At Home in the Methow
By Jay Lucas, Executive Director MVSTA 

“My” North Cascades begins on the dry eastern slopes of the Range, in the community of the Methow Valley.  My life is intimately tied to walking, riding and skiing and managing the trails that begin right out my back door.  The popular MVSTA valley-bottom trails that draw mountain bikers, cross-country skiers and hikers to the Methow, act as connectors to a system of Forest Service and Wilderness trails that ultimately lead to some of the most remote wilderness areas in the lower 48.  To be honest, I rarely make it out to those remote locations these days, but I take solace in knowing they are there - that I could literally walk there like they are an extension of my own home.