Leavenworth Multisport Weekend-Part 1

After a busy week at work Gloria and I decided to head over to the cabin on Friday evening in anticipation of a weekend of fun.

We woke up early Saturday morning and drove down to Icicle Canyon for a bit of climbing. We had not been on the rock in a while so our objective would involve some fairly easy single pitch climbs at a small crag know as Sam Hill.

After a half hour approach we were at the base of the fisr climb on the agenda, Sam's and Cam's, a 75 ft. traditional climb rated 5.7. I led the route first with Gloria toproping it soon after.

Gloria near the base (top) and nearing the top (above).

After one more climb we headed back down to the car to meet Dan Ruiz for some afternoon paddling.

While Gloria went back to the cabin to see her brother and make some dinner (Thanks G), Dan and I headed to the town of Plain to put in on the Wenatchee River.
This stretch of the Wenatchee is very mellow (nothing harder than class II) but offered some great scenery through an undeveloped area.
Near the end of the run we came across two sandstone shelves that created a fun little surf wave. While the wave is small at this level it might be worth checking out again when the river is a bit higher.

Dan surfing the wave.

Nice scenery.

A short time after leaving the wave we passed under the highway 2 bridge at the entrance to Tumwater Canyon. From here down the river starts to pick up with a few miles of class III paddling (so we thought) before things get really difficult. Our plan was to take out just before the notoriously difficult class V lower section.

-continued in part 2