[pct-l] Bear canisters

[Alden Dale]

Yosemite regulations are as follows:
if you're camping somewhere that isn't:

-within 7 miles of a road
-above 9,600 feet
-within 1/2 mile of benson lake

Then you don't need any kind of bear storage device according to the 
official Yosemite park site, 
http://www.nps.gov/archive/yose/wilderness/bfoodstorage.htm

Those are the current regulations. Print out that page and keep it with 
you if a ranger asks. Some of them may not know that if you aren't doing 
any of the above you are allowed to not use bear canisters or storage 
boxes.

I had no problem following those regulations- it isn't too hard. I had no 
problems with bears this year at all. I saw no bears through all of 
yosemite, and saw one few days past yosemite at Ebbett's pass, and one by 
Buck's lake.

I'm not sure of area south of Yosemite, but from Yosemite to the Oregon 
border for sure are no required places for bear canisters.

Good luck, and God Bless!

Alden