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Re: 2025 blacktail rut thread
« Reply #210 on: Yesterday at 09:02:45 PM »
I feel like I'm alone at this now...  :chuckle:  Brought the sxs to check out a bunch of area today... Was going to hunt the morning and check my cams at the secret spot but there were 2 rigs at the gate... So we cruised 71 miles today... Saw one blue grouse on the road... Not many areas that you can't drive... Did find a skid road that's not heavily driven... Walked it for a little and saw a bear I could've shot... On the small side... (IMHO I think bear season should go till December 31st) Also found five rubs from this year... Can't make it back out till Tuesday so I think I'll go there and bring some cams in case I find a spot... Spend the day in that area and check out some other roads...
am I the only one who is curious where you can run a quad or side by side anywhere in western wa?
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Re: 2025 blacktail rut thread
« Reply #211 on: Yesterday at 09:49:41 PM »
I feel like I'm alone at this now...  :chuckle:  Brought the sxs to check out a bunch of area today... Was going to hunt the morning and check my cams at the secret spot but there were 2 rigs at the gate... So we cruised 71 miles today... Saw one blue grouse on the road... Not many areas that you can't drive... Did find a skid road that's not heavily driven... Walked it for a little and saw a bear I could've shot... On the small side... (IMHO I think bear season should go till December 31st) Also found five rubs from this year... Can't make it back out till Tuesday so I think I'll go there and bring some cams in case I find a spot... Spend the day in that area and check out some other roads...
am I the only one who is curious where you can run a quad or side by side anywhere in western wa?
most trails in Capitol Forest are quad friendly.  It's been a minute but we used to hunt National Forest south of Randle and a lot of ORV trails there
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Re: 2025 blacktail rut thread
« Reply #212 on: Yesterday at 10:10:13 PM »
I feel like I'm alone at this now...  :chuckle:  Brought the sxs to check out a bunch of area today... Was going to hunt the morning and check my cams at the secret spot but there were 2 rigs at the gate... So we cruised 71 miles today... Saw one blue grouse on the road... Not many areas that you can't drive... Did find a skid road that's not heavily driven... Walked it for a little and saw a bear I could've shot... On the small side... (IMHO I think bear season should go till December 31st) Also found five rubs from this year... Can't make it back out till Tuesday so I think I'll go there and bring some cams in case I find a spot... Spend the day in that area and check out some other roads...
am I the only one who is curious where you can run a quad or side by side anywhere in western wa?

 Several area's I go Capitol Forest, Elbe Hills, Tahoma State Forest, Tahuya State Forest, Skate Creek, pretty much all state forest... Federal lands they need to be "highway legal"... Like today I was in Gifford Pinchot... Talked to group of dirt bikes and quads that weren't highway legal... (no quads are highway legal, dirt bikes can be) They have been riding there for years never seen the FS... Our sxs is almost highway legal... Needs turn signals... Not worried about it though... Saw a big group of sxs yesterday... All looked legal but hard to say... Saw some wheelers there to that weren't legal... But legal in Elbe, Skate Creek, Tahuya... Just got to do some research... All in all it seems like nobody cares and it's not enforced often...
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Re: 2025 blacktail rut thread
« Reply #213 on: Yesterday at 10:26:00 PM »
Mt Baker/ Snoqualmie NF  is allowing street legal quads and side by sides.  At least off of Mt Loop they are allowed. 
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Re: 2025 blacktail rut thread
« Reply #214 on: Yesterday at 11:03:57 PM »
Mt Baker/ Snoqualmie NF  is allowing street legal quads and side by sides.  At least off of Mt Loop they are allowed.

Yeah NF has crazy rules to each NF... This summer we were in GP by Mt. Adams and stopped at the ranger station in Trout Lake and got a map of the roads legal for ORV use... None of them connected... So technically you had to drive to legal road, unload, drive road to end of legal and back to load up, drive to next legal road repeat... There were people driving sxs all over... She said they're years behind in making an actual ORV route... But one is in the works...
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