The episode opens at Blackwater Ridge in Lostcreek, Colorado, with several friends on a camping trip. This is the sixth day of their trip. One of the guys is playing a video game, another sends a message to his family on his cell, while the third goes outside to relieve himself. Strange noises are heard in the dark woods, followed by screams. The other guy from his tent is concerned about Brad and go out to investigate. We hear growls just before one of the guys is pulled out of his tent screaming. The last of the three guys remains in his tent, but is being stalked by whatever is in the woods.
Sam is still in Palo Alto, California, and is taking flowers to the grave of Jessica, his dead girlfriend. Sam is very sad about his lose and says he's should've protected her and told her the truth, but it was a dream, Sam is in the Impala with Dean. Dean is listening to Foreigner's "Hotblooded." Sam has been having nightmares. Dean offers the chance to drive, and this is the first time ever. Sam and Dean are just outside Grand Junction (except in real life Grand Junction is pretty much surrounded by desert I spent a summer there). It's been over a week since Jessica's death. They are looking to their dad to have the answer to what's happening. Blackwater ridge is nothing but woods.
Sam and Dean start investigating by stopping at the ranger's station. There's abandoned silver and gold mines everywhere along with grizzlies. Sam says that they're environmental studies majors at U.C. Boulder, but the ranger thinks that they're friends with Haley and that they're planning to go out to Blackwater Ridge. Dean tells ranger Wilkinson that they are. His missing brother filled out a permit saying that he wouldn't return until the 24th, so it's not exactly a missing person. Dean wants to get a copy of the permit, and they get one. Sam wants to go directly to the coordinates, not investigate and talk with Haley Collins first.
Dean and Sam pose are rangers with the Park Service to ask Haley some questions about her brother Tommy. She likes Dean's car. Tommy was checking in with his phone, emails, and videos, and he has a satellite phone as a back-up. Haley and her younger brother are both worried about Tommy. Haley has hired a guide and is heading out tomorrow morning to find Tommy. Sam asks her to forward the videos to him.
Sam and Dean go to a local bar with music playing in the background Lynyrd Skynyrd "Down South Jukin'." Sam has learned that Blackwater Ridge, doesn't get much traffic, mostly local campers. This past April two hikers went missing out there and where never found. In 1982, eight people disappeared and in 1959 and 1936. Every 23 years like clockwork. Sam picks up something moving really fast outside Tommy's tent. In 1959, one camper survived and Sam and Dean track him down.
They are still posing as rangers, and want to know what attacked those people. They want to know what they're dealing with, so they can stop it. The old man, Mr. Shaw, doesn't think they'll believe no one else has. He says that it moved to fast to see and hide too well. It got inside their cabin, by unlocking their door. He didn't wake up until he heard his parents screaming. It drug them off into the woods, and left a huge scar on his shoulder. He says that there's something evil in the woods, some sort of a demon.
Dean knows it's not a demon. Sam says that it something corporeal. Dean suggests a skin walker, a black dog, but it's a creature and it's corporeal which means they can kill it (Almost a Predator reference). Dean and Sam start to pack up some weapons in a green duffell bag. They're planning to go with Haley, and keep their eyes out for their fuzzy predator friend.
The guide, Roy, doesn't think the little brother, Ben, should come with them. Sam and Dean asks to come with them in jeans and biker boots. We cut to see Tommy handing up in a cave, along with one of his buddies. A creature makes it's way towards them and starts eating Tommy's friend.
The rescue team are hiking through the woods. The guide hunts bucks and bears, and Dean asks if Bambi or Yogi ever hunt him back. The guide saves Dean from a bear trap. Haley figures out that they're not rangers. Dean tells her that they're brother looking for their father and he figured that they're in the same boat. Dean packaged provisions, he has a bag a peanut M&Ms. The guide has lead them to Blackwater ridge, to the exactly coordinates that their dad gave them. They don't hear anything in the forest, not even crickets. Sam and Dean encourage them to stay together. The guide calls out to them as he finds the camp site, that looks like a grizzly attacked. Haley starts yelling for Tommy. Dean finds markings that show the bodies were dragged from the campsite, and then says it's no Skin Walker or Black Dog.
Haley finds Tommy's phone. Dean reassures her that he could be alive. They hear a scream for help in the forest. They rush out to look for someone, and there's nothing. Sam thinks something is wrong and says to go back to camp. They arrive to find that they're supplies are gone. This thing is smart, and wants to cut them off so they can't call for help. Sam wants to see their dad's journal. He thinks they're dealing with a Wendigo, but they're supposed to be in the Minnesota woods and Dean's never heard of one this far west. The claws and the way it can mimic a human voice makes Sam think this is what they're dealing with. Guns are useless.
Sam tells the group that it's time to go, and that if you shot this thing you'll make it mad. It's near perfect hunter and it's going to hunt them down and ear them alive, unless they get out of there. Dean says that they need to settle in and protect theirselves.
Dean starts making Anasazi symbols around camp for protection saying that the Wendigo can't cross over them. Sam is angry and he knows that their dad is not here. Dean thinks that he's never been here. Dean explains that their dad's book is why they're here. It was their dad's most single valuable possession ever, and it has everything he knows about every evil thing in there, and since he's passed it on to them, they're supposed to pick up where he left off: saving people, hunting things, the family business (26). Sam doesn't understand why he doesn't contact them. Dean intends to do the job that they're dad gave them to do. Sam just wants to find his dad and Jessica's killer, it's all he can think about. Dean says killing as many evil things as possible helps him. They hear another cry in the darkness. Roy hears it and says it's no grizzly. Roy shoots at it and leaves the circle. Sam and Dean chase after it. We see him getting pulled up a tree.
The next morning, Haley says that these things aren't supposed to be real. Dean says that they're learned about these things in there family. Sam explains that Wendigo is a Cree Indian word that means "evil that devours." Dean says that they're hundreds of years old and they used to be human and they turned into one by cannibalism. Cultures all over the world believe that eating human flesh gives a person certain abilities, speed, strength, immortality, but if you eat enough of it over the years you become a less than human things that's always hungry. The Wendigo keeps its victims alive so it keep eat them alive. Guns and knives are useless. They've got to burn it.
The rescue party goes in search of the creature and find many trees with bloody claw prints on them. Just as Sam says that the claw prints were too easy to follow, the creature roars and runs by in stealth mode looking much like the invisible hunter from Predator. Bloods drips on Haley just before Roy falls out of the tree. The group runs from the creature. When Ben falls down, Sam helps him up, which causes them to get separated from Haley and Dean. The Wendigo takes Haley and Dean back to his layer in an abandoned mine, and Sam and Dean follow the trail.
As they make their way inside, they see the creature walking down one of the dark mine shafts. Sam keeps Ben from drawing any attention by covering his mouth. They make their way down the passage, and Ben falls through some of the old floor boards into a chamber filled human remains. Sam follows him down and they find Dean and Haley hanging by their wrists. They are able to get them down, and then Haley sees that Tommy is still there as well. He looks dead, but awakens when she touches his face. They cut him down, and start to make their way out of the mine. Dean finds some flare guns. The five of them are walking out when they hear the Wendigo growling. Dean stays behind to distract the creature, as Sam leads the siblings out of the mine.
Dean yells at the Wendigo trying to get it's attention. Sam hear growling and tells the siblings to go on without him. He prepares for a fight, and then realizes the Wendigo is behind him. He rushes back to Haley and her brothers, as the Wendigo chases them. The creature is closing in on them, when Dean shoot it in the stomach with a flare. The creature is soon consumed with flames and is destroyed.
Back the ranger station, we hear Ben telling the authorities stories of a 800 to 900 lbs bears in the woods. Haley thanks Dean for their help. Haley and Ben go with Tommy in the ambulance, but before she leaves, she gives Dean a kiss. Dean says that he hates camping. Sam and Dean are back on the search for dad, but in the mean time Sam says he's driving. Dean gives him the keys as the music starts playing, "Fly By Night" by Rush.
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