Incident #1000770
Hyak, Kittitas Cty, Washington
Sep 1964
Account
Joe Barto and a friend were hiking around Lost Lake when they came on tracks about 13 inches long, five toes, long strides, in four inches of new snow. Tracks came from woods about 200 yards to the water, and then went back into the woods.
When
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1964
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Kittitas Cty
- Nearest Town
- Hyak
- Direction from Town
- South
- Distance from Town
- 4
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 30
- Latitude
- 471949
- Longitude
- 12124--
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
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- level
- Nearby Water
- small lake
- Distance to Water
- contact
- Snow Condition
- shallow new
- Cover
- heavy
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Joe Barto Jr. letter to John Green
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- 1964
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1964
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 13.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- long
- Number of Tracks
- 300
- Trail Followed Y/N
- No
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- good
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Direction of Travel
- forth and back
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft shallow snow
- Relation to Water
- in then out
- Tracks Came From
- trees
- Tracks Went to
- trees
- Trackmaker attracted by
- water
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hiking
- Track witnesses
- 2