Incident #1001024
Sweet Home, Linn Cty, Oregon
Feb 1971
Account
Pastor and his family on a hike in early February walked up a logging road off Hwy. 20 beside the South Santiam River and at the end of a dead end road in 6 to 8 inches of snow saw tracks coming in from the side and then back into the timber, more than 6 inches wide and more than a foot long, with a step length of 7 feet.
When
- Month
- Feb
- Year
- 1971
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- day
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Linn Cty
- Nearest Town
- Sweet Home
- Direction from Town
- East
- Population of Town
- 7000
- Latitude
- 442---
- Longitude
- 1220---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- trees
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- road
- Snow Condition
- snow
- Cover
- heavy
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Humidity
- rain
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Francis Williams, quoting "the pastor of our churc
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- 1971
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1971
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- big
- Greates Width
- 6.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 84
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Material Tracks Made in
- snow
- Tracks Came From
- trees
- Tracks Went to
- trees
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- slight
- Interviewer
- Francis Williams, Lebanon
- Interview date
- 1971
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hiking
- Track witnesses
- several