Incident #1000354
Orleans, Del Norte, California
Jul 1963
Account
Going to work, on Nickowitz Road, starting about a mile past the Nickowitz turnoff, saw about half a mile of tracks going down the road. They circled Shorty Wallace's tractor three times. Tracks made overnight, very clear. Size given only as "about the same size as the rest", which could be either the 15-inch or the 16-inch.
When
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1963
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- night
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Del Norte
- Nearest Town
- Orleans
- Direction from Town
- Northeast
- Distance from Town
- 14
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 33
- Latitude
- 412815
- Longitude
- 1234220
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- empty machine
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000355
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- East
- Substratum
- fine material
- Ground condition
- dry
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- high
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- hot
- Rainfall
- normal
- Clarity
- clear
- Humidity
- low
Source
- Source
- Jean Hatter intv. by Jim McClarin
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JUL 70
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- JUL 70
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Average Depth
- 0.50
- Observer Print Depth
- 0.25
- Trail Followed Y/N
- No
- Track Condition
- very good
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Direction of Travel
- West
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Remarks
- Tracks common in Bluff Creek area in 1963. Witnesses didn't do any, measuring or following, and did not distinguish between the two, common large tracks.
Witness
- Interviewer
- Jim McClarin
- Interview date
- JUL 17 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- logging, outside on foot
- Track witnesses
- 3
- Other report by this witness
- 5