Incident #1000349
Hyampom, Trinity Cty, California
Apr 1963
Account
One of at least three different tracks found in the vicinity of Hyampom in a two week period, which raised the question whether some form of migration along the South Fork of the Trinity River might be taking place. This one was a 16-inch track found at a logging operation on Horse Ridge. They came from heavy brush, circled a caterpillar tractor and disappeared in a rocky bluff area. The left foot pointed straight ahead, but the right foot turned outward. Tracks were found by logger Ralph Mead on his way back to the crummy in the late afternoon. They had not been there in the morning. About 100 tracks altogether. Tracks with the same turned foot, made about the same time, were found a couple of miles away two weeks later. In the meantime similar tracks, but not showing a turned foot, had been found at other places nearby, once in the same vicinity as a larger and a smaller track.
When
- Observation Date
- APR 24 1963
- Month
- Apr
- Year
- 1963
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- day
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Trinity Cty
- Nearest Town
- Hyampom
- Direction from Town
- Southeast
- Distance from Town
- 2
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 30
- Latitude
- 40354-
- Longitude
- 123244-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000350, 1000351, 1000352, 1000353, 1000361
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- hillside
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- North
- Substratum
- fine material
- Ground condition
- wet
- Cover
- moderate
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- moderate
- Undergrowth size
- low
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- cool
- Rainfall
- normal
- Clarity
- fog
- Humidity
- moderate
Source
- Source
- Sylvester McCoy intv. by Jim McClarin. Bob Titmus
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JUN 1963
- Source reliability
- 9
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- JUN 1963
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 17.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Heel Width
- 5.5
- Average Depth
- 0.80
- Heel
- 1.00
- Ball
- 0.50
- Toes
- 1.00
- Observer Print Depth
- 0.25
- Observer Weight
- 180
- Stride in Inches Average
- 46
- Longest
- 51
- Shortest
- 42
- Estimated Age
- 8
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- 100
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Size of Toes
- toes more of a size than human's
- Longest Toe
- first
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Pattern of walk
- toe out
- Feet in Line?
- spread apart
- Direction of Travel
- Northwest
- Material Tracks Made in
- wet clay
- Tracks Came From
- trees
- Tracks Went to
- rock
- Remarks
- The left foot pointed straight ahead, the right foot turned out.;These tracks might have been made by the original 16-inch "Bigfoot";from Bluff Creek. Casts are distorted by cracks in drying mud, but;there is some resemblance.
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Interviewer
- Jim McClarin
- Interview date
- JUN 28 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- come to see
- Track witnesses
- many
- Age
- 31 to 40
- Other report by this witness
- 6