Incident #1000885
Packwood, Lewis Cty, Washington
Apr 1977
Account
A temporary forest service employee found deep tracks 18 inches by 8 inches on a sandbar at the site of the old River Bar Campground. Stride was 43 inches. They went for 200 yards before disappearing in the brush. Peter Byrne saw them and considered them faked because "the entire footprint was the same depth."
When
- Observation Date
- APR 29 1977
- Month
- Apr
- Year
- 1977
- Season
- spring
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Lewis Cty
- Nearest Town
- Packwood
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 10
- Latitude
- 4636--
- Longitude
- 1214---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- sandbar
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- river
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- heavy
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- Centralia, Wash., Chronicle, quoting U.S. Forest S
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- MAY 03 1977
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- JUNE 1977
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 18.0
- Greates Width
- 8.0
- Average Depth
- deep
- Stride in Inches Average
- 43
- Number of Tracks
- 170
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- sand
- Tracks Came From
- sandbar
- Tracks Went to
- trees