Incident #1000440
Platina, Trinity Cty, California
Jun 1970
Account
Archie Buckley, sasquatch hunting, found 33 tracks in two stretches on the trail through Stuart Gap to the Yolla Bolly Wilderness Area, about a quarter mile from Stuart Gap campground. Jim McClarin saw them later. No detail in the forest litter but he considered the deep prints probably the real thing..
When
- Observation Date
- JUN 13 1970
- Month
- Jun
- Year
- 1970
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Trinity Cty
- Nearest Town
- Platina
- Direction from Town
- South Southwest
- Distance from Town
- 10
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 50
- Latitude
- 401332
- Longitude
- 1225831
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- trail
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000441, 1000545
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- trail
- Slope
- easy
- Substratum
- forest litter
- Cover
- moderate
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- General
- many large
- Undergrowth
- sparse
- Undergrowth size
- low
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- warm
- Rainfall
- normal
- Clarity
- overcast
- Humidity
- high
Source
- Source
- Archie Buckley intv by Jim McClarin
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- 1970
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1970
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.5
- Average Depth
- 3.00
- Observer Print Depth
- 0.63
- Observer Weight
- 160
- Stride in Inches Average
- 46
- Longest
- 66
- Shortest
- 30
- Estimated Age
- 1
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- 33
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- poor
- Feet in Line?
- spread apart
- Other footprint codes
- 10204
- Direction of Travel
- Northeast
- Material Tracks Made in
- forest litter
- Remarks
- Trackmaker apparently walked on just toes and ball of foot sometimes, particularly uphill. Tracks came on and went off the trail in two sections.
Witness
- Interviewer
- Jim McClarin
- Interview date
- JUN 23 1970
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- 2
- Other report by this witness
- 3