Meru… the Movie Reviewed by Andy DappenMeru, the movie of climbing the unclimbed Himalayan peak of the same name, showed in Leavenworth at the Snowy Owl Theater to a sold-out audience. As a winner of the Sundance Film Festival,...Read More...
Editor’s note: This write-up (and the pictures) are from last year. By the time the story was written and edited, the ski season was nearly over so we saved it for this ski season. The Birthday Tour is a classic...Read More...
Editor’s Note: The Watson Traverse on Mount Baker is definitely outside what we define as our territory here at WenatcheeOutdoors. However, as Tom Janisch noted in the email in which he sent us the following information and photos, “you can...Read More...
by Matthew Tangeman With such a dull name, you might fear a dull hike. But dull, the Black Lake hike is not. Using this gateway into the Pasayten Wilderness, you’ll ascend smoothly and gradually through (and here’s another creative name)...Read More...
Kicking Horse by the Numbers by Andy Dappen The low-snow winter of 2015 had me frustrated. Thanks to snowmaking, the home skiing at Mission Ridge was tolerable but, frankly, most of the skiing around Washington was poor. North of the...Read More...
Sockeye season opened on Wednesday (August 5) on Lake Wenatchee and will remain open through the weekend and, perhaps, into the early part of the week before the harvestable number of fish have been caught. Because of the warm...Read More...
Written By Andy Dappen Leaving her Seattle home at 1:30 a.m., Christine Boskoff briefly wondered what she was thinking when she agreed to meet me in Leavenworth, Washington for a mid-October, one-day ascent of Dragontail Peak. She had just returned...Read More...
The Lake Chelan Nordic Club will be hosting the 4th annual Echo Ridge Ski Loppet on January 7th, 2017 at the Echo Ridge Nordic Area. A loppet is a great gathering of skiers who ski on specifically groomed trails, either classic...Read More...
Hunting Seasons – 2015 So that you don’t end up adorning the hood of a car, as an outdoor sport enthusiast you are advised to keep tabs of the different hunting seasons throughout the fall. It’s also a good...Read More...
Dappen Shooed Out, Shaffer Ushered InAs many followers of WenatcheeOutdoors are aware, we have been looking for someone competent to replace Andy Dappen, who announced to the board in late May that it was time for him to pursue...Read More...
