Crewing on a commercial fishing boat during prime salmon season isn’t exactly conducive to writing a memoir. “No writing happens on the boat except on my arm,” …
Read More of Hooked!: Saying Farewell to Our New Friend Tele Aadsen
Columbia Elementary School was already told once they couldn’t come to Mountain School as planned. So they certainly weren’t going to let the biggest local snowstorm of …
Read More of Mountain School is ON!: Playing in the Snow, Compensating for the Government Shutdown
There’s a t-shirt that proclaims, “SAVE THE HUMANS.” It’s usually accompanied by an image of a cartoon whale, or maybe a panda bear. Have you seen it? …
Read More of Holy Gaia! I've Been Saved!: The Nature of Education and Vice Versa
Five pairs of fifth graders are scattered on the Buster Brown Trail. In each pair, one is blindfolded with a colorful bandana, being carefully – the teacher …
Read More of Make a Love Connection: Biophilia in the North Cascades
North Cascade Institute’s graduate Cohort 13 recently hosted our annual Instructor Exchange with other students and teachers from IslandWood and the Wilderness Awareness School. As part of …
Read More of On the Lookout for Unalloyed Pleasure: Poets in the North Cascades circa 1950s
North Cascades Institute is excited to announce that Youth Leadership Adventures are now accepting applications for Summer 2014. This transformative program features a range of summer adventures …
Read More of Youth Leadership Adventures 2014: now accepting applications
The glow begins as it would, blanching the sky to make invisible the cosmos. Black becomes cornflower and a fiery fuchsia lights the very highest tips of …
Read More of Fresh Tracks of the Sun Chaser
To paraphrase graduate student and Chattermarks contributor Samantha Hale: This weather? It ain’t normal. Or at least, these no-Gore-tex-required skies and 50 degree Fahrenheit temperatures may be …
Read More of South or Bust
Today I went on a hike looking for wildflowers. I failed, miserably. But this was accounted for in the strategic plan, a given before I’d even cinched …
Read More of A-Hunting for the Details
How often are you given the task to slowly, silently develop your awareness of beauty? Even more rare, perhaps, to be mindful of this tempting trait as …
Read More of Late Morning, Rainy, Wabi-Sabi Writing
