1998 M.D.Matocq Journal Murphys Calaveras Co. 20 July Left Hastings yesterday morning and headed to the Sierran foothills via SR152 and 120 then north on the 49 and WE on the 4. Set only 10 trap stations at two localities just east of the town of Murphys. Difficult to find good habitat that's not behind a "No Trespassing" sign - common theme this summer. Spent the night at Big Trees State Park. A whopping $16 to sleep a few hours, fight off a bear, and get so many mosquito bites that we look like we have the chicken pox! Not such a great design on the bear lockers up here. Our Yogi figured things out very quickly and took off with all our Graham Crackers and chipg Ahoy - smarter than the average bear. Quite incredible strength - in one fell swoop it launched our largest food bin ~ 4.5 x 2 ft a good 4 ft.