good , bad & ugly

[snowdog]

just came back home after riding forest county for the past two days . rode in the area between wabeno , laona , crandon , pickerel lake & carter . 150 miles yesterday , 100 today . no bad trails , either they were fantastic or down right ugly . got my hand slapped by a forest ranger for running down diamond roof road trying to avoid a ugly section , he said that was a no-no . told him i' ve been running the forest roads for 25 years without getting in trouble ,he laughed and said that's because he never caught me , told me to stay on the trail and be carefull . guess that was better than a ticket . overall on a scale of 1-10 , i woould rate the ride a 7 . stay north of lakewood to lily line and the riding is pretty good .

[johnemaz]

You probably got stopped because there wasn't enough snow on the Forest road to keep the warden from getting his pickup stuck. Any NORMAL season there would have been boo kootles of snow there and he would have been sitting in the office........lol :sledder: :letitsnow:

[robertslakekidrev600ho]

wow a warden??? i have been hunting that area my whole life and my dad also. my dad for 40 years, and myself for 8. i have seen i think 2 wardens in 8 years, and my dad has seen about 5 in 40 years i think he said. We hunt off of father max road, which is right down the road from diamond roof. I hope i dont get pulled over because if i do i am for sure getting a ticket for my exhaust.....i know i know i deserve it, but i am not one to go brapin all over the place. i actually bought a can for performance.


thanks for the update on the trails and all. i cant wait to be up there!

[kuczala_21]

hehe I love knowing being a local and knowing the wardens. No back road troubles for me.

[snowdog]

[QUOTE=johnemaz;1163]You probably got stopped because there wasn't enough snow on the Forest road to keep the warden from getting his pickup stuck. Any NORMAL season there would have been boo kootles of snow there and he would have been sitting in the office........lol :sledder: :letitsnow:[/QUOTE]

that's what i was thinking , but it seems like there are a lot more of the forest roads that are plowed now, then there were 10-15 years ago . we used to be able to ride from lower dam rd to dunbar and never hit a bare road , not anymore . i guess that's what they call progress . does anybody know what the law says about road running ? i thought if they were snow covered it was legal ,that's why i never worried about being stopped .

[kuczala_21]

I believe if its a snow covered road that is not plowed during the winter. Unless the plowed road is a marked route.

[robertslakekidrev600ho]

i have always heard that wisconsin says nono to riding ALL forest roads, unless of course its part of the trail.....michigan you can ride anywhere you want.

[snowdog]

why would michigan be different than wisconsin , that's mostly national forest too ? you can ride the state and county road rightaway if your so many feet off the pavement ( shoulder--ditch ) depending where you are , kinda hard in the woods where there is none . guess i'll have to do a little research . makes a person wonder why the're plowing all these roads that really don't go anywhere , probably the same reason the're berming and gating so many of them too. "TREE HUGGERS ", pretty soon we'll all be locked out of the woods . hope y'all have a good weekend , stay out of the trees and don't freeze anything off you may need later.

[Johnnie]

My understanding, was in years past, forest roads with at least 4 inches of unplowed snow were legal to run.

[Johnnie]

Sounds like he was stopped by a Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer which is a little different then a State Warden. We have always had wardens, the US Forest Service Officers are something relatively new to the area. I think they generally enforce National Forest laws where the State wardens generally enforce state laws.