Incident #1000845
Amboy, Cowlitz Cty, Washington
Oct 1974
Account
Loggers working for Cyril Gillette found 165 huge barefoot tracks in deep dust where they were working somewhere South of Lake Merwin. Exact location kept secret; also reference to the tracks heading into the Siouxon area, which is East of Yale Lake. Tracks were 16 to 18 inches long, 7 inches across ball, 5.5 inches across heel. Robert Morgan, who did the casts, described a double ball. Strange "chirpy whistling" that the loggers were not familiar with were heard before and after the tracks were found. Site described as an old homestead and as a logging landing. Tracks said to have been found on five miles of skid road in dust accumulated from the dry banks of the road. This would indicate long stretches without tracks.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 07 1974
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1974
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Cowlitz Cty
- Nearest Town
- Amboy
- Direction from Town
- Northeast
- Population of Town
- 100
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- logged area
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Cover
- heavy
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- Oregon Journal, Portland, quoting Cyril Gillett. A
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- OCT 18 1974
- Source reliability
- 9
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- NOV 1974
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 17.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Heel Width
- 5.5
- Average Depth
- 1.00
- Observer Print Depth
- 0.33
- Observer Weight
- 200
- Estimated Animal Weight
- 800
- Stride in Inches Average
- 55
- Longest
- 60
- Shortest
- 50
- Estimated Age
- 1
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- 160
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- Ball of Foot
- double
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Size of Toes
- toes more of a size than human's
- Longest Toe
- first
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Direction of Travel
- East
- Material Tracks Made in
- deep dust
- Remarks
- This appears to have been a most exceptional set of tracks.
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- logging
- Track witnesses
- several