Incident #1000365
Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California
1964
Account
Earl Headrick, gypo logging for U.S. Plywood, found tracks at work site on Bluff Creek Road below junction with Onion Mountain Road. They circled two tractors and a loader, went on up the road about a mile, came back down a half mile and went off the road into the creek, then uphill again in creek bed. Tracks came out of rhododendrons and disappeared in rhododendrons. Fuel barrels, partially full, and two chain saws had been tossed about 20 feet from one side of the road to the dirt below the road on the other side. He photographed tracks but apparently did not measure them. Headrick gives the date as August, 1964, but says it was the day after he saw old tracks preserved where a trailer load of culverts had been dumped farther North, which incident others have dated in October.
When
- Year
- 1964
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Humboldt Cty
- Nearest Town
- Weitchpec
- Direction from Town
- North Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 9.5
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 33
- Latitude
- 41183-
- Longitude
- 12346--
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
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley, hillside
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- North
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- fine material
- Ground condition
- dry
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- high
- Undergrowth type
- hard stemmed
- General undergrowth
- none
- Variety
- rhododendron
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- hot
- Rainfall
- normal
- Clarity
- clear
- Humidity
- low
Source
- Source
- Earl Headrick intv. by Jim McClarin
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JUL 13 1970
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1970
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 17.0
- Greates Width
- 9.0
- Average Depth
- 1.00
- Stride in Inches Average
- 60
- Estimated Age
- 8
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- 1000
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- Arc Y/N
- Yes
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Pattern of walk
- toe out
- Feet in Line?
- spread apart
- Direction of Travel
- forth and back
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt, deep dust
- Tracks Came From
- bushes
- Tracks Went to
- bushes
- Trackmaker attracted by
- machine activity
- Remarks
- This was probably the 16-inch "Bigfoot" whose tracks were frequently seen in this period, but size estimates given are bigger and a slight arch is indicated. Tracks were over three inches deep in soft dirt in some places. Paces were short on a sidehill cut. There were tracks for more than a mile.
Witness
- Interviewer
- Jim McClarin
- Interview date
- JUL 13 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- logging
- Track witnesses
- 4
- Age
- 51 to 60