Incident #1000904
Sekiu, Clallam Cty, Washington
Nov 1978
Account
Checking a possible trapping area where two beaver ponds drain into Umbrella Creek just North of the road to Ozette Lake, Buck Adamire saw two sets of tracks crossing a sandbar. He examined one and found it was barefoot and humanlike, but an inch longer than his size 10 boot. He did not linger. The tracks came from alders above the sandbar, and after crossing the creek went up a bank extremely thick with salmonberry and devil's club, which a human would avoid.
When
- Observation Date
- NOV 25 1978
- Month
- Nov
- Year
- 1978
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Clallam Cty
- Nearest Town
- Sekiu
- Direction from Town
- Southwest
- Distance from Town
- 9
- Population of Town
- 10
- Elevation/Altitude
- 0.5
- Latitude
- 480814
- Longitude
- 1243733
What was seen
- Individuals
- two large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 2
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- sandbar
- Near or/at
- water
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- level
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- contact
- Tree type
- deciduous
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth type
- thorny
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- alder
- Variety
- devils club
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Humidity
- high
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Buck Adamire writing to John Green
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- MAY 14 1980
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- JUN 1980
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 2
- Footprint Length
- 13.0
- Number of Tracks
- few
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- good
- Arc Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- sand
- Relation to Water
- in then out
- Tracks Came From
- trees
- Tracks Went to
- bushes
- Remarks
- Only one set of tracks examined.
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- trapping
- Track witnesses
- 1