Week of Events
Flamingo Days at Mission Ridge
As always we'll be closing out the season with our retro, tropical-themed scavenger hunt, Flamingo Days!! Dust off your best neon ski gear and soak up some sun while you search for the plastic flamingos hidden around the mountain. More information to come.
Courageous Kids Climbing at RRG
Hosted by Riverfront Rock Gym and Courageous Kids Climbing Free opportunity for children between the ages of 3-months and 103-years with special needs, physical or developmental, to experience rock wall climbing at Riverfront Rock Gym. Location: 1319 Walla Walla Avenue, Wenatchee WA 98801 For more information click here.
Heather Ecology & Restoration Efforts
Join the Washington Native Plant Society (W.N.P.S.) to celebrate Native Plant Appreciation Month! Join W.N.P.S. for a free webinar on Heather Ecology and Restoration Efforts which will help us all learn more about restoration efforts in popular day-hike locations along the North Cascades Highway: “Heather Ecology and Restoration Efforts” with Kelly Baraibar, USFS Biologist in the Methow Valley Ranger District. Heather provides some subalpine plant communities with the essential requirements to exist in harsh conditions. They form hardy mats which […]
Wolves in Washington: Updates from WDFW & the Wolf Advisory Group
Hosted by the North Cascades Institute Class Tuition: $15 After nearly being eradicated in the early 1900s, the gray wolf (Canis lupus), a native Washington species, has naturally returned to the state. A wolf pack with pups was confirmed in July 2008 in western Okanogan and northern Chelan counties and represented the first fully documented breeding by wolves in the state since the 1930s! Since then, the state’s wolf population has increased at an average rate of 28% every year, […]