Weston

It doesn't fall straight off the mountain into the creek.

It kind of cascades down.

So there's kind of levels.

You could climb up different levels to get to the top of it if you wanted to.

And the first thing I notice is this huge thing kind of crouched.

at maybe five feet up from the base of the waterfall.

You can obviously tell where the waterfall hits the creek.

It flattens out.

This thing's five feet above it, crouching on a rock.

And I just stop immediately and freeze.

I had no idea what I was looking at.

I just knew it's the biggest damn thing I've ever seen out in the wild.

It's much bigger than any bears in this area.

You might get a 400-pound black bear in this area, but that's big.

or the area that we were at.

And this thing was much, much bigger.

And it was kind of crouched in a catcher's position, if you will, but its knees were kind of pointed out to the side more.

And it had its right arm into the waterfall.

It was just holding it there in the waterfall, letting the water run over its arm.

I don't know, maybe it was getting a drink or I don't know what it was doing, but it obviously didn't know that I was there yet.