Wenas

[kevinlisa06]

Hey Slenk, you talking bout Tommy Bass's mood on letting people in now or in the past?

[Mudball]

Hey Kevinlisa06 I do hunt in that camp and we have never seen that gate closed during elk season and the last several years others from our group were spring camping in there as well as turkey and deer hunting. I know there are a lot of other ways in but they are real rough on the RV's and we really like our camp site.  I have several friends who have talking with the new owners as well as Coffin so who knows what will happen. Good luck to everyone that enjoys that area as much as we do and I guess we Will see what happens. 

[kevinlisa06]

Hey MudBall yeah we camp rite there aswell right along the fenceline at the last gate with the trailers and wall tents. Yeah my dad started hunting there in '72 so he is kinda upset aswell and so am I. We called the Sopers that camp there with ya at ElkDuck and let them know what was going on when we found out. We hunt and camp there a lot during the year so its a bummer to say the least.

[gasman]

Ribka know the land owners in the area, hopefully he will get you all some good info on it.

I do know that they have been keeping the gate closed for the summer and opening it memorial day weekend, at least they did last year, I hunted and scouted the are last year before archery season and thats when he unlocked it.
I camped on Pierson's property and went through the gate every day to hunt up there.

[Slenk]

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PROPERTY PHOTOS: 1 2 3 4 5  PROPERTY INFORMATION AS OF 5/16/2012 12:08:33 AM
 Parcel Address: UNASSIGNED, ,WA 
Parcel Owner(s): JOHN C & LINDA L   ASHBAUGH   
Parcel Number: 16161421003 Parcel Size: 76.49   Acre(s)
Property Use: 83 Current Use Agricultural
TAX AND ASSESSMENT INFORMATION
Improvement Value: $131700 Land Value: $75700
CurrentUse Value: $38210 CurrentUse Improvement: $131700
New Construction: $0 Total Assessed Value: $169910
SALE INFORMATION
Excise Sale Date Sale Price Grantor
424824 2/23/2012 $1400000 (Multiple) BASS, THOMAS A III
RESIDENTIAL INFORMATION
Quality Year Built Stories Main SqFt Upper SqFt Bsmt SqFt Bedrooms Bathrooms (full/3/4,1/2) Garage (bsmt/att/bltin) Carport
AVERAGE 1910 2.00 1760 1344 0/1600 7 2/0/0 0/0/0 
LOWCOST 1950 1.00 540  0/0  0/0/0 0/0/0 

This came off the county assers site. Good luck with opening that road.

[firefighter49]

Yes, the road is closed as we all are getting to know. Get involved with us, some of us are going to try and I mean try to put some pressure on the state to get  the essment back to re-open road. Members of the Rocky Mountain Elk, members of Elk Duck and myself along with several others are going to have a meeting in next 10-14 days. Let me know if you are interested in the group or just having word passed on about the closure. Not just elk hunters by horse people and ATVers. A lot of locals in that area use the Maloy Rd. Yes there are other ways in, but are not as easy on RVers.
The state and Coffen's and new land owner possibly are trying to work a land swope deal, we are just not sure yet. What land we don't know yet either.

[buglebuster]

If john ashbaugh bought the land, I will talk to him, i know him personally and a good friend knows him even better

[buglebuster]

I just talked to my buddy that is ashbaugs neighbor and asked him if he knew what the deal was. he said since the purchase ashbaugh has  been called alot of bad names and people wouldn't stop running  their mouth so he locked it, was tired of the BS. he said he had planned to put up a cattle guard and gravel the road but not now. he also told me the horseclub is buying the easement.

[firefighter49]

Thanks for the update. Any and all info is important. Hadn't heard about the horse club trying to buying the easement rights, that possibly could resolve the whole issue. 

[buglebuster]

Thanks for the update. Any and all info is important. Hadn't heard about the horse club trying to buying the easement rights, that possibly could resolve the whole issue. 

most likely it will, but you NEVER know.

Also ashbaugh is a big cattle rancher in the wenas, iv you are ever up in cascade park in the summer and see all the red cows in there with the wavey A on their side, they are his. I wonder if he is going to run them in there for extra grazing land.

[firefighter49]

Hay buglebuster,
You said that you had heard that a horse group was looking at purchasing the easement across the private land of J. Ashbaugh and C Coffin on Maloy Rd. Would you by chance know which horse group it is thats looking at it. Still trying to get a handle on this. firefighter49

[buglebuster]

I do not know which horse club, I'm sorry. I will try to find out.

[Cascade]

The story I was told is that people were in there cutting fences, ripping down different gates, and leaving trash behind so he got fed up with it and locked it up.  Pretty sure that isn't a county road but private so not much to do but bitch about it, I could be wrong about the road though. 

My dad knows him pretty well and I'm pretty sure he will follow up with him sometime.

[EDT]

Any update on this topic?  have the gates been opened, or still closed?

[boneaddict]

Still closed last time I was up there......Septemberish