Batey Bould Input Requested from Forest Service

Anyone that is familiar with or interested in riding the Batey Bould area in NE Washington has a chance to tell the Forest Service what we want done up there.

The District Ranger handed out a survey to our club asking for input on how to use the $150,000 they received for the trail system.

If you would like to help I can either email you the survey as a work doc or snail mail a hard copy to you. They would like them back within the next week or two because they plan to start work the 1st of June (weather permitting).

The questionaire is on its way Joe, thanks for the help. Many of the questions are specific to the area - so, if you don't have enough information to answer those on the questionaire, feel free to just send a note to the District Ranger telling him what you would like to see, in general for a singletrack riding area. You can even just tell him that, you appreciate the FS taking our concerns into consideration - it is definitely a refreshing change!

The question of quads being added did come up and we expressed that we wanted to keep the singletrack as singletrack and feel that the quads should have widetrack.

NMA has a map of the area:

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This trail system ties into the Little Pond Oreille system via a trail across State Land. Unfortunately, the connecting trail is in bad shape due to timber sales and the State not providing any maintenance on it.

In talking with Joe Ogmundson, he will help us work with the State to open it back up. It is actually open but there are lots of downed trees so we are trying to get a workday scheduled to go clean it out.

Batey Bould Trail System is a Dirtbike Only system for the most part. It is TIGHT & twisty singletrack with minimal road crossings. As the guys in our club put it - "30 miles of Batey is like 60 miles on most other trailrides". There are some great view vistas and they built trails off of the loops to the vistas.

We have done full day rides from Batey Bould over to the Little Pond Oreille system, gassed up at the lodge and headed back over another loop. It makes for a very long ride but it's well worth it once in awhile.

Just sent each of you one. Let me know if it doesn't show.

It is definitely one of the more challenging areas for this part of the NW!

Sent it out to you fishhead.

Dirty~d~, definitely let me know if you are coming over this way - we'll round up Firecracker and some others to get together for a ride on this side of the state.