[pct-l] Food Cache

[Pea Hicks]

Jeffrey Olson wrote:

> There are a bunch of bear boxes at the Onion Valley Parking lot and the 
> signs insist you use the bear boxes rather than leave food in cars - so 
> there's another cache spot. 

for the sake of yourself and your fellow hikers, i would strongly advise 
you not to use bear boxes for caching food, as that's NOT what they're 
for. bear boxes are exclusively for the use of whoever is camping in the 
immediate area. if lots of hikers started using bear boxes to cache 
food, there would be no room in the boxes for the folks who actually 
need to use them for their intended purpose.

at the woods creek camp north of rae lakes last year, there was a note 
from the rangers in the bear box, addressed to some folks who had cached 
their food there. the note reprimanded them for doing so, and said that 
they could find their food waiting for them at the rae lakes ranger 
station, which means they had to backtrack several miles (and climb 
quite a bit) in order to claim their food from the rangers, who probably 
also read them the riot act when they got there.


girlscout