Sierra Nevada Bear Boxes
Details for HP10

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

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Bear box 'HP10'
(Dillonwood Grove Entrance)

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HP10 is 1 large box, at about 5700 feet, in the Hockett Plateau region.
Directions from Steve Eckert, with GPS waypoint, Oct 2004:
The Dillonwood Grove Entrance, between Dennison and Moses, is used mostly by hunters. There is better access to both peaks from other trailheads, but if you want cross-country adventure with giant sequoias in a natural setting, this is the place. One large box is at the end of the road, just right of the permanently locked gate where the topo map shows a hairpin turn at 5700' on a rough 4WD road. There are two apparently seasonal gates below this one.

Find waypoint HP10 in region waypoints or all waypoints file.
(NAD83 decimal degrees or NAD27 UTM data suitable for TOPO! software or Waypoint+ software)

  (lat,lon) = (36.2988400, -118.7141400) in decimal degrees, NAD83.
  (zone,east,north) = (11S, 346167.0, 4018261.0) in decimal meters, NAD27.

Previous box is HP09: Hidden Falls Campground.
Next box is HP11: South Fork Ranger Station.
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Map exported from TOPO! software, used with permission.