Incident #1000100
Sooke, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia
Nov 1975
Account
John Barr found about 200 footprints up and down a road, very steep, at the 5 to 600 foot level near Sooke. 17 1/4 by 7 1/4 inches, three toes, big toe curved inwards, 5 1/4 inches long. Stride about five feet. Made one cast, tried photos by light of gasoline lantern. Prints in about three inches of snow, but compacted to ice.
When
- Month
- Nov
- Year
- 1975
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- British Columbia
- County
- Vancouver Isl
- Nearest Town
- Sooke
- Population of Town
- 500
- Elevation/Altitude
- 500
- Latitude
- 4825--
- Longitude
- 12340--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- bushes
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Exact Terrain
- road
- Slope
- steep
- Snow Condition
- shallow new
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Snow
- early snow
Source
- Source
- John Barr, interviewed by John Green
- Source Type
- interview
- Source Date
- DEC 1975
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1975
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 17.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Average Depth
- 2.00
- Stride in Inches Average
- 60
- Number of Tracks
- 200
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- fair
- Number of Toes
- 3
- Claw Marks Y/N
- No
- Size of Toes
- big toe far largest
- Longest Toe
- first
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Direction of Travel
- forth and back
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft shallow snow
Witness
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- 1975
- Track witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 21 to 30