Wenatchee Outdoors

Are you Hiking or Camping near a Wildfire Zone? Tips for Wildfire Safety While Hiking and Camping

May 19, 2021

Are you Hiking or Camping near a Wildfire Zone? Tips for Wildfire Safety While Hiking and Camping by Barbara Carrillo With the fire season drier than average this year, using precautions while hiking or camping in Washington’s backcountry areas is... Read More...

How to Leave no Trace in the Enchantments

May 12, 2021

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A note from our editor: For all those who love the Enchantments, here is a short video for you on ways to reduce your impact in the treasured wilderness area we all find amazing. Let’s protect and support it, doing... Read More...

Current: The Must-Have App For Your Day On The Water

May 10, 2021

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by Cameron Deamer-Phillips As outdoors people, the mantra of ‘plan ahead and prepare’ has been ingrained into our minds (and if not, it should be). Before a backcountry ski tour, we check avalanche conditions. Before a mountain bike ride, we... Read More...

Land Trust Protecting 2,480 Acres of Habitat With New Badger Mountain Easement

April 23, 2021

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Written by Luke Hollister This article was originally published on The Wenatchee World website on 4/16/21. The Chelan-Douglas Land Trust has entered into a conservation easement for 2,480 acres of working lands and habitat on Badger Mountain. The deal was... Read More...

Native Plants Fuel the Hummingbird Highway

April 21, 2021

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by Susan Ballinger Originally published on the Wenatchee Naturalist website. April is Washington’s Native Plant Appreciation Month and the 2021 Theme is Native Pollinators Need Native Plants! North Central Washington is on the map for migrating neotropical Rufous, Calliope, and Black-chinned hummingbirds, as they fly thousands of... Read More...

Where do you want to walk, bike or scooter to? County seeks input on Multi-Use Pathway Plan.

April 19, 2021

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Where do you want to walk, bike or scooter to? County seeks input on Multi-Use Pathway Plan. Chelan County launches online community survey and mapping tool to identify and prioritize opportunities for improving multi-use pathways. Chelan County (“the County”) is... Read More...

A Place for Pygmy Rabbits: Gift of Land Near Quincy Helps In Species Recovery

April 14, 2021

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This article was originally published on The Wenatchee World website on 4/12/2021. This article was written by Sam Fletcher from the Columbia Basin Herald. Click here for the original story. A new gift of land to The Nature Conservancy, 282... Read More...

Chelan Butte/Highway 97A Loop

April 2, 2021

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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...

Neglected Strengths to Do During Quarantine

March 26, 2021

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by Sarah Shaffer Personally, my climbing skills have not been increasing much during this time of Covid/quarantine. I came across this great article on the Access Fund website for how to increase strength and flexibility to up your climbing skills... Read More...

Shoreline Protections to Lake Wenatchee, Fish Lake & Rivers in Chelan County

March 19, 2021

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by Jane Zanol and Susan Ballinger Chelan County is a beautiful place to live because it has such a variety of landscapes, everything from shrub-steppe to forested mountains. The water that flows from mountain peaks to the arid hills and... Read More...

What’s Happening

Are you Hiking or Camping near a Wildfire Zone? Tips for Wildfire Safety While Hiking and Camping

How to Leave no Trace in the Enchantments

Current: The Must-Have App For Your Day On The Water

Land Trust Protecting 2,480 Acres of Habitat With New Badger Mountain Easement

Native Plants Fuel the Hummingbird Highway

Where do you want to walk, bike or scooter to? County seeks input on Multi-Use Pathway Plan.

A Place for Pygmy Rabbits: Gift of Land Near Quincy Helps In Species Recovery

Chelan Butte/Highway 97A Loop

Neglected Strengths to Do During Quarantine

Shoreline Protections to Lake Wenatchee, Fish Lake & Rivers in Chelan County

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