Incident #1000763
Quilcene, Jefferson Cty, Washington
Jan 1928
Account
Jim Attwell was walking along a 30-inch wooden water line through heavy woods when he saw in light snow on top of the pipe a set of barefoot tracks that came out of the brush, followed the pipe about 100 yards, then jumped a six-foot ditch and landed at a higher level on a 12-inch log covered with snow and headed up the mountain through the roughest kind of going. He was sure a man could not have gone through the brush, nor made the jump without falling.
When
- Month
- Jan
- Year
- 1928
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Jefferson Cty
- Nearest Town
- Quilcene
- Direction from Town
- West
- Distance from Town
- 3
- Population of Town
- 500
- Elevation/Altitude
- 10
- Latitude
- 4748--
- Longitude
- 12256--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one small
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- trail
- Super Human Action
- Jumped ditch and went through brush, impossible for man
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Slope
- easy
- Snow Condition
- shallow new
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Snow
- early snow
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Jim Attwell, writing to John Napier, and later to
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- 1969
- Source reliability
- 9
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1969
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 11.0
- Longest
- 72
- Estimated Age
- 1
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- 100
- Trail Followed Y/N
- No
- Track Condition
- fair
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft shallow snow
- Tracks Came From
- trees
- Tracks Went to
- trees
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hiking, work outdoors
- Track witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 21 to 30