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This event is hosted by the Wenatchee Row and Paddle Club Join us for the 3rd Annual Wenatchee Witch & Warlock paddle. Bring a costume, your boat, and some Halloween spirit!! SUPs, kayaks, canoes and rowing shells are all welcome! Meet at the swim/boat launch area of Confluence State Park at 2:00pm. We will start down river at 2:17pm (intentionally specific so we launch together) and paddle as a group down to Pybus Market. WRPC's safety boat will be on […]

Thursday, November 2nd from 7-8pm in Wenatchee River Institute (WRI’s) Red Barn OR via Zoom The Karakoram mountain range rises to over 20,000 feet. Passage through this mountain fortress involves intricately linking high mountains passes with crevasse ridden glaciers. During the winter of 1994, members of the North Karakoram ski expedition made the first ever daring traverse of the Karakoram Mountains in Northern Pakistan. Join local expedition members, Bill Gaines and Susan Thomas, as they retell their stories and share […]

2023 Annual Celebration Dinner This event is hosted by the Chelan Douglas Land Trust Date: Friday, 11/3/2023 Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm Location: Leavenworth Festhalle Description: Don't miss the event of the year for land conservation supporters! Join us to learn about the Land Trust projects accomplished with your support. Invite friends and neighbors interested in finding out more about the Land Trust and help grow our conservation community. For more information and to register click here.

“A map ... is many-tongued, a chorus reciting centuries of accumulated knowledge in echoed chants. A map provides no answers. It only suggests where to look: Discover this, reexamine that, put one thing in relation to another, orient yourself, begin here... Sometimes a map speaks in terms of physical geography, but just as often it muses on the jagged terrain of the heart, the distant vistas of memory, or the fantastic landscapes of dreams.” ― Miles Harvey, The Island of […]

Dinner Location: Wildflour Time: Doors open at 5:30. Dinner from 6-8pm. Cost $65 Plain Valley Nordic Team is hosting a benefit dinner and live auction. The price per ticket includes your Dinner & Wine Pairing at Wildflour Restaurant, as well as your PVNT Live Auction Paddle for Live Auction bidding. Our PVNT Silent Auction will open online Oct. 29th, 10AM - Nov. 5th at 6PM. For more information and to register click here.

Diet for a Warming Planet: How the Food You Eat Affects the Climate Crisis Hosted by Pybus University Located at Pybus Public Market It can be overwhelming as just one person to try to have a positive impact on our environment. A great place to start is with what we eat. How do our choices while shopping for food and while in the kitchen affect the planet? Join us to learn how eating local, organic or plant-based - and what […]

Birding by the River Hosted by Wenatchee River Institute Second Wednesday of every month from 8-9:30am @ WRI (Dates: 6/14, 7/12, 8/9, 9/13, 10/11, 11/8, 12/13) Go birding with knowledgeable WRI staff around the WRI campus the second Wednesday of each month! All birding skill levels are welcome. This is a FREE program and no registration is required. More info: https://wenatcheeriverinstitute.org/education-programs/community-programs/seasonal-nature-walks.html

This event is hosted by the North Cascades Institute This is an online event Tuition: $10 Take flight with Chris Williams and explore the world of birds of the North Cascades. Learn about one of the most biodiverse national parks and the birds that call it home. Who lives here? Who migrates through? Where are some of the best places to look for these feathered friends? Chris is an Interpretive Ranger with the National Park Service and has worked at North […]

Red Barn Event-Stevens Pass Season Updates This event is hosted by Wenatchee River Institute Date: Thursday, November 9, 2023 Time: 7:00 pm-8:00 pm HYBRID EVENT: WRI's Red Barn 347 Division Street, Leavenworth, WA 98826 or livestream Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83918082738 This is a FREE event with a donation basket at the door. Doors open at 6:30pm for a community social with beer and wine available for purchase. The presentation will start at 7:00pm. Red Barn Events are now hybrid; you may join […]

This event is hosted by the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center On Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, attendees will have the chance to view this widely acclaimed film, which won the 2023 Dreamspeakers Feature Documentary award. Since 1493, the so-called Doctrine of Discovery has justified the dispossession and decimation of the Indigenous inhabitants of North America and brought us to our present environmental breaking point. The Doctrine of Recovery is an Indigenous antidote to rebalance Earth systems, restore the sacred […]

Hosted by Chelan County Mountain Rescue Join us on November 12th from 5-8 for our beer release event at Icicle Brewing Company in Leavenworth. We'll be hosting climbing-themed trivia, and Ridge Commercial Capital will generously match the first $1000 worth of donations. Come join us for a chance to win prizes in our raffle, featuring items from sponsors like American Shoe Shop, Inc., Ballard Ambulance, @alihancockstudio, and more. The first 100 people will be treated to free brisket sandwiches, thanks […]

Location is Watercore Cider at 19A N Wenatchee, WA 98801. Come learn about regional turkey biology and population trends from Sarah Garrison from W.D.F.W. This event is hosted by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and Watercore Cider.  

Class Tuition: $50 This event is hosted by the North Cascades Institute and is an online class. During the second session on 11/15 at 6 pm, we will be invited to share our maps and the stories behind them, discussing the goals we set out with and the creative choices we employed. By the end of our course, perhaps we will better understand what author Nicholas Crane meant when he wrote "Maps codify the miracle of existence." Maps are powerful, […]

This event is hosted by Colchuck Consignment Local Speaker: Josh H. a conversational evening on forecasting, snow science, early season snowpack and more! Thursday, November 16, 2023 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Location: Colchuck Consignment5653 Sunset Highway Cashmere, WA, 98815United States (map) For more information click here.

This event is hosted by Colchuck Consignment Local Speaker: Aria K. on trekking the Himalayas Friday, November 17, 2023 7:00 PM - 8:10 PM Colchuck Consignment5653 Sunset HighwayCashmere, WA, 98815United States (map)

November 22nd from 7:30-9:30am at Walla Walla Point Park in Wenatchee Go birding with knowledgeable Wenatchee River Institute (WRI) staff around Walla Walla Point Park and the Horan Natural Area in Wenatchee! All birding skill levels are welcome. No registration is needed, just meet us there! More info: https://wenatcheeriverinstitute.org/event-calendar.html/event/2023/11/22/wednesday-wenatchee-birding/448103

This event is hosted by the Community Foundation of NCW and presented by the Wenatchee Valley Medical Group Give NCW Turkey Trot is a great way to start your holiday season with a fun and fit jaunt in Wenatchee. The event features timed 5K and 10K races and an untimed, free 1K run for kids. All are held on the Apple Capital Loop Trail along the Wenatchee riverfront. This new family friendly event also kicks off the annual Give NCW […]

This event is hosted by Colchuck Consignment Film: Abstract A Freeski Exhibition by Faction Skis Tuesday, November 28, 2023 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Colchuck Consignment5653 Sunset HighwayCashmere, WA, 98815United States (map) More info coming soon! Doors open at 6:30pm. $5 suggested donation at the door. Proceeds go to Edge Outdoors. Please bring a camp chair if you have one, as we have limited chairs at the shop! For more information click here.

This event is hosted by the Wenatchee River Institute Red Barn Event- The 50 Peaks Project with Native Plant Society on Thursday, November 30th from 7-8pm: This speaker event covers the process and findings of a 5-year study of vascular plants conducted on 50 Cascade Range Peaks. This event is free and will be livestreamed via zoom. More information can be found here.