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Capping off a 50-day outdoor education course, students at the Northwest Outward Bound School in Mazama recently hosted a three-day camp for local middle and high schoolers, free of charge.
The camp served as an opportunity for the 10 Outward Bound students to put their …
Pausing to take in the scenery halfway up a sheer rock face in Mazama, seventh-grader Wyatt Oosterhof said, “You get up there and say, ‘Where do you go; where do I put my feet?’”
Oosterhof was rock-climbing for the first time. “It’s pretty crazy — I can’t tell if the wall is supposed to have all the holes for your hands and feet,” he said. But he quickly adjusted to the …
New meeting location for Unitarians The Methow Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship has a new meeting location — at the Methow Valley Community Center gym in Twisp. The group meets the first and third Sundays of every month at 10 a.m. Meetings include a speaker and the opportunity for discussion. This year’s speaker theme is “Different Paths to […]
Saturday afternoon was perfect for a game of kickball at the Outward Bound Basecamp. Photo by Don Nelson BY DON NELSON Outward Bound is back. After a one-year hiatus, the organization’s Mazama basecamp is ramping up for a full season of activities beginning this month. The Mazama facility was closed in 2012 because of […]
