One summer morning, a few years back, two friends, Dan and Josiah went hiking deep into a canyon just outside of town.

Their plan was to build a large, tepee-like structure using fallen timber. It would be a gift to the area's

Sasquatch people. They arrived at their destination about three miles out of town and paused to

look around. By the looks of things, they'd probably need to venture a bit farther up the mountain

and deeper into the woods for enough material for the

structure. They blazed a trail as they made their way, adding another quarter to half a mile to

the track before they came upon a fairly level clearing with a tree stumped near the middle of it.

It was the perfect location for their gift. They split up and started

collecting skinny 10 to 15 foot tall timber to erect into the structure around the tree stump.

The stump would act as a table within the teepee. The door or the opening was about five or six feet

tall. Once the structure was about five or six feet tall.

Once the structure was in place and standing on its own, they fill the gaps with smaller

sticks and branches and leaves to help keep the rain out.

When they were done, they left a granola bar on the stump and headed back down the mountain.

After they arrived at their car, they packed up and began their slow drive back out of the canyon. Just when they were about to make the bend

and the road, something moving up on the ridge caught their attention, and it was the ridge

that they were just on. There, running on the ridge was a reddish brown-haired Sasquatch,

quickly making its way down the mountain towards them.

When the creature reached the edge of the hill and saw the car,

it stopped and just looked at them.

As they looked back at it and as if it realized they'd seen it, it morphed into a

tree blending into the rest of the hillside. One second it was standing there and the next instant

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