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Event Volunteers Earn Pass to Ski Leavenworth

by LWSC on 08/23/2012 00:30 0 comments , 242 views
Browse by Category: Living Here, Snowboarding, Skiing-Cross Country, Snowshoeing, Skiing-Alpine, Family Fun
Tags: leavenworth, nordic, icicle, volunteer, ski, snowshoe, xc ski, events, ski hill, free skiing, season pass
Attend cool events and have fun with your community while earning a free season pass!

In an effort to maintain affordable season pass and day pass rates, LWSC created an Event Volunteer Season Pass Program to utilize volunteers in place of event employees and contract workers, thereby promoting Club support and offering season passes to those wishing to help out their Club.
 
LWSC operates seasonally with the help of 15,000 volunteer ...
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Between a Rock and a Long Fall

by Grace Peven on 06/16/2012 02:55 0 comments , 366 views
Browse by Category: Living Here, Climbing-Mtn,Ice,Rock
Tags: leavenworth, castle rock, rock climbing, mountaineering, bouldering

 Like a fish, hungry for outdoor sports, I eagerly took the bait when he offered to take me rock climbing.  He’d been climbing for decades and it seemed foolish to pass up the lesson he was offering me.  Having only a few climbing experiences under my belt, I wanted to learn more about this bizarre sport.


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Stevens Pass - Housing Program

by Rebecca Darley on 12/10/2010 02:45 0 comments , 701 views
Browse by Category: Living Here, Snowboarding, Skiing-Cross Country, Snowshoeing, Deals, Skiing-Alpine
Tags: leavenworth, stevens pass, rental, housing, ski pass, lift tickets, employee, rent
Leavenworth is a center for winter adventure and the home to hundreds working in the outdoor industr, which is why the Stevens Pass Housing Department has developed a program called Tenants 4 Turns. If you rent to a Stevens Pass employee you could receive your rental income plus a ski benefit.  Read more.
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Skiing Dragontail: Triple Dare, Triple Scare

by W.O. Staff on 03/26/2010 10:51 0 comments , 1892 views
Browse by Category: Skiing-Alpine,Nordic,BC, Stupid Fun - Article
Tags: climbing, leavenworth, central washington, ski touring, mountaineering, dragontail peak, triple couloir, extreme skiing

When John Plotz first climbed Dragontail's Triple Couloir eight years ago he was on the edge of his climbing comfort. Last weekend he returned to ski, the beast. The pictures are stomach-churning enough ... but watch the video at the end.

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Mt. David Hike

by Andy Dappen on 10/23/2007 18:51 0 comments , 136 views
Browse by Category: Hiking-Backpacking
Tags: hiking, leavenworth, mt. david, white river, hike, lake wenatchee

Hikes don’t get a whole lot prettier than this one up Mt. David, located at the end of the White River Road near Lake Wenatchee. It’s a 16-mile trip with a vertical mile of elevation gain – making it the kind of ordeal sado-masochists love. But it’s too pretty to be either sadistic or masochistic. 

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Bay Watch

by Andy Dappen on 10/22/2007 11:56 0 comments , 143 views
Browse by Category: Nature Stories, Conservation
Tags: hiking, wenatchee, leavenworth, seattle, lake union, confluence park, canoeing, kayaking, paddling, living here
This article by Tom Reese in The Seattle Times, discussing the Union Bay wetlands that are part of the 320-acre University of Washington Botanic Gardens, is thoughtful and nicely written. It might give you ideas for an outing during your next trip to Seattle. It also harkens to what makes our lifestyle so special throughout the Wenatchee Valley....
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Getting High on Low Snow

by W.O. Staff on 01/01/1980 00:00 0 comments , 32 views
Browse by Category: Skiing-Alpine
Tags: leavenworth, foothills skiing, wedge mountain, snow creek trail, shane wilder
Leavenworth skier, Shane Wilder, loves this year’s above-average, low-elevation ski touring in the surrounding hills. In this story, he skis out Leavenworth’s backdoor (Snow Creek Trail) and ascends Wedge Mountain. It’s a story about convenience, goats, turning…and those moments of magic the mountains bestow upon us.
Read this story.
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Eightmile Enlightenment

by Andy Dappen on 01/01/1980 00:00 0 comments , 78 views
Browse by Category: Skiing-Alpine,Nordic,BC, Hiking-Backpack, Climbing-Mtn,Ice,Rock, Snowshoeing
Tags: hiking, climbing, leavenworth, backcountry skiing, snowshoeing, eightmile lake, eightmile mountain

Trails mirror the company we share them with. Trails can be mute cells of solitary confinement or chatty confession chambers. They can be storied trips to new corners of the world or, as we discover while skiing Eightmile Mountains, roads to Enlightenment. 

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Ice Climbing - January Conditions

by W.O. Staff on 01/01/1980 00:00 0 comments , 55 views
Browse by Category: Climbing-Mountaineering
Tags: leavenworth, ice climbing, careno crags, icicle butress, snow creek wall, tumwater canyon, drury falls, the pencil

Mark Shipman reports in on January 29, 2008 and tells where the ice is hot ...or, rather, where it's nice. Ice conditions at Icicle Buttress, Snow Creek Wall, Tumwater Canyon, Careno Crag and more are all covered. In this picture (taken on Sunday) Curt Haire picks his way up Icicle Buttress.

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Ice Condition Report: 12/12/07

by W.O. Staff on 01/01/1980 00:00 0 comments , 36 views
Tags: leavenworth, central washington, ice climbing, icicle canyon
 Local ice meister Mark Shipman wrote to say: 
"Ice is forming rapidly up the Icicle.  I haven't been climbing yet, 
but I hope to get at least some climbing in on Thursday. "

We will be posting ice condition reports as we receive them, so let us know what you've climbed, what you thought about the conditions, where you know conditions to be phat, where the ice still needs time to plump out....
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