Incident #1000696
Newhalem, Whatcom Cty, Washington
Sep 1961
Account
Louis Styles said that he and Bud Leggatt were prospecting West of Ross Lake near the Canadian border, heading over the ridge towards Silver Creek from the head of Border Creek when the biggest bear he ever saw came over a hill on two legs, about 400 feet away. As it approached he whistled and it turned and went back up the hill, still on two legs. He watched it walk about 100 feet. Looked about 7 feet tall. It had shoulders and the arms were too long for a bear. (Border Creek not on map. He said it was at the edge of a glacier about 9000 feet up. The only glacier on the map is a small one on Mt. Redoubt, about 4 miles below the border and just under 9000 feet at the peak, highest point anywhere around.)
When
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1961
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- early morning
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Whatcom Cty
- Nearest Town
- Newhalem
- Direction from Town
- North
- Distance from Town
- 20
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 80
- Latitude
- 4859--
- Longitude
- 1211---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- ridge
- Slope
- steep
- Cover
- none
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Louis Styles, notes apparently from of phone call
- Source Type
- phone call
- Source Date
- ABOUT 1969
- Source reliability
- 4
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1969
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Shoulders
- wide
- Arms
- medium
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- turned around, went up slope
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Reaction
- avoided
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- 1969
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- prospecting
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 100 yards
- Action on sighting
- shouted, studied
- No of witnesses
- 1