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...
Factoring Fun on Mt. Adams by Andy Dappen “Have you heard about ‘Fun-Factor Ratings’?” he asks.It’s 7 a.m. and Mike Rolfs and I have just started the 7,000 vertical foot climb up the south side of Mt. Adams, Washington’s second...Read More...
Flexibility by Andy Dappen “What are you thinking about for the weekend?” It’s a question my wife frequently asks early in the week. “I was thinking about skiing Rock Mountain one day, and doing something with you the other.” She...Read More...
Words by Tom Janisch, Photos by Coron Polley Silver Star Mountain, near Washington Pass west of Mazama Washington, harbors northeast-facing glaciers and snowfields offering fine skiing and snowshoeing. Justifiably, it’s one of the more popular spring skiing areas in the...Read More...
