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Sierra Nevada Bear Boxes
Details for HS05

Updated 21 Jun 2008, see revision history for details.
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    Bear box 'HS05'
    (Bearpaw Meadow West)

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

    1. HS05 is a standard box, at about 7700 feet, in the High Sierra Trail region.

    2. Note: The main camp area is pretty large, and is NOT right next to the dude camp or the ranger station. It's a 600' climb east from Buck Creek to a trail junction near a saddle, and a sign at the junction says the campground is 0.1 mile on the southern fork of the trail. All three trails leaving this junction go downhill! There is a map on a signboard at the use trail junction near the 'center' of the backpacker camp giving the locations of the boxes as well as the location of water and the outhouses, but it doesn't seem accurate.

    3. Directions from Steve Eckert, with GPS waypoint, Oct 2002:
      One box at the first campsite you come to following the trail from Buck Creek to Bearpaw Meadow backpacker campsites. It is near a switchback as the trail drops into the camping area, at the highest and most western campsite (50 yards north of an outhouse). An untreated water spigot is downslope from this box.

    4. Directions from Mineral King ranger info sheet, dated 1991:
      Four boxes in the main camp area.

    5. Find waypoint HS05 in region waypoints or all waypoints file.
      (NAD83 decimal degrees or NAD27 UTM data suitable for TOPO! software or Waypoint+ software)
        (lat,lon) = (36.5651900, -118.6235300) in decimal degrees, NAD83.
  (zone,east,north) = (11S, 354798.0, 4047670.0) in decimal meters, NAD27.
    6. Previous box is HS04: Buck Creek.

    7. Next box is HS06: Bearpaw Meadow South.

    8. Scroll down for a regional map of the entire High Sierra Trail region.

    9. Use Google Maps or Google Earth to view this region overlaid with roads and trails on satellite images or maps.
      (Click on any icon to get details in a popup, double-left-click to zoom in, double-right-click to zoom out.)


    Map exported from TOPO! software, used with permission.