t really show the scale or complexity very well. It was about seven or eight feet across, and the inside was very smoothed out, just like a hammock. It consists of several large tree sections lain across each other and tied into a bent over tree that comes out of the mountainside. A great mass of smaller sticks and vegetation have been added then, to make up solid walls and sides with and opening barely detectable at one end. The inside is cave-like, and rounded very smoothly with no sharp ends sticking in. It does not look like anything that forces of nature would accumulate. My Mum thinks it might be a spot where a bear might sleep, but I don’t think bears weave together and build elaborate structures. I hope you like the pics and look forward to your feedback. I would like to go back to the nest and look for prints and hair samples.

Thanks for the additional story about an encounter in that area. I will look into it. By the way, I carry a shotgun just for protection of me and my girlfriend. We would never kill a Sasquatch or anything else for that matter. I don’t even like stepping on plants. We both are very much worshipers of nature.

The location of this find was almost the same location where another couple (Richards) had a frightening encounter with a possible Sasquatch back in 2009.  Sean does agree that these prints could have another explanation other than a Sasquatch.  But in my opinion, the possibility is there.

Thomas Steenburg