Incident #1000784
Orient, Ferry Cty, Washington
Dec 1968
Account
Olaf Nelson was hunting, driving, when he found tracks on the side of the road 14 inches by 6 inches, a foot deep in the snow, making 3 to 4-foot strides. He thought they were bear tracks.
When
- Observation Date
- DEC 21 1968
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1968
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Ferry Cty
- Nearest Town
- Orient
- Direction from Town
- West
- Distance from Town
- 7
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 45
- Latitude
- 4850--
- Longitude
- 11818--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine, canyon
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Slope
- steep
- Snow Condition
- deep new
- Cover
- moderate
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- cold
- Relative Temperature
- cold
- Snow
- unusually deep
Source
- Source
- Olaf Nelson intv. by John Green
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JUL 18 1970
- Source reliability
- 4
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1970
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 14.0
- Greates Width
- 6.0
- Average Depth
- 12.00
- Stride in Inches Average
- 42
- Estimated Age
- 2
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- 1500
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Pattern of walk
- straight
- Feet in Line?
- spread apart
- Direction of Travel
- North
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft deep snow
- Remarks
- Observer drove beside tracks for three miles until snow too deep for jeep. Did not examine them, thought they were bear.
Witness
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- JUL 18 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting, in car
- Track witnesses
- 1