Incident #1001310
Blairmore, Beaver Mines Lake, Alberta
Jun 1979
Account
Students from H.T. Coutts school on field trip to Beaver Mines Lake, John Quinlan and Steven Petek found 15" tracks on the lakeshore, with widely splayed toes measuring 9" across. Cast made.
When
- Month
- Jun
- Year
- 1979
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- Alberta
- County
- Beaver Mines Lake
- Nearest Town
- Blairmore
- Direction from Town
- South Southeast
- Distance from Town
- 18
- Population of Town
- 2000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 42
- Latitude
- 4922--
- Longitude
- 11417--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- shore
- Near or/at
- water
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- small lake
- Distance to Water
- close
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- Claresholm Local Press, quoting Steven Petek and J
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- JUL 05 1979
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- JY 1979
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Greates Width
- 9.0
- Heel Width
- 4.5
- Number of Tracks
- few
- Size of Toes
- toes more of a size than human's
- Longest Toe
- middle
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- sand
- Foot Shape
- splay-toed
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hiking
- Track witnesses
- several
- Age
- 10 to 15