[pct-l] Food Cache

[Mike Saenz]

I swear I can remember a post from a few years back where some guy
cached his food along the trail (burying it in the dirt and covering it
with rocks, I believe) and when time came when he reached his spots,
animals had dug it up and left a mess of trash he needed to clean up
before he moved on. I think each cache was met in the same condition.

Last I saw, there were notices in the bear boxes along the PCT/JMT
between Vidette and Woods Crossing explicitly prohibiting caching food
in them. It's not nice to piss off a Ranger...

Hitch in and get a cold beer, a hot shower, a pizza and meet up with
other hikers (perhaps not, but maybe, in that order).

Michael  Saenz
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Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:16 PM
To: Jeffrey Olson
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Food Cache



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
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