Gearing up for summer

We're in the "dead" time of year right now as far as business goes.  Every other business owner in Bailey is telling us the same thing:  Just get through winter and hope for a great summer.  In the meantime we're constantly re-arranging the layout, trying to find the best way to arrange the store to make it both efficient and attractive.  I went to the Denver Gift Mart last month and bought a ton of merchandise to get ready for a busy summer of hikers, campers and other tourists coming through Bailey - like walking sticks, coonskin caps (Daphne's request), teddy bears, knives, rustic iron signs etc etc.  To display all of this stuff (not to mention our own t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers) I am building new shelves in the "Sasquatch Outpost" room out of rustic log planks and log bannisters that I'll use as legs.  I also bought two peeled 10 inch logs that will go from floor to ceiling and I'll build shelves in between them and insert dowels all around to hang stuff from.  When it's all done it should look pretty cool.

I've been out Squatching a couple of times lately, and we found some signs that are hard to explain.  In one spot we found a set of elk tracks that we could follow in the snow for over 100 yards.  The strange thing was that the elk was apparently crapping as it ran and it left droppings along the entire length of the tracks.  Then the tracks suddenly stopped and we found an elk-sized body imprint in the snow.  There were no tracks leading away from the spot, no drag marks and no blood (though there was some hair in the imprint of the body).  Then we found some strange tracks that paralleled the elk tracks that were 10-12 feet apart (more than one print in each place, but made by something very large).  These tracks went up to and past the place where the elk fell, which makes me wonder if a Sasquatch could have possibly killed the elk and carried its body away??  As I said, the elk clearly did not leave that spot on its own... so what happened to the body?  No way to prove one way or the other, but i've never seen anything like it.  Here's a picture of the imprint in the snow.  Judge for yourself.

The imprint of the body in the snow: legs to the right.  My footprints in the foreground.  No elk prints could be found leading away from this spot, nor drag marks made by a lion or bear.

You can see the droppings in the elk tracks leading up to the place where it fell.  Droppings were along the entire length of the tracks.

The larger prints we found paralleling the elk trail