Incident #1000939
National, Pierce Cty, Washington
Sep 1990
Account
Three mushroom pickers, Karen and Grant Ferguson, Graham, Wash., and Karen's father, Joseph Ried, Tacoma, smelled a very bad odour where they were picking "above National, a mile and a half, two miles above the main highway." Later Grant heard something crashing through the bushes. At some point they found tracks on a sandbar, 14" by 7", which were later cast by Cliff Crook, who give the location as the upper Nisqually River. There is no place where the Nisqually River is a mile and a half above the main highway. Stories disagree as to whether the pickers were inside. Mount Rainier National Park.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 02 1990
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1990
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Pierce Cty
- Nearest Town
- National
- Population of Town
- 100
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- sandbar
- Near or/at
- water
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- river
- Distance to Water
- close
- Cover
- heavy
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- Northshore Citizen, Bothell, Wash. quoting Cliff C
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- SEP 19 1990
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- SEP 1990
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 14.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Average Depth
- 2.75
- Stride in Inches Average
- 37
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- very good
- Arc Y/N
- Yes
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- sand
- Relation to Water
- near water
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- berry picking
- Track witnesses
- several