Wenatchee Outdoors

Plain Valley Nordic Heads to Alaska for Nationals

March 3, 2023

by Isabel Menna Wenatchee Valley’s top level cross-country ski team, Plain Valley Nordic Team (PVNT), has risen quickly to become one of the leading junior Nordic ski teams in the United States. Founded by Plain Hardware owner, Rob Whitten, less than a decade ago, together with the trail system on which they... Read More...

Avalanche ABCs for Snowshoers

March 1, 2023

Things to know

Avalanche ABCs for Snowshoers by Tom Janisch with illustrations from Allen & Mike’s Avalanche Book by Allen O’Bannon and Mike Clelland (Falcon Guides) WHAT IS AN AVALANCHE? A snow avalanche is a mass of snow moving down slope which may... Read More...

The Athletic Life-Finding Balance & Restoration with Charlotte Massey

February 27, 2023

Gear Things to know What's Happening

Editors Note: Charlotte is a Leavenworth local, apparel co-creator/business owner, is 26-years old and has climbed all the volcanoes in Washington state. She is driven, passionate and competes in Nordic races. She travels abroad, speaks at TedTalks and is an... Read More...

Outdoor Gear Wanted for Wenatchee High School Class

February 26, 2023

Things to know What's Happening

My name is Audrey Moore and I am teaching the Outdoor Recreation class at Wenatchee High School this year, continuing the hard work that Nikki Buzzell put in to start the course. This year we have a total of 58... Read More...

The Humble Yet Magnificent Bee

February 24, 2023

Things to know What's Happening

My fascination with bees started years ago. Bumble Bees, Honey Bees, Mason Bees, Leafcutter Bees the list goes on. To be exact, there are 25,000 known species of bee. They range in size from the tiny tropical stingless bees... Read More...

Rock-Howard-Mastiff Traverse

February 22, 2023

Guidebook

by Andy Dappen Urban legend maintains that the Inuits possess some 49 words for ‘snow’ while Westerners identify all frozen matter falling from the sky or sitting on the ground with the same label. Naturally every backcountry skier understands what... Read More...

A Tale of Trade-Offs

February 20, 2023

Adventure Guidebook Things to know What's Happening

by Sarah Shaffer It was a day for celebration, at least for me it was. It was my 35th birthday that day. Mandy McLaren, Liz Dunham and myself, went off for an adventure after dressing kids, dropping them off at... Read More...

Viva La Revolución

February 17, 2023

Gear Things to know

by Ray Birks I’m currently sitting in a back room, surrounded by the electronic whirring and precise sounding movements of 3D printers that are carefully depositing filament in a predetermined pattern to fabricate something from the minds of their creators.... Read More...

A Tale of Two ‘Mids’

February 17, 2023

Gear

Tale of Two ‘Mids’ by Andy Dappen Black Diamond Mega Light While a variety of pyramid-styled tents have come and gone over the decades, the most enduring product in this category is Black Diamond’s Mega Light. Originally the Mega Light,... Read More...

Lessons of the Nearly Disabled

February 15, 2023

Adventure

Lessons of the Nearly Disabled by Andy Dappen It was DAD (Dawn and Dusk) Patrol Wednesday. Matt Dahlgreen and I had embarked on one of those trips our wives envision as a picture of Hell rather than fun.... Read More...

Author Sarah Shaffer