Sierra Nevada Bear Boxes
Details for SV01

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

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Bear box 'SV01'
(Comanche Meadow)

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SV01 is a standard box, at about 7800 feet, in the Sugarloaf Valley region.
Directions from Steve Eckert, with GPS waypoint, Aug 2003:
One box on the south side of the trail (a bearbox signpost existed in 1999 but was missing in 2003) between the trail junction that gives you two choices to Rowell Meadow and the stream crossing just west of where the trail drops to the Sugarloaf River. The campsite is in fairly tall trees, one of the few areas NOT primarily pines, at the low end of a meadow. Water is nearby and this site doesn't seem to be used by horse packers.

Find waypoint SV01 in region waypoints or all waypoints file.
(NAD83 decimal degrees or NAD27 UTM data suitable for TOPO! software or Waypoint+ software)

  (lat,lon) = (36.7108000, -118.6836800) in decimal degrees, NAD83.
  (zone,east,north) = (11S, 349701.0, 4063914.0) in decimal meters, NAD27.

Next box is SV02: Sugarloaf Meadow.
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