Incident #1000340
Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California
Aug 1961
The written account of this incident is withheld because a witness asked for confidentiality.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 08 1961
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1961
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Humboldt Cty
- Nearest Town
- Weitchpec
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 9
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 25
- Latitude
- 4118--
- Longitude
- 12347--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley, hillside
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- South
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- spotty
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Unnatural Conditions
- logged
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- low
- Undergrowth type
- logging slash
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- hot
- Rainfall
- normal
- Clarity
- clear
- Humidity
- low
Source
- Source
- Track witness intv. by Jim McClarin
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JUL 1970
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- JUL 1970
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 17.2
- Greates Width
- 5.5
- Heel Width
- 3.0
- Average Depth
- 0.12
- Observer Print Depth
- 0.00
- Stride in Inches Average
- 54
- Shortest
- 36
- Estimated Age
- 2
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- 200
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- Track Drag or Slide
- slide of heel
- Ball of Foot
- double
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Pattern of walk
- straight
- Feet in Line?
- in line
- Direction of Travel
- South
- Material Tracks Made in
- deep dust, dirt
- Tracks Came From
- trees
- Tracks Went to
- water
- Remarks
- Tracks were an inch deep in dust, and showed heel slide going, downhill in dust. In hard red dirt tracks were only 1/8 of an inch, deep and human tracks did not show.
Witness 1
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- JUL 27 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- 2
- Other report by this witness
- 22
Witness 2
- Interviewer
- Jim McClarin
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- logging, outside on foot
- Track witnesses
- 5
- Other report by this witness
- 5
Witness 3
- Interviewer
- Jim McClarin
- Interview date
- JUL 17 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- come to see
- Track witnesses
- 7