Incident #1000046
Klemtu, Swindle Isl, British Columbia
Dec 1961
Account
Bob Titmus was walking his dog at night at Klemtu, and found a trail of 13.5 inch tracks in the heavy frost on the boardwalk among the cannery cabins uphill from the cannery.
When
- Observation Date
- DEC 08 1961
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1961
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- night
Where
- State / province
- British Columbia
- County
- Swindle Isl
- Nearest Town
- Klemtu
- Direction from Town
- North
- Distance from Town
- 0
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 0
- Latitude
- 52353-
- Longitude
- 128311-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- trail
- Near or/at
- empty building
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- island
- Exact Terrain
- trail
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- East
- Nearby Water
- ocean, bay
- Distance to Water
- 100 yards
- Substratum
- solid rock
- Snow Condition
- new over old
- Cover
- sparse
- Tree size
- mostly small
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- none
- Unnatural
- cleared
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- cold
- Rainfall
- normal
- Snow
- normal
- Humidity
- light snow
- Lighting
- flashlight
Source
- Source
- Bob Titmus intv. by John Green
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- 1970
- Source reliability
- 9
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1962
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 13.5
- Greates Width
- 5.5
- Stride in Inches Average
- 40
- Estimated Age
- 4
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- 20
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- fair
- Arc Y/N
- Yes
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Pattern of walk
- toe out
- Feet in Line?
- spread wide apart
- Direction of Travel
- not consistent
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft shallow snow
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- JUL 26 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- walking
- Track witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 41 to 50
- Other report by this witness
- 22