Meet your Cascade Backcountry Alliance board members!

We’re looking for new volunteers to join our board for the upcoming season! If you’re interested in joining a passionate team to improve access to winter backcountry recreation, our short application only takes 15 minutes to complete.

With the 2024-25 season coming to an end, we want to highlight some of the work our team accomplished this year that we’re most proud of. We also want to say a big thanks to our community and partners—we couldn’t do this work without all of you.

Covering updates about Gold Creek, Paradise, Baker Huts, and more!

CBA went to Washington DC to advocate for outdoor recreation access with Outdoor Alliance.

We’re looking for new volunteers to join our board for the upcoming season! Applications are due by September 30.

As the 2023-24 season winds down, we wanted to take a look back at what we accomplished this year and say a huge thank-you to our community.

We highlight the main takeaways from our first community survey. Thank you to everyone who took the time to answer!

We're kicking off the 2023-24 season with an update on what CBA has been up to since last spring.

Help us learn more about you and how we can help you get out there! It’s almost that time of year! With winter fast approaching, we are reaching out with a survey to better understand our community’s winter backcountry recreation experience, goals, and dreams, and how we can better serve you. We’re especially interested in learning more about where you like to go, how you get there, and what barriers you face to getting out. We hope you’ll take the time (no more than 10-15 mi

We take a look back at what the Cascade Backcountry Alliance accomplished in our first year and share our plans for the year ahead.

We share the top 5 ways that the community can support our mission and become advocates for winter recreation in Washington.

TLDR: We attended a meeting of the Central Cascades Winter Recreation Council to introduce CBA and meet other winter recreation groups. The Annette Lake Sno-Park is new for the 2022-23 season and we proposed a future Sno-Park at Snoqualmie Pass. On December 3rd, Madelynn Scherrer and Kyle McCrohan represented the Cascade Backcountry Alliance at the Central Cascade Winter Recreation Council (CCWRC). The meeting was a great opportunity to meet leaders of other recreation-focuse

A brief explanation of the Cascade Backcountry Alliance and the need for backcountry advocacy.