Incident #1000337
Somes Bar, Siskayou Cty, California
Mar 1960
Account
Ivan Marx was sasquatch hunting for Pacific Northwest Expedition. He found tracks in old snow crossing the road to the Offield Mountain lookout, going downhill. Other witnesses included Bob Titmus, who was heading the PNE at the time. The tracks were 16 inches long, in only fair shape. Snow was onlyin a patch, so tracks could not be followed.
When
- Month
- Mar
- Year
- 1960
- Season
- spring
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Siskayou Cty
- Nearest Town
- Somes Bar
- Direction from Town
- North
- Distance from Town
- 3
- Population of Town
- 50
- Elevation/Altitude
- 35
- Latitude
- 41252-
- Longitude
- 123274-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- crossing
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- hillside
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- West
- Snow Condition
- shallow old
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- low
- Undergrowth type
- hard stemmed
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Rainfall
- normal
- Snow
- normal
Source
- Source
- Ivan Marx intv. by John Green. Bob Titmus also saw
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JUL 70
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- APR 70
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Estimated Age
- 1
- Age Unit
- weeks
- Number of Tracks
- 7
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- fair
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Claw Marks Y/N
- No
- Pattern of walk
- straight
- Feet in Line?
- in line
- Direction of Travel
- West, downhill
- Material Tracks Made in
- hard shallow snow
- Tracks Came From
- hillside
- Tracks Went to
- trees
Witness
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- JUL 18 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting, in car
- Track witnesses
- several
- Age
- 41 to 50
- Other report by this witness
- 4