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Sierra Nevada Bear Boxes
Details for HS08

Updated 21 Jun 2008, see revision history for details.
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    Bear box 'HS08'
    (Bearpaw Meadow North)

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

    1. HS08 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 in an isolated campsite 100 yards northeast from the main cluster of Bearpaw Meadow backpacker campsites and not visible from any other campsite. This box is 30' below the trail between the ranger station and the main camping area. An untreated water spigot 40' downslope from the box serves only this campsite.

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

    5. Find waypoint HS08 in region waypoints or all waypoints file.
      (NAD83 decimal degrees or NAD27 UTM data suitable for TOPO! software or Waypoint+ software)
        (lat,lon) = (36.5655200, -118.6230300) in decimal degrees, NAD83.
  (zone,east,north) = (11S, 354844.0, 4047706.0) in decimal meters, NAD27.
    6. Previous box is HS07: Bearpaw Meadow East.

    7. Next box is HS09: Upper Hamilton Lake #1.

    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.