North Cascades Institute is pleased to announce Summer 2012 Applications are available online for high school students interested in the Cascades Climate Challenge or North Cascades Wild programs. Both programs are …
Read More of Tuition Free High School Opportunities in the North Cascades
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 …
Read More of Latitudinal and Longitudinal Explorations of Natural History
They say it is winter here in the North Cascades. With the shadowed days and the sting of cold to cheeks as you step outside, one might …
Read More of Poetic Visualizations of the Winter Season
Written by Special Guest Blogger Elisabeth Keating. On a cool Thursday evening in late July, a group of adventurers gather at the Environmental Learning Center for the …
Read More of Reflections on the Upper Skagit: Ross Lake by Boat and Boot
People experience the seasonal transformations of the natural world in a myriad of ways. Each of us may recognize subtleties taking hold of a landscape in times …
Read More of Fall Vignettes from the Institute
Earlier this October, Seattle artist and North Cascades Institute friend Molly Hashimoto led a wonderful and successful workshop on watercolor painting in nature at the Environmental Learning …
Read More of Watercolors in the North Cascades
Last weekend Cohort 11 graduate students had the chance to step away from our roles as Mountain School Instructors and again return to being students of Natural …
Read More of From Teacher to Student and Back Again
Lately, on these cool autumn mornings at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center, I’ve taken to gazing south from my porch as the first, angled rays of …
Read More of Peaks in Place
