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 …
Read More of Mountain School @ Home Lesson 15: Watersheds in the North Cascades and at Home
After 35 exciting and fulfilling years as part of this extraordinary community, I’m excited to announce that I plan to retire next year, on June 30, 2021.
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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 …
Read More of Mountain School @ Home Lesson 14: Enjoying Field Guides
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 …
Read More of Mountain School @ Home Lesson 13: A Love Letter to the Douglas Fir
Mountain School instructors Jillian Ross, Imara White, Alexa Brandt, and Kari Paustian bring you this wonderful reinvention of a traditional Mountain School activity that goes by the acronym “ACHOTUS” (which stands …
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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 …
Read More of Mountain School @ Home Lesson 12: I Spy Nature
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 …
Read More of Mountain School @ Home Lesson 11: Shadow Painting & Poetry
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.
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