NW WA Meet / BS Thread

The highlighted areas are closed (you can drive around the signs I chose not to)


[Exit 38]The highlighted area on this map is not closed and I went up the mountain quite a ways before my fiancee told me to turn back. No snow and not much traffic. Saw a Subaru and a 4runner. (I didn't get a chance to explore this whole area but there wasn't a closed sign at the beginning of the trail so i suspect it is wide open all the way up)

 

Also Exit 38, this looked like a great place for kids to play by the river (or to do some fly fishing).

 

If anyone needs a place to chill at my family has 2500’ ft of riverfront property on the snoqualmie

pm me when you want to go down and i can Leave the gate unlocked

*we are fertilizing our corn fields though and it smells like cow shit

 

Maybe I missed it somewhere above, but National Forests are still open, right?

 

The roads barricaded just up past the power lines. You can get around, but it gets unmaintained and pinstripey pretty quick.

 

The trail off exit 38?

Is there anywhere sort of in the area you can get off the grid a bit? Doesn't have to be technical and I don't mind pinstripes.

 

I sure hope everyone realizes how wrong it is to have to worry about if we're allowed to go out in the woods...

 

You should have heard my boss when I told him about roads that the FS closed. Something about cocksucker's and public land.

 

tinkhams been barricaded for awhile...been past it serveral times and nothing real bad aside from a couple water crossings where they put the concrete to prevent washouts

 

Any repercussions for passing the barricades? I assume that is a ticketable offense.

 

I'm not sure, but I wasn't about to wait and find out that day I got stuck on the plow berm. Jared got there pretty quick from his house.

 

Never ran into sort of enforcement out there so don't know....prolly could get a ticket, but figure since I'm not out there dumping garbage or cooking meth the fine cant be too bad.

 

That's fair...

 

"Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest closed to Sept. 30"

Fuuuuuuug

 

WHAT!!! That’s gonna be a problem

 

me and a friend got warning tickets from a ranger for driving into one of the camp sites. Everyone does it but we got popped for it. One camp site had a very well used trail that went back close to the river. We parked there and after a while here comes the guy walking up to us. He asked us if we saw the boulders blocking access to the site. I said well, obviously the way we came in wasn't blocked by boulders.

Tons of people pull into those camp spots and spend the night. He said technically you have to park on the side of the road.

 

Eh, just don't get out of the truck...

"
Trailheads, campgrounds, and day-use areas within the forest

Date(s): Mar 27, 2020

To align with state and local stay home to save lives measures, trailheads, campgrounds, and day use areas* within the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest will be temporarily closed. These closures are based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus."

"
*Day use areas include trailheads, visitor centers, OHV staging areas, viewpoints, boat launches, interpretive sites, and picnic areas."

It doesn't say the road system Is closed, just the day use areas.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/mbs/alerts-notices/?aid=57349

 

Technically it doesn't say the trail either...just the trail head

 

Spring turkey and bear seasons are very close. If they think I'm not going hunting they've lost their got damn minds.

 

so many productive, safe activities out there that are now banned. wtf are we supposed to do? walk around the neighborhood aimlessly?