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...
Editors Note: Although this trip is a bit out of our general region that we cover in our guidebook posts, it is a special spot, an amazing lake and we are dreaming of summertime adventures. We thought this worthy of...Read More...
The Hitch-Hiker by Andy Dappen “Going to the Pass?” Snow sticks to the hitch-hiker’s pile hat as he sticks his dripping beard through the car window. I want to tell him I didn’t pull over to pick him up, I...Read More...
by Andy Dappen At the 2022 Backcountry Ski Filmfest held on November 19, sponsors of the event, El Sendero Backcountry Ski and Snowshoe Club, announced some big wins regarding the creation of new Wintertime Non-Motorized Areas in the Wenatchee Mountains. Working...Read More...
Steamboat Rock: It’s Not A Rock by Andy Dappen We had been wandering around the perimeter of Steamboat ‘Rock’ for over an hour when my wife commented, “You know, this is not a rock. Rocks have little summits. This is...Read More...
