Echo Ridge Nordic Area Opens (Washington)
News Release – USDA Forest Service – Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
Contact: Joe Kastenholz, Chelan Ranger District Resource Assistant, 509-682-4900
Ken Dull, Chelan Ranger District Winter Recreation Manager, 509-548-4962
Website: www.fs.fed.us/r6/wenatchee
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Chelan, WA- This week’s winter storms have brought deep powder snow to the Chelan area, allowing the winter season’s beginning of cross country skiing. The Chelan Ranger District is happy to announce that Echo Ridge Nordic Area is officially open for cross country skiing with most of the system trails already flat packed with a corduroy surface. Fantastic scenery may be seen from many of the trails that will have tracks set as snow conditions allow. Almost all trails are open. “Zoom” and the “Inner and Outer Rim Trails” are scheduled to be open before Christmas.
Ski passes are required and available on-site at Echo Ridge Trailheads. Fees for Day Passes are $10.00 per adult, with no charge for skiers and snowshoers age 17 and under. Season passes are $70.00 and are available at the Chelan Ranger Station located at 428 W. Woodin Avenue. The Chelan Ranger Station is open Monday – Friday from 7:45 AM to 4:30 PM.
For current winter trail information, please contact the Chelan Ranger Station at 509-682-4900.
http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/wenatchee/news/2009/12/04/index.shtml
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Cooper Mountain Sunset
Sunset as viewed from Cooper Mountain Lookout near Chelan, Washington.
You can read about this trip at Washington Cascades Overland Tour 2007.
Categories: Photos Tags: chelan, cooper mountain, lookout, pacific northwest, sunset, washington
Washington Cascades Overland Tour 2007 – Final Thoughts
Over the last four days, I completed a 681 mile adventure (not counting the additional 465 miles to get to the starting point and back home again) following an overland route through the Cascade Mountains of Washington state, stretching from the Columbia River near Carson, Washington to Chopaka at the border crossing with British Columbia. From my records, about 63% of the overland route was on forest roads.
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Trip Report: Washington Cascades Overland Tour 2007 – Day Four (08.13.07)
Todays goal is to drive from Cooper Mountain Lookout (near Chelan, Washington) to Chopaka (border with British Columbia).
Categories: Adventures Tags: baldy pass, bavarian, big twin lake, black pine lake, border, boulder creek, british columbia, buttermilk creek, camp, camping, campsite, cascades, chelan, chewuch river, chopaka, columbia basin, conconully, cooper mountain, cooper ridge, dog creek, elbow coulee, expedition, fish, forest, forest service, gold creek, gold ridge, leavenworth, libby creek, lone frank pass, long swamp, lookout, loomis, meadows, methow, national forest, nighthawk, okanogan, okanogan national forest, oroville, overland, palmer lake, salmon creek, salmon meadows, sawtooth ridge, snowmobile, thirtymile meadows, tour, touring, trip, twenty mile meadows, twisp river, washington, washington cascades, wildlife, wildlife area, winthrop
Trip Report: Washington Cascades Overland Tour 2007 – Day Three (08.12.07)
To Drive from near Blewett Pass (Cle Elum) to Chelan, Washington via as many forest roads as possible.
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Photos: Washington Cascade Mountains Overland Tour 2007 – Day Four
These photos were taken between Cooper Mountain Lookout (near Chelan, Washington), through Winthrop, Conconully to Chopaka (the border with British Columbia).
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Photos: Washington Cascade Mountains Overland Tour 2007 – Day Three
These photos were taken between Blewett Pass (near Cle Elum, Washington) and the third day's campsite at Cooper Mountain Lookout near Chelan, Washington.
Categories: Photos Tags: adventure, blewett pass, cascade mountains, cascades, chelan, cle elum, cooper mountain, lookout, mountains, overland, photographs, photography, Photos, tour, washington, washington cascades
