SLIDE-ROCK BOLTER COUNTRY
Mountain Area — Lake City, Colorado
Status: Natural site · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/slide-rock-bolter-country-lake-city-colorado/

The fearsome critter that slides down mountains to swallow tourists.

The Slide-Rock Bolter is a "fearsome critter" of Colorado lumber-camp tall tales—a whale-like beast that clung to mountain slopes and slid down to swallow anything below, leaving a "slide-rock" scar. First printed in the 1910 Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, it explains real avalanche chutes on San Juan slopes like those around Lake City.

The Bolter is the lumberjack's — the whale-shaped that slides down mountains, the '10 Cox book that's the source. The hook is the tail — the anchor that holds it to the peak, the release that's the attack. The tourists are the prey — the gulped parties that the tales claim, the absence of evidence that's the proof.
The ranger was the decoy — the dummy tourist with the dynamite, the trap that the bolters saw through. The mountains are the range — the 45-degree slopes that it needs, the Colorado that's the home. The Slide-Rock Bolter is the tall tale — the lumberjack explanation for the missing, the gravity whale that slides.
The file keeps the Bolter: the Cox book, the hooked tail, the tourist diet, and the dynamite decoy.
The Slide-Rock Bolter is the archive's Lake City file — the lumberjack's whale.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Slide-Rock Bolter is the archive's Lake City file — the fearsome creature.
A mountain keeps its slider — the file's suggestion being that the Bolter's hold is the tall tale: the lumberjack's explanation, the hooked tail, and the tourists who don't come back.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] folklore creature: A tall-tale beast said to slide down slopes after prey; the stories explain real slide chutes. The figure answers to Slide-Rock Bolter in the retellings. Slide-Rock Bolter country in Lake City, Colorado carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. 'Slide-Rock Bolter' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The creature is part of the place's name now — whatever it was.
  source: Slide-Rock Bolter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide-Rock_Bolter)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The creature entered print in 1910 as a lumber-camp tall tale. Slide-Rock Bolter country's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Slide-Rock Bolter'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Slide-Rock Bolter — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide-Rock_Bolter

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