Wenatchee Outdoors

Rock-Howard-Mastiff Traverse

February 22, 2023

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 every backcountry skier understands what... Read More...

A Tale of Trade-Offs

February 20, 2023

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by Sarah Shaffer It was a day for celebration, at least for me it was. It was my 35th birthday that day. Mandy McLaren, Liz Dunham and myself, went off for an adventure after dressing kids, dropping them off at... Read More...

Lessons of the Nearly Disabled

February 15, 2023

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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 rather than fun.... Read More...

Revelstoke or Wenatchee North?

February 10, 2023

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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 North.’ Like Wenatchee, the... Read More...

Downhill Skiing with Kids

February 6, 2023

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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 my... Read More...

The Art of the Uptrack

January 27, 2023

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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 – including the aesthetics... Read More...

Conditions First, Location Next

January 23, 2023

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Conditions First, Location Next by Andy Dappen The unexpected snow blanketing Wenatchee over the evening changed everything. The intended route up Angle Peak in the Entiat drainage— picked because we thought the avalanche hazard would be low— is suddenly off... Read More...

Winter-Human Powered Commute

January 16, 2023

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by Charlie Hickenbottom I got my bicycle out this morning for a short ride to the grocery store, and that was a bit of a celebration for me. I had reluctantly put my bike away in early December, when... Read More...

Trinity Skate

January 11, 2023

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Nice Piece of A.S.S. Interviewee Jonathan Karpoff by Wenatchee Outdoors If you clicked on this post because you thought Wenatchee Outdoors had finally resorted to porn, you’ll be sorely disappointed. This post is about Adventure Skate Skiing (ASS), which is... Read More...

Stevens to Smithbrook Traverse

January 4, 2023

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Some issues are always spotted with clouds. A view of Stevens Pass from the Dementia Tour. by Andy Dappen The discussion has me uttering blasphemy, “At the end of life, we often treat pets better than people.” It had started... Read More...

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