Photo by Sarah Shaffer. This scenic loop hike along the Icicle River offers beautiful views of the river, the surrounding cliffs, and of nearby peaks. The hike is a good one for children and for families with a wide age...Read More...
ATTRACTION: This training route for Wenatchee riders is short but steep. If you don’t have a triple, expect to spend a good amount of time out of the saddle grinding. While the latter half of the ride is especially steep,...Read More...
South Side of Prusik Peak – Photo by Marc Dilley. by Bill Wicheta Making comparisons can be risky. On Saturday, August 6, Kyle Flick was planning to get up at 1 a.m.to do the complete North Ridge of Stuart in...Read More...
Cashmere, Caroline and Cannonballs by Mark Shaffer With snow in the forecast for the high country, I knew that I would have to escape to the mountains very soon if I wanted to have a dry, fair-weather alpine hike. Although...Read More...
Although Prime Rib, an 11-pitch rock climbing route on Goat Wall near Mazama is outside our normal territory (it’s a little over 2 hours away), we include it because its unusual qualities make it a must-do route for Central Washington...Read More...
Far Flung – Tarpiscan to Vantage Bikepacking Trip by Ray Birks The Tarpiscan and Colockum areas of the Wenatchee Mountains are notoriously rocky. It’s almost as if a giant hand swept across North Central Washington, moved a large volume of...Read More...
CASHMERE CANYONS – New Front-Country Trails by Andy Dappen Twenty-some years ago when my wife and I moved to Central Washington, a central question we wrestled with was whether to settle in Wenatchee or Cashmere. We chose Wenatchee, partly because...Read More...
Description of trail: This trail is found on The Nature Conservancy’s Moses Coulee Preserve. It takes you on an open path through thick shrub-steppe, and leads to a riparian area below Dutch Henry Falls. It’s a very easy half-mile hike...Read More...
Chelan Butte/Highway 97A Loop by Ray Birks Climbing up Chelan Butte Road can be a brute. It’s a mostly steep and relentless adventure and the single-track coming down toward the lake is good, but not great. It’s not a destination...Read More...
Hog Loppet 201 by Andy Dappen For decades the Hog Loppet was a locally famous Nordic ski event. On a Saturday in late February some 400 Nordic skiers rode the lifts up the Mission Ridge Ski Area then struck off...Read More...
