Incident #1000272
North Bend, King Cty, Washington
Jan 1973
Account
Informant and Ron Bookwalter, at the scene of informant's 1969 sighting (incident 1000271) noted a dark figure up on a ridge a long way off. Even with 14 power binoculars could see no details. Was standing on snowfield. Three times it bent down as if picking something up. While passing binoculars to friend lost track of it, presume it left. Location is behind Mount Si.
When
- Observation Date
- JAN 17 1973
- Month
- Jan
- Year
- 1973
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- early afternoon
- Duration
- minute
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- King Cty
- Nearest Town
- North Bend
- Direction from Town
- East
- Distance from Town
- 5
- Population of Town
- 1000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 40
- Latitude
- 4731--
- Longitude
- 12141--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- logged area
- Related incident id
- 1000271, 1000273, 1000274
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not looked for
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- ridge
- Slope
- ridge crest
- Substratum
- forest litter
- Ground condition
- frozen
- Snow Condition
- shallow old
- Cover
- none
- Unnatural Conditions
- logged
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- moderate
- Undergrowth size
- low
- Undergrowth type
- logging slash
- Unnatural
- cleared
- General undergrowth
- moderate
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- cool
- Rainfall
- normal
- Snow
- normal
- Wind
- calm
- Clarity
- overcast
- Humidity
- high
- Lighting
- cloudy bright
- Visibility Index
- 3
Source
- Source
- Robert John Parker intv. by John Green. Also Nick
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JAN 73
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- JAN 73
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- could not tell
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- stooped
- Hair Colour
- black
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- picked something up
- Arms Action
- reaching
- Arms Used
- for picking up
- Additional Movement
- disappeared
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- JAN 24 1973
- Witness Saw with
- binoculars
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- over half mile
- Least vertical distance
- 500 or more
- Action on sighting
- stayed still
- No of witnesses
- 2
- Age
- 16 to 20
- Other report by this witness
- 3