Started at 7am from the lower Tiger lot with the plan to summit and circumnavigate Taylor Mountain. I had mapped out the double track needed and went down the west side of Taylor. The roads felt like the ones at Cherry Valley's and Alpine Baldy's with lots of drainages and washouts. There are several mud bogs and horse hooves but it was doable. I got down to 208th and headed East and started seeing a lot of watershed restrictions and yes, my summit plan used a restricted road so I had to just keep going East. The road is public access, but the surroundings are off limits due to the watershed. You pass through the watershed and enter the DNR Raging River and Taylor boundaries. You use the southwest DNR roads to cross the old and damaged Raging Bridge and then go up to meet up with the Rattlesnake road. I climbed through a developing trail and then came down the road to do the Canyon Creek trail and then to the Substation to ride the Powerlines back to SR-18 and under the Raging River Bridge. I took the trail under it and then hiked up to SR-18 to cross the bridge and entered Tiger at the next DNR gate. Then I pedaled to the Deep Creek crossing which was tough but found a place to ride through and then bushwacked to find the trail to climb the powerlines to Easy Tiger and road 7000. That powerline, grassy, double track, trail was brutal and I had just enough left to climb Easy Tiger and return on Northwest Timber to the car. It was a fun exploration today and I will have to attempt the Taylor summit next year when the second option trail isn't as soaking wet. GPS track and pictures are here.