Sierra Nevada Bear Boxes
Details for BC03

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

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Bear box 'BC03'
(Charlotte Creek)

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BC03 is a standard box, at about 7300 feet, in the Bubbs Creek, Southern Rae Lakes Loop region.
Note: The Sequoia Natural History Assoc map shows this box on the south side of Bubbs Creek, but that's not accurate - it's between the trail and Bubbs, not on the far side of Bubbs.
Directions from Steve Eckert, with GPS waypoint, August 2004:
One standard box about 50 yards east of Charlotte Creek and about 50 yards north of Bubbs Creek, just uphill from a huge fallen tree. There are two streams, Charlotte Creek is the one with the log bridge. Better campsites are west of Charlotte, but the box is to the east. A small sign just east of the creek shows the box location, and a use trail drops below the main trail to the box.
Directions from Mineral King ranger info sheet, dated 1991:
One box below the Bubbs Creek trail, east of the Charlotte Creek crossing.

Find waypoint BC03 in region waypoints or all waypoints file.
(NAD83 decimal degrees or NAD27 UTM data suitable for TOPO! software or Waypoint+ software)

  (lat,lon) = (36.7706800, -118.4852000) in decimal degrees, NAD83.
  (zone,east,north) = (11S, 367533.0, 4070265.0) in decimal meters, NAD27.

Previous box is BC02: Sphinx Creek at Bubbs Creek.
Next box is BC04: Lower Junction Meadow Bubbs Ck.
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Map exported from TOPO! software, used with permission.