Incident #1000375
Saddle Camp, Tehama Cty, California
Sep 1967
Account
With two hunting companions, Earl Rodgers slept in a camper on a wide spot by the road near Cold Fork, Cottonwood Creek, about a half mile downstream from Jones Camp Creek. In the morning there were barefoot tracks in deep dust on the road, estimated 12 to 14 inches long, coming down out of heavy brush and going past the camper. Low credibility rating is strictly because 12 inch tracks would be within human range..
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 15 1967
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1967
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- early morning
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Tehama Cty
- Nearest Town
- Saddle Camp
- Direction from Town
- West Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 4.5
- Population of Town
- 300
- Elevation/Altitude
- 40
- Latitude
- 40113-
- Longitude
- 122523-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- occupied machine
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- North
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- hot
- Rainfall
- normal
- Clarity
- clear
- Humidity
- low
Source
- Source
- Earl Rodgers intv. by Jim McClarin
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- MAY 1970
- Source reliability
- 4
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- MAY 1970
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 13.0
- Greates Width
- 5.5
- Average Depth
- 1.75
- Observer Print Depth
- 1.75
- Stride in Inches Average
- short
- Estimated Age
- 6
- Age Unit
- hours
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- fair
- Arc Y/N
- Yes
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Feet in Line?
- spread apart
- Material Tracks Made in
- deep dust
- Tracks Came From
- trees
- Tracks Went to
- trees
- Remarks
- Length and width of tracks averaged from estimate of 12 to 14 inches by 5 to 6 inches. Arch was slight. These tracks and human tracks both sank to the bottom of the dust layer.
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Interviewer
- Jim McClarin
- Interview date
- MAY 05 1970
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Track witnesses
- 3
- Other report by this witness
- 4