Incident #1000551
Woodfords, Alpine Cty, California
Oct 1970
Account
Ni Orsi and a friend were driving on Highway 4 near Ebbets Pass when they encountered footprints 16 to 18 inches long crossing the road in six inches of new snow. The highway had been closed hours before and it was still snowing. The tracks were fresh.
When
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1970
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Alpine Cty
- Nearest Town
- Woodfords
- Direction from Town
- South
- Distance from Town
- 16
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 80
- Latitude
- 3832--
- Longitude
- 11948--
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
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- paved road
- Snow Condition
- shallow new
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Humidity
- heavy snow
Source
- Source
- "Bigfoot", B. Ann Slate and Alan Berry, quoting Ni
- Source Type
- book
- Source Date
- 1976
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1976
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 17.0
- Estimated Age
- 0
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- few
- Trail Followed Y/N
- No
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft shallow snow
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Track witnesses
- 2