Has the Squamish 'Sasquatch' been identified?

A White Rock, B.C., man believes he may be the "Sasquatch" caught on a viral video filmed by wildlife biologist Myles Lamont while hiking Tricouni Peak in the Tantalus mountain range near Squamish, B.C., more than two years ago.

The video shows a black dot of a figure apparently moving up the slope of a snow-covered mountain in a remote area of the range. Lamont estimated his altitude at 2,000 metres.

In the video, Lamont wonders why a human would walk up the side of a mountain "in the middle of nowhere" without a backpack or gear.

Peter Tennant, a.k.a. Ridgewalker Pete, says he believes he was the 'Sasquatch' captured on video. (CBC)

Since he posted it last month on YouTube, the video has more than a million views. And even though it was shot more than two years ago, the wildlife biologist is still wondering today what it was he saw.

"What we saw was not wearing any gear and no snowshoes and covering ground very quickly," he says.

"I'm familiar with bears and other wildlife and seeing other backpackers in the bush and this was not quite like any of those, so it was a bit different."

Ridgewalker Pete hikes solo

Enter Peter Tennant, a.k.a. Ridgewalker Pete. The 56-year-old from White Rock believes his admittedly odd hobby of walking by himself across remote B.C. mountainsides put him in the cross-hairs of Lamont's lens.

Peter Tennant is pictured hiking on Tricouni Peak in July 2011. (CBC)

Tennant says he does a lot of solo hiking, shoots pictures and video of his walks, then sets them to music. And Tennant says he was on Tricouni Peak in July 2011, the same month Lamont shot his video.

The hiker says he ran across the Sasquatch story on the CBC website and recognized the valley as the same one he'd been exploring that July.

"[Lamont] did this little pan [around in the video] and I started laughing, because I recognized that valley," says Tennant.

"That's where I was walking all around. And then I looked more, and then I stopped and looked in my hiking notes, and I realized, Tricouni Mountain, 2011. I think that was me."

Mystery solved ... or is it?

Tennant recalls he was doing little day hikes on his weeklong walkabout on the mountain.

"There was a huge amount of snow left over from the winter that year and I was shocked," he says. "Even though it was summertime down in the valley, up high it sort of felt like winter."

"I was by myself and I wasn't really set up for avalanche stuff, so I decided to just stay in the sort of higher elevation but not go up to the peak."

Peter Tennant took this shot of his high camp on Tricouni Peak. (CBC)

Tennant says he didn't have a backpack or snowshoes, but did have an emergency locator. "The snow had melted on the surface so I was just walking on top of the snow."

But Lamont's not buying it. He says to be that high up with no backpack or snowshoes is "bizarre."

Ridgewalker Pete says his hiking diary confirms he was on Tricouni Mountain the last week of July.

Mystery solved ... until we asked Lamont, the wildlife biologist who shot the video, "When were you on Tricouni Peak?"

"We were there July 2," he said.

And that's at least three weeks before Ridgewalker Pete.

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