Incident #1000485
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
Jun 1963
Account
Dennis (Skip) Clark returned to Bluff Creek two years after finding "15-inch" tracks on a sandbar, and found and cast a new set there. Presumably the same sandbar where Bob Titmus found tracks in 1958 and 59.
When
- Observation Date
- JUN 22 1963
- Month
- Jun
- Year
- 1963
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Del Norte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Orleans
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 12
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 20
- Latitude
- 41244-
- Longitude
- 123431-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- shore
- Near or/at
- water
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000473
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- valley bottom, steep
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- mixed
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- low
- Undergrowth type
- hard stemmed
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- oak, fir, pine
Source
- Source
- Betty Allen's Bigfoot Diary. Also John Fuhrmann in
- Source Type
- book
- Source Date
- 1963
- Source reliability
- 9
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- 1965
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Heel Width
- 5.0
- Track Condition
- good
- Ball of Foot
- double
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Ridge Behind Toes Y/N
- Yes
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Size of Toes
- toes more of a size than human's
- Longest Toe
- first
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- sand
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- 3
- Age
- 21 to 30