Food Caches in Sequoia Kings
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I have always hiked mine in and hiked mine out. Anytime you give people the chance to take advantage of a good thing , many will abuse it. And I am sympathetic to the poor grunts {rangers} who have to pack out someone elses junk. You are not protecting the bears. Bears do what bears do. They naturally do goofy stuff. I live with them ,so I know how destructive they can be ,even when all precautions are taken. There is too many dadgum bears around anyway. I do my part. Nothing like a good ,lean spring bear for jerky, roast ,or stew. Don't want to put no fat bear in my pot. jls
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I always use a bear canister and resupply myself, but I have heard those lockers get too full anyway! And why hike in a resupply ahead of time over mailing one in to the accepted places....? Dee
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Re: Food Caches in Sequoia Kings
I'm reviving an old thread about food caches...
I was watching a video yesterday, which had been posted by a 2021 PCT hiker. She said a hiker was digging a cathole and found a buried food cache. It was a 5 gallon Home Depot bucket! The food was ruined and expired, so who knows how long it had been there. This was in the Kearsarge Lakes area. Video link is below, starts at the 11:57 mark. Is this common and we just don't hear about it much? Or is this an outlier?
FYI, they packed out the bucket. Good for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lGunMN_tLQ
I was watching a video yesterday, which had been posted by a 2021 PCT hiker. She said a hiker was digging a cathole and found a buried food cache. It was a 5 gallon Home Depot bucket! The food was ruined and expired, so who knows how long it had been there. This was in the Kearsarge Lakes area. Video link is below, starts at the 11:57 mark. Is this common and we just don't hear about it much? Or is this an outlier?
FYI, they packed out the bucket. Good for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lGunMN_tLQ
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Re: Food Caches in Sequoia Kings
Wow, that's wild! I'm pretty sure food caches are illegal nowadays. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen, though. SeKi explicitly calls out caching in bear boxes as against the rules. Not sure what other parks say.
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