Hikers are followed by a 8-10 foot tall black creature, later that night they heard a series of roars witnessed in British Columbia, Canada

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My story begins in the summer of 1983 on the Sunshine Coast near Gibsons BC. I was a Resident Leader at a YMCA camp at Langdale, about 20 Km's north. My assistant (I have forgotten his name), myself and 9 boys aged 10 and 11 left for an overnight hike up to Tetrahydren Ridge. " Tet " Ridge had been abandoned by Mac-Blo logging a few years before and was awaiting re-forestation . Consequently the area had many large 5 - 10 Hectare clear cuts, which after leaving the logging road we began to hike through. During these traverses we, the assistant and I, began to get brief glimpses of a large, black figure disappearing into the thick brush, either ahead of us or just of to the side, left or right. It looked Approx. 8 - 10 feet tall, although it was almost always uphill from us. As it was quite a ways off in the distance we could never be sure if it was real or just our imagination playing tricks on us. ( 15 year old boys have large imaginations, especially growing up hearing stories of Big...