ATTRACTIONS: This ride is one portion of a tough but scenic century ride put on by the Lake Chelan Rotary Club each June. That event is called the Chelan Century Challenge. If you combine this ride with the McNeil Canyon...Read More...
25 Dog Friendly Off-Leash* Day Hikes Mijo’s List (measured by tail-wags per second) by Lori Nitchals Difficulty level 1-4 (easiest-strenuous) *** Lake Wenatchee District – 11 hikes 1-2-White River- go on as far as you want 2-Lake Valhalla** 2-White Pine...Read More...
The peaks flanking the Entiat River are the most overlooked ski hills of Central Washington. That’s good news for those of you who don’t want to share the area’s big bowls and long ridges with others who would mar...Read More...
The three corner area where the state lines of Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada collide is a remote, desert plateau characterized by sage and rabbit brush. In 1865, Major G. Kimball, who patrolled the area for the army, wrote, “I was...Read More...
Attractions. The Echo Ridge trails (a groomed Nordic trail system) circle ridge tops and give panoramic vistas in all directions. With the lower parking lot at an elevation of 3,600 feet, Echo Ridge is often above the clouds that cover Lake...Read More...
Hay-Nahahum Divide by Matthew Tangeman In the checkerboard of private and public lands that lace the canyons north of Cashmere, finding a measurable hike without trespassing can be tricky. Fortunately, the trail to the Nahahum-Hay Divide accomplishes that task, allowing...Read More...
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...
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...
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...
