Little Naches-----PACKED!!!

[trophyhunt]

Thanks, If you see my dad before me let him know I'm bringing the stove up. See you up in the hills!!!!!

[Instinct]

was up in the hills today and called the forest dept. burn ban is lifted so we can have fires going on. just to let u guys know.

[actionshooter]

I'm planning on hunting there the 2nd week, a bunch of the guys will be gone. I couldn't believe I was there last weekend and there was a guy setting up a hunting camp 5 MILES IN!!!

[Instinct]

ya im thinkin the same thing. hunt the reg area first and go from there. gonna do rimrock on opener.

[clhutner]

I am getting a little nervous about the crowds up there. I can only go on the weekends. Had to have shoulder surgery and wasnt sure I would be able to go at all since I have been unable to shoot. However, turned the poundage down a little bit and have started shooting again. I guess we will just have to make the best of it rey to get in away from the roads a ways. Pretty stoked- I finally get to go with my bro-in-law. He has a couple places on the west side he knows about and he got the multi season tag so he said he would take me out and try to get me my first elk. He knows the are pretty well from muzzle loading years prior, so we will see what happens. I am sure that if nothing else I will learn a lot from him.

[clhutner]

ya im thinkin the same thing. hunt the reg area first and go from there. gonna do rimrock on opener.

How far away is the Rimrock unit from Naches? On the map it doesnt look very far, but I have not been that far down on the 12

[Instinct]

directly from little naches unit, you would have to drive bout 35miles east to the hwy 410/hwy 12 junction then another 35/40miles west on hwy 12 from the junction.. if your on the west side, easyest way is just go up and over hwy 12 than to back track... or there is a "shorter" way but ur basically driving  old gravel rd that connects the nile area to white pass but too much to explain but it is called bethal ridge rd.

[clhutner]

directly from little naches unit, you would have to drive bout 35miles east to the hwy 410/hwy 12 junction then another 35/40miles west on hwy 12 from the junction.. if your on the west side, easyest way is just go up and over hwy 12 than to back track... or there is a "shorter" way but ur basically driving  old gravel rd that connects the nile area to white pass but too much to explain but it is called bethal ridge rd.

Thanks that is what I was looking for. I think I ended up there on accident my first year elk hunting. Went through the Nile unit checking it out and ended up on the 12 after long drive on dirt road. Thanks for the info.

Good luck to all!!!!!!!

[jstone]

So anybody hear how the circus is going. Whats the weather like and how many spikes or cows getting hit??

[Thenewguy]

It was not packed yesterday, I only saw one other hunter once I got off the road. Plenty of Elk, into them for most of the day and I am a noob.  A decent amount of bugling as well

[Thenewguy]

Well Guys,

I new this year was going to be a bit different beings how they changed the Spike and Cow to 346. BUT TODAY IS WEDNESDAY THE 1st! I was over in the Naches setting up Elk camp. I thought I was really early in doing this. WRONG.. Sad to say that Little NAches area had elk hunters rolling in all day today. Not Jeepers or motorcycle weekend campers.....Hunters. The area we have been scouting all summer. Had a tent set up in the area just to give the illusion that they were going to be hunting there. Unless you guys that are heading up the little Naches area to hunt are going to go deep far away from the roads, you may want to consider a backup plan. I am not even playing with you. Just my observation of today.

Good luck Guys!

Most of them were there for Deer, it overlaps in that GMU. It cleared out once Labor day ended

[FWilliams]

It was not packed yesterday, I only saw one other hunter once I got off the road. Plenty of Elk, into them for most of the day and I am a noob.  A decent amount of bugling as well

same here, I just got out of there and saw only a couple of small camps in the area I hunt.......a lot of offroader camps cleared out on labor day.

Fred

[gasman]

You will see a lot of offroaders up there the next two wekends.

There is a NNW get together this weekend and "pick up a mountain" next weekend. So if you see alot of jeeps on teh trail next wekend, just wave and say  they are up there cleaning up the trails of trash. You will a bunch of them camped along the hwy in Gold Creek (or atleast i believe that is where they are staging) it is sponsered by the PNW4WDA.

[Antlerking]

I hunted the opener and there wasnt much for people, I shot my cow that evening and I am back home ready for the high hunt. I never saw a single person out in the feild. There was alot of folks driving around but hunting is as usuall