Wenatchee, Same Procedure As Every Year - May 10/11

About a month late this year the Wenatchee finally came up to good play levels and we hit the road south. And as every year on the first weekend the river is up we met a group of friends from Seattle at the put-in. How comforting: despite all the chaos in our busy world, here we meet again in the warm sunshine east of the Cascades. No email or phone calls needed just the rise of the river and the paddling tribes gather.




The Wenatchee doesn’t disappoint either: dry and sunny, excellent surf on Trestle, Drunkards and the smaller waves, in the evening chat about the paddling trips of the last season and other news. In the morning the customary stroll up the hill through meadows of yellow balsamroot and blue lupines to views of the snow-covered cascades and the Wenatchee valley below. Good to know that some of the nice things will always be here.