Incident #1000327
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
1958
Account
Informant apparently a heavy equipment operator on the Bluff Creek road contract. He saw 16 inch tracks on the new road near McDuff Camp, coming up out of the valley, across the road and on up the hill. One of 1958 "Bigfoot" reports. (Location given indicates McDuff Camp and Louse Camp are the same place.) l
When
- Year
- 1958
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Del Norte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Orleans
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 13
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 25
- Latitude
- 4125--
- Longitude
- 12343--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- crossing
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- hillside
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000329
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley, hillside
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- East
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Substratum
- fine material
- Ground condition
- dry
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- mixed
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- moderate
- Undergrowth size
- high
- Undergrowth type
- hard stemmed
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- madrona, pine, Douglas fir
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- hot
- Clarity
- clear
- Humidity
- low
Source
- Source
- ~~Jack Skidmore intv. by Jim McClarin
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JUN 70
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- JUN 70
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Average Depth
- 2.00
- Observer Print Depth
- 1.00
- Stride in Inches Average
- 52
- Estimated Age
- 8
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Pattern of walk
- straight
- Feet in Line?
- in line
- Direction of Travel
- South, uphill
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Tracks Came From
- water
- Tracks Went to
- hillside
- Remarks
- No depth estimate given, but report states big tracks were twice as, deep as witness' tracks. On steep dirt bank prints showed only, toes, going uphill.
Witness
- Interviewer
- Jim McClarin
- Interview date
- JUN 30 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- roadbuilding, outside on foot
- Track witnesses
- several
- Other report by this witness
- 2