Incident #1000350
Hyampom, Trinity Cty, California
Apr 1963
Account
Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Jones found huge tracks of two, perhaps three individuals in the clearing where they were going to build a house. One print, in ashes where they had been burning slash, was 17 1/2 inches long and 8 1/2 inches wide, the largest track on record cast in Northwest California. It is not impossible that it might be a print made by the Bluff Creek "Bigfoot", but appears to reproduce a larger foot rather than being an effect of motion. Other prints were of a very odd shape, 15 inches long and with five short toes almost all the same size, yet widely fanned out. Searching around disclosed tracks of a third individual nearby. These tracks were not fresh, and not found by the same people, so have a separate report, Incident 1000351. Bob Titmus has casts of the fresh tracks.
When
- Observation Date
- APR 28 1963
- Month
- Apr
- Year
- 1963
- Season
- spring
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Trinity Cty
- Nearest Town
- Hyampom
- Direction from Town
- Southeast
- Distance from Town
- 3
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 25
- Latitude
- 4035--
- Longitude
- 12325--
What was seen
- Individuals
- two large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 2
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- road
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000349, 1000351, 1000352, 1000353
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- hill
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Slope
- easy
- 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
- warm
- Rainfall
- normal
- Clarity
- clear
- Humidity
- low
Source
- Source
- Syl McCoy intv. by Jim McClarin. Bob Titmus intv.
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- APR 70
- Source reliability
- 9
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- APR 63
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints 1
- Set of Tracks
- 2
- Footprint Length
- 17.5
- Greates Width
- 8.5
- Heel Width
- 5.5
- Average Depth
- 1.00
- Heel
- 1.00
- Ball
- 1.25
- Toes
- 1.00
- Estimated Age
- 1
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- 8
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- Ball of Foot
- normal
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Ridge Behind Toes Y/N
- No
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Claw Marks Y/N
- No
- Size of Toes
- big toe far largest
- Longest Toe
- first
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Feet in Line?
- spread apart
- Other footprint codes
- 10148
- Direction of Travel
- not consistent
- Material Tracks Made in
- deep dust
- Tracks Came From
- trees
- Tracks Went to
- trees
- Trackmaker attracted by
- human activity
- Remarks
- Material was actually not dust, but wood ash.
Footprints 2
- Set of Tracks
- 2
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Greates Width
- 8.0
- Heel Width
- 5.0
- Average Depth
- 0.75
- Heel
- 0.75
- Ball
- 1.00
- Toes
- 1.00
- Estimated Age
- 1
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- 12
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Ridge Behind Toes Y/N
- No
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Bumps Y/N
- Yes
- Claw Marks Y/N
- No
- Size of Toes
- toes all about the same
- Longest Toe
- middle
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Pattern of walk
- straight
- Feet in Line?
- spread apart
- Other footprint codes
- 10147
- Direction of Travel
- not consistent
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Tracks Came From
- trees
- Tracks Went to
- trees
- Foot Shape
- splay-toed
- Trackmaker attracted by
- human activity
- Remarks
- These tracks had four bumps on the ball of the foot, somewhat like;the pads of a small animal's foot. They were not at exactly the;same place as the larger tracks and were not necessarily made at;the same time.
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Interviewer
- Jim McClarin
- Interview date
- APR 7 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- come to see
- Track witnesses
- several
- Age
- 31 to 40
- Other report by this witness
- 6