Incident #1001210
Orofino, Clearwater Cty, Idaho
Jan 1976
Account
Jack Langford found tracks, 16" by nearly 7" in snow on an unused cutoff of the curve of a log skid trail. Toe impressions showed slightly. He estimated they were not ofer 2 days old. Russ Gebhart saw them two days later and cast one, but by then no toes were evident. Five good tracks and some poorer impressions, probably melted out, plus many human prints by the time Russ saw them. Loggers had not tried to follow the tracks. Possible to go a long distance on hard-packed cat trails.
When
- Observation Date
- JAN 23 1976
- Month
- Jan
- Year
- 1976
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- Idaho
- County
- Clearwater Cty
- Nearest Town
- Orofino
- Direction from Town
- East Northeast
- Distance from Town
- 15
- Population of Town
- 2500
- Elevation/Altitude
- 35
- Latitude
- 4632--
- Longitude
- 11557--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- trail
- Near or/at
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- hillside
- Exact Terrain
- forest
- Snow Condition
- snow
Source
- Source
- Russ Gebhart intv. with Jack Langford and his own
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- JAN 1976
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- FEB 1976
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Estimated Age
- 2
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- 5
- Trail Followed Y/N
- No
- Track Condition
- poor
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- snow
- Tracks Came From
- road
- Tracks Went to
- road
- Remarks
- "road" indicates hard-packed skid trail.
Witness
- Interviewer
- Russ Gebhart
- Interview date
- JAN 25 1976
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- logging
- Track witnesses
- many