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Gearing Up for Snowshoeing

On January 10 we ran the first session of our snowshoeing class (sponsored by Wenatchee Parks and Rec Dept and Cascade Subaru). The topic: Hardware, software, and emergency items needed for easy and adventurous snowshoe trips. Read the notes from that class.
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Event Volunteers Earn Pass to Ski Leavenworth

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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"Snowshoe 101" Event

Can I snowshoe?  How do I do it?  What stuff should I bring with me?  Where can I go snowshoeing around here?

 

Join a Lake Wenatchee State Park Ranger for a fun, informative snowshoe hike and learn the answer to these questions (and more)!  The hike will go for about a mile in easy terrain, with several stops along the way (suitable for the whole family).  We will meet near the contact station at the north entrance of Lake Wenatchee ...

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Outdoor Gifts for Christmas

Did you wait until the last minute to buy a Christmas present for the outdoor enthusiast in your family who seems to have everything?  It's not too late - we've compiled over a dozen items that will put a grin on the face of any hard-to-buy-for athlete on your list.
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10 Benefits of Trail Running: Motivation to Just Get Out

Running is a great way to get outdoors and grab some exercise, but running on a road can only do so much for your body, mind and spirit. You’re thinking about traffic lights, cars, pedestrians, and other distractions that keep your attention off of your body’s relationship to the environment. You’re also breathing in city air full of exhaust, air pollution, and tar particles from the road; listening to noise pollution or your MP3 player; and ...
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Super SUP

Kim Anderson reports how SUP (Stand-Up Paddling) is taking water by storm. It's what snowboarding was to snow twenty years ago. It's a cross between canoe paddling and long-board surfing. And it can be done on the Columbia River, Lake Wenatchee, Lake Chelan, or even on high mountain lakes. 

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Coolest Products -2

How quickly have we opened our mouths and inserted a foot. Right after professing in Coolest Products – 1 that we rarely see things at the Outdoor Retailer Winter Show that really knock our socks off, we saw something that promises to do just that.

Topo! Explorer, an Internet map website being launched by National Geographic in April, rates as the coolest thing we saw at the show this year. We previewed a beta version of the website...

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Foothills Trail - Video Slideshow

  If you've heard about the 'Foothills Trail' in the open lands flanking Wenatchee to the west, and wondered exactly what that was all about, this slideshow will explain it better....
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'Going' in the Woods

‘Downloading’ in the wilds – whether that’s in the woods while hiking, on glaciers while climbing, or along a river while car camping or canoeing – ranks as one of those least-discussed topics. It’s a topic novices are embarrassed asking about and one professionals are none to keen to hop on the soapbox and lecture about. So the whole mess gets swept under the rug. ...
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New Nordic Trail - Lk Wenatchee Area

Lake Wenatchee State Park, sent this notice about a new Nordic trail that is likely to be given a trial run the weekend of March 1 and 2. Give it a go and send State Parks your feedback. This bodes well for improving the network of ski trails around Lake Wenatchee. Here are the details.


 


“If all goes well this Saturday and/or Sunday we will groom a new, trial tr...