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wenatcheeworld.com

BY RICK STEIGMEYER

World staff writer

W W ENATCHEE — North Central Washington is well known as a hiker’s paradise. Many veteran hikers will tell you they moved here for the

quiet scenery to be had from local trails that roll through basalt-rimmed sagebrush and Ponderosa pine forests to the west.

Others fl ock here each fall to see the jagged mountains of the East Cascades turn brilliant red with vine and broadleaf maple, glimmering gold with larch and saskatoon.

From Quincy’s high desert palisades to the snow-dwarfed pines of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, there are few areas in the country that off er so much contrast and natural diversity in so few miles.

Fall color may still be a month away, but local hikes

Autumn adventuresAutumn adventures

Photo by Mike Bonnicksen

Hikers make their way through snow in late October as they hike among the larch trees along the trail up Carne Mountain.

World photo/Rick Steigmeyer

Fall color starts early in Icicle Canyon.

INSIDE:◆ How to get there◆ Hikes foroverachievers

Page A11

◆ Relaxing to rigorous, the region’s trails are among the most varied and beautifulthe planet has to offer, our guides agree

Fall hikes beckon as leaves turn, days cool in NCW

BY RICK STEIGMEYER

World staff writer

WENATCHEE — Peony Munger, the Wenatchee woman who swam like a butterfl y for 1,000 miles, died early Friday morning. She was 77 years old.

Munger earned national and international attention last year when she completed a goal of swimming 1,000 miles — one mile at a time — using only the butterfl y stroke. The accom-plishment took her four years, swimming a mile fi ve days a week in the Wenatchee High School pool as a warmup for her workouts with the Hydropower Masters Swim Club. She

fi nished the fi nal mile of her goal March 8, 2011.

The feat won her recog-nition with a story in the July 2011 issue of Swimmer, a magazine published by the U.S. Masters Swimming organization, distributed to members around the world. She was also interviewed on Swimming World TV’s “Morning Swim Show” last

year. The video was widely circulated and can still be seen on Youtube, youtube.com/watch?v=c7gouE4F06k.

“I fi nd it pretty amazing that anyone could swim that much fl y,” said Marcia Anziano, U.S. Masters Swimming fi tness committee

Swimmer Peony Munger, master of the butterfl y stroke, dies at age 77

Peony Munger hugs her friend and one of her coaches, Shirley Schreiber, just after she completed her 1,000th mile of the butterfl y stroke at the Wenatchee High School pool on March 8 last year. It took Munger 4 years, 2 months, and 1 week to swim the 1,000 miles, she says. World fi le photo/Kathryn Stevens

◆ Wenatcheeite made headlinesby completing 1,000-mile quest

Please see BUTTERFLY, Page A10

Please see HIKES, Page A11Please see PYBUS, Page A10

Peony Munger

BY CHRISTINE PRATT

World staff writer

WENATCHEE — Frank St. Dennis and Michelle Lak drive by the Pybus Public Market job site a few times a week just to see how the building rehab is coming along.

The dream of their very fi rst restaurant, Pybus Bistro, is taking shape under the fresh plywood of the market’s monitor-style roof.

Their vision is in fi ne tradition with the building’s past as a Columbia River-front storage warehouse for steel angle iron and rebar.

“We’re modeling it after a lot of blue collar bistros in France,” says St. Dennis, an expert in French cooking and graduate of the Portland Culinary School. “It’ll be a casual place where you can hang out, have a glass of wine, some food. Pybus ... will kind of be the center of culture, and food culture specifi cally, in the Wenatchee area. Being in at the ground level was really important to us.”

He and Lak, both Wenatchee High grads, have about 20 years of restaurant experience between them, including upscale hotels and restaurants in California and Seattle. He’s currently head chef at Chelan’s Vin du Lac winery.

The couple are part of an eclectic mix of novice and veteran entrepreneurs who have signed letters of intent and put earnest money down

Eclectic mixsigning onwith Pybus◆ Fast-fi lling market already sketching outbusiness seating chart

Back under the lightsBack under the lightsHigh school football returns— we have the wrapups ...

Sports — Page B1Here’s to the winnersRick Steigmeyer toasts

second wine competition

Business, Ag — Page C1