Incident #1001409
Cripple Creek, Teller Cty, Colorado
about 1980
Account
Snow camping in Pike National Forest behind Pikes Peak, Edward and friend exploring in deep snow came on a trail on a rise in the valley floor and followed it a short distance. They found some very large, barefoot, human-shape prints in the snow. Struggled along until they came to an area where the snow was too deep to continue, but the big tracks rolled right along through it with little disturbance.
When
- Year
- about 1980
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- Colorado
- County
- Teller Cty
- Nearest Town
- Cripple Creek
- Direction from Town
- North
- Population of Town
- 700
- Elevation/Altitude
- 75
- Latitude
- 3950--
- Longitude
- 10505--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- trail
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine, valley
- Exact Terrain
- valley bottom
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Ground condition
- frozen
- Snow Condition
- deep old
Weather and light
- Snow
- unusually deep
- Lighting
- direct sunlight
Source
- Source
- BFRO Curators from Edward [email protected]
- Source Type
- internet
- Source Date
- JUN 20 1998
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- DEC 1998
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- big
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft deep snow