Cascades

Something in the Trees Learned My Dad’s Knock

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Old log cabin door at night in a dark Cascade forest with a huge footprint in the mud, scary bigfoot stories

I always thought scary bigfoot stories were for people who wear camo to the grocery store. Then my dad and I spent a weekend at his cabin in the Washington Cascades, and something in the trees learned his knock. I’d heard plenty of bigfoot horror stories from guys at the gas station. None of them … Read more

Every Morning on Our Trail Crew, Someone Had Built a New Rock Stack Pointing Up the Valley

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Tall stack of balanced river rocks beside a misty mountain trail in a dark evergreen forest, sasquatch encounter story

I didn’t want this to be a sasquatch encounter story. For the first two weeks, I thought it was a prank. Somebody on the crew messing with the new guy. That’s what trail crews do. But nobody on our crew could have built those stacks, and by the end, none of us were laughing. We … Read more