Healthy Homework
Healthy Homework by Andy Dappen “Why are you always up so late before a tour?” she asks me. “You need more sleep!” I think my wife is out to get me because, if she really wanted me h... Read More...
A Friday Andy’s Not Working…and Maybe You Shouldn’t Either
Story and Photos By Andy Dappen Mike Rolfs enjoys his day away from work by flying over the snow at Mission Ridge.
“I’m taking the day off because of you,” Mike Rolfs told me when Wenatchee O... Read More...
Plain Valley Nordic Heads to Alaska for Nationals
by Isabel Menna
Wenatchee Valley’s top level cross-country ski team, Plain Valley Nordic Team (PVNT), has risen quickly to become one of the leading junior Nordic ski teams in the United States. Founded by Pla... Read More...
Avalanche ABCs for Snowshoers
Avalanche ABCs for Snowshoers by Tom Janisch
with illustrations from Allen & Mike's Avalanche Book by Allen O'Bannon and Mike Clelland (Falcon Guides)
WHAT IS AN AVALANCHE? A snow avalanche is a mas... Read More...
Rock-Howard-Mastiff Traverse
by Andy Dappen
Urban legend maintains that the Inuits possess some 49 words for ‘snow’ while Westerners identify all frozen matter falling from the sky or sitting on the ground with the same label. Naturally ... Read More...
A Tale of Trade-Offs
by Sarah Shaffer Photo by Mandy McLaren. In orange is Liz and in dark colors is Sarah, heading uphill.
Photo by Sarah Shaffer.
It was a day for celebration, at least for me it was. It was my 35th b... Read More...
Lessons of the Nearly Disabled
Lessons of the Nearly Disabled
by Andy Dappen
It was DAD (Dawn and Dusk) Patrol Wednesday. Matt Dahlgreen and I had embarked on one of those trips our wives envision as a picture of Hell... Read More...
Revelstoke or Wenatchee North?
Skiing Wenatchee North
by Andy Dappen
If you leave Wenatchee and head into Canada, roughly following the course of the big river, after 7 hours of driving you enter a town that might be called ‘Wenatchee Nor... Read More...
Downhill Skiing with Kids
Downhill Skiing with Kids
by Liz Dunham
There is a fabulous you-tube video of a father dressed as a drill seargant waking up his kids with a bugle and forcing them to go downhill skiing. His mantra echoes in ... Read More...
The Art of the Uptrack
The Art of the Uptrack
by Andy Dappen Sir Arnold Lunn was among the first mountaineers to take skis to the high Alps in the early 1900s and he quickly fell in love with all aspects of skiing – includ... Read More...