About the lodge

A homestead, then a fishing camp, then this.

Cascadia has been many things. A one-room cabin in 1947, a guide's outfit in the sixties, a textile cooperative for the summer of 1974. We are the people who, in 2017, decided it should be a place people came to be quiet for a few days.

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Cascadia Lodge exterior at dusk, lit from within.

The lodge, after the first snow.

No. 01. Seventy-nine years

A short history of a small building.

1947. Present

1947

A homesteader and a hand-saw

August Møller, a Danish carpenter, files a homestead claim on forty acres above the Methow. He cuts the original frame from larch he mills himself. The cabin is five rooms; the roof is cedar shake.

1961

Cascade Outfitters

The Møller family sells. The new owners run a guided fishing camp for fifteen seasons, adding the dormitory wing that is now the Valley View rooms and the stone hearth.

1974

A summer of looms

For one improbable season, the lodge is rented by a textile cooperative from Seattle. Half the wool blankets in the rooms today were woven that summer; we keep them under repair.

1989

Ranger station years

USFS leases the main building as a seasonal ranger station after the Boulder Creek fire. The kitchen we cook in today is the one they installed. Minus the warming trays.

2017

An auction in October

The Whitcombs buy the property at a county auction for less than the value of the standing timber. They move in for a winter to decide whether it should be a home or something else.

2018

Reopened, with twelve rooms

Eighteen months of restoration. Reclaimed fir from the original barn, a new AGA range, twelve rooms instead of five. Chef Lin joins for the first dinner service on September 8.

Sarah and Theo Whitcomb on the porch of the Lodge House.

The owners

Sarah & Theo Whitcomb

We met in Seattle in 2009, working at the same architecture office on opposite ends of the open plan. Theo had grown up in Twisp; Sarah had spent every summer of her childhood in a tent on the Stehekin. By 2015 we had two kids, a small practice of our own, and a habit of driving east on Friday afternoons.

The lodge appeared in the Okanogan County auction listings in late 2017. A single grainy photograph and a paragraph about water rights. We drove out the following weekend, looked at the floors, and put in a bid we did not expect to win.

We have lived on the property full-time since 2018. The kids go to school in Winthrop. Theo runs the building and the trail partnerships; Sarah runs the design, the books, and most of the difficult conversations.

S. & T., from the porch.

No. 02. Who you'll meet

Eleven of us, on the property most weeks.

Staff · 11

Beatrice Lin

Head chef · Since 2018

Trained at Sitka & Spruce. James Beard semifinalist for Best Chef Northwest, 2022. Bakes the bread herself most days.

Marcus Tate

Fly-fishing & trails · Since 2018

Nineteen seasons on the Methow. Knows where the cutthroat hold when the river drops in August. Packs every guest's lunch.

Annika Holm

Backcountry ski guide · Winters

AMGA-certified, eleventh winter in the Methow. Runs the avalanche briefing at the front desk before dawn departures.

Rosa Mendoza

Housekeeping · Since 2018

Keeps the place in working order. Knows which of the wool blankets came from the 1974 summer and which we've had re-loomed since.

Plus seven more. Will (sous), Hattie (pastry), Eun-young (front desk), Cal (groundskeeping), and the Tate cousins on weekends.

No. 03. Stewardship

A small lodge has to give back twice.

Commitments since 2019

Water

Methow Conservancy

One percent of every booking goes to the Conservancy's instream flow protection. The legal work of keeping water in the river for fish in late-summer drought years.

Partner since 2019 · $112,400 to date

Fish

Yakima River Trout Partnership

Catch-and-release on every guided trip. We co-fund the bull trout monitoring station at Roslyn, and Marcus volunteers a week each June for redd surveys.

Founding partner · 2020

Trails

Methow Trails

We rent winter trail passes through Methow Trails for every guest, and contribute to grooming for the Goat Creek and Rendezvous loops that begin two miles from the lodge.

Steward member · 2018

We are a for-profit small business. We do not pretend otherwise. The commitments above are what we believe the math requires. That a lodge in this kind of place owes something back to the place.

Annual stewardship report →

No. 04. What we're trying to do

"Twelve rooms, no televisions, and one dinner a night. The rest is up to the valley."

Cascadia is small on purpose. If we doubled the rooms we would lose the math that lets us know your name, cook one menu, and keep the ratio of staff to guests we have today. Which is one to two and a half.

Larches in autumn light, North Cascades.

Come see it

The best introduction is two nights in October.

The larch turn between the last week of September and the second week of October. We hold those nights through August for returning guests; what's left opens to the calendar after that.

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