Incident #1000601
Willow Creek, Humboldt Cty, California
1980
Account
Ken Wickman and another young forest worker measuring timber on Brannon Mountain, found hundreds of tracks, about 17x7x5" on the Northeast side of the mountain, on both flat and inclined areas. A consistent 54" stride. One cast made.
When
- Year
- 1980
- Season
- spring
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Humboldt Cty
- Nearest Town
- Willow Creek
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 3.5
- Population of Town
- 300
- Elevation/Altitude
- 40
- Latitude
- 40575-
- Longitude
- 123412-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- ridge
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- Southwest
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- mixed
Source
- Source
- Warren Thompson and Bob Walls, separate intv with
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- 1980
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1980
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 17.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Heel Width
- 5.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 54
- Age Unit
- months
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Track Condition
- poor
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
Witness
- Interviewer
- Warren Thompson, Bob Walls
- Interview date
- 1980
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- work outdoors
- Track witnesses
- 2
- Age
- 21 to 30