Tree Planter Recounts Close Sasquatch Encounter in Remote BC

Posted Wednesday, September 23, 2026

By Squatchable.com staff

A fascinating interview just surfaced over on the Bigfoot Witnesses YouTube channel that's definitely worth a listen. It features a firsthand account from a man who had a close encounter with what he believes were Sasquatch while working a tree planting contract in the remote wilderness of northern British Columbia back in 2003 or 2004. The witness comes across as incredibly credible. His father spent 35 years as a conservation officer and problem wildlife manager in southern Alberta, handling everything from dangerous bears to search and rescue operations. The old man was also an expert tracker who trained other conservation officers and even border patrol personnel. Growing up in that environment, the witness learned tracking and hunting from one of the best, which gives his observations a lot of weight. The encounter happened in one of the most isolated spots imaginable. The crew was heli-planting, meaning they flew in by helicopter to a cut block off the Alaska Highway, somewhere between mile markers 101 and 127, accessed via a forestry road called Gundy. The closest settlement was a gas station camp called Wonowan, and the next nearest was Pink Mountain. That's some of the lowest population density on the planet. As the witness points out, for anyone to have hoaxed this, they would have had to wait in the middle of nowhere specifically for this crew to show up, which seems pretty unlikely. So here's what went down. The witness and his best friend were the first ones flown into their section of the cut block. They loaded up with their tree bags and started working their way up a slope. The witness made it about two-thirds of the way up when nature called, so he wandered off along a bench overlooking the valley to find a private spot. That's when things got interesting. He describes coming face to face with an enormous being, around 8 feet tall, roughly 800 pounds, with shoulders about 4 to 5 feet across. The figure