Incident #1000332
Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California
Dec 1959
Account
Bob Wahlund, Howard Ames and Glen Moore saw flat, 5-toed, 16-inch tracks, very clear, in shallow new snow around a track loader parked at the junction of the Bluff Creek road and the Onion Mountain road.
When
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1959
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Humboldt Cty
- Nearest Town
- Weitchpec
- Direction from Town
- North
- Distance from Town
- 8
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 25
- Latitude
- 411829
- Longitude
- 1234300
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- empty machine
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley, hillside
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- East
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- quarter mile
- Substratum
- fine material
- Snow Condition
- shallow new
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- mixed
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- high
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- cool
- Rainfall
- normal
- Snow
- normal
- Clarity
- overcast
Source
- Source
- Bob Wahlund intv. by Jim McClarin
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JUL 70
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- JUL 70
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Average Depth
- 1.75
- Observer Print Depth
- 1.75
- Estimated Age
- 10
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- 20
- Trail Followed Y/N
- No
- Track Condition
- very good
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Pattern of walk
- straight
- Feet in Line?
- spread apart
- Direction of Travel
- North, downhill
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft shallow snow
- Tracks Came From
- hillside
- Tracks Went to
- shore
- Trackmaker attracted by
- machine activity
Witness
- Interviewer
- Jim McClarin
- Interview date
- JUL 18 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- roadbuilding, outside on foot
- Track witnesses
- 3
- Other report by this witness
- 5