Sierra Nevada Bear Boxes
Details for HP01

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

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Bear box 'HP01'
(Horse Creek Cable)

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HP01 is a steel cable, still there as of 2001, at about 8600 feet, in the Hockett Plateau region.
Directions from Steve Eckert, with GPS waypoint, June 2001:
Steel cable between two trees, with a pully and clip on one so you can lower the cable and attach food without a counterbalance. Just north of Horse Creek, there are several campsites on the east side of the trail. The cable is in the LOWER campsite. Look for a 2' metal bar hanging from middle of the cable and/or a wooden sign announcing the cable. The sign had been hidden, I put it back in place, but someone may want this cable to NOT be found. The cable is about 75' from trail, 60' elevation above the stream crossing, between the trail and the stream.
Directions from Mineral King ranger info sheet, dated 1991:
Storage cable at the main camp on the north side of Horse Creek and east of the trail.

Find waypoint HP01 in region waypoints or all waypoints file.
(NAD83 decimal degrees or NAD27 UTM data suitable for TOPO! software or Waypoint+ software)

  (lat,lon) = (36.3919800, -118.6536900) in decimal degrees, NAD83.
  (zone,east,north) = (11S, 351772.0, 4028499.0) in decimal meters, NAD27.

Next box is HP02: Hockett Meadow Ranger Station.
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Map exported from TOPO! software, used with permission.