[pct-l] Park service vs. Park Service

[reynolds@iLAN.com (Reynolds, WT)]

Yosemite is a zoo because of the number of visitors and campers it handles
every year. In fact the bear problems in Yosemite are very localized around
the Valley and Tuolumne Meadows.

That being said, Yosemite's decision to not install bear boxs was ill
advised. What bear boxs do is make it easy for week/weekend hikers to hike
to popular routes and camp in the popular places. True, this creates high
density camping that some find objectionable but the average city dweller
doesn't care. The result is that Sequoia/Kings Canyon bears are under
control while other areas that continued advising counterbalancing are out
of control.

Where there are bear boxs, almost everybody [except thruhiker scum]store
their food properly by the simple expedient of using the bear boxs for
excess food until all fits into the canister. It is the areas that are going
directly from counterbalancing to bear canisters where the problem is.

Bear cables and poles also work although they are higher maintenance and
harder to use.

Tom


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 OK,  Glacier verses Yosemite!!! So Yosemite's answer is to bear box or
canister everything while few Glacier employee's even know what a canister
or
bear box is!! Actually there are a few bear boxes in Glacier, but mostly the
backcountry campsites had bear poles for hanging food and only a few had
boxes. Glacier requires you to cook in a separate area than where you sleep.
They seem to have a good handle on the bear situation. ( You don't need to
pack a canister) I saw no bears in Glacier and heard of no problems.
       Yosemite on the other hand is a zoo!! You need a canister or bear box
everwhere. Bears are out of control. How can two Parks have such different
sets of rules? Glacier would get a A+ while Yosemite gets a D- for their
seperate bear handling report cards.
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