Snowmobiles at Artist Point! WTF

on both of these places... Skyline Ridge and Artist Point.. you aren't dealing with sledders. You are dealing with ski area workers/skiers. I have seen the snowmobile up on Skyline Ridge, it is a worker's sled (the one I saw was). You will never see a "sled-head" go to either of these places. No reason to, and they don't want to stir up a hornets nest by doing so anyway. You should send complaints to Mt Baker ski area, ask them if they know what is going on.

Seems like a non issue. If you look at a topo map its pretty clearly not wilderness and paved. Why mess with the folks that make the resort function, are first responders and maintain the lot backcountry users utilize? You'd be better off being cool and hoping for a lift or going further out, away from the madness of lolly-gagging snowshoers and whatnot.

Ok, let assume to area up to the Artist Point lot is legal for snowmobiles(seems a bit unclear), anywhere past is non-motorized year round. OP, did the snowmobiles go past the parking lot area?

Snowmobiles are excluded under the special use permit held by the ski area except for their in area use. "No Snowmobiles" is posted clearly on the road approaching the lower Lodge gate. Sometimes WASDOT might use machines to access the snow depths prior to plowing.

Ski area workers should not be going beyond the Blueberry Cat Track in snowmobiles.

Seems like a non issue. If you look at a topo map its pretty clearly not wilderness and paved. Why mess with the folks that make the resort function, are first responders and maintain the lot backcountry users utilize? You'd be better off being cool and hoping for a lift or going further out, away from the madness of lolly-gagging snowshoers and whatnot.

Well, actually the area is good because there are not snowmoblile track trashing it. If you want trashed go up Canyon Creek, Glacier Creek, or the disaster called Schreibers Meadows...

I spend a lot of time in the bagley creek vicinity and snowmobiles are just not a problem. Who knows the specifics of this uncommon case but its really not worth getting spun up about.