[pct-l] Bear Cans in Yosemite

[scourtway at bpa-arch.com (Steve Courtway)]

thousand island lake is at 9800 ft. and there're plenty bear there.


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From: "Marshall Karon" <m.karon@comcast.net>
To: "Steve Courtway" <scourtway@bpa-arch.com>; "Christopher Willett"
<chwillet@indiana.edu>
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Subject: Re: [pct-l] Bear Cans in Yosemite


> What I don't understand is the requirement for bear canisters if you go
over
> 9600 ft. Bears typically never go that high. There isn't any food up there
> for them. When attending a Tuolumne Meadows ranger talk, we heard the
ranger
> say bears rarely went over 6000-7000 ft. in the Sierras.  And then, only
> where there were huge campsites.
>
> Marshall Karon
> Portland, OR
> m.karon@comcast.net
>