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Originally Posted by Evans, Marv
Aerkluld,
Bearpaw meadow is 11 miles from Crescent Meadow in Sequoia Natl. Pard. Pretty easy hike without much incline. When I was a ranger in Sequoia, we had real problems with bears tearing up cars to get in when people would leave food inside. With the VW busses, they would just peel back the side doors to get in. Elizabeth Pass is a nice area. The east side leads over to a plateau leading to the headwaters of the San Juaquin River if I remember correctly.
We used to have to tranquilize bears occasionally when they became a problem in the campgrounds. We'd take them 10 to 15 miles away at first and let them out in the woods. Problem was they'd be back in the campground the next day most of the time, and we'd have to take them 30 to 40 miles away to get rid of them.
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It probably was Crescent Meadow that we set off from but I don't recall, could it have been Cold Springs? I know that we were planning on stopping before Bearpaw as it was the first time we had all hiked with packs. My sister and I would have been about 15 and 18 respectively at the time. Our family was used to hiking, but only with day packs and not above 3,000ft let alone the temperature. Even if it was only 11 miles, by the time my dad and I had done the trek to bearpaw, turned around and gone back for the packs, and then gone back to Bearpaw I guess we might have done about 18 miles. I'll have to find out where we went exactly. Would we have gone to Elizabeth pass via Glacier lake? That sounds familiar for some reason.
I think the ranger at Bearpaw wasshooting some of the bears with salt pellets. It seemed to scare them off for a while.