Guest post by Imara White, Apprentice Instructor for Youth Leadership Adventures Youth Leadership Adventures is a North Cascades Institute program that takes high school youth out in …
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Catching up with Jack Kerouac, who served as a fire lookout atop Desolation Peak in the North Cascades 60 years ago this summer. In this passage from …
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By Ginna Malley Campos, graduate student in the Institute’s 15th cohort. Long, long ago, when ice and snow covered the land as far as the eye could …
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Photo taken by Alan Hicks. Retrieved from batcon.org This is part two of my series on bats. You can find part one here. On March 11, hikers found …
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On March 11, hikers found the sick bat about 30 miles east of Seattle near North Bend, and took it to Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) for …
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As much as we love North Cascadian landscapes, we here at the Institute are still called to visit and experience other amazing places on our planet. We …
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Sixty years ago this month, Jack Kerouac left Northern California for the Skagit Valley and North Cascades to begin his summer as a fire lookout atop Desolation …
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By Calvin Laatsch, the Institute’s Conference and Retreat Coordinator. Calvin originally posted this to his personal blog, Live Close. We publish accounts of the places Institute staff …
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1. Canoe the Skagit River The Skagit is one of the great rivers of the west, supplying nearly 40 percent of the fresh water and wild salmon …
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By Hannah Newell, graduate student in the Institute’s 15th cohort. When you hear the word raven, what first comes to mind? Do the words deceptive, persistent, clever, …
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