Incident #1000530
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
Dec 1968
Account
Newspaper reports that two men from Humboldt Fir Co. driving up Bluff Creek encountered 16-inch tracks in snow at the East Fork of Bluff Creek and followed them for almost three miles, losing them in the area above Notice Creek. Deer tracks crossed and re-crossed the big trail.
When
- Observation Date
- DEC 02 1968
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1968
- Season
- winter
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
- 4123--
- Longitude
- 1234---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley, hillside
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- East
- Substratum
- fine material
- Snow Condition
- shallow new
Source
- Source
- Klamity Kourier, Willow Creek, Cal. Dec 11 1968
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1968
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1968
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Greates Width
- 6.0
- Estimated Age
- 3
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft shallow snow
- Other Tracks
- deer tracks
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in truck
- Track witnesses
- 2