Incident #1000341
Weitchpec, Humboldt Ctyk, California
Aug 1960
Account
Bob Titmus, track hunting, found the familiar "15-inch" Bluff Creek track farther south than usual. It was accompanied by a 12.5-inch track, the one that came to be known as the "13-inch". first time this smaller one had been reported. The same two tracks turned up together a week later, 11 miles South Southwest on Mill Creek Ridge, as well as on later occasions.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 07 1960
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1960
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Humboldt Ctyk
- Nearest Town
- Weitchpec
- Direction from Town
- South
- Distance from Town
- 9
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 25
- Latitude
- 4119--
- Longitude
- 12342--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 2
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000339, 1000330
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley, hillside
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- East
- Substratum
- forest litter
- Cover
- spotty
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- moderate
- Undergrowth size
- low
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- hot
- Rainfall
- normal
- Clarity
- clear
- Humidity
- low
Source
- Source
- Bob Titmus intv. by John Green
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JUL 73
- Source reliability
- 9
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- JUL 73
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints 1
- Set of Tracks
- 2
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Number of Tracks
- 1000
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- Ball of Foot
- double
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Claw Marks Y/N
- No
- Size of Toes
- toes more of a size than human's
- Longest Toe
- first
- Feet in Line?
- in line
- Direction of Travel
- South
- Material Tracks Made in
- shallow dust
Footprints 2
- Set of Tracks
- 2
- Footprint Length
- 12.5
- Number of Tracks
- 1500
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- 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
- South
- Material Tracks Made in
- shallow dust
Witness
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- JUL 27 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- 1
- Other report by this witness
- 22