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Sierra Nevada Bear Boxes
Details for CR01
Generated on 25 Jun 2010, see revision history for update details.

CORRECTIONS WOULD BE APPRECIATED! contact Steve Eckert.
For bear box data, including maps and location instructions, you can jump to:
  • the main Bear Box Page or a clickable Bear Boxes Map
  • click on a sorted list of 141 bear boxes or short list of 25 box regions

    Bear box 'CR01'
    (Cliff Lake Trailhead)

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

    1. CR01 is 4 standard boxes, at about 8400 feet, in the Courtright Reservoir region.

    2. Directions from Steve Eckert, with GPS waypoint, August 2005:
      Four standard bear boxes at the Cliff Lake Trailhead, at the end of the road just beyond the Trapper Springs campground on the west side of Courtright Reservoir.

    3. Find waypoint CR01 in region waypoints or all waypoints file.
      (NAD83 decimal degrees or NAD27 UTM data suitable for TOPO! software or Waypoint+ software)
        (lat,lon) = (37.1059700, -118.9872900) in decimal degrees, NAD83.
  (zone,east,north) = (11S, 323495.0, 4108277.0) in decimal meters, NAD27.
    4. Next box is CR02: Maxson Trailhead.

    5. Scroll down for a regional map of the entire Courtright Reservoir region.

    6. 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.