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Sierra Nevada Bear Boxes
Details for KC05
Generated on 15 Mar 2009, 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 'KC05'
    (Kern Hot Springs east of trail)

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

    1. KC05 is a standard box, at about 6900 feet, in the Kern Canyon region.

    2. Note: Kern Hot Springs is where Rock Creek joins the Kern River, but the Rock Creek bearbox is far upstream and there is no direct trail between them. There is a concrete tub with wooden privacy screen at the hot springs, and the campsites are just up-canyon in the trees.

    3. Directions from Jeffrey Zimmerman, with GPS waypoint, Sep 2007:
      A single box, located in the midst of a campsite to the east of the trail (i.e., on the right if proceeding upstream), about 30 yards further upstream than the adjacent box KC04. It is located near a young tree in the center of the camping area.

    4. Directions from Mineral King ranger info sheet, dated 1991:
      One bear box is accessed by a side trail from the campsite just north of the Hot Springs meadow, about 90 yards north of the Hot Springs bulletin board. This path leads about 50 yards up a gentle gradient to the east, into an open stand of Jeffrey Pine, which shelters a bear box and three campsites. The pit toilet is behind a manzanita clump north and east of this bear box.

    5. Find waypoint KC05 in region waypoints or all waypoints file.
      (NAD83 decimal degrees or NAD27 UTM data suitable for TOPO! software or Waypoint+ software)
        (lat,lon) = (36.4795000, -118.4055500) in decimal degrees, NAD83.
  (zone,east,north) = (11S, 374171.0, 4037832.0) in decimal meters, NAD27.
    6. Previous box is KC04: Kern Hot Springs west of trail.

    7. Next box is KC06: Junction Meadow Kern River.

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

    9. 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.