Incident #1000533
Orleans, Del Norte Cty, California
May 1969
Account
Dick Frey found three tracks, 15 inches by 9 inches, in a crusted patch of snow about two miles along the trail from Cedar Camp Road to Notice Creek.
When
- Observation Date
- MAY 16 1969
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1969
- Season
- spring
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Del Norte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Orleans
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 10
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 35
- Latitude
- 41225-
- Longitude
- 12340--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- trail
- Near or/at
- bushes
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley, hillside
- Exact Terrain
- trail
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- West
- Substratum
- forest litter
- Snow Condition
- hard crust
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- Bigfoot Bulletin No. 7, Dick Frey writes of footpr
- Source Type
- newsletter
- Source Date
- 1969
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1969
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Greates Width
- 9.0
- Average Depth
- 2.00
- Observer Print Depth
- 0.50
- Observer Weight
- 200
- Estimated Age
- 12
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- 3
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- good
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Material Tracks Made in
- snow
- Tracks Came From
- bushes
- Tracks Went to
- bushes
- Remarks
- Tracks were in snow, so depth not significant. Were almost melted away two hours later, so must have been fairly new when found.
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 16 to 20