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Offline justonefyx

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How high up the logging roads do you drive?
« on: November 11, 2021, 04:21:54 PM »
I've been hunting on the logging roads of the Olympic National forest. There's been a lot of vehicle traffic when first entering the forest. To find more quiet, I drive further into the logging roads. However, the further I drive into them, the road gets steeper and steeper. It gets to the point where there's a vertical hill on one side of the road, and steep cliff on the other. There's really no place to get out and walk around. According to Google maps, these roads go on much farther deeper into the national forest, but no matter how far I drive there's no place to get out and walk on foot. Eventually it starts getting dicey with slippery gravel, fallen trees and god forbid a logging truck is coming the opposite direction, so I just turn around and start heading down hill.
My question is, does it eventually flatten out and has places to walk if I drive up far enough? Is the hunting much better up there, or am I better off hunting on the logging roads at the base of the mountains?

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Re: How high up the logging roads do you drive?
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2021, 07:14:48 PM »
The short answer in my opinion is: after driving many many miles of the roads you describing you will find a place here or a place there to hunt.  After a number of years of doing this and accumulating hard earned spots you'll have exactly what you're looking for right now.

So, you have to drive, look, scout, to find a good place.  The farther you have to drive, the better the spot might be when you find one. Because of lack of people.

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Re: How high up the logging roads do you drive?
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2021, 07:20:26 PM »
Use Google Earth (or Onx, Basemap or whatever you have) and switch the topo on and follow the road.  You will see if there is any sort of flat spot or clearing.

That said, there may also be a reason most people don't drive up that far.  You have to watch the weather or it could get very western very fast as I'm sure you know.

 


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