[Jerry]

I would love to explore the Virtue Flats ORV Area, but I can't make it this time. Evelyn and I are hosting the Backroad Drivers 10th Anniversary Mountain Loop Scenic Byway and Fall Colors Tour in Granite Falls and Darrington, Washington the same day.

Like Ryan, we stopped at VF during one of our Backroad Drivers tours, but we were driving our Ford Escape and it didn't have the ground clearance to take us places we wanted to go. I actually drove into one of the shrub covered two-tracks off the highway, but the sagebrush was scraping the bottom of the Escape so hard we had to turn around. We started down Ruckles Creek Road to the staging area, but it was getting late and we had eaten enough dust for the day so we decided to save it for another time.

Thanks for the invite, Hutch, and one of these days we will see Virtue Flats up close.