Bear Box at Bearpaw Meadow North (HS08)
Generated on 2 Aug 2022 - see revision history - please send updates to the webmaster
Detail Map of waypoint HS08
in High Sierra Trail:
(scroll down for directions, waypoints, and area map)
- HS08 is a standard box, at about 7700 feet,
in the GPS route HIGH SIERRA TR.
- 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.
- 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.
- Directions from Mineral King ranger info sheet, dated 1991:
Four boxes in the main camp area.
- HS08 coordinates: (see GPX waypoint download links above)
(lat,lon) = (36.5655200, -118.6230300) in decimal degrees, NAD83.
(zone,east,north) = (11S, 354844.0, 4047706.0) in decimal meters, NAD27.
- Scroll down for a regional map of the entire High Sierra Trail region.
Map exported from TOPO! software, used with permission.
Useful Links:
Go to the main Bear Box Page
or a clickable Bear Boxes Map
or a complete list of 150 Bear Boxes
Prev box is HS07:
Bearpaw Meadow East.
Next box is HS09:
Upper Hamilton Lake #1.
GPS Waypoints in Region HS: download GPX file.
