"Smelling" is Believing?

This morning on Twitter, I stumbled across a link to an interesting article in our local paper. In the article, a man and his family visiting Wilderness State Park at the end of July got more than they bargained for.

The man described riding his mountain bike along the Swamp Line Trail and turning onto Nebo Trail. At some point along his ride, he ran headlong into a "wall" of foul-smelling human body odor.

Apparently, the stench shook him up so badly that he contacted the rangers at the park the next morning and has also talked to local law enforcement agencies since then. He has made it his "mission" to prove what he smelled was a Big Foot. He and his family also report finding a giant, 16" long, footprint pressed into the pine needles near Glacier Boulder.

As I read the article, my first thought was that Swamp Line Trail doesn't connect to Nebo, at least not directly. Then as he described the overpowering human body odor smell, I had to smile.

Oh, that's just Wade!

(*ahem!* He's never been particularly fussy about his personal hygiene.)

Seriously, though... a Sasquatch?

Actually, what made this article blog-worthy was the fact that it also discussed cougar and wolf sightings in the area and provided a link to MichiganCougar.Com where they have archived almost 2,000 Michigan cougar sightings, including 74 in Emmet County.

Since several of the cougar sightings I know about aren't listed here, including my own, I have to assume their numbers are a very modest representation of the actual number.

Hmmm...so does that imply that there may actually be many, many more Big Foot "smellings" than the one reported in the article?

You know, just in case, I think I really should pick up a stick of Mitchum Power Gel for Wade before the tourists come back in the spring. ;)

~ Robin