It's not hard to give him a list of mountains, fishings areas, and places to hunt a fairly short drive from Seattle.
There was a relatively small section of The Husky Hitman that Hoffmann and I removed that detailed him and his teammates going into the wilderness and Olympic Peninsula to fish and hunt.
I wish I had a hun for every avid fisherman/hunter I met during my 40 years living in Seattle who served in the military or worked in the Puget Sound area temporally and couldn't wait to move back to Seattle to have the area's convenient outdoor sports available again. Not just hunting and fishing, but also hiking, mountain climbing, boating, skiing, or just ordinary camping. If you can put up with the mobs of people hitting the outdoors every weekend, the Seattle area is beyond famous for access to practically anything an outdoorsman could want. Not so much in Pullman or even Corvallis where stuff like water and mountains are not as close by.
A kid from Fife or anywhere in western Washington whose an avid outdoorsman knows this better than I. From his recent comments, it sounds like McGary always wanted to stay home and only needed a convincing pitch from the new coaching staff to select UW. This stuff about the draw of Ag schools at WSU or OSU is horseshit. The kid wants to play football, get a great education, and have his family close for support like most young men. With recruiting like this, UW could be back to the basic concepts our football program thrives on very soon.
