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Bear Box at Porcupine Creek (YW04)

Generated on 2 Aug 2022 - see revision history - please send updates to the webmaster

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Prev box is YW03: Porcupine Flat.
First box is YW01XX: Pate Valley Cable.
GPS Waypoints in Region YW: download GPX file.

Detail Map of waypoint YW04 in Yosemite Park West:
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1. YW04 is 8 large boxes, at about 8100 feet, in the GPS route YOSEMITE WEST.

2. Directions from Steve Eckert, with GPS waypoint, Sep 2000:
   Eight large boxes around the trailhead parking at the Porcupine Creek trailhead roughly 6 miles west of Tenaya Lake on Hwy 120. The trailhead and the boxes are on the south side of Hwy 120.

3. YW04 coordinates: (see GPX waypoint download links above)
   

     (lat,lon) = (37.8066500, -119.5452900) in decimal degrees, NAD83.
     (zone,east,north) = (11S, 276005.0, 4187214.0) in decimal meters, NAD27.

4. Scroll down for a regional map of the entire Yosemite Park West region.

Map exported from TOPO! software, used with permission.

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