Fire closures

[teanawayslayer]

Well here we go again. Seems like every other year Access to my high hunt spot is shut down do to fire. At first I was a little upset but now with plan b in play I’m pretty excited. Usually I go in a day before and usually tag out in a day or so. Plan b calls for almost 12 days in a place I’ve always wanted to go. But for what ever reason I’ve never gone. Anyone else’s plans changed due to closures?

[Jason]

Is there a map of the closed areas?

[jstone]

 

[boneaddict]

Yes my plans have changed and then changed again. Then to top it off, I hiked in the smoke last year and did real damage to my lungs.  I blew it off as I wanted to “hunt”.  Dumb! 

[Jason]

https://usfs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=bd6c1ad8feb541e7952fc097273f926f

[ian_padron]

Yes my plans have changed and then changed again. Then to top it off, I hiked in the smoke last year and did real damage to my lungs.  I blew it off as I wanted to “hunt”.  Dumb!

I've cancelled 2 bear hunts already this year due to the smoke. Last year I was out and about a little too much in the smoke and was clearing black gunk out of my sinuses for a week, not worth it, you're absolutely right Bone

[ian_padron]

Yeah I was just reading over the GPW closures, that place can't catch a break! Maybe Mother Nature is sick of you killing a buck back there every year Couple nice bear spots up that way but I'm elsewhere for the high hunt.

Last year my spot was shut down and I was incredibly bummed, hunted my plan B spot and didn't see a single deer in 4 days. The joys of hunting in September

[Ridgerunner]

Still lots of time between now and then to get it reopened up.  Or have you heard it is closed until much later?

[Highhuntin]

yeah does anyone know the projected timeline for reopening?

[teanawayslayer]

Still lots of time between now and then to get it reopened up.  Or have you heard it is closed until much later?

i’ve Scrambled in the past to find a place to go last minute and it usually doesn’t work out. I think it was 2 years ago I called 3 days before leaving and was told it would not reopen until the 25. I hiked into a spot 16 hours straight. It whooped my arse. A couple of buddies were supposed to join me but due to there age they couldn’t make it all the way in. I did have cell service and they informed me they were not going to make it all the way in. I hunted the opener and saw several bucks but nothing with packing out. Saw several guys that were hunting after the wilderness sign but was not in the high hunt area. .hiked down to meet my buddies the next day and was informed that th forest circus had open the valley. Blistered my feet worse than I ever had. Then hiked into my normal spot. Spent the night. Woke up the next morning and hiked out because there was no way I was packing out a deer with the way my feet were. I’ve now got plan b and it’s a great one. On horses for that matter

[jstone]

So what’s the weather looking like at the fires? Is this helping? Heading up high Saturday hope the cooling and hope mountain rain is helping?

[Skyvalhunter]

How high and in what general area?

[jstone]

Around 6000 feet camp. Lake Wenatchee area

[ian_padron]

I wasn't too far from there Thurs/Fri last week. Could still see the Cougar Creek fire burning from my vantage point, although you could tell it had died down significantly.

It's WAYYY cooler up high but I haven't seen it this dry up there in my 4 years in WA. Absolutely ZERO water.

Going to need a couple more good storms to knock things down for good I reckon.

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