Incident #1000087
Lillooet, Fraser Canyon, British Columbia
Nov 1968
Account
Paul Kiessling and another man were hunting when they came on a line of tracks on a mine access road up Texas Creek, south of Lillooet. The tracks were 16 inches by 6 inches, with a stride from 40 to 45 inches, in four inches of new snow. They came out of the bush onto the road, went up a steep grade into the bush, and back out again farther on, one and a half miles in all. Rene Dahinden said a drawing of one of the tracks looked okay to him.
When
- Observation Date
- NOV 15 1968
- Month
- Nov
- Year
- 1968
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- British Columbia
- County
- Fraser Canyon
- Nearest Town
- Lillooet
- Direction from Town
- South
- Distance from Town
- 15
- Population of Town
- 2000
- Latitude
- 5030--
- Longitude
- 12155--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Slope
- steep
- Nearby Water
- creek
Source
- Source
- Paul Kiessling, interviewed by Rene Dahinden
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- 1968
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1968
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Greates Width
- 6.0
- Estimated Animal Weight
- 600
- Stride in Inches Average
- 42
- Longest
- 45
- Shortest
- 40
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- No
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft shallow snow
Witness
- Interviewer
- Rene Dahinden
- Interview date
- 1968
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Track witnesses
- 2