Bigfoot in Grand Canyon, circa 1969

I've been scanning in mass quantities of slides my Dad shot when I was a wee lad. I was working through some shots from a family vacation to the Grand Canyon and I couldn't help but notice what looks like Bigfoot strolling up the hillside in that trademark hunched gate we've all seen in the various blurry Bigfoot shots. It's just blurry enough that I can't quite figure out what that thing really is and there are no other similarly textured objects in the scene that I've found. If I had to guess, I'd say it's the snarled remains of a Juniper tree--the texture looks about like Juniper bark.

Some technical info: This slide is a standard 35mm slides (I don't know what type of film). I scanned it at 4800dpi on my Epson V500. I've chosen this resolution because it's high enough to capture the film grain and so if I were to ever perform noise reduction, the grain could be effectively removed. Scanning at a a lower resolution will still capture the image detail, but could cause aliasing of the grain thus making it harder (or impossible) to remove. I've sharpened the inset to try to clear it up. The black smudges seen on the inset (there's one on bigfoot's shoulder and another about halfway between "him" and the right edge of the photo) are a defect in the slide itself I've been seeing on most of these old slides. I don't know if it's just something that happens with aging or if it was there on the original. I had the sharpening shut off for my scanner, but I suppose it's possible it's the cause. I'm intending to have a look at the slide under a microscope to see if the artifact is really on the slide.

Bart