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area does have fit

hor Owen Wister first put
his areton the map when he
used i€as a setting ior his
novel Te Vrainien ater
spending his honevmeon here
11 LS8YS. Visitors in search of”
ranch vaquons, and more
recently resort vacations, have
been coming bere ever since.

Locals alse cold me that in

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Calls to four ranches in
whrap arca went una
das we quickly fouad
outmost of the horses in dig
valley ¥ ing hunters
outon five or six day pack
trips wi the backcountry,
Frustrated but undeterred,
we slapped deawn our credit
cards at the swish Sun
Mount Lodge and weat

outfor an hour's ride with eur

enn personal cowsirl, Kir At
USS39, owas
expensive but

savarian a

rescale and with a disuinct-

Wh huropean teel. The first
thing P wanted to knew was
whee and why the town (pep.
2.100; decided te go Geran
Feoneies, Once a moribund
logging town, Tcaven orth
Uaastorincd itsclt inte a
jcoanthe 19G0s
LOE Visitors. Altist
coors badldbing in town is dee

orared with ornate woodwork,

Savana motits and dimdreds
of cofourtul planter boxes and
Hower plants. Not only de

village dress up in Bavarian
clothes, oompab music is
piped through the town
the place too mach ot
fabricated Disney thy
started to wonder if sonig
thing was in the water.

A popular destinagien for
semiors, Leavenworth is nes
tled in the fooddlls of the
south Cuncades. Wherever vou
stay Leavenworth, you're
staranteed to wake up in the
Morning to stung views of
the mountains, which is what
auinacts mountain bikers and

rock climbers to the outlying
areas, While most visirars
spend their time looking
through the shops or satisfying,
their craving for sauerkraut,
weiner schnitzel and tarts mit
schiag. antist-do aceite is
strolling, along or dipping vour
teet inthe cool waters of the
Wenatchee River a tive:
minate walk fro the centre
of town,
Phe drive out of
cnworth heading west
Highway 21 t
atti roadway tha

tmosphere popular

snakes through the dramatic
slot of Pumwater Canyon,
hugging canven walls. At this
time of year, vine and. bi p
maple, willow and alder splash
the slopes with red, russet and
. Once through Steven's
Pass, the geouraphy will
become i
Coasters .
The Cascade Loop contin:
ues west of the [3 through
the Whidhev Island area, ‘but
because dime was of the
essence the return home was
ght up the interstate.

worth it as Kit

Aled us aon foval
history and coon:
my ofthe area, net
To menhon a smat-

ane

sip (but net
enough te get any:
one inte trouble. |
Riding high up in
the hills overlook-
ing the town, we
2 alloped through

sionally runing
inte mountain bik-
ers sharing the
same trails.
all, Kit rode along

at the front, croon-

ing cowboy tunes.
Reluctant to leave
but with a sched-
ule to keep, we
drove aut of
Winthrop in the
carly evening and
headed straight to
enwort. We unfortu-
didn’t have time to

Photo Kim Ritz

AN afternoon ride high up in the
hills overiooking Winthrop.

the spring and fall, you may Le:
catch cowboys on ‘horseback
driving cattle down
Winthrop’s main street, mov-
ing them to or from summer
range in the mountains.
Because this is a horse
town, my friend and I were
determined to saddle up and
soak in the Western atmos-

Chelan, which we were told is
the preeminent place as the
top freshwater recreation area
in the Pacific Northwest.

Like Winthrop,
Leavenworth is another
“theme” town but ona much

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