Incident #1000607
Happy Camp, Siskiyou Cty, California
Nov 1981
Account
Al Casner, prospecting, found 13-inch footprints in mud on a logging skid trail in Lick Creek drainage. (Tributary of Elk Creek, not on map). Took a group to see them the next day, did not agree that they could not be bear or huge barefooted human. Tracks had been heavily rained on.
When
- Observation Date
- NOV 09 1981
- Month
- Nov
- Year
- 1981
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Siskiyou Cty
- Nearest Town
- Happy Camp
- Direction from Town
- South
- Population of Town
- 1000
- Latitude
- 414---
- Longitude
- 1232---
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
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- steep
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Rainfall
- wet
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Fort Jones, Cal., Pioneer Press, Nov 13 1981, quot
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1981
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1981
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 13.0
- Age Unit
- weeks
- Number of Tracks
- few
- Track Condition
- poor
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- mud
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- prospecting
- Track witnesses
- 4