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Report # 1953  (Class B)
Submitted on Tuesday, March 13, 2001.
Deputy Sheriff sees strange footprints above Strawberry

YEAR: 1963

SEASON: Winter

MONTH: December

STATE: California

COUNTY: Tuolumne County

LOCATION DETAILS: Take Highway 108 to Strawberry, California. The location is about 2 miles northwest of Strawberry in Leland Meadow.

NEAREST TOWN: Strawberry

NEAREST ROAD: Highway 108

OBSERVED: The Deputy Sheriff from Pinecrest reported hundreds of 15 inch tracks with a 5 foot stride in Leland Meadow, a popluar recreation area. No casts were made, but news of the tracks made the local paper, the Union Democrat.

OTHER WITNESSES: Sheriff came to the location because the footprints were reported by local residents.

TIME AND CONDITIONS: early morning, tracks were in the snow.

ENVIRONMENT: Pine forest, about 6,000 feet in elevation.