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steelcup
is there a physical difference between the bear lockers at LYV/Merced Lake/Sunrise and the one at Snow Creek?
No
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When you talk about food being safe in the box, do you mean rodents getting in?
Or the potential for someone to open the locker and leave it unlocked until an animal gets to it?
Someone opening the locker and going "yum yum" ... and taking your food that you are relying on.
It's a big problem that the lockers have loads of garbage and other crap in them.
With a high probability of change of plans... it would mean even more if it was allowed.
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Once the winter rangers have opened the shipping container to allow you access to your winter cache, do you then keep it in the bear lockers near the Tuolumne hut? Or just in the hut itself while you stay? Do people pack out the cache remnants or leave them till spring?
First hand I cannot say for sure.
But I think it's more or less a moot point since the container is pretty close to the hut.
Definitely you do not keep the food in the hut with you though.
And definitely the cache remnants do not need to be carried out. You can retrieve
them in the spring. They open the container once the road opens and it is not
locked at all... so you are free to get it whenever you want w/o any contact with rangers.
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Finally... what about beer? I mean it stands to reason you'd want a few bottles of beer up there. But it'd freeze and explode wouldn't it? Or would it? Maybe I should do a test...
I can say that when retrieved a pail for Bearproof from the container this year
we saw some cans that were exploded. But I can also say that I personally
had a bottle of wine in the locker at Snow Creek and it was tasty when we
drank it... so.. it stands a chance that the beer will make it. I'd put a sixer
in the pail I put in the container and deal with the consequences...
I'm fairly certain that I'm correct on everything I said. Of course you can always
call the wilderness ranger and have a chat.
If you do... please ask why they went and reduced the number of bear boxes
at the cabin.
For me and the wife... we've decided pretty much that if we go to the cabin
again we'll just carry our food up ... With HH closed this year... we may just
end up there at Xmass though.
Anywho. Have fun