Incident #1000628
Sawyers Bar, Siskiyou Cty, California
Jan 1993
Account
Three men fishing on the North Fork of the Salmon River a few miles East of Sawyers Bar found large tracks in the snow with visible toes. Alan 'Timer' Freeman, father of one of the men, went there a few days later and measured and photographed the tracks. Length 17.5 inches, stride 36 to 41 inches.
When
- Observation Date
- JAN 24 1993
- Month
- Jan
- Year
- 1993
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Siskiyou Cty
- Nearest Town
- Sawyers Bar
- Direction from Town
- East
- Population of Town
- 50
- Elevation/Altitude
- 20
- Latitude
- 4117--
- Longitude
- 1230---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- shore
- Near or/at
- water
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- river
- Distance to Water
- close
- Snow Condition
- snow
Source
- Source
- Fort Jones, Cal., Pioneer Press, Feb 3 1993. Info
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1993
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- 1993
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 17.5
- Stride in Inches Average
- 38
- Longest
- 41
- Shortest
- 36
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- snow
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- fishing, shore
- Track witnesses
- 4
- Age
- 61 to 70