Incident #1000547
Yosemite Village, Tuolomne Cty, California
Jun 1970
Account
Book states that Wes Chormicle, Santa Barbara, and a friend followed a creature with a 14 to 16-inch foot and a four-foot stride for six miles in the Baily Ridge area of Northeastern Yosemite Park.
When
- Month
- Jun
- Year
- 1970
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Tuolomne Cty
- Nearest Town
- Yosemite Village
- Population of Town
- 50
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- hearsay
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Slope
- ridge crest
Source
- Source
- "Bigfoot" by B. Ann Slate and Alan Berry, quoting
- Source Type
- book
- Source Date
- 1976
- Source reliability
- 4
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1976
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 48
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Remarks
- Santa Barbara Nwews Press, Dec. 6, 1973, refers to this incident and states the footprints were as deep as horse hoofprints.
Witness
- Observer Was
- hiking
- Track witnesses
- 2