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Sierra Nevada Bear Boxes
Details for KC01
Generated on 25 Jun 2010, see revision history for update details.

CORRECTIONS WOULD BE APPRECIATED! contact Steve Eckert.
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    Bear box 'KC01'
    (Lower Funston Meadow)

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

    1. KC01 is 2 large boxes, at about 6500 feet, in the Kern Canyon region.

    2. Note: This box is near where Laurel Creek joins the Kern River, south of the Big Arroyo and Rattlesnake Creek trail junction. The map does not show Lower Funston, but it does show plain old Funston Meadow about 5 miles south of Upper Funston Meadow.

    3. Directions from Mark Sapiro, with GPS waypoint, Sep 2006:
      Follow a spur trail marked with a sign 'campsites' to the east. There is a campsite and two new style large boxes.

    4. Directions from Mineral King ranger info sheet, dated 1991:
      The bear box is 200 yards east of the Kern Canyon Trail, at a campsite in the forest between the northeast corner of Lower Funston Meadow and the Kern River. Best access by stock or foot is down a steep embankment from the trail to the meadow's edge, near the SOUTH end of the meadow, then north and east along faint paths in the grass to the camping area. A prominent access route near the north end of Lower Funston Meadow is usually wet and boggy.

    5. Find waypoint KC01 in region waypoints or all waypoints file.
      (NAD83 decimal degrees or NAD27 UTM data suitable for TOPO! software or Waypoint+ software)
        (lat,lon) = (36.3824700, -118.4102400) in decimal degrees, NAD83.
  (zone,east,north) = (11S, 373591.0, 4027099.0) in decimal meters, NAD27.
    6. Next box is KC02: Upper Funston Meadow #1.

    7. Scroll down for a regional map of the entire Kern Canyon region.

    8. 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.