Also meant to mention that Dickey isn't a steep unit. It has a few areas that are steep, but a lot is pretty flat. The bad part about that is it takes the water a long time to drain off. Some of those clear cuts basically turn into swamps in the fall, the stumps will be high and dry, but you might get two feet of water in between them. They look good from the road, but once you start out across them, you wish you had waders.
If you go to scout it out, maybe call or email Rayonier ahead of time to find out what is going to be logged or repaired. I heard last year's elk season hunters weren't the happiest that Rayonier decided to do a bunch of road/bridge maintenance during elk season cutting off half the unit. The area can get real busy with logging, on weekdays I usually just follow a log truck to avoid holding up on coming trucks. The roads are pretty wide, but not quite enough to have them pass without you going about a foot or two off in the ditch. Weekends the trucks aren't an issue.
I didn't go out there last year, but went the previous years before the permits. During mod deer and muzzy elk, the place would be packed with people everywhere. So maybe with the permits, the deer population is up. Maybe even some biggies, I know the surrounding units have big ones.
And if you hunt/scout from the north side of the unit and plan to leave after it gets kind of late, have enough fuel because I think Sekiu still turns the gas pumps off so you have drive a ways to fill up. They used to give you a phone number and if it wasn't too late they would come turn the pumps on and sell you fuel--not sure if the lady still does that. Other wise have to go out to Neah Bay or Forks area for closest.
