Photo Right: The Northwest Face of Cannon Mtn with Plotz’s ski line noted. Words and photos by John Plotz I’m a visual learner so I’m partial to the cliché that a picture is worth a 1,000 words. People can tell me...Read More...
Photo: Big Jim Mountain — a peak that once sported a full head of glaciers is looking bald now. by Tom Janisch Big Jim Mountain off Icicle Ridge once harbored three glaciers, each flowing into Tumwater Canyon. Furthermore, the peak is visible...Read More...
May Day Weekend — this year’s absence of a low snowpack in the Cascades limits the ski touring options around Central Washington. After studying maps, tossing out tours that are too low, and eliminating objectives we’ve skied too often,...Read More...
Photo: Diamond Head as seen from the Wenatchee Crest Want a taste of what the scenery along the Hog Loppet route is like without actually cross-country skiing or snowshoeing that 19-mile route? Then ski or snowshoe the Wenatchee Crest west...Read More...
ATTRACTIONS. The Tronsen Meadow Non-Motorized Winter Recreation Area, located just north of Blewett Pass, is a fabulous resource for snowshoers, Nordic skiers, backcountry skiers, and sledders. Snowshoers can explore many miles of snowed-over roads (and five to six square miles...Read More...
Touring along Road 7230 brings you to multiple places where the view isn’t totally terrible. Forest Road 7230 occupies the same general neck of the woods as the Tronsen Road near Blewett Pass. This road system, however, receives far less fanfare...Read More...
Matt Dahlgreen sent us this information about cross-country skiing Rattlesnake Springs Road (out of Swakane Canyon) on January 6, 2013. My wife and I cross-country skied up the Rattlesnake Springs Road leaving from Swakane Canyon. Right after a snowfall is...Read More...
December 7, 2011. Stevens Pass Nordic is open on weekends now. Ed Callahan, a ski instructor at the Nordic Center, emailed to tell us the Nordic Center opened this past Saturday (December 3) with 28 K of groomed trails....Read More...
Photo: Early morning light over the Blewett Pass surroundings (taken near Tronsen Head). ATTRACTIONS. The Tronsen Meadow Non-Motorized Winter Recreation Area, located just north of Blewett Pass, is a fabulous resource for skiers, snowshoers, and sledders. This is not a...Read More...
She gave her gifts of cold snow early, but with several weeks of Chinooks, rain, inversions, and high-pressure systems, La Nina has given us the warm shoulder of late. She’s been winter’s equivalent of an Indian giver. Friends tempt me...Read More...
