Swakane wildlife area

[85yota]

The ebike  debacle really chaps my ass.. 2 years ago about 7 miles behind a gate up hill in the dark 2hrs away i hear a wierd noise and 2 ebikes cruising up hill with miniscule effort..they waved and road by..my dnr calls research etc all seems that there illegal but how would dnr know and who's really checking is what I got out of it, depends on the officer one told me.. every year usage gets worse and worse as bikes get cheaper and better..the amount of ground and ease inwhich they cover  is annoying when I'm trying to follow the rules..its peddle assist its different they always tell me, after trying one I dassagree..

[Rainier10]

Gate at what we call the “hay barn road”

This is a fun one on the legs


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Yes it is.  Apparently the formal name is "Rattlesnake Road".  Back in the day you could drive that road then somebody found a rare plant or something growing in the road and they shut it down.

[Rainier10]

Sign at the top gate explaining the closure due to vegetation damage.

[Rainier10]

The ebike  debacle really chaps my ass.. 2 years ago about 7 miles behind a gate up hill in the dark 2hrs away i hear a wierd noise and 2 ebikes cruising up hill with miniscule effort..they waved and road by..my dnr calls research etc all seems that there illegal but how would dnr know and who's really checking is what I got out of it, depends on the officer one told me.. every year usage gets worse and worse as bikes get cheaper and better..the amount of ground and ease inwhich they cover  is annoying when I'm trying to follow the rules..its peddle assist its different they always tell me, after trying one I dassagree..

My research is teaching me they are in the process of regulating them more.

Enforcing those new regulations will be the issue. I feel like there may be some self enforcement going on at some point.

[ThurstonCokid]

Gate at what we call the “hay barn road”

This is a fun one on the legs


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Yes it is.  Apparently the formal name is "Rattlesnake Road".  Back in the day you could drive that road then somebody found a rare plant or something growing in the road and they shut it down.

Interesting.. thanks for the background


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[bearhunter99]

When I was a kid I loaded up that hay barn with hay, more times than I want to count.....  My grandfather grew alfalfa in all of those fields on a lease from the game dept.  I think I still have pieces of the seat of that old F-250 lodged somewhere from my grandfather coming down that road in a blizzard.  My great uncle lived in the house up there.  Killed more rattlesnakes in a summer up there than I could even count, mason jars full of rattles that I wish I still had.

The country up there has changed a lot, we hardly saw a soul up there back then, nothing like the pumpkin patch it is now - especially with the puffy jacket and skinny jean crowd running around up there now.