[pct-l] Bear Canisters

[Bob Bankhead]

I stand corrected. It has been my experience that the high sierra camps barely tolerate hikers, let alone welcome them. They're busy serving the $100 per night tent camper/touristas. We were reluctantly allowed to spend monies in the store at Glen Aulin and then encouraged to get back into the woods.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ken Powers 
  To: Bob Bankhead ; boss9871 at aol.com 
  Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net 
  Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 4:02 PM
  Subject: Re: [pct-l] Bear Canisters


  I agree with everything you said except that the Glen Aulin bear box is not 
  accessible to PCT hikers. I thought that also until we stopped there in 2007 
  and stayed at Glen Aulin. The backpackers camp behind the "lodge" had 
  several bear boxes and we made use of one even though we were carrying a 
  bear canister. It was just easier. And a nice place to camp, even though 
  there were many other campers there.