Incident #1000331
Weitchpec, Del Norte Cty, California
Nov 1959
Account
Checking the Bluff Creek sandbar exactly a year after first finding the "15-inch" tracks there, Bob Titmus found a fresh set. At one point they indicated that the creature ducked under a log with only 3 1/2 foot clearance, leaving knuckle marks, instead of going a few feet around it. It also ducked under a camera trip line.
When
- Observation Date
- NOV 01 1959
- Month
- Nov
- Year
- 1959
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Del Norte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Weitchpec
- Direction from Town
- North
- Distance from Town
- 16
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 15
- Latitude
- 412440
- Longitude
- 1234311
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- shore
- Near or/at
- water
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000330, 1000333, 1000334
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- 25 feet
- Substratum
- forest litter
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- mixed
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- moderate
- Undergrowth size
- low
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- pine, Douglas Fir, madrona
Weather and light
- Humidity
- high
Source
- Source
- Bob Titmus intv. by John Green. Also personal obse
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- NOV 59
- Source reliability
- 10
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- NOV 59
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Greates Width
- 6.5
- Heel Width
- 5.0
- Average Depth
- 0.75
- Toes
- 1.00
- Observer Print Depth
- 0.00
- Observer Weight
- 160
- Stride in Inches Average
- 50
- Estimated Age
- 4
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- 12
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- Ball of Foot
- double
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Ridge Behind Toes Y/N
- Yes
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Claw Marks Y/N
- No
- Size of Toes
- toes all about the same
- Longest Toe
- first
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Pattern of walk
- straight
- Feet in Line?
- in line
- Obsticles Offering Choice
- under
- Other footprint codes
- 10126, 10129, 10130
- Direction of Travel
- North
- Material Tracks Made in
- wet sand
- Other Marks
- knuckle prints
- Tracks Came From
- water
- Tracks Went to
- trees
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- JUL 27 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- several
- Age
- 41 to 50
- Other report by this witness
- 22