WMC Update 2012

There are large areas in the Snoqulamie Pass region that are easy access and non-motorized for snowshoeing.  You don't need wilderness to snowshoe.  It is not hard to find what your looking for.  Sometimes it appears the motor-less traveler is looking for confrontation to make a point rather then just having fun.  There is so much forest out there it is very easy to find trails to travel with all the aspects of what your looking for.  If it is confrontation your looking for, there is that too.

Indeed....

Write your officials to keep public lands open to the public...all of the public.

Are we now discussing writing to our elected officials with a poster who is not a US citizen, or do you actually vote?

As far as I know, Scotsman is a US citizen, not that it matters.  Let's keep to the issues, not the people behind them.

Does WMC wish to elevate himself above other citizens to get his way?

Write to keep your lands open and then use it or lose it....

WMC would encourage the 151,000 non-motorized Forest users and the 35,0000 owners of Registered snowmobiles in this state to discuss, give input, and comment to the appropriate Officials. (Figures were posted here and justified by other posters).

This Washington State Parks website of Sno Park locations has maps of areas across the state. It is very instructive to view the maps and note the few designated non-motorized areas. this illustrates the need for USFS management to allow uses other than snowmobile riding in the winter by the designation of new and significant winter non-motorized areas.

www.parks.wa.gov/winter/trails/?TrailType=motorized

About the Wenatchee Mountains Coalition

Purpose: Advocacy for non-motorized winter recreation on Forest Lands.
Goal: Designation of USFS Non-Motorized areas for winter recreation. Specifically, we seek non-motorized status for the pristine unroaded crest of the Wenatchee Mountains.
Initial action -- the Thousand Skiers Project: One thousand skiers/snowshoers/Forest users will write (email) the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest Supervisor and request designation of new non-motorized areas on the Wenatchee Mountains. The ‘significant’ area we are targeting is the unroaded Wenatchee Mountains ridge crest from Van Epps Pass to Three Brothers (mountain). This encompasses Ingalls Peak, Fortune Peak, Iron Peak, peaks surrounding Bean Creek, Earl Peak, Navaho Peak, Three Brothers and the Wenatchee Mountains Crest from Rd 9716 to the west of Diamond Head across Tronsen Head, Mt. Lillian including down to the Old Ellensburg trail to Mission Peak and on to the Mission Ridge Road including Lake Clara, Mission Peak, and surrounding areas. This area would offer many short day-tours, long day tours, overnight self-powered ski tours, and snowmobile road-assist tours. We hope to generate a thousand comments by August 15, 2010.

Contact information: Mail, email, or call
Rebecca Heath, Forest Supervisor
Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest Headquarters
215 Melody Lane
Wenatchee, WA 98801
(509) 664-9200
Email: Rebecca Heath, OWNF Supervisor, and the Forest Plan Revision Team: r6_ewzplanrevision@fs.fed.us
Carbon Copy Us: wenatcheemountainscoalition@hotmail.com. We need to track our support and to capture additional thoughts and ideas of non-motorized recreationalists. Your privacy is paramount, we will not share your contact information or reveal your identity.
Help us Succeed. Please forward this message to your skiing/snowshoeing friends. Ask for their involvement.


Thank you.

Write to keep your public lands open to all of the public....and if you look at a map, look at the state map/green trails or topo where you will find more information to help understand "parity"....which will include the wilderness areas that are non-motorized.

Also take a look at the North Cascades thread to see the type of impact closing lands have on the public.

We have often stated that we seek a fair share of the Forest for winter non-motorized recreation. We do not seek to exclude other uses from the Forest. Our view based on our various members' 40 to 100 days skitouring per season, and up to 40 days using snowmobiles,  is that increasingly through omission by lack of management winter non-motorized users are being squeezed from their use on the Forest.

I find this segment of the conversation riddled with hypocrisy. "we seek a fair share of the Forest"? What does this mean? Non-motorized users have use of 100% of the forest, but what you really desire is the exclusion of other groups of folks so you can have more segments of the forest to yourself.

Write to keep your public lands open to all of the public....

they are already open to all the public.  :