Really guys? If OHVs are banned for conservation reasons, you would ignore that? How 'responsible' is that? What's wrong with hiking in and hauling your meat out, the same way we did thirty years ago. Are you too tied to technology?
Heck, I'm a senior who has been collecting CPP for 6 years now. I'll still go back 3, 5, 10 and even 15 miles back, and make numerous trips to haul meat out. Truth is, one normally doesn't have to go further than 5 miles from a road if there are no OHVs are around, and one pretty well has the place to themselves. Hunters seem to be pretty lazy if they "need an OHV". Walk, hike or use horses. It worked for millenia, and it still does.
I don't think anyone supports reckless tearing up of trails, non trails but I think you have to step back and take a look at what your saying here.
At the extreme of your argument your saying it's nothing at your age to pack out meat 15 miles. That's 24km's if your being literal. I know a lot of you older guys like to exchange the two hand in hand but nevertheless
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Maybe your Cameron Hanes's go to stunt double, however that is a long way to pack out meat without spoilage anywhere short of november. I put on the clicks out there and can tell you that 24km's is a long darn shot on foot one way. Just in case the math part of your brain is tired that's a 48km round trip. Assuming your not packing out a whitetail fawn that's minimum 3 trips.
Atv's used responsibly are a great tool and (nothing against the horse guys) help even the playing field a bit for people that like to get back there a ways. In the relm of sheep hunting for example a lot of spots I hunt would be fairly unreachable in the time I have to hunt without the jump an Atv gives you. The mid 2000's already cut a lot of the access in the mountains to horse or foot only, that's fine it works to most serious hunters advantage, but there comes a point where we are making it a horse only proposition to safely hunt the best spots and that's not fair in my eyes.
I don't frequent the area referenced but I can see this a continued closure piece by piece. Especially with that darn Green Peace sympathetic Shannon Phillips. Oh the joy it will bring me when that Hag is spudded down the road.
