[pct-l] Kearsage/Onion Valley

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Some years ago I worked inside Yosemite Valley for the concession's company.
My home while I lived there was at Curry Village in one of those tent
cabins. we had bears in the village every night I was there. One day I went
into the little town of Mariposa for the day just so I could  get some fast
food. On the trip back I must have inadvertently let some fries get under my
passenger seat. Picture a Suzuki Samurai with a soft top with the passenger
seat ripped out in thousands of pieces for a few stray french
fries...Luckily, the bear went through the soft top, not the door. Others in
that same parking lot were not so lucky that night, I saw a door bent
completely in half from the top down and the entire contents of the mini van
destroyed for what looked like to be the remnants of a box of donuts.

A hard lesson, thankfully I didn't suffer the loss of my car.



On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Bob Bankhead <wandering_bob at comcast.net>wrote:

> Yes, there are bear boxes along the north side of the parking lot, near the
> bathrooms. These are for anyone's use. That means no security. Leave things
> at your own risk. Put your name and approximate reclaim date on any
> container. Note that these metal boxes are out in the full sun all day, so
> whatever you put in them will get quite hot. There are also bear boxes in
> the USFS campground, but those are strictly reserved for the occupants of
> each site and checked daily by the camp host.
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> Bears are very active in the parking lots. Do not leave anything with an
> odor in your car, nor anything visible inside....unless you like gambling
> on
> not having your windows ripped out.
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