Charles Hickenbottom has served for 25 years on our local bicycle advisory boards and committees. He recently wrote an article on the best routes to take to get to our Wenatchee library by bicycle. Charles is an avid reader, author...Read More...
Hog Ressurection Bill Wicheta I love our valley’s springtime outdoor smorgasbord. As hillside grasses morph from brown to green and yellow Arrowleaf Balsamroot paints the valley sides, the higher peaks still glisten with coats of pristine white, and I think...Read More...
Snoqualmie to Stevens on Skis by Tom Janisch & Adam Vognild I believe the idea came during a hike between Stevens and Snoqualmie in June of 1973. I joined two of my ninth-grade classmates to hike from the Stevens Pass...Read More...
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...
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...
Skiing Wenatchee North by Andy Dappen If you leave Wenatchee and head into Canada, roughly following the course of the big river, after 7 hours of driving you enter a town that might be called ‘Wenatchee North.’ Like Wenatchee, the...Read More...
by Andy Dappen After two miles of gentle skiing up the Iron Creek Road, I’m thinking this would be a good road system to ski with my wife. She no longer backcountry skis, but does enjoy cross-country skiing on quiet...Read More...
Nice Piece of A.S.S. Interviewee Jonathan Karpoff by Wenatchee Outdoors If you clicked on this post because you thought Wenatchee Outdoors had finally resorted to porn, you’ll be sorely disappointed. This post is about Adventure Skate Skiing (ASS), which is...Read More...
Some issues are always spotted with clouds. A view of Stevens Pass from the Dementia Tour. by Andy Dappen The discussion has me uttering blasphemy, “At the end of life, we often treat pets better than people.” It had started...Read More...
Photo: Chris Sheridan, at the top of Peak 4, looking for Heaven’s door. seventh heaven, noun. 1. (Islam and the cabala) The highest heaven and the farthest of the concentric spheres where, God, the exalted angels, and the stars dwell....Read More...
