Wenatchee Outdoors

The Chiwawa River and Why Your Paddling Experience Matters

July 6, 2025

Forty for Forty: The Mystery Spiral

July 2, 2025

Forty for Forty: Clock Around the Rock

June 17, 2025

Stop the Destruction & Salvage the U.S. Forest Service

June 9, 2025

Forty for Forty: The Visitor’s Creed

May 29, 2025

Summer

Gear Reviews

First-Aid Lite by Andy Dappen (fact checked by retired Dr. Mark Shipman) When trying to rid your pack of unnecessary pounds, the normal first-aid kit is worth putting under the microscope. With some scrutiny it’s actually pretty easy to shed... Read More...

Fix The Click

February 23, 2022

Gear

Fix the Click by Ray Birks One of the keys to having fun riding a bike is that the bike operates as it should. You step on the pedals, the chain engages with the gears, the wheels turn and the... Read More...

Thermarest Compressible Pillow-Frivolous Yet Oh So Wonderful

June 11, 2021

Gear

Thermarest Compressible Pillow-Frivolous Yet Oh So Wonderful By Sarah Shaffer I’ve taken at least one backpacking trip in the summer for the last 23 years. Over the years I have used my clothes as a pillow. My favorite pillow is... Read More...

Family Articles

Columbia National Wildlife Refuge Ramble

December 6, 2018

Guidebook

By Shelly Forster When I enlisted for the year with WenatcheeOutdoors, my head filled with exhilarating images of live-from-the-field reports about grueling 70-mile hikes, scaling monolithic crags, and paddling bone-crushing torrents through jagged canyons. What a shocker when I learned... Read More...