Incident #1001347
Weitchpec, Humboldt Cty, California
Jul 1974
Account
Camping with parents and four brothers, at the Aikens Creek campground just South of Bluff Creek, hiked up Aikens Creek and saw a single, bare, footprint in sand at the base of a rock wall, as if one foot had slipped off the base of the rock. Left foot, 16 to 17-inches by 6 inches, four toes clear, one barely showing, 3 to 4 inches deep. Made a cast next day, but which was obscured by windblown sand. Position such that right foot should have been in sand too.
When
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1974
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Humboldt Cty
- Nearest Town
- Weitchpec
- Direction from Town
- Northeast
- Distance from Town
- 4
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 4
- Latitude
- 41133-
- Longitude
- 123392-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- shore
- Near or/at
- rock
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- solid rock
- Ground condition
- dry
- Tree size
- mostly small
- Tree condition
- mostly new
- Tree type
- deciduous
- General
- none
- Undergrowth size
- low
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- alder
Source
- Source
- Mike Imlay, 5608 N. Cambury, Temple City, CA 91780
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- 1974
- Source reliability
- 1
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- OCT 1974
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.5
- Greates Width
- 6.0
- Average Depth
- 3.50
- Number of Tracks
- 1
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- sand
Witness
- Interviewer
- letter to John Green
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- camping, hiking
- Track witnesses
- several
- Age
- 10 to 15