[pct-l] Bear canisters

[Bob Bankhead]

I was just in Yosemite last month, and was informed by the Tuolumne Meadows Wilderness Center - where I got my permit - that the "above 9600 feet" rule has been revoked. Altitude no longer factors into the equation. The web site is out of date.

Wandering Bob
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alden Dale 
  To: pct-l at backcountry.net 
  Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 9:22 AM
  Subject: Re: [pct-l] Bear canisters


  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
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