Incident #1000423
Pear Blossom, Los Angeles Cty, California
Oct 1973
Account
At South Fork Campground in the San Gabriel Mountains 15 to 20 miles Southeast of Palmdale, CBFO found about 50 tracks 21 inches long by 10 1/2 inches wide, sinking 3 1/2 to 4 inches in the sand. Average stride 12 feet, one step 15 feet. Tracks ended at the base of a 60-degree slope on the mountainside, covered with heavy brush.
When
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1973
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Los Angeles Cty
- Nearest Town
- Pear Blossom
- Direction from Town
- Southeast
- Distance from Town
- 9.5
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 50
- Latitude
- 342335
- Longitude
- 1174915
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- camp
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000424
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- campsite
- Slope
- steep
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- sparse
- Tree type
- deciduous
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- moderate
- Undergrowth size
- low
- Undergrowth type
- hard stemmed
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- birch
Source
- Source
- Rich Grumley, California Bigfoot Organization
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- 1975
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1975
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Footprint Length
- 21.0
- Greates Width
- 10.5
- Average Depth
- 3.75
- Stride in Inches Average
- 144
- Material Tracks Made in
- sand
Witness
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- 1976
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- several
- Age
- 31 to 40
- Tape or Video
- Audio recording
- Other report by this witness
- 4