Sierra Nevada Bear Boxes
Details for HP06

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

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Bear box 'HP06'
(South Fork Meadow)

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HP06 is a standard box, at about 8500 feet, in the Hockett Plateau region.
Note: You must cross stream to get to a large horse campsite from the trail. The box and the camp are hard to see through trees and across stream, but there is a horse-friendly ford and some downed trees I crossed near the outlet of the meadow. This camp is just south of the signed trail junction to Touhy River, but beware: that trail is not on the 7.5 quad so don't take it if you intend to go to Hockett Lakes.
Directions from Steve Eckert, with GPS waypoint, June 2001:
One standard box at the northwest (outlet) end of Southfork Meadow. The box is southwest of the stream in the middle of the campsite.
Directions from Mineral King ranger info sheet, dated 1991:
One box at the main stock camp on the west side of the river near a large rock and visible hitch racks.

Find waypoint HP06 in region waypoints or all waypoints file.
(NAD83 decimal degrees or NAD27 UTM data suitable for TOPO! software or Waypoint+ software)

  (lat,lon) = (36.3468500, -118.6447400) in decimal degrees, NAD83.
  (zone,east,north) = (11S, 352489.0, 4023479.0) in decimal meters, NAD27.

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