The Slide Rock Bolter will make any person question how much they love mountains or want to hike again. The beast is an enormous creature that is somewhat fishlike. It has a split tail and no legs with two giant hooks at the end of each tail fin. Those hooks are used to dig into the side of a mountain so the monster can lay in wait for another victim. Its upper layer is so craggy it is mistaken for boulders.



Often waiting for days for an animal or an unsuspecting tourist to walk through its path, when it finally does happen the Bolter will lift its tail, release the hooks and hurdle toward its prey. Bolters are so large that the speed they travel and the size of their wide mouths make it nearly impossible to avoid. The force at which the creature travels is also so great, that it is propelled over the next mountain to wait for another meal.



This monster was sighted throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Lumberjacks of the time reported hearing the deep guttural rumbling of the earth and snapping of hundred-year-old trees as the beast barreled down the side of a mountain. It is said that only a tightly packed trail of dirt is left behind when the Bolter life’s down a mountainside.



One summer in the Rocky Mountains was said to be particularly filled with Bolter attacks. This lead one park ranger to devising a plan to stop the monster from claiming any more lives of the hiking folk. The man made a dummy, plaid shirt, and jeans, much like a lumberjack of the time.



The ranger followed the trail left by the latest Bolter attack and set the trap at the base of the following mountain. He waited all that day and the following night until a thunderous sound woke him at the crack of dawn. He looked to the top of the mountain and saw a giant dirt path forming, it was the Bolter out for food.



The ranger watched as the path found its way to the dummy. When the debris connected with the dummy, a colossal explosion ensued, the ranger had filled the false tourist with TNT. It is said that to this day, the side of that mountain is still covered in giant stonelike pieces of the Slide Rock Bolter.