Sasquatch Watch In Deborgia

I have to once again chide the headline writers at our fine local newspaper, the Missoulian.  I’ve had issues with them before, and now they go and get my hopes up, only to dash them immediately, with a headline that reads “Sasquatch Hunters Gather in DeBorgia”. 

Reading the brief article, I quickly learned the disappointing truth.*  It turns out no one in DeBorgia was hunting Sasquatch at all, or anything else for that matter.  Six residents of the town simply got all dressed up for a “Sasquatch Hunting Fashion Show” at the O-Aces restaurant¹—a fashion show!  Is this what Montana has come to—instead of hunting Sasquatch, we put on Sasquatch-themed fashion shows?

Someone dressed as a “proper Englishman” won first prize among the three competing men; he carried “a homemade Sasquatch detection device,” which the intrepid Missoulian reporters didn’t even bother to describe or explain, much less provide a picture of—they just left it to our imaginations.  And why couldn’t they give us a picture of Susan Charles and her “Sasquatch-colored ghillie suit and tiara”? ² Or of first runner-up Sharon Korteum’s “camouflage-and-cookies outfit”?

DeBorgia, Montana is, as they say, “a place, sort of”—actually, it’s a “CDP” (Census Designated Place) some 90 miles west of Missoula; it’s practically in Idaho, just 20 miles this side of Lookout Pass and the Hiawatha Trail.  As of the 2010 census, DeBorgia (named in 1841 by the intrepid explorer Father Pierre DeSmet, after the St. Regis DeBorgia River and St. Francis DeBorgia) boasted a population of 78.  That’s up more than 10% from the 69 residents it had in 2000; the town is apparently experiencing some sort of boomlet, which may be why a half-dozen of its populace had to let off steam down at the O-Aces.  February in DeBorgia can be tough enough without the town being so danged crowded.

I appreciate the Missoulian reporting on this event, despite the misleading headline.  And I appreciate learning that there’s a woman in DeBorgia, Montana, who goes by the name of “Gigi DuBois”—any relation to Blanche?—and who does a mean Sasquatch call.  If there’s community theater in DeBorgia, I’d suggest casting Ms. DuBois in the Montana classic “A Sasquatch Named Desire”.  I bet folks would come from miles around to see it—I mean, they’d pretty much have to.

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*By Vince Devlin and Kim Brigggeman at the Missoulian (2/25/13)

¹ 245 Frontage Road, DeBorgia MT.  It looks like a very nice place; see below.

² A ghillie suit, in case you didn’t know (and I didn’t), is a camouflage suit that looks like foliage.  It’s all the rage in DeBorgia, Montana.  For all I know, Ms. Charles is hiding somewhere in the photo I took of a Sasquatch wandering just outside of DeBorgia—it turns out they’re not that hard to find.

 

 

 

 

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