Incident #1001061
Mill City, Linn Cty, Oregon
May 1976
Account
Steve Adams reports seeing on the trail to Pamelia Lake, half a mile from the road, a number of melted-out tracks in four feet of rapidly melting snow. A track estimated 15 inches by 6 inches on one side of the trail and another on the other, as if the creature had stepped on one side of the trail and then on the other, then turned and travelled on the trail (where tracks apparently would not show). There was also a track in the snow by the creek. Appeared that track maker had been walking in the creek, then left it and proceded down the trail to the road.
When
- Observation Date
- MAY 10 1976
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1976
- Season
- spring
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Linn Cty
- Nearest Town
- Mill City
- Direction from Town
- East Southeast
- Distance from Town
- 30
- Population of Town
- 1500
- Elevation/Altitude
- 40
- Latitude
- 4439--
- Longitude
- 1215---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- Related incident id
- 1000749, 1000817, 1000813
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- trail
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- close
- Snow Condition
- deep old
Source
- Source
- Steve Adams to with John Green
- Source Type
- phone call
- Source Date
- JUNE 1976
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- JUN 1976
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Greates Width
- 6.0
- Number of Tracks
- 3
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft deep snow
- Tracks Came From
- shore
- Tracks Went to
- trail
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- JUNE 1976
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 31 to 40
- Other report by this witness
- 4