Fall hiking - wear orange

We heard a lot of gunshots when we were hiking the other day and the
kids don't like that much, even while wearing their bright orange hats.

Since I am not familiar with the world of hunting, I went looking on
the IFW website to see when hunting season was and learned some interesting stuff.

The first thing was that there is no CLOSED season for hunting coyote, woodchuck, porcupine and red squirrel. So basically there could be a hunter with a gun in the woods, legally, at any time of year.

I narrowed down my search dates to when hunters will be out in the woods
with guns to hunt deer and grouse/pheasant because all are in abundance in the areas where we like to hike. And since 67,725 deer hunting
permits were issued this year, that's the season we think we'll hear the most shots fired while in the woods.

October 2 - December 31 - Grouse, pheasant and bobwhite quail October 30 - November 25 - Deer with firearms November 27 - December 9 - Deer with muzzleloaders

So basically from now until the end of December everyone should be
especially careful while hiking and wear their orange gear.