Students! Parents! Teachers! During this time of school closures and stay-at-home guidelines, North Cascades Institute is sharing lessons and activities from our talented Mountain School instructors. We hope …
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Mountain School is the Institute’s 30-year-old flagship program. Students (predominantly 5th graders) travel deep into the North Cascades to spend three days in its ecosystem establishing a foundational relationship with …
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Adventure Crew! Institute staff logged many miles on trails all around the North Cascades this month, with the dusty boots and sunburned ears to prove it. This …
Read More of August 2020 Photo Round-Up!
To engage in the process of phenology is to engage with the cyclical, seasonal phenomena occurring in the world all around you. Or, in other words, tuning …
Read More of Phenology with Zoe in the North Cascades
I have been daydreaming about homesteading since I was a kid. Three years ago it happened; I was a couple years into my thirties, mid-career at the …
Read More of The Kinship of Climbing and Farming
The Faces of North Cascades Institute July completed our fifth month of being dispersed from the Institute’s downvalley office and upriver Environmental Learning Center. While we’ve become …
Read More of July 2020 Photo Round-Up!
What makes boats so charming, so timeless, and so convivial? Let us travel backward along the river of time to the late 1920’s when the Skagit River …
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Do you think that a place can have a purpose? What does it look like when a place embodies an intention? Nestled into the Douglas firs and …
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In this time of protest and pandemic, I am struck by the loneliness of being a social animal in a world that tells us not to touch.
Read More of Where do we go to grieve? Where do we go to heal?
Even before we leave the parking lot, someone has spotted a snake. Luke, eleven years old and the youngest student in our class, had been looking through …
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