guserto4
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I've been doing desktop research for months on an area I'm excited about getting into in Idaho for rifle season in 3 weeks. It's a remote area only a few miles from capital W wilderness and will require my group to cross a creek with waders before getting onto a trail that runs with a perpendicular creek. I've forgotten about looking at the trailhead with the google earth historical aerial feature and noticed that in early September 2013 (archery elk) and early October 2014 (archery is closed and rifle Elk has not opened) there is the same truck and horse trailer at a tiny pull off with room for 2 vehicles that is adjacent to the start of this trail. There are no more recent aerials this time of year than 2014.
My question is this: if we find this truck, does unspoken etiquette say this group gets full use of the trail? The trail goes in for miles and opens up to several different basins, but I don't want to piss off a local hunter or guide who went in thinking this was somehow his patch and decides he is entitled to slash my tires.
What's remote trailhead protocol? Also, what's up with a vehicle parked there when there's no season and therefore seemingly no reason? I've searched and searched and found no camps along any of the creeks to help figure this out.
My question is this: if we find this truck, does unspoken etiquette say this group gets full use of the trail? The trail goes in for miles and opens up to several different basins, but I don't want to piss off a local hunter or guide who went in thinking this was somehow his patch and decides he is entitled to slash my tires.
What's remote trailhead protocol? Also, what's up with a vehicle parked there when there's no season and therefore seemingly no reason? I've searched and searched and found no camps along any of the creeks to help figure this out.
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