Bear Box at Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp (YE06)

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Detail Map of waypoint YE06 in Yosemite Park East:
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  1. YE06 is 2 standard boxes, at about 7900 feet, in the GPS route YOSEMITE EAST.

  2. Notes:
    This High Sierra Camp is often accessed from the parking lot near Lembert Dome, and people walk down the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne from here. Walking down canyon, you cross two bridges to get to the camp, only one bridge to continue down to Waterwheel Falls. The camp buildings are visible from the second bridge, the camping area is to the left and behind the buildings. Better campsites are up the hill north the solar toilet, which is less than 100 yards west of the river.

    The bear cable which used to be nearby has been removed. The bear boxes among the buildings are for camp guests, backpackers should use the boxes north of the buildings.

  3. Directions from Peter Labarba, with GPS waypoint, July 2001:
    The bear boxes are in 'line of site' between the faucet and the solar powered toilet. Probably less than 100 feet away. There are only two bear boxes. This does surprise me, though. Glen Aulin is one of the most visited of the high sierra camps, and has the fewest boxes. They appear new and in good condition.

  4. Directions from Kim Fishburn, July 2003:
    The bears are injuring themselves by chewing on the cables. I read about a year ago that they were going to take them down. I've heard stories about the cables such as bears standing on them and bouncing the try to get the food to slide toward them I was a Hetch Hetchy about 5 years ago and the ranger told me that the bears had gotten the cables down at Rancheria Creek and that they wouldn't be replaced.

  5. Directions from Peter Labarba, July 2001:
    By the way, we went looking for the cable described on your site and couldn't find it. The ranger who checked our wilderness permit said they'd taken all the cables down. Even the one at the junction of Lyle canyon and lake ireland, which is used by PCT and JMT hikers.

  6. Directions from Douglas Smith, Nov 1999:
    There's an old cable strung between two trees near Glen Aulin in Yosemite. I remember it being about 200-300 yards downstream from the bridge at the High Sierra camp, on the north side of the Tuolumne River, left of the trail, and visible from the trail. It's at a dusty, heavily overcamped area where I'd never dream of spending the night, but it might serve for someone doing Tuolumne Canyon or Wildcat Point.

  7. YE06 coordinates: (see GPX waypoint download links above)
      (lat,lon) = (37.9101100, -119.4177400) in decimal degrees, NAD83.
      (zone,east,north) = (11S, 287533.0, 4198399.0) in decimal meters, NAD27.

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