Incident #1000118
Chilliwack, Fraser Valley Dis, British Columbia
Aug 1986
Account
Searching an area where a sighting was reported, Tom Steenburg found tracks on the bank of a small creek in the Chilliwack River valley a mile through the bush from the road. Most were poor, on hard ground and rock. One good print photographed and cast.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 21 1986
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1986
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- British Columbia
- County
- Fraser Valley Dis
- Nearest Town
- Chilliwack
- Direction from Town
- Southeast
- Population of Town
- 40000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 10
- Latitude
- 4905--
- Longitude
- 1213---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- water
- Near or/at
- hillside
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- valley bottom
- Slope
- steep
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- fine material, broken rock
- Cover
- heavy
- General
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Tom Steenburg, Calgary, letter to John Green
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- DEC 87
- Source reliability
- 10
- Incident reliablility
- 7
- Jwg file date
- DEC 87
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 18.0
- Greates Width
- 9.5
- Heel Width
- 8.0
- Average Depth
- .50
- Observer Print Depth
- 0.00
- Estimated Age
- 1
- Age Unit
- weeks
- Number of Tracks
- 110
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- fair
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Tracks Came From
- valley
- Tracks Went to
- hillside
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 31 to 40