If you’ve only got a couple hours of free time but still want to enjoy a fun mountain-bike ride, this loop is highly recommended. The loop is roughly 7 miles around and climbs just under 2,000 vertical feet. The ride...Read More...
Nate Woodward sent us this very interesing topographic map application that lets you pull up any topo map in the country and then overlays the map on the screen with different colors telling you the steepness (in degrees) of the slopes. Backcountry...Read More...
FITNESS LEVELS We use a 1 to 4 scale with 1 being easy, 4 being extremely strenuous. Easy (or minimal): Comfortable doing the activity in question for a few hours at a casual pace. Intermediate: Able to go at a casual pace...Read More...
By Andy Dappen “Ninety percent of an iceberg’s mass lies under the surface, but 100 percent of a man’s manliness is tucked below the surface–if he’s just emerged from Isolation Lake anyway.” I dangle that quote like a lure in...Read More...
Sylvester Lake – Grindstone Mountain – Chatter Creek Loop Story and photos by Bill Wicheta Everyone says I’m indecisive, but I’m not so sure about that. When I have a day off it’s simply hard to decide which local hike...Read More...
Echo Basin is one of several coulees west of Quincy, WA, near the Frenchman Hills formed as the Ice Age Floods raged over the surrounding cliffs. At the southwest end of Echo Basin is a large plateau, named Island Plateau....Read More...
Granite and Glacé by Lisa Roberts The long awaited day finally arrived. After trying, unsuccessfully to obtain a pass in the mid summer to hike into the Enchantments, we resigned ourselves to waiting until after October 15th, when a pass...Read More...
Although slightly out of our normal territory, the Yakima River is fed by upstream reservoirs and, in most years, can be canoed year round. So when our backyard rivers trickle out, the Yakima River, as if flows through a deep,...Read More...
Castle Rock Re-Opened — by Kalie Wertz This rocky peaklet is one of the focal points when you scan the Wenatchee Foothills. There it sits, locked between Number 1 Canyon and Number 2 Canyon, for the eye to settle upon. Despite...Read More...
