Incident #1000559
Orleans, Humboldt Cty, California
Dec 1971
Account
Mike Burke, Buck Ferguson and Bill Mueller, forest service workers out of Orleans, found huge tracks on the Camp Creek Road a mile beyond the Twin Lakes turnoff. They measured 30 inches by 10 inches, in deep snow, possibly melted out, and with a quarter inch of new snow in them. They were found in two areas,. and went down off the road into a fir thicket a mile below. Distance from heel to heel was close to 5 feet. Men could not match this, and no vehicle or human tracks led into the area.
When
- Observation Date
- DEC 07 1971
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1971
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Humboldt Cty
- Nearest Town
- Orleans
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 7.5
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 30
- Latitude
- 412123
- Longitude
- 1233955
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- road
- Slope
- ridge crest
- Snow Condition
- deep new
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Klam-ity Kourier, Willow Creek, Cal. quoting Mike
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- DEC 15 1971
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- 1971
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 2
- Footprint Length
- 30.0
- Greates Width
- 10.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 58
- Longest
- 60
- Shortest
- 57
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Track Condition
- poor
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft deep snow
- Tracks Came From
- road
- Tracks Went to
- trees
- Remarks
- Extreme length presumably caused by motion through deep snow.
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in truck
- Track witnesses
- 5