How do you get on to Cleman Mt from 410?

[devldogs55]

So I was camping at Bumping Lake, and I decided to run down the pass one morning and try to find a couple dogs. I usually hunt much closer to Ellensburg, so this was more of a scouting trip - and I didn't even find a road to turn off on. I started heading towards Naches on 410 and once I got into the area, every gate I came up to was closed. I wanted to get up on Cleman, but I ended up just going over to Oak Creek off of the 12 and setting up there.

Do I have to go all the way down to past Naches to get up there, or what's the deal? Looks like a great area I would like to hunt before the pass closes this winter.

[coachcw]

1701 stay right

[Limhangerslayer]

You get to it off the bald mtn road that takes off the 410 by Jim Sprick park just down from squaw rock.  Head up to the top and hang a right.  Or there is a road before the top you can take too, you just got through a little private first

[adamR]

I'm curious where all these gates you saw were? I know of one gate up through that whole stretch unless you're including milk creek, gold creek, and I thinks it's pine creek being closed... But there are still tons of open roads all through there

[jburkett]

The bald mt road can catch you of guard if your not familiar with the area. And it looks almost like a drive way into the private property next to it but if your coming from naches its only a couple hundred feet before the turn into the park

[Heredoggydoggy]

Get a Delorme Washington Atlas & Gazetteer.  It's priceless for scouting new areas where you never have been. 

[ghosthunter]

I would go up the Bald Mt staying left until you hit the top. There is a large flat spot there. Turn right and take the first right.

That first road to the right down low is real nasty towards the top.

[devldogs55]

Man I must have gone right by it! 

I don't usually have trouble finding FS roads, but I live 2 hours away, so I can't just go play around there after work... My pre-scouting google-earth-fu was weak. I tried turning off at Rock Creek Rd and quite a bit futher down towards Naches just east of the big ol' gravel pit. Those roads looked like they'd be open to me - but both were gated. On my way back up, everything else looked like private roads so I stayed off 'em.

I found the Bald Mt road on Google Earth and it was listed as Malloy. Looks like that's gonna take me right where I wanted to go. Can't thank ya enough, guys. I've got 4 weeks off comin' up, and I've been wanting to do some yote hunting again!

[Heredoggydoggy]

On the Washington Gazetteer map it's listed as Maloy Rd, too.  Looks like a good area to scout out.  Local names for roads can be confusing.  Years ago they tried to change the name of Blewett Pass to Swuak Pass, but everyone kept calling it Blewett Pass, so they changed it back. 

[ghosthunter]

Yep Maloy Rd and Bald Mt are the 1701.
They have been logging up there so things are tore up pretty good.
Make sure you have a spare and Jack. Rough  some of it.

[nacheshunter]

Hey op, bumping holds a lot of dogs, bobcats and fox. A lot of people over look that area as good hunting ground.

There are only two gates off hwy 410, the horeshoe bend owners gate, and the garretson canyon gate. Hopefully those roads stay closed for ever. Sanford pasture gets hit by the indians once a week in the winter usually.

I suggest stopping by wdfw region 3 office for maps of their areas, and go get a map from the station in naches.

[Heredoggydoggy]

The maps you can get from BLM are good to show you all the public land areas, too.  The only thing I don't like about them is that they don't have the road names/numbers on them.

[devldogs55]

Hey op, bumping holds a lot of dogs, bobcats and fox. A lot of people over look that area as good hunting ground.

There are only two gates off hwy 410, the horeshoe bend owners gate, and the garretson canyon gate. Hopefully those roads stay closed for ever. Sanford pasture gets hit by the indians once a week in the winter usually.

I suggest stopping by wdfw region 3 office for maps of their areas, and go get a map from the station in naches.

Oh I know Bumping has great hunting, but I really enjoy hunting coyotes out in very open areas like Wenas and now hopefully Cleman. We don't get a whole lot of opportunities to take 600yd shots here on the wet side! I'll definitely be stopping by the regional office for some maps.

What I usually do, and what gets me some strange looks from folks who ask me for directions in the middle of nowhere, is I pre-load Google Earth on my laptop before I go out, and make sure that any areas I might go to have been cached while zoomed in pretty well. Then, when I get out to the mountains, I can enter the lat/long from my GPS into Google Earth, and have an exact location, and it shows me road names and numbers, and terrain. My GPS only shows Lat/Long, so it's very helpful to me to have my laptop out there.

[Heredoggydoggy]

I guess that's the new way of doing things.  Me, I'm old school--I like a paper map that I can hold in my hands.  I had a Garmin GPS with a map program years back.  I sold it! 

[devldogs55]

Well I still keep paper maps in the truck with me, and I still have use for them - but with Google Earth I can catalog waypoints, store information about them, look at the map with or without them on the screen, instantly find distances between them, add pictures to waypoints, get information on them that's already in the database, and most importantly I can overlay maps from BLM/ Fish and Game, DNR etc right on top of the map I'm looking at so that when I look at Fish and Game maps with land ownership info but very little location and boundary info - I know exactly where I'm at.

I also am able to go out and trace GMUs and transpose the boundaries to my Google Earth map with grid coordinates instead of just attempting to draw out or guess what the completely inadequate descriptions in the regs mean.

Makes it impossible to get turned around.