Situational/Courtesy question

[scoyoc5]

yeah now I see what your saying...Like everyone else is said don't block the road

[Bronson]

DeKuma, that would piss me off too.  I would have paid to see the winch action and how the guy got out of there! 

The roads I am thinking of there is no way this could happen,  very short spur roads and walking to the end.  Either way, not going to do it still.  Just wanted to see what everyone thought.

[HardCorpsHuntr]

Back in '05 I had planned to hunt a certain canyon that had a deadend road.  As I worked my way up the two track I came up on a unoccupied rig blocking the road about a half mile from the end (f. I was pissed).  There was no turn around for about a quarter mile back behind me, so I pulled up tight on his bumper, parked, and started up the road hoping to find the owners.  I didn't.  I cooled off a bit and continued with my hunt as planned.  I started up the westside of the canyon and saw people (x3) stalking a buck on the other side.  I continued on and started a stalk of my own within sight of the rigs (different buck). The three made it back to the truck that was blocking the road and hung around scratching their heads for about three hours.  I came back down and we had a little chat. They apologized and said their four wheel driver had gone out on them and couldn't make it up the road any futher.  After chaining up they made it up to a widespot to turn around and I continued up to retrieve my downed buck.

Kind of shocked they turned out to be fellow 509ers.

[ICEMAN]

What would you think if a granola head blocked the road with his Subaru, or tribal guys, or brush pickers?

Bad idea, illegal, inconsiderate. Just the way it is....

[TheHunt]

If you do not want someone in there why don't you pull some root wads, downed logs, etc a week before season starts if there was a deadend road?  Then you could park off the side of the road next to the crap you put in the road to make it difficult for them to move any of the crap you put on the road. 

[Bscman]

Don't block the road with your rig, or anything else.

Heck, it seems like the majority of land these days is gated or triple-ditched anyway...so you should have plenty of other places to hunt.

Leaving your rig blocking a road is a good way to get vandalized.
Intentionally blocking a public road is a good way to get cited.

Personally, I wouldn't go damaging or winching your rig...
But I think someone on the forum a little while ago had a couple kids take a dump on his bumper... 

JMHO.

[fishseeker]

One time in 77 I was hunting the late hunt (Tenaway Blewet rd) on the way up in the morning 4/5" of snow, spilled my coffee soaking my who-haa's,slid into the ditck. Could easly get out throwing on chains but getting late. Grabed gear and jumped in the other rig and went hunting. Came back after hunting the morning to find someone had winched my truck out of the ditch on to the road. Nice wide road so it wasn't blocking. Nice sized rock blocking the wheels. Didn't know anyone else hunting over there. Just some good guy with time on his hands? No note or nothing. Still laugh about that one anytime I get stuck!!

[trackman]

Never block a road. Whether it is FR or private road or even a marked trailhead, you cannot block access. I imagine nothing would happen if you did, but this land belongs to US and we must share.  As a rule, I always park my truck in the general direction of my entry point. (i.e. If I park on the left side of a road, I entered where I parked.  This is common courtesy but it also makes extraction easier in case of an accident.  They would have a fairly good idea of where I went in). And,,,, any other people could be fairly assured of my entry point and could feel free to enter the forest across the road without running into me. We all practice this rule.  Also, I have never parked next to another rig, except once during bow season, and then we parked 1/4 mile down the road.  We all head to the river.  At night, when all the hunters come out, there is about 30 guys stretching 5 miles or more as we all walk out!  Kinda cool. Kinda scary when you think 30 guns are pointing into a single ravine.  Talk about a pumpkin patch.  Ya just gotta share.