Incident #1001088
Wallowa, Wallowa Cty, Oregon
Jul 1982
Account
Allen Mitchell, Mike Evans, Russ Evans, Andy Ely, Rodney Bonifer and Paul Freeman on a fishing trip on the South Fork Wehana River, camped at the mouth of Milk Creek, where someone found and Freeman cast large cripple-footed tracks. Next day Mitchell and Mike Evans rode a mile towards Shoofly Crekk and found scores of big footprints, three sets, including the crippled one, for a quarter mile, in an area where they were sure Freeman had not been. Prints sank in mud deeper than horse prints, and a stride triple a man's. Casts made of all three types.
When
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1982
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Wallowa Cty
- Nearest Town
- Wallowa
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 30
- Population of Town
- 800
- Elevation/Altitude
- 40
- Latitude
- 4554--
- Longitude
- 11752--
What was seen
- Individuals
- more than two, sex unknown (large)
- Total Individuals
- 3
- Population Status
- wild
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- valley bottom
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- creek
Source
- Source
- Vance Orchard in the Walla Walla, WA, Union Bullet
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- OCT 10 1982
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- DEC 1982
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 3
- Footprint Length
- big
- Estimated Animal Weight
- 1200
- Stride in Inches Average
- long
- Estimated Age
- 1
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Foot Deformity Y/N
- Yes
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- mud
- Describe Deformity
- One of three creatures crippled, no specifics.
- Remarks
- Only one footprint entry, as no specifics of the different individuals.
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Interviewer
- Vance Orchard, Walla Walla Union Bulletin
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- horseback, fishing, shore
- Track witnesses
- 2