Sierra Nevada Bear Boxes
Details for HP03
Generated on 15 Mar 2009, see revision history for update details.

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Bear box 'HP03'
(Hockett Meadow Stockade)

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

HP03 is a standard box, at about 8500 feet, in the Hockett Plateau region.
Directions from Steve Eckert, with GPS waypoint, June 2001:
One standard box a quarter mile across the meadow from the ranger station. You can find it by looking for the largest boulder just outside the tree line that defines the meadow. Closer up, the bear box is just behind an orange snow depth marker nailed to a tree and facing the meadow. This box is intended for horse packers, see BBHP02.
Directions from Mineral King ranger info sheet, dated 1991:
One box at the stock camp in the trees one fourth of a mile southeast of the Ranger Station.

Find waypoint HP03 in region waypoints or all waypoints file.
(NAD83 decimal degrees or NAD27 UTM data suitable for TOPO! software or Waypoint+ software)

  (lat,lon) = (36.3744800, -118.6531300) in decimal degrees, NAD83.
  (zone,east,north) = (11S, 351789.0, 4026557.0) in decimal meters, NAD27.

Previous box is HP02: Hockett Meadow Ranger Station.
Next box is HP04XX: Upper Camp - may not be near here.
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