Sierra Nevada Bear Boxes
Details for BA02

Updated 21 Jun 2008, see revision history for details.
CORRECTIONS WOULD BE APPRECIATED! contact Steve Eckert.

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Bear box 'BA02'
(Little Five Lakes)

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BA02 is a large gray box, at about 10500 feet, in the Big Arroyo region.
Directions from Steve Eckert, with GPS waypoint, June 2008:
Just east of where the trail crosses the outlet of Lake 10476. The box was moved closer to the stream when the old standard box was replaced with the newer style gray box. It is about 10 yards from the stream, and about 5 yards from the metal trail intersection sign, east of the trail intersection. I listened to a bear tossing the old box around all night in 1998, when it was chained to a tree. Don't camp too near the box!
Directions from Mineral King ranger info sheet, dated 1991:
Approximately 100 feet south of the Black Rock Pass / Big Arroyo / Big Five Lakes trail junction in an established campsite (east of the junction) behind a log parallel to the Big Five Lakes trail.

Find waypoint BA02 in region waypoints or all waypoints file.
(NAD83 decimal degrees or NAD27 UTM data suitable for TOPO! software or Waypoint+ software)

  (lat,lon) = (36.4928800, -118.5361300) in decimal degrees, NAD83.
  (zone,east,north) = (11S, 362494.0, 4039518.0) in decimal meters, NAD27.

Previous box is BA01: Big Arroyo Patrol Cabin.
Next box is BA03: Lower Big Five Lake.
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