Outdoorsman Spots Mysterious Figure Descending Red Wall Cliffs

A seasoned outdoorsman shares his account of nine autumns spent camping in Granite Hollow, where he observed unusual upright figures moving through the valley below the Red Wall cliffs. The sightings were always distant and brief—dark, tall shapes crossing gaps in the brush, too broad and wrong in proportion to be a person, appearing after deer moved through the lower cover at dusk. The figure always stayed below the cliffs, until the tenth autumn, when something changed. A dark figure emerged from the top of North Chute and began descending the broken rock face toward the narrator's camp. The story details the careful