Incident #1001166
Browning, Glacier CTY, Montana
May 1977
Account
Kip Rusk and Craig Dunn were 10 days hike South of the Canadian border, following the Continental Divide, and had been descending several hours from the top of Pitimakan Pass (not on 1:250,000 map) when they saw on the muddy trail some prints like a human foot but with six toes, twice the size of Rusk's foot, and with a stride 1.5 times his.
When
- Observation Date
- MAY 21 1977
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1977
- Season
- spring
Where
- State / province
- Montana
- County
- Glacier CTY
- Nearest Town
- Browning
- Direction from Town
- West
- Distance from Town
- 22
- Population of Town
- 1300
- Elevation/Altitude
- 65
- Latitude
- 48402-
- Longitude
- 113280-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- trail
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Slope
- steep
Weather and light
- Humidity
- high
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- St. Louis, Missouri, Post-Dispatch, story by Kip R
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- AUG 11 1978
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- OCT 1978
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 20.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 45
- Number of Toes
- 6
- Material Tracks Made in
- mud
- Remarks
- Size and stride estimated, from twice human foot size and 1.5 human stride. Size of human unknown.
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hiking
- Track witnesses
- 2
- Age
- 21 to 30