Not having "two permits" - hiking + hunting. SSGT called down, both flipping through rule book, still denied, more phone calls made, I started to mention to look in log book and they'd see my entrance just last week with only the hunting license but finally SSGT gave go ahead, "I'll just do what everyone else had been doing".
Not mean to give them a hard time at all, I know the staff changes all the time and they have a sh#t ton of rules to keep track of and deference to no access is safest course until straightened out.
For all I know they needed time to run our plates, get clear video, do speech and facial recognition, who knows what
That afternoon we would pass a lot of different 4WD coming in on our way out so we weren't the only visitors / hunters.