I talked to the ranger stationed near Merced Lake in June, he mentioned they were discussing installing bear lockers in the established camp areas between the HD and CR turnoffs. We had really bad rodent problems there this year. Did see a bear
crossing the trail nearby but no issues at camp.
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Yosemite has to accommodate a huge amount of people and solving impact problems is difficult. ?Aside from nice toilets LYV is overused, hard packed and not very desirable. ?I suspect this change will just move some of the impact and probably
the bears up the trail. ?Maybe they will improve established campsites and add bear boxes to mitigate impact. ?I hope they also direct attention to moving trails out of the meadow drainages and fixing erosion damages. The last time I hiked the trail erosion
in long meadow and Lyle canyon was significant.
On Sep 19, 2021, at 8:44 AM, Will Cronan <wecronan@...> wrote:
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Yes, those disperse areas will be more impacted for sure. (Case in point, the couple of campsites at JMT/Clouds Rest junction i.e. sunrise creek camp).
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 6:17 AM steve herr via <groundhogsteve=
[email protected]> wrote:
>What happens if someone is tired and hikes a half mile past LYV and camps say just after the half-dome turn off? Won't we be creating more campsites instead?
Remember, you have to go beoyond the point of the arrow on this map?
Which means you have to get closer to the Clouds Rest Jct.? The stretch from Half Dome Jct. to Clouds Rest Jct isn't all that long or strenuous.
