Sierra Nevada Bear Boxes
Details for CG03

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

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Bear box 'CG03'
(Copper Ck Jct Road's End)

Detail Map: (scroll down for directions, waypoints, and area map)

CG03 is four large boxes, at about 5000 feet, in the Cedar Grove Area region.
Note: As of 2004, the rangers say the southern parking loop (near the river) is for day use only. Backpackers must park in the northern loop and must have a car pass (issued with your permit). There were no signs to indicate this, and no obvious enforcement, but watch out!
Directions from Steve Eckert, with GPS waypoint, July 2004:
Four large boxes just uphill from the most northern parking loop, where the Copper Creek trail meets the pavement, at Road's End.
Directions from 'pctPacker', Dec 1999:
Four large bear boxes in the middle of the northern parking loop at Road's End (not the permit kiosk parking loop, the other one) roughly 5 miles east of Cedar Grove.

Find waypoint CG03 in region waypoints or all waypoints file.
(NAD83 decimal degrees or NAD27 UTM data suitable for TOPO! software or Waypoint+ software)

  (lat,lon) = (36.7962900, -118.5832100) in decimal degrees, NAD83.
  (zone,east,north) = (11S, 358832.0, 4073246.0) in decimal meters, NAD27.

Previous box is CG02: Tent Meadow.
Next box is CG04: Day Use Lot, Road's End.
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Map exported from TOPO! software, used with permission.