tieton river

The flip flop in the basin happens by reducing flows out of the Keechelus and Cle Elum reservoirs

Officials with the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest say the fire grew from 84,509 acres Thursday to 85,639 acres Today.

Earlier today, a couple of co-workers and their spouses joined my wife and I for a white water rafting trip on the Tieton River.

Around these parts, there are a lot of recreational river runners. I am one of them. On the Tieton River, September is "Flip Flop" season -- time to rage down 12 miles of amazing river and experience some Class III rapids. What is the "Flip Flop,"  you ask?

It's a late-summer tradition around the Yakima Valley: the annual Tieton River "flip-flop." Every September, the Bureau of Reclamation opens Tieton Dam to release water that's been stored in Rimrock Lake all summer -- so it's nice and warm...