Table Mountain – The Three Faces of Eve by Andy Dappen In September of 2012, the Table Mountain Fire helped fill the Wenatchee Valley with smoke as it burnt 42,200 acres of grounds south of Blewett Pass. At times that...Read More...
A few trails do not a system make. A system needs trails of various lengths and difficulties. Trail systems provide loops that users can put together in different configurations and in different directions. They have different access points. And they have enough...Read More...
Best Avalanche Beacons From the November 11 meeting of the Chelan County Mountain Rescue Association (CCMRA), Chester Marler and Brandon Levy (WSDOT avalanche control) discussed the reliability of old analog versus the newer digital avalanche beacons. Tom Janisch sent us these...Read More...
Attractions: Twin Peaks (aka Horse Lake Mountain) is the not-so-secret yet secret backyard treasure of Wenatchee. Not-so-secret because local winter recreationalists (hikers, Nordic skiers, snowshoers) know it’s there. Secret because apart from a few regulars who walk dogs here or...Read More...
East Vs. West – Who’s Greener? The new 8th Congressional District, which now incorporates parts of Pierce, King, Chelan, and Kittitas counties, is a rare district that spans both sides of the Cascade Crest. This new district is now perceived to...Read More...
REGIONAL WEATHER: Weather(NOOA) Geographic Weather Fire & WindWeather Ski Area Weather Brewster Chelan Ephrata Leavenworth Plain Quincy Vantage Wenatchee All WA Weather Cascade Crest Columbia Basin East Slope Lake Wentachee Wenatchee Mtns Zones – Eastern WA Zones – Western WA Fire – Douglas Fire...Read More...
When we called Brad Whiting, the Patrol Director at the Mission Ridge Ski and Snowboard Resort, for the beta about backcountry skiing up the downhill slopes, he joked about the irony of the concept. “Isn’t backcountry skiing at a ski...Read More...
Poet Ridge to Poe Mountain by Andy Dappen Escape. Whether it’s the heat flooding over the Central Washington lowlands in summer, or the summer smoke chocking the Columbia Valley shrub steppe, or some other form of summertime blahs that has...Read More...
The Dynafit Stoke by Rob Mullins Traveling fluidly up, down, and across snowy terrain on skis is a form of backcountry transportation etched permanently in my mind. My memory of the first time that I glided through the snowy forest...Read More...
