Incident #1000638
Three Rivers, Tulare Cty, California
Jan 1978
Account
About 3,000 feet on the Kaweah River, (presumably Middle Fork, presumably in Sequoia National Park) Mrs. W.L. Nelsen was frog-hunting with her children when they came on a set of tracks 14.5" by 9" by 4.5", with four toes, and a stride of 40 inches, in packed sandy gravel. Measured with a tape and photographed.
When
- Observation Date
- JAN 18 1978
- Month
- Jan
- Year
- 1978
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Tulare Cty
- Nearest Town
- Three Rivers
- Direction from Town
- Northeast
- Distance from Town
- 10
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 30
- Latitude
- 3629--
- Longitude
- 11844--
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
- alpine, valley
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- river
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- Mrs. W.L. Nelsen, letter to John Green
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- 1978
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 7
- Jwg file date
- 1978
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 14.5
- Greates Width
- 9.0
- Heel Width
- 4.5
- Average Depth
- 1.25
- Stride in Inches Average
- 40
- Number of Toes
- 4
- Claw Marks Y/N
- No
- Size of Toes
- toes more of a size than human's
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- gravel
- Remarks
- Stream was full of water cress. Toes of prints were "almost square".
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- outside on foot
- Track witnesses
- several